Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

One of the athletic clubs of New
York city offers a silver medal to
any member that rides 1000 miles
on q bicycle. The offer was made be.
fore the wheel became a fashionable
rage, and as many men ride 200 miles a
week. the club is likely to find the fub
Allment of the offer rather taxing.
Berlin is to have a 'Sport Exhibi-
tion." in preparation for which, and
to save the German language from for
eiRp faint, a committee offers prizes OF
$135, $50 and $25 for German equiva-
Tents for all foreign sporting terms.
The prospect of new jaw-breaking
eompou nds suggested by this idea is
appalling.
-Japan's small losses in men in the
battles with the Chinese were due in
part to the accidental use of a bullet
proof material. Owing to the severe
cold, the japanese soldiers wore q
quantity of floss silk under their
clothes; this, when they were hit, was
found in many cases to have stopped
the bullets.
The following were answers re-
ceived by a teacher in an uptown
school from her pupils during a recent
examination: 1.-The cotton gin was in
vented by Robert Morse shortly before
the "a broke out" 1.-The Boston tea
party was a famous dinner given by
one of the colonists to the Indians.
Many celebrated people were there"
1.-THE gold fever is a fatal disease which
those who dig gold sometimes get."-
Philadelphia Cali.
There will o be q great reduc-
ton in the number of LAWYERS in
france. By a recent law each one must
take out a yearly license, for which he
pays an amount equal to about twelve
per cent. of his house rent. Many per-
SONS admitted to the bar who are not
in active practice have asked to have
their names taken from the roll, among
them NJ Fallieres, formerly prime min
lister and minister of jnstice, and SEN
ator Berenger, author Of the law re-
mittiag the penalty for FIRST ~offenses,
and also noted for his efforts to improve
French morality.
1T Is no easy task to sound the
whistle on q fast express train" said
an engineer, recently. Take . run of,
say. lao miles througha thick1y-settled
country and figure it out. The train
runs IS miles per hour, and there are
about five crossings per mile. Five
times lao Is 700; now multiply 700 by 4,
the number Of blasts given at each
crossing, that's $500; add the station
signals, the call to engineers of side.
tracked trains, ETC., and about 3.ooo
blasts arc necessary. Who SAYS that
the whistle-puller has an easy timer"
Conductor Pershing, Of the Pan
1 hn~d1A -h0 h-- l.-A
west, had a novel experience in a Kan
sas sandstone, the train on which he
was. passenger having been stuck in a
sandstorm for nearly four hours. The
sand defied the efforts Of hundreds OF
men b had undertaken the task OF
digging it out, and there was no alter
native but to calmly await a change in
the direction Of the wind. Mr.. Per
shing had seen trains stalled for the
want OF sand, but lever before had
he observed a locomotive hopelessly
blocked by q sandatorm.
Female nudity in art comes from
prehistoric Greece, and not, as is com
monty believed. from Babylonia, a v
NJ. Solomon Reinach, of the French
Academy of Inscriptions. Istar CAS-.
tartc) As . warrior goddess IL fully
clothed and In armor; 1t is only in her
humiliation. when she goes down into
bell. that she disrobes. On the other
hand, statuettes Of nude females have
|; been In the Archipelago, at Troy and
in Thrace that go back to 1900 B. c.
he infers that nude d~ivinities penetrat-
ed from prehistoric Greece to Babylo.
MIA, that b type was preserved BY
Ph@nicia. and thence passed back to
! historic Greece and to Rome