The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1899-11-24

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An honest mans word is better than
some mems bond.
The engines of first-class man -of-wa
cost about 100000.
Money talks-but it converses with
only the favored few.
When thieves fall out honest men get
their dues. This is true axium.
Figures don't lie, but Of course this
doesn't refer to women's figures.
When he came home tipsy he told his
wife he had been out sherrymaking.
Gossip is long thread OF misstate-
ments wound upon little spool of fact.
Sir Cuss is not a very square fellow.
He's always round at this season Of the
year.
Any fool can ask questions, but even
the wisest man can't answer some of
them.
A field of usefulness may 60 all to
improbable weeds if it is not sedulously
cultivated.
A man who is arrested for giving short
weight is pretty apt to see the error OF
his weighs.
Success, as a rule, can be directly at
tributed to an intuitive knowledge of hui
man nature.
Fried wasp soup Is considered great
delicacy in China 1t is stated that it is
quite an acquired taste.
If it was not true that women go seek
ing husbands, there would be more be.
lated sisters in the United States.
Lying is not essential to success. Ly-
ing may bring temporary prosperity,
but cannot give permanent success.
1t is o well known fact that no sooner
does mouse trap or cat enter house
than it is followed by troop of mice.
"Peggoty's Hut" at Yarmouth, made
famous through Dickens "David Cop
perfield," is about to be sold at auction.
Sometimes a man attains a position
only to discover that nature has not en-
dowedhim with sufficient brains to fill
it.
| A natural soap mine and paint mine
are two of the latest curiosities which
have been discovered in British Colum.
bia.
1t Is so we'll known that "blood is
thicker than water" that only an old
fashioned poet would take the trouble
to tell it.
One test for distinguishing diamonds
from glass and paste is to touch them
with the tongue. The diamond feels
much the colder.
1t is evident that the elite society ol
New York does not believe in polyga
my. Its devotee always divorces one
wife before taking another.
A Chicago woman named her baby
boy "Yewed." The modesty Of the
mother can be better comprehended by
reading the name backward.
Overrun with rats, the city Of Copcn
hagen, Denmark, is trying to reduce thu
pest by Offering o small bounty on eacl
dead rat brought to the morgue.
The man who endeavors to live o
peace with his fellow-man Is sincerely
mourned by all when death takes hin
away. Everybody is his friend.
Doom Paul can handle a rifle mucl
better than he can pen. His signatur
is cramped and scarcely legible. II
signs himself "S. J. p. Kruger" his full
name being Stephanus Johannes Paulu
Kruger.
When o man deliberately sits dowr
in what he conceives to be the glare G
his own genius, and with egOtistic pre-
fession, compliments his own ability, h
, is always certain to have q fool for o.
/ admirer.
An exchange says that willow bark
a sure cure for the liquor habit. 1t
certainly known, when applied prope
ly, to be a fairly good cure for many
the habits that Juveniles in general OIL
afflicted with.
The statistician Of the Department I
Agriculture reports that the producti,
cotton area last year was 25,OOO,OOO acr'
and this year about q, 500, 600 acres. TT
average yield per acre is the smallest
many years.
During the last four months this go
ernment hos spent on Its war accoun
including pensions, the snug sum
S184,0)0,01o, while II has devoted onl
; $40,0oo,GOO to the ordinary expenses
! pesceful government
: A new way 10 coal locomotives is b
!, Ing introduced by prominent rsilroa
All the engineer has to do 10 TO run h
engine on trestle, touch button, On
. tender full Of coal drops into his te
!, der, which ID weighed - II drops in.
The Post once Department hes blscl
listed three ex-slave pension sssoci
tions, the "Ex-Slsve Petitioners Asser
: bly," the "Ex-slavs Mutual Reli
. Bounty and Pension Association" /" q
II vaughan's Ex-slsvc Pension Club A
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