Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-03-07
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time for just one week. Then the COM
mon council voted to abandon it and re-
turn to local Emergencies of railroad
time tables.
The French ministry of posts and
telegraphs is making arrangements
which will enable every resident in
Paris to have a telephone in his or her
apartment for SO year.
A prominent medical journal says the
best treatment for nervous dyspepsia is
cat least three weeks Of absolute rest
I'm bed in some institution away from
home, together with full diet"
Swarms of locusts have entirely de-
stroyed the crops in the Tokar region
in the eastern Sudan. The devastation
has been so complete that the popula-
ton is reduced to the utmost destitu-
ton.
A New Jersey baker who was fined
for selling bread on Sunday demon
strated the absurdity of the blue laws
by buying on Sunday a cigar at the
drug store kept by the justice who
fined him.
Some of the finest sugar mills in the
5 world, costing $1,00O,00O each, are
ers in the islands who produce $500
worth of sugar and $500 worth of rice
to the acre.
The French chamber has voted the
abolition of the red mass or mass of
the Holy Spirit, which is celebrated
every year on the opening Of the law
courts after the long vacation. The
motion was carried by majority of
two.
One Of the American soldiers just
returned from Peking has in his posses
sion what he claims to be the great seal
of China. The block is made of a piece
of jade four inches square and beauti-
fully and ingeniously engraved. A
large dragon forms the handle.
In the latest report of the London
School of Medicine, which claims to
have trained 254 medical women, it is
stated that nearly every town Of i'm
portance in India has a qualified wom-
an doctor. There are also several in
China and South Africa and even one
in Persia.
When American armies were in Gu
ba, the island was almost depleted of
cattle, a vast number of the animals
having been killed for food Now the
ranchmen and farmers are busy stock
ing up again and have made heavy
drafts on Florida, which as a conSe-
quence has about been stripped of its
better grades of cattle.
In spite of politicians of both parties
women continue to crowd out men
from several grades of clerical work in
the state departments at Albany. They
have been receiving much smaller sala-
ries than the men, but the board of re
gents has decided to raise the pay OF
women employed in the regents de-
partment, and it is expected that others
will follow suit.
Switzerland is still in the watch busi
ness. The output of watches from heI
factories last year was the largest ever
recorded. According to statistics just
published the total exports amounted
to 2366,426 nickel watches, value 81,
O64, 600; 3.O86,70O silver watches, value
$7,576. 200; SO0,2 ,25S gold watches, value
So. 144OOO, and 6,769 chronographs anC
repeaters. $26O.SOO.
More than three months have passed
since the formal opening of the Pringlt
Memorial home in New York. designed
for the use of aged literary men with
out means of support, but SO far it has
had no inmate. Nobody has ever ap
piled for admission. The home wa:
provided by wealthy New York bank
er who died several years ago, ant
money without stint is behind it.
In order to help the restoration OF
stolen dogs the French society Assist
ance aux Animaux has made arrange
ments to tattoo a number on the ear O
every dog or cat presented at the so
ciety's establishment. The process. i
is claimed. will be painless, and as
register of all pets tattooed will be KEEP
owners will always be able to estab
lish identity by reference to the mum
Der on the animals ear and the test
mony of the society's books.
In western Kansas some of the cour
ty treasures have been depleted by tn
payment of So bounty on coyote scalp;
These animals are taken in this mar
ner: The coyotes are decoyed by
growing rooster in a cage placed on
prairie eminence, and from the gulche
below the sportsmen with shotgun
slaughter the wolves. Another plan
to drag a piece of meat through til
grass in a circle. When the coyote
come upon the meat, the hunters shoe
them.