The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-03-27
Editorial and Otherwise.

| And the Lord knoweth
We are in need of your dues;
| So come a-runnin'
This thing of dnnnn'
Gives us the blues"
Good advice is the kind You keep to YOUR
self
| Sense shines with double lustre when set in
humility.
Three feet of snow fell in New York on the
| 10th inst.
Trust rcposed in noble natures obliges them
the more.
| Dunraven wants to sell the yalkyrie III and
asks $500 for her.
Nckels of the year 1877 are worth 81 each
from the collectors.
Envy always implies conscious inferioritv
wherever it resides.
If some men were to lose their reputation,
they would be lucky
No matter how fond man may be of horses
he hates nightmare.
The time for PRAYER has come and Tom Reed
has ceased to be funny.
There are such things as adorable faults
and msnpportable virtues.
The awkward man is never in hurry. He
always wants a day Of grace.
"One sowcth and another reapeth" is a vcr-
ity that applies to evil as well as good.
In 1885 Davenport, of Vermont built an
electric railway in Springfield, Mass.
lie travels safe and not nnpleasantly who is
guarded by poverty and guided by loye.
David Bennett HillSloes not appear to have
purchased any tickets in the presidential lot
tory.
San Francisco bank has been robbed in
broad da, light. And it wasn't by the cashier,
either.
The Oxford Eagle has more than sixty lady
subscribers and boasts that none Of them are
delinquent.
Mississippi has 1870 square miles of
territory, ,2S9 800 people and Publishes III
newspapers.
Mrs. ii Hung Chang must be an assiduous
church-goer. 1t is said that she possesses
900 dresses.
An Ohio woman tasted rorty-six days and
cured dyspepsia Of years standing. Go thou
and do likewise
An Indianapolis wife wants divorce because
her husband will not wear wig and never
combs his whSkers.
Chicago colored people think that the recent
fall of black snow in that city was a graceful
tribute 20 their race.
Indians are charmed with the bicycle. Lit
tie Black Bear Nez perce Indian of Oregon,
gave thirty horses for one bicycle.
Reports say that Arkansas, Texas and the
Mississippi bottom planters are pitching their
| cotton crops for a cent price this fall.
Mr.. Cleveland is evidently a well-trained
| husband. His wife selects all his clothes and
gives orders how they are to be made.
| The comet is said to have come within 27,-
0O0, 900 miles of the earth on the l4th. Amiss
Is as good as mile or q 900 900 miles.
| The world wags on without any time for the
complaints of humanity, and people still read
newspapers without paying for them.
Ex-Prcsident Harrison is to marry Mrs.
Mary Lord Dmmick on April 9th. That is
| "a 1 AL e p.,n,l M Harrison 10
The new Salvation Army, which has chosen
the name of Goods American Volunteers"
will probably be better known as the G. A. v.
Apropos to the proposed statue of Ben But
Ter IN Boston, the Boston Transcript demands,
"Shall we have monument to domagogue-
ism?"
The man who never votes is very often the
man who complains the londest about the poor
quality of the men who are elected to public
Office.
Hill has the largest heart of anv of the
United States Senators. He loyes all women,
therefore is unable to devote his life to any
one woman.
One of the most Important personages in
New York just now is the baby hippopotamus.
Some Of the papers are devotng columns a
day to it.
The first known coin is Chinese. II is cop
per, and specimens weighing from one to five
pounds, and supposed to date from period al
least 1000 years before Christ, are still il
existence.
A Philadelphia matchmaker says that a
watch should always be wonnd up in the morn
ing, as the spring should be at the fullest ten
sim during the day, when it is moving arount
with the owner.
: Governor McIaurin has issued proclama
tion calling the State convention on Marcl
2S,h to provide way to have Mississippi rep
resented at the Southere States Exposition t,
: be held in Chicago.
There Is one article the supply ofwhich doe'
;, not equal the demand, namely, spider webs
Astronomers use the fine threads for cross
= lines on the object glass of the telescope. W,
shall have to start spider farm.
The United States district attorneys in Mis-
sissirp are to receive salaries Of $1,000 pc
;, annum. The U. s. Marshal for the southern
district is to receive $4,000 and allowed
d chief deputy at " 200 per annum.
The United States is still paying 1897 pen
sions on account of the war Of 1872. Twenty
one of them are surviving soldiers. OF tn
7, Mexican war there are 1856 survivors draw
ing pensions. There are 965,Ol2 pensioner
T. drawing money from the treasury.
: Some French writer says that a glrl Is
D. person we stop kissing when she Is l2 an
begin to kiss again after she is 20. That ma
= be all right for the definition Of French cir
! but the American girl is different. We don
!, stop kissing her ut all, not even to hold os
breath.