The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1897-07-23
Editorial and Otherwise.

spitefully use you.
A Dakota orator is named Worst. Well,
that's the worst yet.
A Christian woman can do a great deal Of
good in community.
A hen is a regular egg plant, and yet she
does not look like one.
The assassin Of character deserves death BY
hanging by the tongue.
Newspaper men are very seldom bothered
with an inheritance tax.
| Do you ever run across any Of the old.
fashioned grandmothers?
Some good women get fooled sometimes in
marrying worthless men.
A Chicago man has made his dog his heir
to $1,000 worth Of property.
At the local option election last week Chick
asaw county went dry BY l6O majority.
In the garden of humanity the weed too
often takes prominence over the flower.
Wonder il Lieutenant Peary took any ice
with him ON his trip to the North Polef
An exchange says the Popul,st party is 60.
ing to pieces-probably to mouth pieces.
A lost opportunity is blessing in disguise
il its lessons arc taken seriously to heart.
In New York City more pity seems to be ex.
tended to homeless cats than to homeless men.
Chickens come home In r0ost-but not when
there is a camp meeting in the neighborhood.
The sea serpent has been seen off Coney
Island. The sea serpent crop is two weeks
late.
The best preparation for the labors Of the
day is a short season of communion with
God.
Children are usually, though not always, as
good as their parentagc and bringing up allow
them to be.
A litter of 6ve kittens born in Newark, y. j.,
are all joined together after the manner Of the
Siamese twins.
We do admire truthful tailor or shoemaker.
But they are like angels visits on earth, few
and far between.
II is a most egregious mistake for a man to
tell everything he knows to anybody, much
more to everybody.
The auihor or "Wat for the Wagon" is
dead. He discovered that Mckinley was driv.
ing and gave up in despair.
II /, a vro,t 81 al c,r n Ch,;y,;,n 4 .,.
p'se that faiihtulness to God requires us to
be invariably disagreeable to men.
A New York widow had two ribs fractured
while being hugeed by an ardent lover. lie
was entitled to one rib, but be wanted two.
There are too few holidays in this country.
Shnt NJ your shop aud 20 fishing. 1t will
greatly benefit you and MAY not hurt the fish
any.
A Portland, Oregon, man has been married
nine times. lie must have labored under the
impression that he was organizing q baseball
team.
A chain bridge over the Merrimac river at
Amesbury is said to be the oldest suspension
bridge in the United States. II Was built in
1892.
II must seem hard 10 the East Indians that
England rejoices at an expense Of millions Of
pounds while they stsrve to death or die Of
the plague.
The man who possesses the fundamental
virtues Of trnlhfulness, honesty and purity
should be judged very leniently for minor
short tcomings.
The New York Tribune speaks Of a man
shooting himself "in the park" II he had
shot himself in the head it would probably
have been fatal.
A st. i.ouis physician holds the hot weather
responsible for many Of the recent murders
and acts Of violence. The blood becomes poi-
soned BY being overheated.
A rival railroad in Georgia, bidding for pas.
seneer business, offers watermelons free to oil
excursionists. II is needless to say this road
has secured the colored business.
Il 10 estimated that more than eighty tons Of
diamonds have been unear,hed in the South
African fields during the last eighteen years.
These represent 4 value Of $280, 100000.
A virgiuia evangelist breaches to the peo.
pie from Emission boat" in the river. lie
cannot be induced TO preach on shore. "Wa-
ter and religion" hs says, "go together"
Another American girl has purchased a
titled hubby. Miss Mary Goslet, Of New York,
is to marry the Duke of Manchester. They
come high, but our dear girls must have them.
A true man loves with the right side Of bis
heart the spot where nature speaks and man
is dumb; and with the left, the place where
great men congregats to face their destiny
and control II.
This is very rapid age, and there Is no de-
nying the fact. A little sevsu-year-old tot
committed suicide At Ann Arbor, Mich,
the other day, because he imagined "his
brothers and sisters did not love him."
II has been said In explanation Of Senator
Harris remarkable success in politics, that il
was not easy to get him to make . promise,
but that his word, once given, was kept atsany
cost. There is q lesson in this which public
men should lay to heart.
The only giit the Queen oi England ever &C.
cspted from private subject wss the cream.
cclored psrasol carried BY her an the day Of
her diamgd jubilee. Itwss presented to her
by the Right Hon. Charles Pelham villiers,