The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1898-07-01
SCRANTON, MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY. JULY /, 1893
Editorial and Otherwise.

Editorial and Otherwise.
Unmuzzled dogs are dangerous.
Neglect bolts the door Of opportunity.
Half the troubles Of life are imaginary.
Fear-Not, plas Fret-Not, equals Fail-Not.
Sooner or later the guilty will be caught up
with.
A mser is like hog-of no use till he is
dead.
You cannot initiate q balloon with a yeast
cake.
vesuvius to Morro: "Shake! /" And it
shook.
The meaner a man is the more agreeable he
tries to be.
Worthless people are always more amusing
than worthy ones.
Some people are easily pleased when it comes
to marrying.
Cheerfulness brightehs the gift and beauti-
fes the gver.
God gives no man the contract to enlarge
the narrow road.
Care is the stumbling block in the pathway
Of happiness.
God means US to be useful, no matter where
he puts us.
It's no harm to borrow books, provided You
return them in lifetime.
Habits make ru's either for Gods charots
or for the DEVILS wagons.
Some men take pleasure in beli.,ling the
undertakings of others.
Make those about you happy; Tomorrow
your opportunity may be gone.
Faith, patience, resignation, prayerfulness-
all may and should be cultivated.
When a man begins to be his own worst en-
emy, his fool friends awa vs. assist him.
A Georgia Chinaman says: "Spaniard hi
talkee, talker; Milcan man he doee, doee."
It's all right fer a man to speak right out il
meeting, providing he knows when to stop.
No one seems to have as hard a time earn
ing money as the woman who malries for it.
TOO many men who 60 to war want office
Very few want to 80 as privatcs in the rea
rank.
The old-fashioned woman used to have he
gown stuck full Of pins; the new woman neve
can fnd one.
The greatest battles are fought within TIN
domain of the human heart. Our most invet
crate foes are within.
In the next school geography an island wi
probably he described as a sulall body of Ian
surrounded by gunboats.
The greatest trouble with some people
that they insist on conversiug about thing
which they are not convefsant.
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius is a hum
mer. She is nearly ten years old. She
what one would call naval JIM hun.
Some persons have friends wherever they g
for the reason that they are always thoughtft
of the pleasure and interest Of others.
Every successful work means sacrift
somewhere. For success is purchased b
love, and the cost of love Is always sacrifice.
le The cost Of feeding the army is estimate
ID at 20 cents for each man per day. For q
l. army Of 100000 men, this means 10000 u dn
and $l4,6O0, 900 a year..
The sun never sets on the United State
When it is s o'clock p. m. on Attoo Islam
Alaska, it is 9:36 o'clock the next morning
the eastern coast Of Maine.
The most expensive drug known is physo
of tign,ne, an ounce OF which is said to CO
he nearly $l,0o0,0O0. 1t is prepared from Il
Calabar bean, and is used in, diseases of Il
eye.
There are some over-wise people who SEQ
v the idea that thirteen is an unlucky numbe
Let them reflect what our ihrteen-,nch gu
nd are doing to Spain and be converted.
ax "Thc new bonds will be issued in differe
denominations" said Mr.. Gaswell.
"Wel,, il you get any be sure to get Presb
'''' terian bonds," replied Mrs. Gaswell.
About s2,OOO,Oo0 worth Of nuts, orang
> raisins aud wines have been hitherto import
annually from Spain. The trade this yt
' will be supplied by the people Of Cnlfor'
and Florida.
You can shout It from the housetop,
You can shout il from the steeple,
W. But il you shout it through the press
;. 'Tis heard by far more people.
W. An organst says that COW 'ncos in p
- feet fifth octave, or tenth a dog barks in
6hh or fourth; donkey brays in y peri
octave, aud horse neighs in descent on
W. chron,atic scale.
md Experiments have been going on far
past twelve years for the purpose Of trying
learn something ot the characteristics OF
Atlantic ocean as 4 great moving body
" water. As 4 result the whole Atlantic
.. shown To be slowly circulating round I
'rt- round like an enormous pool.
- One Of the strangest streams in the worl,
IN East Africa. II flows in the direction
the sea, but never reaches II. Just nortl
- the equator, and when only few miles f
:. the Indian ocean, IL flows into desert, VII
ate II suddenly aud ccm mplsiely disappears.
To protect the coast Of tho United State
\ big undertaking. The total coast lins
this coMntry is AIS miles, divided thus