Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Q 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 fashionable
rage, and as many men ride 200 miles a
week. the club is likely to find the full
hIlment of the offer rather taxing.
Berlin is to have a 'sSport Exhibi.
ton" in preparation for which, and
to save the German language from for
elgn faint, a committee offers prizes of
Sl25, $50 and S25 for German eouiva-
Tents for all foreign sporting terms.
The prospect of new jaw-breakinp
compou 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 a
quantity of floss silk under their
clothes; this. when they were hit, was
1ouno 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: The cotton gin was in.
vented by Robert Morse shortly before
the war broke out" 1.-THE Boston tea
party was a famous dinner given nv
one OF the colonists to the Indians
Many celebrated people were there.
1.-The colo 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 LAWYER 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. Manv ner-
sons admitted to the bar who are not
In active practice have asked to have
their names taken from the roll. amono
them NJ. Fallieres, formerly prime min.
lister and minister of j~nstice, and Sen.
ator Berenger, author of the law re-
uniting the penalty for first ofepses
and also noted for his efforts to improve
French morality.
IL Is no easy task to sound the
whistle on a fast express train" said
an engineer, recently. Take a run If
say, 40 miles through a thickly-settled
country and figure it put. The train
runs 50 miles per hour, and there are
ABOUT i've crossings per mile. Five
tunes l4o is 700; now multiply 700 by 4,
the number of blasts given at each
crossing, that's 2,sOO; add the station
signals, the call to engineers OF side
trackeo trains, ETC., and about 1000
blasts are necessary. Who saws that
the whistle-puller has an easy timep"
Conductor Pershing, of the pa,-
handle. who has just returned from tha
west, had a novel experience in a Kan
sas sandstorm, the train on which he
was passenger having been stuck in a
sandstorm for nearly four hours. Tho
and defed the efforts of hundreds ~
men who had undertaken the tasL -
digging it out, and there was no alte--
native but to calmly await a chance In
the direction of the wind. Mr.. Per-
sh1ng had seen trains stalled for N.
want OF sand, but never before had
he observed a locomotive hopelesslv
blocked by a sa~ndstorm.
Female nudity In art comes fron
prehistoric Greece, and not. a. l. coms~
monty believed. from Babvlonia. saws
u, Solomon Reinach, of the French
OF Inscriptions. Istar (As-
tarteJ Ns q warrior goddess is fully
clotned n In armor; it is only in her
humiliation, when she goes down into
hell, that b disrobes. On the other
hand, statuettes of nude females have
been In he Archipelago, at Troy and
IN Thraee that go back to 1900 B. G. |
He 1nfers that nude divinities penetrat-
ed from prehistoric Greece to Babvlo- |
MA, that the type was preserved bv
Phoenicia, and thence passed back to
historic Greece and to Rome