Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-10-10
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The first sugar manufactured in this
country was made in New Orleans in
1896.
More than $5o,ooo,ooo worth of tim
Der was destroyed by forest fires last
year.
Three thousand troops were recently
sent to help the inhabitants subdue a
forest fire in Sweden.
In the south of China silkworms
have been reared and silk manufacture
ed for over 5000 years.
During the last ten years $40 miles of
irrigation bitches have been opened in
Arizona, at a cost Of $1,509,469.
It is aid that Nova Scotia will have
as many apples as last year and that
they will be Of a very superior quality.
AS late as 1910 the journey from
Liverpool to London was dangerous on
account Of the bad condition Of the
roads.
Out Of 100, 1000 passengers by sea
all over the world thirty lose their
lives and out of the same number by
rail forty-seven.
Germans nave fully $60,O0O.OOO in
vested In Central American enter
prises, and German plantations occupy
$40, 100000 acres.
A method has been invented to sink
shafts in the salt islands of Louisiana,
and they may become an important
+ salt mining center.
England spends G8,40O, 900 a year on
her paupers; Scotland, f9OO,0 600; Ire
land, f1,40O,OO0 while France spends
less than 91,5OO,O0O.
Denmark is an agricultural country.
About three-fourths of the population
are engaged in the cultivation of the
soil. Copenhagen is the only city of
any size.
In Gettysburg park there are about
500 monuments. In addition to this
patriotic ornamentation there are 225
/ mounted cannon and over 200 monu-
mental tablets.
The term 'royal yacht" hitherto ap-
piled to vessels belonging to King Ed
ward VII, will be abandoned hence
forth, and the appellation will be "his
majesty's yacht"
Canada is disappointed in it's census.
The total is 100000, an increase Of
only 81 per cent in ten years. The
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the United States.
Chicago alone will handle about 49,
100000 pounds of beet sugar this year.
Most of it will come from Michigan,
where the development of the industry
has been most rapid.
The Spanish wine trade, which has
long been a feeder Of the French.sh
suffered considerably from the very
prolific yield of the last French vint-
age, which has checked importation.
A seal ring, it is said, has been found
in Crete representing the minotaur that
was kept in the middle of the LADY
rinth of Dedalus. It shows an animal
with the head and hoofs of a bull and
the legs of a man seated on a throne.
A full length marble statue Of DR..
William Gilbert, the father Of cleo
trical science and author of "De Mag
nete," is to be erected at the instance
I of members of the medical profession
at Colchester, England, his old home.
The latest census shows that there
are 420.274 horses in Denmark, 19e
for every 100 acres under cultivation
and 195 per 1000 inhabitants. The
! sheep number LOSS, CSC, which is 281
per 100 acres and 456 per 1000 In
habitants.
Considerable quantities of opal are
found in Queensland and New South
Wales. In the latter state the com.
moEer kinds are found in many locali-
ties, especially in the neighborhood OF
Orange, but they possess little or nc
commercial value.
English magazine writer's are raising
a cry more like a howl against British
railway managers for clinging to little
engines, little cars and small as
against American immense engines
cars and loads, in consequence OF
which freights are four times higher
than here.
Eight hundred residents in Soutf
London have Joined a tenants protec
ton league, started a few days age, "tt
enable weekly tenants to combine fol
self protection against the eXtortionatt
t and illegal demands Of landlords an6
; rate collectors and for provision Of thu
necessary legal assistance"
Hoopestcn, Ill, demands respectful
/ attention. Its mayor serves for 81
r cents a year and its councilmen fol-
half as much. There has never been E
r saloon in the place, though it has now
a population of 1000. and its pave
l ments, fire department, water supply
, and public works generally are al
: right.
A statute making it unlawful to a
: water or n other substance to mill
that is intended for sale is held by al
Iowa court to be a constitutional exer
else Of the police power, even If tn
substances added are not injurious o
used with intent to defraud, but ar
: merely for h purpose Of preservin;