The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-07-22
Editorial and Otherwise.

Spain will find out after awhile that she is
licked.
A Scotch doctor says bicycle riding cures
lunacy.
The war spirit on the Gulf Coast has about
played out.
The marriage of deaf mutes might be term
ed quiet affair.
1t is much easier to find some men out than
it is to find them in.
1t never makes the day any brighter to find
fault with the sun.
Some people have wheels, but are too timed
to keep them gong.
A breath of suspicion is sometimes more
disastrous than cyclone.
Some problems are hard to solve, and some
men are hard to fathom.
Seventy eight per cent of the population of
Mississippi is engaged in agriculture.
The man who is for revenue only is not
much advantage to his town.
"Ihave experienced good deal" said the
man who held all trumps.
The sheep has no reputation for bravery
and yet butchers know it is pretty plucky.
How things change! Once stamp tax
caused war; now a war causes a stamp tax.
The Spanish fleets
Are obsoletes.
There is no doubt about Spain being in
deep trouble The bull fights have been sus-
pended.
Many man thinks he is becoming a Chris
tian when be has Just arisen from a good
dinner.
"You might as well take horn with me- ;
said the billygoat to the man who was teasing
it.
The deadly power of gas IS recognized all
over the world, and yet most people make light
it.
1t is good thing that the silver dollar is
not any bigger. 1t is hard enough to hold on
to as it is.
Fine feathers do make fine birds. If you
don't believe this just look around you IN
church to-day.
Keep your dog in the front yard, so that
tramps can't get bit without coming inside
the house.
| Don't brag too much on your eloqucnce. The
parrot is very vuuble taker, but it is par
rot all the same.
The man who is all the time wondering why
his neighbor doesn't do SO and 50 very rarely
does it himself.
las a small match becomes great fire in q
dry wood, so fash of wit makes bonfire il
a crowd OF tools.
The business Of soldier is to fight, and ou
takers.
A Western exchange says that Cervera'l
board.
Gen. Banco would have made good claim
agent, if he happened to be thrust into tina
sphere of life.
He-"If were not in canoe would kis
YOU"
She-"Take me ashore instantly, sir
Owing to the split among the Missouri Pop
ulis,s, they have placed two State tickets ii
the field.
Camara paid over 100000 for the privleg
of sailing through the Suez canal and thei
pilipg back again.
| long as some people are allowed to reat
'wspaper without paying for it, they arr
Gifted. But is 1t honest?
l"e pe war taxes will be kept up considerabl
o'' Pr than the war; ditto the grumbling o
W. } who have to pay them.
got
i much patriotism in the present war.
.,n rity of those engaged in it are for reve
werd principally.
were out the only time man is indispensable
RiveEonan is when she has heavy valse +
s}carry and n train to catch.
1t Is the aght that the Spaninrds will adop
as their national air that popular song; "Ol
Mr. johnson, Tuin Me Loose"
Fortune may knock once at every man
door, but must of the time she doesn't knoc
loud enough for n fellow to hear.
notwithstanding war times the DEMOCRAT
STAR continues on its onward course, hewn
to the line, letting the chips fall where the
may.
Dewey, Merritt, Sampson, Schey,
And Likewise General Miles;
The babbling bore makes puns galore
On all Of these and smiles.
The New York newspaper artist who pic
tured the Vcsuvius half concealed by the dens
) smoke from her pneumatic guns should ad
minister the gold cure to his imagination.
0 A Kansas paper announces that Nero kicl
ed his wife to death. It twill be in order no
for some other Missouri paper to demand Il
arrest aud punishment of that drunken ii'
dler.
, At a congress In India, where nine lang,
ages were spoken by delegates, the discussion
, we're carried on in English. A proposition HI
been brought forward to make English u
missionary language Of the world.
The London Spectator thinks that Unc
Sam could sink Germany's ships just as easi
as he ~ Spain's. We mpe he will not
compelled to do SO, but Germany must ke'
her nose out Of our AGairs.
According to Spanish statistics Spain h
lost since the beginning Of the war twenty-oi
: warships and twenty-one merchantmen. "
/ lost one, but that was before The opening
hustilisiss.