Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-11-15
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| Now it is said the latest airship
is not by any means the success al
legged.
+ The insanity of the campaign
| should be dismissed at once. No
voter is wholly depraved because of
his vote.
Swords, revolvers and bayonets
have fallen into disuse in war, and
only the cannon and the magazine
rifle remain.
Out of 325, 900 voters in Chicago,
100000 are of foreign birth, and this
makes the city an uncertain political
i quantity at all times.
Those who are possessed with the
fear that American writer's of fiction
are on the wane need only to refer
back d few days and get hold of one
of Chairman Jones forecasts.
| Mr.. Mckinley will please bear in
mind that he has voluntarily taken
| tie responsibility off Of Providence,
and is, therefore, in honor bound to
give US good crops for the next four
years.
Democrats will be willing to listen
to men, like David B. Hill, who put
| their shoulders to the wheel and
| pushed, but not to the fellows who
stood off and threw rocks in the
road.
In Kentucky Beckham and Yerkes
met and took drink together. The
courteous remark of the Governor
of North Carolina to the Governor
of South Carolina is not the worst
thing in politics.
| A fairer and simpler way of set
Ting political contests in Kentucky
would be for the opposing candi-
dates to walk off ten PAGES and shoot
it out. This would not leave the
result so often in doubt.
The Vermont Legislature, which
is now in session, is about to consid-
er bill which provides for the ne
gotiation of loan of $1O,OOO,O ,OOO-
The entire sum to be expended on
the improvement of the highways of
the Green Mountain State during
the next two years. Vermont's debt
is now about 1884, 900.
DR.. Harper, of the Standard Oil
University, has called down the pro-
fessor who advanced Rockefeller and
Hetty Green several numbers be
yond Shakespeare and Sappho. and
he also rebuked the professor who
uses slang, but the particular idiot
who denounces public schools is still
at large.
Colonel John nj. Brooke, who de
signed the ram Merrimac and thus
revolutionized marine warfare, il
still living at Lexington, professor
emeritus of physics in the Virgini,
Military Institute. He is nov
seventy nine years old, but is still
vigorous and walks from his resi-
dence on the outskirts of the city t,
the postofice at the same hour ever,
morning.
9 Switzerland's universities are still
the most popular educational insti
tutions in Europe for women stu
dents from all parts of the world
Of $50 students at the University O
= Zurich 218 are women. One hundre,
- and twenty of these are studyin
). medicine, SO philosophy 21 natura
), science and IL Jurisprudence. Onl
s. 18 are of Swiss nationality. Ninety
q seven are Russians, 20 are American
II and % are Germans.
~ Will the party profit by the blur
IS ders of 1896 repeated in 1900? If s
4 it will pull itself together, will &c
Ia rid of free silverism and the mans
IS gers who are responsible for it, r,
~ write an old fashioned Democrat
platform, and invite all the Dem,
Gratis to come back and work te
0 gether in the interest of Democrac
~ If this shall be done, the Democrat