Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-04-18
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

England IS again anxious over the
kind of beef it's army is getting.
Why not end these troubles by en-
listing nobody but vegetarians?
Before General Miles lets his
Presidential boom get too big he had
better mediate, on q Presidential
boom, once the property Of George
Dewey, U. $. N. Where is that
boom now? Ask O: the winds that
all around with fragments strewed
the sea!
Leprosy is rampant in Tenerife.
in the Canary Island. The United
States barely missed annexing the
Canary Islands during the late war
with Spain. Thanks for small favors
The Philippines are enough. And as
to leprosy, ,Americ now has the home
product in the Hawaiian Islands.
Now cones the belated report
that Lieutenant J. D. Taylor, Jr.,
bribed seven Filipinos with seven
cigars, being ore cigar apiece, 10 be-
tray the whe1 eabouts of Aguinaldo.
Lieutenant Taylor is too late. Be
sides, seven cigars looks little too
cheap. The lieutenant is reminded
that there are no more vacant briga
dier generalships.
Kentucky has established ''shot-
gum quarantine against Tennessee
It wants none of the Tennessee
smallpox. The Constitution Of the
United States places the regulation
of commerce between the States in
the hands of Congress. Next arises
the quest on as to whether travel
from a small -pox infected district is
commerce. And, after all, what is a
little thing like the Constitution be-
tween enemies?
Bear tracks of extraordinary size
have been found on the farm of
Grover Cleveland near Princeton. Is
this sign or portent? Or does it
merely indicate that some educated
boar, having learned that Mr.. .Cleye-
land is great hunter, went to
Princeton to have a little sport?
Surely with comets, new stars and
bear tracks it looks as if something
were bruln.
A warrant has been issued in Den
yer for the arrest of Mrs. Il. A Rat
cliffe on the charge of having wilful-
II, knowingly and unlawfully voted
in the wrong precinct at the late city
election. She is thirty-six years OF
age. and has two children. she was
an active Democratic worker during 6
the campaign pre- ceding the city
election. It is said that she is the
first woman arrested in this country
! for an election fraud.
It is announced that the builders
of the new cup defender have new
wrinkle" which will add fully five
minutes to her speed. This new
wrinkle will not be tried in the pre-
liminary races, unless ,Lawson's in
dependent cup defender shows SO
| much speed as to make it necessary
| to use it in order to beat her. At the
rate at which speed is being increas-
ed in these yachts it will before long
be only fair to the challenging Brit
ons to allow them to use stesm,
Plain wind doesn't seem to have 9
| chance.
| An order of the British War Office
/, who displays a white flag in the pres
ence of the enemy to court-mart1al,
This probably means that the court
will inquire into the proprlety OF the
act of surrender-not,a as some have
assumed, that all surrender is for
bidden. The latter Interpretation If
so absurd that it is remarkable thai
any one could have seri usly urgee
| It. A tendency to be fippant, Justly
or otherwise, at the expense Of thu
| British forces in South Africa ough
| not to be considered an excuse fo
displays of ignorance.