The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-11-02
Editorial and Otherwise.

yer lining.
Don't prevaricate-stick to the truth if
you lose by it.
A travelling mans coat and trunk are
alike when checked.
The pneumatic tire ought to make a
success as tacks collector.
Boldly declare your principles regard
less of the consequences.
Not many barrels have been opened
during the present campaign.
Keep the Lord ON your side if you want
to succeed in the battle of life.
The aristocratic dentist should be q
man of excellent extraction.
Never Judge man by his relatives
they are not of his own selection. :
Rafting is gambling in the true inter-
probation of the law of this State.
Many people are spoiled by success
because the spoils belong to the victor.
= Everything that goes into woman's
pocket comes out crumpled and stuck up.
The secret of a young mans success
may be found in his close attention to
business.
"A politician wants to read the paper
that will elect his candidate every day,
and comfort him.
The Baltimore American knows of a
dude dressed to kill who brought his
suit at a slaughter sale.
Suspicion sometimes makes square
meal on jealousy and finds there is moth
ing left for dessert
The game laws of New Hampshire do
not allow any person to kill more than
fifteen partridges in one day.
The State of Colorado and the cattle
owners, working together, are offering
sS7.5O for every coyote scalp presented.
A snob is man OH ladder that kisses
the feet Of the man on the round above
him and kicks at the man on the round
below him.
Even if a woman doesn't really feel so
she ought to have sense enough to pre-
tend sometimes to her husband that she
is jealous of him.
When girl falls in love it itchanges her
whole nature. She will even act pleased
the first time he steps on her dress and
rips it all out at the gathers.
The other night Corbett boxed round
in evening dress. One Of these namby-
pamby days it may be in gross bad taste
to fight in anything else.
A woman is never so mad as she is
when she sees hat that is terribly cheap
right after some smooth man has talked
her around to buy an encyclopedia.
When the winds play checkers with
the clouds and the blush of the summer
leaves the rose, the tourist begins to
dream Of Dixie.
Shipping firms at Portland and Bath,
Me-, are unable to find crews for their
vessels, as so many men have shipped
on transports for Manila and China.
On English railroads there is no check
system of baggage like we have. The
road sets your baggage out by the track,
and you must see after it yourself.
Some thoughtfoul writer has said
"a man gets awful tired Of living some-
times. but just hint at approach of the
Great Silence and he gets rested at once"
One Ohio man locked his wife in the
house the other night and another lock-
ed his out-now both wives are suing for
divorce. Some women are hard to please.
The military spirit aroused by our re.
cent shows itself in dress by the form
that ornaments take. Regimental buck
les for wristbands are much in demand.
The Baptist church has membership
Of 100000 in the State. There are 1852
churches that compose 81 associations.
The outlook for an Increase is encourag-
ing.
A well-known st. Louis society wo.
man was found on the street the other
evening in state of beastly intoxica-
ton. She had been attending "kaffee
klatsch."
Congressman John Allen, of this State,
says that after March 4, 1901, he will re-
tire to his cotton plantation near Tupelo,
where he was born, to spend the remain
der of his days in the life Of sgentleman
farmer. He is in good health, and looks
forward to his rest with keen pleasure.
Remember the Maine! Nicholas Scalp,
. Swedish naval cook, who was on the
battleship Maine when she was blown
up in Havana harbor, shot and killed
himself in Brooklyn the other day. His
jaw was shattered by flying iron in the
Maine explosion and he had been unable
TO eat solid food since. This and delay
In getting an increase Of pension made
him very despondent.
A Waterloo, Ia, man of infinite resour'
ces and sagscity has utilized rats to lay
the telephone cables through the con
duits. Several rats were turned loose in
the conduit with ferret after them, X
which was attached cord. Through 70(
feet Of the conduit the merry chase WA
carried and the rats emerged into day.
light ct the other end just . few feel
ahead Of the ferret, which was probably
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