Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-30
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The Worlds Fair seems to need
shingling-Boston Herald.
"There, blast you!" said the dys
Mantle to the rock. Then it went
off about its business.-Troy Press.
One of the strongest points the
President makes is when he points
toward the door Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Who would have supposed that
a woman would be inventor of self
patching tr~ousers?-Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Are the American Parnellites
more eKacting than Mr.. Parnell
himself was seven years agc?-New
York Sun.
There ia one woman on earth
who won't wear crinolines. We
refer to Dr.. Mary Walker.-Boss
ton News.
We have had enough dilly.dally-
ing. 1t is time to do something Give
us rapid transit at once.--New
York Herald.
The early fly is around invests
eating the ragged scalp locks left
by those dear little hands.-Nice.
toun Nemesis.
That vacancy in the Pension
office is the best thing that has been
there for the last four years.
Detroit Free Press.
President Cleveland's appoints
ments do not arouse any enthsi-
asm amopg the disappointed
Providence journal.
As the truth becomes more fully
known Reading resumes its old
time popularity on the street.
New York Advertiser.
There is a United States Gov
eminent, without reconstruction or
Force bill, and Louisiana is in it.
New Orleans Picayune.
The early spring raiEs fall on
the Just and the unjust, but the
unjust generally can carry silk
umbrellas -Mid-Continent.
The girls in the oakland High
School have refused to read an
"unexpurgated" edition Of "Ham-
let."-New York Recorder.
The sta,s which one sees upon
beirg knocked down furnish the
fierce light that beats about tie
thrown.-Boston Transcript.
No Office, so far as we have been
able to observe, is painting for breath
in it's frantic efforts to seek the
man.-Commercial Advertiser.
Baltimore remains the Liverpool
of America, and no city has the
effrontery to attempt to rob her of
her laurels.-BaItimore American.
Ii you wish to attract attention
in church on Easter aud can't afford
a new bonnet wear a pair of creaks
ing shoee.-New York Evening
Sun
The man who makes a business
of politics does not come within the
businessmen class referred to by
the dministration.-W Washington
Star.
Runor says that Mrs. Mckee is
| going to write a book. Let us hope
that rumor is no better informed as
to Mrs McKee's intentions than it
was regarding Mr.. Harrison's,
MI. Cleveland has only one
namesake old enough to hold Of
fee, and that young man is Grover
Cleveland Bridgers, of Halifax
county, North Corolina, "a years
of age, Some twenty.foar years age
the young mans uncle, Col Martin
went to Buffalo to receive treatment
at a hospital, and met Grover Cleve.
land, an obscure young lawyer Col
Martin thought Cleveland was the
"smartest" man he had eve seen
and went back and had his sisters
child named for him, saying at the
time that "Grover Cleveland will
be President of the United States
some day." Grover Cleveland
Bridgers, it is understood, will ask
for a fourthsclass postoffce in hi'
county, urging his claims that ht
was the first child to be named fol
Grover Cleveland.