Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-04-19

latter place may be accommodated.
The enlarged portrait swindler.
who has found SC large and fruitful
a..feld in this country, has reached
Paris. The concierges of apartment
houses in the Vendome quarter have
been worked to the extent of two
francs each for frames to enlarged
photographs, which are never deliv-
cred.
The alleged disappearance of $780,
600 worth of negotiable securities
Government in accordance with law
by the foreign insurance companies.
besides accentuating the scarcity of
money in South Africa, may tend to
still further decrease the security of
life there.
Strong book beer is supposed to
be the real thing. Using the goat as
symbol intimates it is not meant for
a kid.
Professor Atwater, who said a
while ago that alcohol was a food,
appears to be taking a certain
amount of water.
Miss Erika Paulasz is the first
Buda-Pesth Board of Examiners for
a certificate to practice as an archi-
tect.
"Dere ought to be two Presidents
-one to do de business and n to
do de handshakin'." Such at least is
the opinion of Jerry Smith, an old
negro servant at the White House.
Sir Thomas Upton is going to
name the new yacht he will chal-
! lenge us with "The Tay," it is said.
This is not after the beverages he
sells and which is drank in Ireland
under that name, but after the river
in Scotland.
Police Magistrate Kramer, of New
York, is going to set free a profess
! sional fortune teller arraigned in his
court last Wednesday for fighting if
the professor can tell by this morn
ing what disposition has been made
! of his case.
Some Berlin capitalists have made
an offer to purchase the Ferris
Wheel, which is still in Chicago and
which had been scheduled to go to
the scrap heap. Since most of the
big heads in Germany are already
well equipped it is not known for
what the wheel is wanted.
The First Parish Church, of Con-
cord, burned down last week, stood
on the site of the famous structure
in which the first Provincial Con-
gress was held in 1775. It was in the
| edifce just destroyed that Emerson,
Thoreau and other literary men wor-
shipped.
When the writer of a letter offer
ing the Mayor of Boston a thousand
dollars for a good position appeared
at the Mayors Office he was found
who said he thought all officials got
their jobs in that way. It does not
appear either that the olu fellow has
ever lived in Montana.
The untoward accident to young
Baron Rothschild, in his duel with
the Comte de Lubersac, whereby
the barron was slightly wounded in
the arm, is likely to result in an Of
fetal investigation into the careless
ness and disregard for human life
which appears to have crept into the
practice of duelling in France.
The head of the postal depart
ment at Gibraltar is a woman Miss
M. Cresswell, who has occupied the
position for ten years. She receives
a salary of So, TAO per annum. being
the highest paid woman in the post
Office. Miss Edith Shore, M. B., is
a medical officer in the same post
office.
Because of the recent death of a
man who al run over by IN auto
mobile in Chicago that city is dis
cussing a law compelling such We
hicles to put on tenders. Already,
indeed, a firm using automobiles in
the Windy City as delivery wagons
has begun eauipping them with man
catchers similar to those used on
street al
! After the passage of the currency
bill it seems like adding insult to in
} Jury to name one of the richest gold
produc1ng gulches in the new min
g ling district on the Koyukuk river
after William Jennings Bryan. An
other nearby gulch is named after
, President Mckinley, and there is riv-
: | airy among the miners as to which
: shall yield the greater output.
The rumor that W. A. Clark, Of
Montana, is going to marry again il
doubtless subject to readjustmen1
: pending the final determination as