Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-11
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News of the Stage, Social, POIiti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

From Our Exchanges.
Mark Hanna repels the charge of
oratory as did $ nam esake of Rome
once upon time
There is little hope of peace, now
that worlds peace congress is to
to held III Paris
About the best trust New Jersey
ever generated is the growing trust
that it is going 10 vote the right
way
How far is the Presidents resem-
blance to Napoieo1 to extend? The
latter, it will be remembered, favored
the cooked hat, and was ultimately
knocked into one.
Elizabeth K. Mirhaux-T Turner, one
of this winters Philadelphia debu-
tantes, is a lineal descendant of
Christopher, Baron de Graafenreidt,
who co.onized New Bern, North
O6TO11ua, III 11USs
A Frenchman who recently trav-
eled in the United States has writ
ten an article on the tooth filling
branch Of dentistry, and after study
ing statistics he estimates that up
wards Of S50O,OOO worth of gold is
packed into the teeth of Americans
every year.
The Bible presented by the Har-
ward Republican Cldb to Governor
Roosevelt. for use by him in taking
the oath Of Office in case he is elected
Vice President, bears on fy-leaf
the inscription: "From Harvard men
to Harvard man of whom all Har :
ward men are proud"
Miss Ellen Douglas Deland, the
author of "Oakleigh," malvern, y
ALAN Ransford," and many other
popular novels, will sail for Antwerp
on the Westernland on October II.
Miss Deland will be accompanied by
her sister, Miss Annie Deland, and
will make an extended tour abroad.
Senator Beveridge. in his speech
in Kansas City, dealt with the cost
of the war in the Philippines, but
he confined himself entirely to the
cost in money and made not so much
as reference to the cost in human
life. This seems to show that the
Hanna plan of government does in
deed, as pointed out by Bryan, put
the dollar above the man.
An order has been issued by the
postmasters throughout the country
to observe the strictest economy
with rubber bands; to reuse old
bands as much as possible. and to
save all pieces of string for future
use. The famine in India and the
war in the Philippines have advanc-
ed the prices of both these articles;
hence the inauguration of the save
at-the spigot policy while hundreds
of thousands pour out at the bung-
hole.
The Boston Transcript says that
one vague fear which has long haunt
ed New England has been effectively
set at rest by the census of 1900
That is, the fear that industries
were leaving New Edgland, or were
destined soon to leave her. Whatever
the future may have in store for us
it adds, it is gratifying to know tha'
at the end of the present century
New England's remarkable progress
as factory center shows no sign O
abatement.
Every day during James J. Cor
belts absence from this countr.
some of the New York papers CAV
him from a quarter of a column to
full column and printed his pictur
about twice week. No wonder b
fancied that the American public
forgetting all other interests, was i
violent state of excitement owe
him and his personal affairs. But
taking this boom, as he conceived il
at its flood he returned to find pee
pie thinking about other things, an
the advertising moment, SO to speaE
was lost.