Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-22
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

One of the athletic clubs of New
York city offers a silver medal to
any member that rides 1000 miles
on a bicycle. The offer was made be-
fore the wheel became a BILE
rage, and is many men ride 200 miles a
week, the club is likely to find the fuh
fllment of the offer rather taxing.
Berlin is to have a "Sport Exhibit,
ton" in preparation for which, and
to save the German language from for
eign faint. a committee offers prizes of
$125, $50 and S25 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
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 nswe re-
ceived by a ~teacher-in an uptown
school from her pupils during a recent
examination: THE cotton gin was in
vented by Robert Morse shortly before
the war broke out" The Boston tea
party was a famous dinner given bv
one of the c%olonists to the Indians.
Many celebrated people We're there
THE gold fever is a fatal disease which
those who dig gold sometimes GET
Philadelphia Call
There will soon be a 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
sol 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-
uniting 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 a fast express train" said
an engineer, recently. Take a run of.
say, 14o miles througha thickly-settled
country and figure it out. The train
runs 35 miles per hour, and there are
about five crossings per mile. Five
times 14o is 700; now multiply 700 by 4,
the number of blasts given at each
crossing, that's 1850; add the station
signals, the call to engineers of side
tracked trains, etc, and about 5000
blasts are necessary. Who says that
the whistle-puller has an easy timer"
Conductor Pershing, of the Pan
handle, who has just returned from the
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 defed the efforts of hundreds of
men who had undertaken the task of
digging it out, and there was no alter
native butto calmly await a change in
h direction of the wind. Mr.. Per
shing had seen trains stalled for the
want of sand, but never before had
he observed a locomotive hopelessly
blocked by a sandstorm.
-Eema1e nudity in art comes from
prehistoric Greece, and not, as is com
monty believed, from Baby1onia, says
M. Solomon Reinach, of the French
Academy of Inscriptions. Istar (As-
tarte) as a warrior goddess is fully
clothed and in armor; it is only in her
humiliation, when she goes down into
hell, 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 diyinities penetrat-
ed from prehistoric Greece to Babylo-
MIA, that the type was preserved by
Phoenicia, and thence passed back to
: historic Greece and to Rome