The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-11-17
Editorial and Otherwise.

weep.
One must take his medicine as it
comes.
A grain of honesty is worth ton of
deceit.
Somebody is always getting disap-
pointed.
Never count chickens before they are
hatched.
You may talk too much on the best of
subjects.
No more elections in this State until
next year.
Some people will gossip about their
neighbors.
A good thing may be cheap, but a
cheap thing is seldom good.
"rhe world moves" but it sometimes
moves in the wrong direction.
The man who is looking for trouble
doesn't have to advertise for it.
Somehow the father-in-law never gets
much of a comic-paper reputation.
II you don't care for the things you
can't obtain you will be fairly happy.
Without difficulties to surmount many
people would never take any exercise.
Kentucky takes its whiskey straight,
but evidently prefers its politics mixed.
A candidate never discovers the good
points of his opponent until after his
defeat.
Some FOLKS are like bar of bad soap;
they make a lot of lather, but they don't
do the work.
An old friend used to say that "com-
mon sense" was the most uncommon
sort of sense.
The man who can make other people
put up with their eccentricties is called a
philosopher.
A married man would have more mon
ey If his pockets were as hard to find as
those of his wife.
! A rich man needs wife to help him
spend money; and a poor man needs one
to help him save it.
The Boer rangers find those long
range English guns in Ladysmith de-
cidedly Objectionable.
Happiness lies in our wish to make
others happy; but we want them to feel
the same way about us.
The liar will get his reward hereafter.
He will abide near the lake of fire and
birthstone we read about.
A New York newspaper announces
that fat people there can be compressed
by riding in a Broadway car.
Some young men would get along bet
ter if they had less point to their shoes
and more to their conversation.
Friendship is that feeling which keeps
women from telling one another when
their shirt waists don't fit in the back.
imperialism comes high. Our army
and navy is now costing $65O,OOO a day
with more prospect of increase than OF
decrease.
A philosopher says: "Wise men hesi
tate; only fools are certain" If the
philosopher is certain of this he must be
fool, according to his own theory.
Cocoa fiber is used in manufacturing
the Bombay rug-a kind of heavy mat
ting especially made for use in smoking
rooms. 1t keeps clean longer than
woolen rug.
Y 1t may safely be said that Sunda,
saves thousouds upon thousands from
the madhouse. 1t is the one break from
week to week which thousands of ma
lures demand.
The Chinese were the firrt to discove
process for glazing earthenware. TIL
Greeks and Romans used bitumen, tai
low, etc, to make their clay vessels i'm
pervious to wine and water.
To tell the truth about person is nc
slander. Slander is false tale or repor
maliciously uttered, tending to injur
the reputation of another; the maliciou
utterance Of defamatory reports. s,.s..s
The man who will support q
, policy for no other reason than b. ~
1t will put money into his pocket NJ
I become highwayman whenever h
thinks . safe opportunity presents itsel
No one ever heard of mule havin
yellow fever, at least not black vomi
And vet the enlightened health officer {
Texas refused to permit one of the an
mails to cross the dead line into h
State.
A Raleigh, N. G., paper thus speaks {
the singing Of local amateur: "Ye
every note was as pure as the soul Of a
angels prayer, and sweet ss the breat
of vernsl breexes when whispering Low
to violets.
More than 40 per cent. Of the'people ,
Great Britain could not write the
names when Queen Victoria ascende
! the throne. At the present time only
: per cent, Of the population are In th'
condition.
CAnada lacks only 1900 square mile
TO b q large a. the whole continent
!. Europe3 y h nearly thirty times
= large ~ Great Britain and ireland and
aoodCo IslNe milw lartsr than y
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