Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-05-17
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the hattering JUNCTION to his soulthat
he'll be remembered when potatoes
are forgotten.
Oscar Florence, who was for four
eral was in the field, and later be-
came a popular hotel steward in
New York, is dying in ST. Luke's
Hospital, New York.
The French Socialists have just
discovered Edward Bellamy's Look
ing Backward" They are greatly
excited about it and, believing it to
be just the thing, are having it trans
lated with a view Of printing and
distributing at least a million copies.
According to a Paris correspon-
dent of the New York Herald, Com
missioner Peck hesitated to offer
champagne to his guests at the open
ing of the United States pavilion at
the Exposition, ''as he was afraid
that it would not be approved in
New York"
They say in New York that the
theatrical people there who cast
their vote in the Twelfth Congress
ional district when they happen to
be at home want to send Marcus R.
Mayer. Miss N~ethersole's manager,
to Congress in place of George B.
Mcclellan.
A Texas paper wants a law regu-
lating the length of skirts worn by
women on the streets, but it does
not say whether this desire is theout-
come of the recent cyclones in the
Lone Star State nor does it say
whether the prevailing costume is
too long or short
Nathan and Herman Citron, Of
New York, manufacturers of shirt
waists, discharged William E.. Gray,
their engineer, because he was
called to serve as a Juror in the Su-
preme Court. The manufacturers
were greatly surprised to learn that
this was against the law and have
taken Gray back.
Ada Rehan is said to be hunting
over Europe for a playwright who
can make for her a bran new play.
So far sic has been unsuccessful,
and it may possibly occur to her
that, in view OF the recent develop
ments in things theatrical, she might
have better luck if she hunted on
this side.
Poor Commissioner General Peck
is in a bushel of trouble because, of
of the ninety odd jurors be has ap-
pointed to Judge exhibits at the
Paris Exposition, only three are
women. All the other American
women in Paris are talking angrily
and it looks as though the converse
ton would extend to this side.
The suggestion of ControllerC oler,
of New York, that trusts be regu-
lated by a law providing for a COM
missioner to examine their affairs,
has met with the approval of some
of the Democratic national leaders
and greatly helped his chances fol
the nomination for Governor OF
New York on the Democratic ticket,
g. K. Gilbert says in the annua.
report of the United States Geolog
ical Survey that in $500 years the
Falls of Niagara will be no more, the
bed of the river will be dry and the
great lakes will be emptying into the
Gulf of Mexico through the Missis
sippi river. To all who have not yei
seen the falls this is a timely warn
ing.
The treatment of the French
journalist representing the Paris
Matin, who wanted to interview
Cronje and his fellow-prisoners OF
the Island of st. Helena, and wa
not so much as permitted to land
but was ordered to take his ship GU
of the harbor, is of course being
violently denounced by the Frencl
papers as an outrage against inter
national rights.
Following Hanna's declaration
that Roosevelt will not be the Vice
Presidential nominee on theRepub
lican ticket comes a story that tn