Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-08-22

tors have circulated SO industriously
have been exploded, We shall con-
tinue to have plenty of cornbread
and it is the stongest staff of life.
Mr.. j. Pierport Morgan's friends
claim that he is getting no sym
pathy in his fight with the union.
Most of us would manage to worry
along without sympathy if we con
trolled billion dollars,
The French fleet is under contract
to shoot bill out of the sultan
which he says he can't pay. If the
sultan's statement is true the
Frenchmen will be forced to do
great stunts in craftsmanship.
Professor Starr, of the University
| of Chicago, says there are good
many five and six-toed people in
Chicago. From the size of the aver
age Chicago foot we had supposed
that most of it's citizens were eight
an i ten, toed.
! Cecil Rhodes never does enything
| by halves When he came over to
England by the last mail from South
Africa, besides other specially pro-
vided comforts, he was accompanied
by his own chef, his own poultry
and his own COW.
German surgeons say that the
delicate membrane which covers the
contents Of an eggshell will answer
as we'll as bits of skin from human
being to start the healing of open
wounds. The discovery has already
been successfully tested.
| Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle,
who has just reached the age limit
and been retired from the British
navy, was in that service longer
than almost any other living English
officer. He entered it fifty years
ago and served through the Burmese
campaign of 1852.
Thomas johnson, IS years old and
worth $15O,OOO who died in Vincen
mes, Ind the other day. was a cur
ious character. He did not know
how to read or write, never entered
a church, was one Of the most pro
fame swearers and hardest drinkers
2 in the city; was married four times
and always voted the Democratic
ticket.
The Rrookly Rapid Transit Com
/ pany has adopted plan Of identify
s ing applicants for employment on it
t lines, which does not meet witt
n much favor with the applicants. Th
y Brooklyn road has Photographic
n at the Office, who takes picture c
t. each applicant who appears there
A print from the negative is sent
each person to whom the applicar
;o goes, with request for full info
4 nation about HIM Enclosed also
a a carbon tracing of the mans sign
- ture. The photographs are unmoun
IL ed and of the style and size used
. police records.
William Embrick, blacksmith
East Athens, Ca, has given aw,
- his four children. Embrick is
~ widower. He earns So day, y
10 his mother is supported by cri
- pied grandson The children a
aged from eleven to three veal
- Recently stranger named Wan
who lives at Winteryiile, came to t
house for Dewey, the younge
child. His grandmother hated
give him up, but, although the
to begged to stay, he was taken. Ma
he residents of Athens made quite pls
ws their disapproval of the gift, but
ex- city authorities say they have
ers Jurisdiction in the matter
II In many OF the cities of Chi
- - they have begun killing the rats a
- measure towards stopping the sprt
har of the plague now prevalent in pa
of the East. Up to date it is CLAIM
two million have been killed and
war is still on. It is when face
- face with situations like this t
e. .. the inadequacy of the yellow r
$50 shows itself. At various times
SAIL the history of this country WI
'rts, wolves. rabbits, prairie dogs
we other Objectionable things becs
one. pests and big rewards were one
her TOT tnelI oestr uoI,on' n Sno lneAnl y