The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1896-01-31
Editorial and Otherwise.


Gratitude is the music of the heart when the
chords are moved by kindness.
Remember that impertinence isn't wit any
more than insolence is brliancy.
Don't indulge in the luxury of strong opin-
ions in the presence of your elders.
Cotton has not been so cheap at Liverpool
as il was recently for several years.
Fortunes are made BY taking opportunities ;
character is made by making them.
Ifyoung men will no, believe in themselves
no man or woman can believe in them.
Our Legislature will now settle down to
work, as the Senator has been elected
bill has been introduced in the Iegisla-
ture making the payment of poll tax eompnl-
sorry.
The Day Book says that the Lumbcrton
saw.mill recently cut 93 900 feet of lumber in
one day.
A bill has been introduced in the Legislature
providing for seven months public schools
each year in this State.
Gov. Stone is out of the executive chair and
Marshall, Fox and Coleman are still in the
pcnitentiarY. The law is upheld.
The number Of unmarried women in Eng
land and Wales exceeds the number of unmar-
ried men by majority Of nearly 200, 900.
The Mississippi Republicans are arranging to
put out full congressional rs well as electo-
raj ticket in the coming November election.
A Maine clearinghouse keeper siczed n
delinquent boarder's false teeth. They will
come handy for trimming the edges of pies
Sam Jones viii hold revival meeting in
Yazoo City early in March. The citizens are
making extensive preparations for the event
W know some people who have wheels in
their heads, ana that is about all there is in
them. Not cnou.. brains to turn the wheels
A wild goose flew into the windov' Of a pas
senger car near Yazoo City the other dav,
smashing the glass and slightly wounding a
passenger.
The kedgc anchor is modelled after the COM
mon mushroom. 1t is designed for use on
sandy bottoms, where common anchor would
fail to hold.
The Amory Argus thinks that there should
be n law making tattling and malicious gos-
siping ndictable and punishable by fine and
Imprisonment.
People reach an age of discretion when they
begin to make their days longer br getting up
earlier in the morning, instead of staying up
later at night.
The principle of the hinge is seen in almost
every joint in the animal kingdom. No ami
nal is without a hinge joint somewhere or
other in its anatomy.
Light blue ewes are generally the most pow
erful, and next to those are gray. The major
itv of frst-cla shots are men whose eyes are
either blue or gray in color.
The Tennessee srpreme conrt has rendered
a sweeping decision against Sunday saloons,
holding that the saloonkeeper has no right to
90 into his own establishment on Sunday.
Gov. A. J. McLaurin in closing his inaugu-
raj address said, "My greatest ambition for
Mississippi is that we shall be God-fearing,
a God loving and God-serving people,"
South Carolina leads in the scarcity Of in
ventors, having only one to every 25,5Sl of its
population. Mississippi comes next with the
proportion of one to every q, ,Sj7 of population.
The report Of the State Revenue Agent
places the shortage of Sheriff Deval, Of Jones
county, at $l2.680. Devall claims he was
robbed of $500. The matter will undergo
investigation by the courts.
Mrs, Julia Ward Howe thinks that the pres
ent generation of young women have lost dig
nifty Of tone and character, and the Young men
have lost their Difference for the sex, all re-
sulting in very cheap and easy standard of
manners.
| In Rhode Island many people believe that
persons diving of consumption come out of
their graves and suck the blood Of their rela-
tives, causing their death. To prevent It the
corpse is dug up, and the heart taken out and
burned.
Judge Murphy, of st. Louis, adjourned court
the other day, and, coming down from the
/ a., IA at that ha VA A
"characterless liar and coward" and that he
could lick him, or anybody that wanted to
take it up.
Hon. fernando DeSoto Money, 10 to candi-
date for United States Senator to succeed
Gen. George in 1899, got the plum, beating
the field aud all combinations. OF course,
Gen. George is well pleased with the action OF
the Legislature in putting in his man.
Miss Clara Barton, the president Of the Red
Cross Society, has just sailed from Boston for
Turkey, to feed the hungry Armenians. II
Miss Claras picture as published By the news
papers is true to life, she is uglv enough to
scare the appetite out Of the hungriest man in
Armenia.
The Philadelphia Press ascrbes the falling
off of the negro vote in Mississippi to the
enforcement of the Educational qualification /;
bui the falling ofof the white vote, il ascribes
to apathy. The Press omits to say that the
educational qualification applies to whites as
! well as blacks.