The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1901-01-18
Editorial and Otherwise

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The trickster sometimes gets tricked.
When cats fight they simply scratch
match.
Imprudence is frequently the fruit of
prosperity.
Perseverance often accomplishes more
thnn power.
Things not to be laughed at-the jokes
Of some people.
Death gives a man good name when
all other things fail.
Things that go farthest does not al
ways travel fastest.
Man must be satisfied with the world
and the rest Of mankind.
Ghosts may talk, but few people un-
derstand the dead languages.
Some people are full of the truth be-
cause they never let any OF it out.
Cupid is always represented as baby.
because love never lives to grow up.
Some people, like hens, can never find
anything where they laid it yesterday.
Many man has ruined his eyes by
using glasses other than spectacles.
Executive ability is faculty all men
should possess il they expect to succeed.
Solitary meditation naturally gives
some people poor opinion Of mankind
Society is, after all, but o conglomer-
ated mixture Of mysteries and miseries.
Only few of the things we want are
absolutely necessary to our welfare.
Occasionally a sermon is almost long
enough to reach down to our posterity.
Good, clean, pure water taken by the
pint before breakfast and before retiring
Is fattening and healthfnl.
Whenever you meet man who thinks
he knows 1t all, it's ten to one that he
isn't married.
"A miss is as good as q mile-and If she
happens to be about sweet sixteen, she
is great deal better.
The wasp attacks the ripest fruit; SO
will slander attempt to wound the most
honest fame.
A lady writer advises girls never to
marry men who talk loud. That advice
Is certainly sound.
One kind word to heart that is heavy
is worth thousand compliments when
you are gay.
Never prowl about your neighbor's
house in search Of the skeleton closet
attend to your own.
The invalid doesn't necessarily lose
his sense Of touch because he doesu't
feel we'll.
1t is truly wonderful how fascinating
most things are to people that are none
of their business.
When man forgets to ask his wife II
she needs any money it is sign the
honeymoon is on the wane.
A ship is probably called she because
rigging costs so much and it always
keeps man on the lookout.
Some Of the reformers seem to consid.
er that the way to hold prosperous man
down is to hold him up.
A woman has special vocabulary
which she only uses when she talks to a
canary bird or baby.
A miser would be only too glad to re.
move the beam from his own eye il he
could only sell the timber.
A pert school girl recently informed
her mother that she didn't propose to
wear short dresses any longer.
Men climb the hill Ct life like small
boy pulling his sled after him and they
60 down hill like the boys with their
sleds under them.
The oldest bonnet was found upon an
Egyptian mummy, that of princess
who was inferred 1900 years before
Christ.
The heaviest man whose weight is re.
corded automatically was Miles Darden,
OF Tennessee. He weighed little less
than 1000 pounds.
The romantic vision of the first half OF
mans life is the most real survey OF
earth he will ever make.
One-fourth Of the inhabitants of the
world die before they reach the seven tn
year, one half before their seven teen tn
year. OF every 1000 persons, only one
reaches the age Of 100 years.
The New York man who serenaded
his sweetheart then killed himself un.
der her window probably didn't care to
give the neighbors chance.
Short dresses hapanade their appear.
ance on our streets. We are glad to see
them over two small feet.
1t is held by some that the world is q
lunatic asylum, and the men and wo
men are more or less insane.
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