Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-07-04
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

Wall street has more wide-awake
nerves nowadays than any other To-
cality in the country.
The sun is at present far ahead of
Mars in it's communication with and
influence over the earth.
Senators Hanna and Foraker have
both let their keynotes out on the
desert air of midsummer.
General Cables is ready to accept
any amount of forgiveness for past
crimes and transgressions.
As long as the automobiles remain
unaffected by the epidemic of grip,
New York will not be wholly uncon-
solable.
The mighty foraker was Mark
Hanna's understudy at the Ohio
convention. To such base uses do
Ohio politicians come at last.
Everywhere the story is the same
there is greater commercial and
industrial activity in the South than
in any other part of the country.
Another evidence that the num-
ber 13 is unlucky has been supplied
by Mr.. Burns who after killing ex
actIy 13 other men took his own life
Parties are now searching for both
the North and the. South poles. If
they do not succeed, they can pull
back to the equator, which is always
where it can be found.
The Southern man who has not
managed to get himself mentioned
as the presidential possibility must
begin to feel very exclusive about
now.
General Cailles is said to have
wept bitterly when he surrendered.
Perhaps he was thinking of the diff
ference in the price received by Ag-
uinaldo
IT is to be hoped the breaking of
Miss Vivian Sartoris with young
Archie Balfour will not effect the en-
tente cordiale between this country
and England.
To make that Santiago medal
truly historic as well as realistic the
reverse side ought to show Admiral
Simpsons flagship "more than ten
miles away"
John D. Rockefeller has formed a
trust that controls the entire salt
output of the world, Perhaps he su
spected that the balance of human
ity might try to get fresh with him.
The six new protected cruisers be-
ing built for the United States are
to be like ocean yachts. This ought
to appeal to Admiral SIMPSONS
aesthetic idea of what the American
navy should be.
It looks like the British would
some day quit alluding to such af-
fairs as the Waterkloof disaster as
another Boer surprise" There is
getting to be really nothing surpris-
ing about these surprises.
A New York Judge has decided
that bankruptcy proceedings cannot
wipe out Judgment for alienation
of affection In other words, the hus-
band whose wife is taken from him
is made sort of preferred creditor,
as it were.
It is authoritatively asserted that
10000 New York society women are
habitual smokers of cigarettes. It is
enough to make the late Ward Nc
Allister turn in his grave to learn
that the 400" has expanded to this
extent since the full dinner pail be-
came prevalent.
It was said that the repeal of the
silver purchase act. would destroy
the silver interests of Colorado, but
last year that state produced 20,
336 712 ounces of silver and got fc1
il $12,488,7 ,775, which was probably
twice what it cost the producer. The
silver calamity howler is one of th'
worst in the whole pack.