The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-05-12
SHORT, SHARE AND sNAPpY.
contrlbasd.

4 large number of American
patriots are anxious 90 serve
Porto Rico-for an official salary.
Aguinaldo has been killed for
the ninth time. 1t seems that he
will stay neither bought nor kill
ed.
The Connecticut boy of 10 who
has been arrested for bigamy
can not be accused of bashful-
ness.
| Isn't 1t about time for some
man to ask that he be elected
| President because he needs the
salary.
Secretary Long thinks the Vice
Presidency is something that
should neither be sought nor de-
clined.
Recent remarks of Admiral
Dewey Indicate that he is begin
ming to see the humor in his Pre-
sidential candidacy.
The question of whether the
Kansas City convention is to be
stormy or only a little Dewey Is
perpleXing some persons no lit
tie.
Some are born to be president.
some achieve the presidency, and
some have the presidency thrust
them by matrimony. All, there
upon Dewey?
Boston's board of health has
prohibited the use of powder
puffs by BARRIERS, and made num-
bcr of other regulations to inn
prove the cleanliness of barber
shops.
That good fortune is often
harder to bear than misfortune
was again demonstrated by the
suicide Of New York man who
recently inherited $500. 900. Still.
all of us would choose good for
tune, if given a say.
The reason that Americans are
not allowed to visit the arscnals
and gun shops of European pow
ers is said to be She fear that the
inventive genius Of Americans
would enable them to improve
upon anything they saw.
If the "four day" ocean grey
hound becomes an accomplished
fact, fares ought to be reduced.
On four days trip the passen-
gers will not have time to recover
from sea sickness and the food
bill on the ship will be sensibly
reduced.
A sensational murder trial, in
which the murdercr's sweetheart
who is the daughter of the man
murdered, is the principal witness
is going on in Virginia court.
There is material for novelist.
1t is claimed that the murder was
in self-defcnse.
A Connecticut girl has obtained
damages from a railway company
because her fingers were so iniur-
cd bya car that she cannot play
the piano. That jury ought TO
to be forced to live in flat with
pianos to right, left, north, south
above and below them.
The Nicaraguan canal bill has
passed the House by an over
whclming majority but unless
the Senate acts-and it probably
Will not-thc whole things Will
simply amount to an expression
of opinion by the country. Ureo
your Senator to act upon the bill.
William Dean HowcIIs has de
nounced Anthony TrolIope's nov
els as "unitcresting." No doubt
they are, but everyone thought that
) to be uninteresting was the one
, way in which to win Mr.. Howell 8
approval. If there are any no
vels duller than his own books we
should like to see them.
That Mexico Is striving to keep
I abreast of the times is shown by
the sending Of a party of advanc-
ed pupils Of the Vera Cruz STATE
Normal School on tour Of this
, country. If they keep their eyes
open, these young MeXicans viii
learn much that win be OF value
to them and to their country.
The Post Office Department
= officially denies that the govern
ment is swindlcd by the railroads
e through fraudulent weighing OF
mail carried. Once in every four
2 years all the mail carried on aul-
r roads Is weighed. and its weight
Q determines the compensation oI
2 the railroads for the four year
following.
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