Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-05-23
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

In Germany oysters cost 60 to 70
cents dozen.
American books are beginning to sell
very well in Britain.
Great Britains trade has multiplied
1213 times since 1901.
Compulsory education in New Zea-
land is considered a success.
Berlin has IA schools in which girls
of 13 and Il are taught to cook.
Seattle, Wash, has 1882 wooden
buildings and only 467 of brick.
The number of women engaged in
the factories Of Finland is 1895.
Nearly one-half the persons in this
country die when they are children.
The British colonies are 20 times as
large as the area of the United King
dom.
It is estimated that the wheat crop
of Australia will be about 100000
bushels.
More than 100000 baths were taken
at the two scores of London's bath
houses last year.
The carrying power of British ship
ping, including colonial, is now 3O,3OO,-
wv
An animal heretofore unknown, re-
sembling both the horse and zebra, has
been discovered in the Kongo forests.
In Germany only 413 out of 1000
males reach the age of so, while more
than 500 out of 1000 females reach
that age.
An Austrian named Anton Peterman-
del, who recently died at Steyr, had
made a collection of about 5000 knives
of all times.
Missouri claims to have the best
prison library Of any state in the In
ion. The library consists of 5000 we'll
selected books.
1t is said that Comptroller Coler,
of New York, made 100000 in Wall
treet last week.
The plowmakers are to form a
combine. If the trust idea is going
to fatten on the land they'll have
their share in it.
When a legislator calls his fellows
asses. it would seem to be in order
for the Speaker to tell him he is
forgetting himself.
The salmon is going the way of
the buffalo and the moose. The
greed of packers will soon extermi-
nate this noble fish.
Mark Hanna should call in his re
cent remark, sEThere is not a cloud
in the sky" Wall street can name
a whole flock of them.
The King of Siam is sending all
the princesses royal to an English
school recently opened in Bangkok
by London woman.
The Northern Pacific corner has
made Mr.. Phillips modest corn
corner look like thirty cents, and
there is no glory in it.
W. s. Gilbert, the poet and dra-
matist, is in the South of France at
present. He spent the winter in
Egypt and is much benefited in
health.
The dead have been buried, and
the wounded have crept out OF
sight. and Wall street will soon be
inviting the lambs to return, shorn
as they are.
Of course Buffalo expects visitors
to the Exposition to spend lots of
money. Even Niagara will come
down handsomely. and they're right
on the ground.
The city of Mantua, the birthplace
of Virgil, has raised a sum of $780,.
900 towards monument to the Lat
in poet and has opened a competi-
ton for plans for the statue.
There's no good reason why Nc.
Kinley should not get the honor Of
LII. D. from Harvard. He got 8
degree of at least equal Importance
twice from the Electoral College.
Expositions go with panics, OF
rather panics go with expositions
There was one when the Chicago
fair was held. and Buffalo brought
one at the very outset,