Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-03-08
GENERAL NEWS.

W. D. Howells says in his lecture
on "Heroes and Heroines in Fiction
that American women are better
developed intellectually than Amer
lean men.
W. j. Bryan will be 40 years old
On the 10th of this month. Thus
time flies and the boy orator is rap
idly getting along to that period of
life where he ought to know bet
ter.
In the big batch of mail now being
received by Miss Olga Nethersole
every day are usually some anony-
nous letters threatening her with
violence If she does not stop playing
"Sapho."
What is called the 'ssick season" is
said to be coming on in South>Afri
ca. It afiicts both man and beast
Vegetation is dried up and there is
no feed, SO that forage for animals
has to be carried along with that for
the men.
Mayor "Golden Rule" Jones, of
Toledo, says that both Mckinley
and Bryan are evil and he does not
know whom he will vote for for
President. Has he forgotten all
about Wharton Barker, of Philadel-
phia?
Henrik Sienkiewicz, the Polish
novelist, when asked to sign an ap-
peal for intervention in the South
african war, declined on the ground
that Russias treatment of the Beers
is, or will be, and therefore more ft
tion.
Princess Chimay and her Gipsy,
Rigo, are reported as headed for
New York. where they will appear in
a vaudeville performance in play
which portrays events in the life of
the woman. Here is another chance
for Mysteries by the New York fell
lows.
Sousa, the musician, says one
hears more music whistled on the
streets of our cities than in any
other country in the world. He cites
the fact as cause for congratula-
ton, but the proposition is some
what doubtful even though much of
the whistled music is Sousa's own.
Against the rumor that the Presi-
dent is much disposed to grant
pardon to Captain Oberlin M. Car
ter is another that he could not pos
sibly afford, from political consider
ations, to do anything of the kind.
and now captain Carter says he will
not and would not accept pardon.
Beerbohm Tree, who has heard in
London of the ''Sapho' case, thinks
there is nothing immoral in the
story and says he has never been
able to understand why certain sit
uations freely permitted in farce be-
cause they cause laughter are gener-
ally objected to in the more serious
drama.
The issues of the Topeka Daily
Capital, which are to be edited by
the Rev. M. Sheldon, are to be re-
produced in England, where the ven-
ture appears to be taken very seri
ously and where the various rei-
gious bodies are more Or less enthus-
iastic. The reproduction will be
made by the Westminster Ga
zette.
Ex-President Harrison is said to
have expressed himself strongly
against the Puerto Rico tariff bill,
but he will not say anything to re-
porters except that he may prepare
something for one of the magazines.
If he wants to do any good against
the bill. as some of its opponents
seem to think he might, ne had bet
ter not wait for the magazine.
The managers of Harvard Univer-
sity are urging all the officers of that
institution to keep diary which
shall be record OF daily life there.
These will all be fled away for the
benefit of future generations, none
of those relating to this month, for
instance, to be opened before 1925.
Harvard is clearly one of our seats
of learning where there is time for
more athletics.
Edward Turner, an American To-
comotive engineer, who was impris-
oned some ten months ago in Ori-
zaba, Mexico, to await trial on a
charge of criminal negligence con-
nected with the wreck of a train,
has died in prison, according to adj
vices just received by the State De-
partment at Washington. and the
expenses of trial have thus been
avoided.
Alexandra Duval. present head of
the Bouillons Duval Company, of
Paris, which runs the famous cheap
restaurants, and who is the son Of
the founder of the system, has been
.1o<ao,,.of t,d NTH tho T ,noinn of Honor.