Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-08-09
After taking part in the reopening

After taking part in the r~eopening
of the Sturgeon Temple, in Lon
don, next September, Ira D.. Sankey,
the evangelist, will visit Turkey rs
the guest of several Christian mis-
sions IN that country.
/ There is no necessary relation be-
tween the fact that Paris is a place
where one may easily spend lots of
money, and Russell Sage's probably
Going abroad this month to spend
some time at the Exposition.
Possibly the fact of his owing an
indemnity to America has escaped
the Sultan's mind through his being
so busy with great preparations for
his silver jubilee, which takes place
on August 81, when he will have been
twenty-five years on the throne.
Patrick Henry is still a factor of
more or less interest in the history
of America. The next Congress will
include two men of that name from
| Mississippi. The present member
from the Sixth district is Patrick
Heury, and another Patrick Henry
will represent the Third dirstr1ct.
Count Tolstoi in his early youth
determined never to marry. At the
age of 80 he changed his mind. His
wife was only Is when married, and
has borne the Count sixteen chill
dren, nine of whom are living. Nine.
Tolstoi does not share the s%ocialistic
beliefs of her talented husband.
Scientific people who believe in
Darwinism may see evidences of an.
cestral instinct working backward
in Daniel Rausch's building a house
for himself and family in the topmos'
branches of a tree near Paterson, N
j, but he say he chose the location
because it was cool, airy, %convenien'
and cheap.
j A London physician, DR.. e. J
Warner, presides over an odd enter
prise in that city called the Spectacl
: Mission. It's object is to gratu;
: tously provide spectacles for poo
working people suffering from de
: fective sight. Last year over
, thousand spectacles we're give
= away by the institutions.
It possibly does not increase hi
political ability to prepare many
: bitter pill for the other fellows t
+ swallow, but Senator Platt. of Ne
York, was ono a druggist. It
told of him that lately, going into
> drug store to have a prescriptio
filed, he thought the clerk was Ill
: necessarily slow, and, going back
the counter, he made up the pr
= scription himself in a short time.
,eI A curious election bet is just a.
j. nounced from Detroit that involve
70 a mule and a mother-in-law. Arth1
Williams agrees If Bryan is elocte
President to support George Ste
bins mother-in law for life. Ste
IS bins agrees if Mckinley is elected
twist the tail of Williams mule dai
for three weeks Or until permanent
disabled. It remains to be Sc
which has got the better end of t
=, bargain.
or Those who follow the newspap
profession in Europe apparent
" have troubles of their own. A b
ge garian journalist named Sanoff
DILIGENTLY wrote an article in a So
an paper on the subject of the relati
IT'S of the nose to character. One &C
an clusion was that persons with 10
ks noses are often bad characters. T
to public prosecutor regarded this a
case of lese majestic, because Pri1
Ferdinand has a long nose. Sang
was arrested, tried and sentene
is to three days imprisonment.
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sly HURRAH FOR GREENE.