The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-02-28

There at the present time $1,000 exilcs il
Siberia.
One pint of brown sugar equals thrteer
ouces.
The prodigal son sometimes starts ont as
fitted calf.
Egotism is harder to endure than -tyrann,
or ialsehood.
Bromide was discovered by Ballara Of Mont
pelier in 1926.
God reveals our duty to US when we com,
tntle fine for it..
We are born crying, live complaining anC
die disappointing.
Chronic acid was first used as a caustic b,
S'gmund OF Verona.
Phosphorous was discovered in 1869, by
Brandt of Hamburg.
Asa trouble and wrinkle maker the way.
ward son is success.
A poor rman doesn't have to put his pocket
book under hisplow.
Our duty is to enter the door opened to us
not TO break down the door.
Henry Watterson was miserable last week
he was in dry Illinois town.
The balloon sleeve must 20. 1t is inconven.
lent for both man and woman.
Every difficulty slurrcd over will be 4, aos,
to distnrb o"- .rSpase later on.
After some people get move on thcmsclve.
it seems they can never get it off. ~
Bishop Foster aludes to the old maids as
"the unclaimed or resisting sisters.
Rice paper issnot made from rice, but from
the membranes of the bread fruit tree. s
The law aholshing DAYS of grace in Penn
sylvania went in effect January J, 1896.
sGanbling is positively forbidden in the
rooms OF the Pascagoula Commercial Club
Z For the sake Of gaining few paltry dollars
some men will 60 back on their best friends.
A resolution has been adopted in the Senate
in Congress to resume the free distribution OF
seed.
a London rector has arranged for the stor-
ing of BICYCLES in the church vtstibule during
service.
Collectors are Kindly requested not to be
too previous this year. FebruaM bastwcnty-
nine DAYS in 1896.
A Washington prophet employed for the
business SAYS Congress will be conttnued till
late in the summer.
A man who is irving to be honest is dishon-
est, as a matter of course, and has the sympa-
thy of every man who is honest,
A Chicago paper says that Vice President
Stevenson stands ready to be the presidential
candidate of the free silver Democrats
They say that MavW Pat Gleason, of Long
Island City, will hereafter tolerate no more
than one saloon to every five inhabitants.
The pure white population is less than three
per cent. The vast majority of the people are
negroes, Indians, mnla,tos and rambos.
A San Francisco politician insists that he
has horn growing on his head. Probably he
has been indulging in too many ofthem before
breakfast. A
Black snow fell last week in Chicago. and
over wide expansc of territory, mcludin z
Eastern Iowa, Southern Wisconsin, Northern
Illinois and Western Indiana
The ages OF the most prominent candidates
for the Republican presidential nomination are
as follows Mckinley, 81 Reed, 6j; Harri-
son, G2 Allison, &C; Morton, 72
= There will be civil service examination for
departal. railway mail, Indian and govern
mental printing services held IN vicksburg
April 22nd and Meridian April 24th.
The United States seems to be in constant
financial trouble, set it can disbnrsc annually,
in pensions, nearly sevenvtimes as much as is
required to maintain the regular army.
A lot Of. Kansas negroes have organized a
society for the purpose, Of claiming pensions
for all ex-slaves, the pensions to be graded
according to the time spent in slavery.
Mrs. MaryAllman, who died the other day in
philadelphia, is said to have been the first
woman dentist in the world. She got d,plc-
ma from the Philadelphia Dental College in
1887.
The longest and most perfect piece Of timber
ever cut in Washington. great lumber State,
was lls feet long and % inches square without
n knot or blemsh II was sawed in mill at
lloquiam.
4 Girl baby was recently consecrated to the
Army in New York b., y,public cere-
mony. This is rough on the kid, for when It
grows up 1t NAV want to marrya u member Of
the Legislature.
The North Pole has been found at last. A
explorer named DR.. Frdtjof Nam
sen, who has trcn in the sArciic regions for
three years looking around for it, found 1t on a
chain of mountains.
The bill introduced. in Congress in the
early part Of the session to prevent prize fights
In Territories Of the United States has
passed both House and Senate, has been ap-
proved BY the President, and is now added to
the statute book.
8saaior walthall has introduced in the
U. 4. Aenatc and Congressman Kyle in the
House bill which proposes to give each State
81, ,ooc acres Of land for each representative in
Congress, for the benefit of the Universities
more advanced education iu the States.