The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-10-20
Editorial and Otherwise.

Life is but see-saw,
And they win, in the end,
Who manage to drop easy
When it's their turn to descend. |
No weather is i'll
If the wind is still.
Never quit certainty for hope.
Some women's ways are very strange.
A Philadelphia cat wears false teeth.
Some women wear "very fetching
gowns"
A judge may wear his hat wrong end
foremost.
Eight cent cotton has made the farm
ers happy.
Some men can't take hint unless
knocked down.
A man who wants the world generally
gets it-in the neck.
The stingy mans dollars are what you
might call close quarters.
When quack doctor fails, he says the
patient didn't do his part.
Give some people half chance and
they'll take the other half.
The cook as well as the dressmaker
shows her taste in dressing.
Thomas A. Edison claims that Friday
is his luckiest day in the week.
Strangely enough the "better half' is
not the one who does the betting.
Husbands ought to love their wives
with all their power-if they can.
IT is impertinent to ask lady her age,
except under some circumstances.
"Truth lies at the bottom of WE'LL"
But how can truth "lie" anywhere.
Old maids never want to marry unless
the man of their choice comes along.
You can't tell much about wedding
by the number of invitations issued.
Henri Rochefort, editor of L'Intransi-
geant, has fought more than 200 duels.
A cake walk is like circus; if you
have seen one you have seen all of them.
The DEMoCRAT-STAR is by far the best
advertising medium in South Mississip-
pi.
The man whose wife chased him with
a frying pan said the spider made him
fly.
ely l. nd gl ht,t t1o
scent Of the animal hangs around him
still.
Oddly enough, London cyclists are
compelled to ride slowly through Fleet
street.
We always get more or less than we
hope for, and it's usually something diff
ferent.
Silence is not golden when man re-
fuses to say anything about his business
in print.
The invalid realizes that he is on the
high road to recovery when he sees the
doctors bill.
Careless persons are forever stubbing
their toes, and oftimes their mental be-
ing. Look out!
Even Kipling has to pay the penalty
of greatness. An Ohio postoflice has
been named for him.
When q man goes to working secret
societies for any material advantage, it
| usuallv REACTS On him
A new book-keeper works long time
to erase wrong letter, while an old one
quickly crosses it out.
When man is always telling about
how he doesn't want to cheat folks, we
get suspicious at once.
When n man is missing, every ones
first impulse is to count the women left
in town to see if one is short.
The Sardis Reporter refers to the citi-
zens of that towns as sardines. They
must be swimming in grease.
Artists love to paint the Mary mother,
the blessed among women, with blonde
hair and eyes of heavenly blue.
Married women should be polite to sin
gle men, but not too familiar, for that
corrupts good morals, you know.
The inhabitants of Wilton, England
believe that with the close of the centu'
ry the world will come to and end.
| Little things make up the sum total OF
life; little habits Of character show the
being of the man, and ore the seedlings
of his nature.
The girl who wears polk bonnet doe!
not know all that is going on about her
but she can see when man is setting
) his cap for her.
: In the Sutro baths Of San francisco
, there are sixty-nine shower baths, sew
eral toboggan slides and dressing room
fooms for l,61 people.
The Picayune man says 1t is as easy t.
start q new political party as 1t is t
= start newspaper. Keeping 1t going o
profit requires genius.
+ There are two hospitals for lepers II
this country, one In New Orleans AM
a one in San Francisco. Each contain
about thirty-five patients.
Life ia o long lesson which Dame Ma
!, ture sets ,fs, and which we always fai
/. to learn, consequently are called upol
4 to suffcr for our stupidity.
: The only places in the civilised world
q outside OF Turkey, whore you can stu
buy and hold slaves, are the bulu 10
lands Of the United States Of America
The biggest deal IN oak timber eve
: contaminated In the South has jus
bosn closed In Memphis-fifty thousan'