Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-08-16
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Signs prohibiting it are now put up
in all taverns and tobacco shops.
The New York Journal says that
Oscar Wilde was recently found by
Kyrle Bellew in Genoa on the verge
= of starvation and is now in Paris
writing a play which Bellew and
Mrs. Brown Potter will produce next
winter.
Emperor William, on the occasion
of the unwilling of a figure of our
Saviour erected in front OF the gar
rison church at Kiel, recently, in a
speech to the assembled marines, es-
pecially called their attention to the
dangers of their occupation, which,
he said, could make them lean to-
ward God. For that reason, he said,
he had made them this present, that
it might be continual remembrance
to them of the hi her life.
The new Queen of Italy, wife of
Victor Emmanuel, is anything but
popular, owing to her cold acknowl-
edgement of the sa~lutation Of the
people. She is a shy, proud, IN
sympathetic woman, who never
smiles and is altogether quite re-
pugnant to the italian notions of
what a queen should be. She has
been repeatedly advised to make
some response to the popular greet
ings, but nothing thaws her icy man
ner.
The Duke of Devonshire is 81
years old. He is one of the richest
of living Englishmen, and owns no
less than 1876, 900 acres at the famous
seats known as Chatsworth House,
Hardwicke Hall, Bolton Abbey,
Compton Place, Oldcotes and Lis
more Castle. The first peer was a
son of one of the commissioners ap-
pointed for taking the surrenders Of
religious houses in the reign of
Henry VIII, and it was through his
mother that C~hatsworth, Hardwicke
and Oldcotes came into the family.
The Shah of Persia, who has taken
great interest in the Bicycle Secret
Police of Paris. an escort of which
always attends him when he leaves
his palace, has decided to establish a
similar service in his own country.
He has bought sixty wheels and en-
10o.oI 4hnoo oc41~1a4omc anI 4wo rro
pairers. and as soon as he returns a
bicycle body guard fifty strong will
be organized. After competitive
trials of French, German and Eng
lish makes the Shah purchased all
his wheels from an American bicycle
company whose exhibits at the fail
have been a revelation to foreign
riders.
The ordinary run of tourists in
Italy leave in that land every veal
a sum amounting to possibly as
much as S75, 600, 900. This is a felc
of regular income which it is incum
bent to cultivate, and in order tt
Low LIN OASOAx ~ SA
association has been formed, con
ssisting of merchants, hotelkeepers
representatives of railroad interests
and such like. These have recently
held a congress in Rome under tn,
patronage of several Deputies anG
Senators. Signor Maggiorino d,
Ferraris, former minister and direc
tor of the review, Nuova Autologia
is the head and eliminating elemen
of this movement. "We propose,
says he, "to organize in a single bon,
all the moral and material forces O
Italy which relate to the cultivation
aof this industry" that is to say, tn
travelling foreigner.
The ashes Of Colonel Georg
Warning, who was once Ne,
FORKS Street Cleaning Commis
ssioner, and. who died of yello,
fever contracted while in Havan
to make examination of that city
sanitary condition for the Unite
States Government, are still at til
Fresh Pond Crematory, Long Is
land, where the body was burned
confined in the original chea
earthenware pots aud wrapped j
brown paper. The pots are shifte
about from place to place as spae
is needed in the conlmbarium. ]