The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1901-02-22
Editorial and Otherwise.

Railway travel teaches people to know
their own station and stop it.
The scabbards worn by Russian Off.
GERS are made of papier mache
The man who aims to be good in this
world may miss fire in the next.
Lignum vita is the toughest wood
known. 1t cannot be worked by split
ting.
1t takes some people a powerful long
time to make up their mind on business
matters.
A zealot is one who will commit
crime in order to uphold the standard of
morality.
The certain way to be cheated is to
fancy ones self more cunning than
others.
Naturalists say the lobster will soon
follow the buffalo and the diamond-back
terrapin.
Strange as it may seem, the photo
graphs Of Mr.. Nation represent him as
baldheaded.
Count that day lost whose low descend
ing sun views from thy hand no worthy
action done.
A man never lies little lie to his wife
that she doesn't make him wish he had
told her a bigger one.
He who has never denied himself for
the sake Of giving, has but glanced at
the joys of charity.
Some men will do you small favor
just to have an excuse to come around
next day and ask big one.
Only fool is ashamed to acknowledge
his poverty. The shabby genteel man
is the poorest man on earth.
Old men often give advice to young
men-and they also give money to conf
dence men occasionally.
A woman has got to pity something.
II it isn't people it is pets, and if it isn't
pets it is the heathen.
II there were no men in the world the
women would still be running around
with wisp Of leaves on.
A young man who knows nothing
about politics, cards or golf would GER
tainly make good companion.
Every reasonable person, no doubt,
has an ambition to rise, but nobody par
ticularly cares for blowing up.
The man who looks at everything
through money is more than half con-
WINGED that the devil is gentleman.
Lee county has only l,4Ss delinquent
poll tax payers. Jackson country beats
those figures by several hundred.
Those people who expect to reform the
world In single night had best do their
utmost to reform themselves during the
day.
A hundred years ago the largest fort.
une in the United States was $3.50, 900.
Now there are several fortunes Of more
than $2OO,OOO,OOO.
Most men get married for the same
reason that they act good-some few be-
cause they like, and the rest because
they're afraid not to.
| A woman may admire q woman who
knows more than she does, but she saves
her envy for one who can afford to dress
better than she can.
Some men are as easily entertained as
the one who had habit Of taking off
the wife's wedding ring whenever he
wanted little excitement.
Probably the devil will punish the
women who don't get to heaven by not
letting them direct their envelopes be-
fore they write their letters.
There are men who will laugh at a
women for buying a nickle package of
chewing gum, ,hen proceed to blow in
a quarter for an imported cigar.
A girl kissing married man is like a
child playing with electricity, who does
not like the shock when it comes, but
cannot resist trying il once more.
There is no better Democrat than on,
who serves his party for the benefit OF
the people. There is no worse Democra
than one who uses his party for his OWL
benefit.
The farmer of to-day reads the papers
and refuses to invest in "gold bricks,
but he steps up to the polls and votes TO
the candidate who promises the impos
sible, just as he always did.
Grover Cleveland and David b. Hill
have declined to stand for the Presiden
tial nomination Of the Democratic part.
In 1904. They are rather previous--bet
: ter wait until tn ey are asked.
Two Belgian specialists, who were sen
to GLASGOW to study the plague question
decided that. under proper sanitary cor
ditious, the plague Is not a serious mer
ace In any European cities.
When Hsnnibal's army descended froi
!, the Alps into the valley OF Lombard
the whole force was well-nigh route
by plague of mosquitoes, which droy
men and animals almost wild with pail
In Algeria river Of ink is formed b
the conjunction Of two streams, one
which ID impregnated with iron, and Il