The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-05-07

a man rise in the world.
Microbes in the human lips. eh! Boil your
sweetheart before kissing her.
The average darkey is happiest when in A
law suit, or watermelon patch.
Love is not entirely indigestion, although
some poets seem to think it is.
Arkansas, too, has an extraordinary session
Of the Legislature now sitting.
IF you ever take sea voyage, just stop at
the Sandwich Islands for lunch.
Rome has a cemetery in which 5000 900 hu-
man beings have been inferred.
Fitzsimmons is noted for his broad smile,
and John l.. for his many smiles.
Soldiers in the Italian army are allowed ci-
gars as part Of their daily rations.
Stealing an umbrella goes BY a milder name
even than p,omania-"oversig!t.'
So far as the Cretan business is concerned
England hardly knows where she is at.
The doors Of the Tennessee Centennial were
thrown open to the public Saturday last.
The man who won't see his own errors is
playing against himself with loaded dice.
It is not what we know about the next world
that frightens us, but what We don't know.
God never gives Christian more strength
than he needs for the work he is willing to do.
| Never trv to persuade others to accept
theories you have not put into practice your
self.
TfI should suddenly steal kiss from You,
Miss Clara, what would you say7" don't
know yet"
The divorce courts can unite some pretty
hard matrimonial knots. In law nothing is
impossible.
Globe bank failure. And yet very few women
are failures.
At present Burlington, n. j., is the fisher.
mans Mecca. A big shower Of worms fell
| there lately.
"When you went to Europe last summar did
YOU have return ticket" "No, but every.
thing I ate had"
"Maymmie" is the new way Of spelling
Mamie, and it is sweeping through the West
like prairie fire.
A great manv people are now in the civil en-
gineering business. At least, they are damn
ing the Mississippi.
The Connecticut Legislature has passed
bills prohibiting free lunches in schools and
legalizing cremation.
King George of Greece is said to be in great
danger Of assassination. Uneasy lies the
head that wears crown"
Just wait until the Sultan is introduced 10
that American Angel. How he will grieve to
see an Angel with wbiskers.
Secretary of State Power is compiling liat
Of Mississippi authors who have written books
since the year eighteen hundred.
Canadian women are now allowed to prac-
tice law in the courts. They have all along
been practcing It in their own homes.
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Nature isn't rs prodigal as she is cracked
up to be. While you often hear Of a water.
spout, did you ever hear Of b-erspout7
Gomez may be going to "sue for peace" as
is reported, but he will be his own lawyer,
and the jury will consist Of his own men.
The Kentuckisn who drank a quart Of whis-
Ky at one sitting and died within an hour
could not have been Z native Kentuckian.
A Ausnt speaker nses about seventy -fvs
words q minute, or 1900 words an hour; but
some are much more rapid takers than this.
Fashion reports say that ladies' summer
hats are made Of the "coarsest kind Of straw
But they are worn by the finest kind of women
The reporter Of the 81. Louis paper who
said that "Calve was a woman with hell IN hcI
eyes," had better take to his legs the momen,
he meets her.
There's nothing gained by frettiug;
Gather your strength anew,
And step BY step 20 onward,
Let the skies be gray or blue.
Poor old Sullivan persists in his desire tc
have "a go" with Fitzsimmons. II is more
than likely that the latter will refuse to graft
fy him, and for obvious reasons.
The President is annoyed at the use Of thu
word "rations" by a Pennsylvania Senator "a
indicate patronage. Probably he prefers th'
more common term "spoils." But both ar,
military terms.
A quart Of oysters are said to contain abou
the same quantity Of nutritive substances as ,
quart Of milk, or pound Of lean beef, or I
pound and a half of fresh Goldfish, or two
thirds Of pound Of bread.