The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-11-13
SCRANTON, MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1896
Editorial and Otherwise,


| Slang is the sauce piquaut Of language.
New married people look like new clothes 6t
Love is mans servant, and wcman's master
Any man can be happy if he can only qui
thinking.
The Florida orange is globe that conqueri
the globe.
Some men repent more Of doing good thar
Of doing evil.
No heireas is eyer anything but beautiful
and accomplished.
A holnely man Is not called 80 because he
Is fond Of his home.
With the baker plenty Of dough brings in
plenty of "dough."
Sometimes, but not very often, even wedding
day is bargain day.
People don't look as good swallowing raw
oysters as they feel.
Give your child to the street and you will
give the world a thief.
The public school. l.house 10 the advance
guard Of civilization.
Eyeryone likes to be on the winning side
especially in lottery.
Beware of the man who is honey on the
street and gall at home.
II you want to be popular always tell people
what they want to hear.
Nothing is to be despised. Even the skunk
has some strong points.
God gave manhood but one clue to success
utter and exact justice.
The best soldier in any army is the one who
will obey orders the best.
II is always hard to find man who voted
for the defeated candidates.
II is doubtful il we can truly own anything
for which We are not grateful.
Forgive the trespasses Of others before you
ask that your own be forgiven.
Take lesson from the cat. Even the wild.
sst feline knows how to pur-severe.
The gladiolus is only IA little sword" this
being the Latin form ofexprcssion.
Money is n magician. 1t can make the
blind see, the deaf speak and the deaf hear.
BE kicker and not a croaker. The mule is
of far more value 70 the world than the frog.
George Meredith, it is said, presents copy
Of his novels to every servant in his employ.
Mississippi's per capita debt is the smallest
Of any State in the Union, it being only 1886.
1t is doubtful IL the church loafer weighs
any more for good than losfer anywhere else.
Ten Thousand bushels Of peach stone ksr-
neis were burned up in Canton, Nd, the other
day.
A musical bicvcle has been inyeutcd in Eng.
land which grinds out tunes as the wheels
turn.
In olden times II was not thought profitable
tn SOW tares, but now it Is good deal to SOW
tears.
What some people hate worse than anything
else about election day is the closing Of the
saloons.
Apenny saved is shilling gained--perhsps
but don't saye it At the expense of your own
comfort.
Some men sre merely monographs, and
sensible people very SOON get tired Of phouo-
graphs.
When 4 man or woman becomes snitten
with his or herself people lose confidence In
their judgment.
II nature intended you to be . dwarf, don't
strive to be giant. Remember the fable Of
the frog and OK.
Massachusetts has 26 miles Of railroad To
every 100 square miles OF territory. Missls-
sippi has 5.4l miles.
It is a continually hard struggle for some
old broken down aristocracy to keep their
noses out Of the mud.
During the campaign which is now closed,
Mr.. Bryan has travelled 1900 miles and visit
ed q different States.
The crank with brains is an honor to the
world, but the crank with . voice only 10 an
unmitigated nuisance.
The ways Of Providence are always just, al.
though we cannot comprehend the means BY
which It works its ends.
The Board Of Trustees Of the State Lunatic
Asyln have elected Mr.. J. n. Derrick super.
intendsnt Of the asylum farm.
As two tons Of corn will furnish a. much
heat as one ton Of hard coal, II 10 easy to guess
what many Western people will burn this win.
ter.
What girl wouldn't be 4 CEsrina II she
could? The presenp one had 257 dresses on
her visit to England, and went BY Paris to &c,
few 'tfSre.
Fame is like young duck in a mud d-puddle
very easy to see, very easy to talk about
after you have seen it, but It 10 an awful job ia
get hold of II.
Man Is q very Insignificant being At his best
Nuu Wueu ue krtH " tWtV utS uVnu tuhS nc "
better than anybody else, great minds never
sec him at all.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her daughter, Miss
Winnie Davis, will be in St. Louis for the an
nual ball Of the Daughters Of the Coufederacy,
which occurs on Nov. 10.
Iaks, though an inland town, ships about
1900 pounds of Ash each week. They arc
caught in the Tennessee river and hauled
there for transportation.
"The woman who wants to marry a man IA
reform him had better give The preference IA
cutting her own throat" says . lady writer ol
experience in such matters.
"Jamie," called out his mother, sharply
"you've been loaAng all day. Satan always
finds some work for idle hands 10 do. TAKE
this basket and bring In some kindlings."
| A West Point boy, who ran away from home