The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-22
Editorial and Otherwise.


gacy.
The feet Of truth are slow, but they never
slip.
Try not only to be good, but to be good for
something.
Never indulge in regret for what is ire
tgievable.
Don't get your back up until you are certain
you are hit.
Never enslave moral sentiment by the love
Of filthy lucre.
A serious tangle is often the result of
matrimonial knot.
The DExocRAT-SrAR is for the people in
all things for the right.
Boys, be prepared to 60 at your country's
call. Don't to be drafted.
Every one is permitted, under the Constitu.
tiou, to worship God according to the dictates
of his own conscience.
1t is to be hoped that We will not be cursed
with x-spnrts this summer.
Before marriage woman is pensive, but
after marriage she is expensive.
A man never realizes how insignificant he is
until he attends his own wedding.
The Standardization for some people proves
that there is no accounting for taste.
John NJ. Palmer, Of Palmer ( Buckner firm,
is against armed intervention.
Millions for deense-and the same amount
for prosecution, is the lawyers motto.
notwithstanding the hard times, seal skins
are worn the year round-by the seals.
You can never judge the popularity of in
actress by the hnwers she presents herself.
Many a man who is cramped for a time in
this world may have 1t to burn in the next.
The volcanoes Vcsuvius and Ena are said
to never have an eruption at the same time.
The bay with his top and the girl with her
jnmping rope are the sure harbncer of spring.
The number Of stars visible through the
Inreest telescope is probably not less than
lOO, ,OOO, 900. .t
Character is a unity, and nll the virtues
must advance together to make the perfect
man.
A 2s-pound ball, fred by an English war
ship in 1872, was recently unearlhed near
Alexandra, Va.
Queen Victoria has read and reread the
poems Of Scott so often that she knows most
OF them by heart.
The British Museum library has complete
editions Of Shakspeare's work in IA foreign
languages.
The streets Of Paris are swept daily, and M
less than 1900 male and COO females scaven-
gers are employed.
Marrying for 1--we without a side issue Of
bread and butter is like slipping the froth from
glass Of soda water.
The first exclusive negro colony in Mime
sofa was established recently, about 25 fami
lies moving there frum Kentucky.
An exchange says: awe have definitely de-
cided to stay at home and do what we can to
enthuse the rest Of the boys I" enlist"
Evils that are running for want of attention
to them, lessen from the moment that our at
tention to them begins.
The latest from the ITardemnn Free Press
are these cheering words: "Go on, brave boys,
and fight for your country"
II you can't lind a way, make one. That is
what has been done thousand times over by
ear,hs greatest and best.
The income tax in Indis is levied m all in
comes Of SI65 and upwards, and then only one
man in 700 comes within its scope.
OF the $500 fires to which the London brig.
ade was called last year, M fewer than 1876
were caused by petroleum lamps.
| II is said that Connecticut factory turns
out 5000 rolling pins daily, and yet some peo-
pie wonder why our bachelors don't marry.
The Washington Post says: ain case Fitz
Lee is commissioned to organ ixc a regiment,
there will be a rush at the recruiting station.
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You can hardly expect young man to make
any progress with his first mustache when
everybody takes delight in calling it down.
All the possible charities Of life ought to be
cultivated, and when we can neither be breth-
ren nor friends, let rs be kind neighbors and
plesvant acquaintances.
II is well to make frequent excursions into
the future under the guidance of reason and
conscience, but irrational and irresponsible
dny dreaming Is a delusion and snare.
One would not scarcely think that the cur
few would be practicable in any place but the
smaller towns, but such law has been oper.
atng very satisfactorily in Indianapolis, Ind,
for three months past.
The bribery charges against Senator Hanna
have not been dropped. They will go to Con-
gress in a contest against his taking his seat
far the full term a. Senator from Ohio on the
4th Of March next.
A London scientist says he has carefully
studied $50 species Of microbes, aud Rnds tha
only forty Of that number have vic,ous ten
denries. "Un the whoIe,"hs says, "ths mi.
crobe helps To make life pieasursable."
Russia will At once begin the work of double
tracking her entire railway systsm, and is me-
eotiatIns with the Shah II Persia for road
conneetInR the Caspian ssa with the Persian
gulf.
In The factories II 0saka, Japan, the aver.
age waees II the men are ~ cents, Of the
women ls,1 cents day. The price of meals
at boarding -bouses Is about cents Day.