Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-03-07


and it's prospects are not over bright
Congressman Lentz continues to
be a thorn in the side of ohio Repub-
hcans.
For man who didn't get a cent,
Captain Carter mana. es to keep a
surprisingly large number of high
priced lawyers on his staff
The death of Queen Victoria has
left Queen Wilhelmina of n Holland
the only woman ruler in the civilized
world.
With the ice gone and other signs
of Spring about US. and especially
with heavy fog in London, the
chappie can halfmast his trousers
again.
When Duluth gets that projected
water power, canal, so miles long,
Proctor Knott's eloquent description
may at last be realized
The dress which Mrs. Mckinley
expects to wear at the inaugural ball
is cream color ed MORE, covered with
a rare and dainty pattern of Vene-
tian lace. >
Alfred Harmsworth AYERS that
King Edward would have made a
good newspaper man; and doubtless
Mr.. Harmsworth would have made
good tabloid King.
The Courier Journal suggests that
the lady who has been making things
so lively with saloons in Kansas is
what Mr.. Dooley might term the
in carrie nation of temperance re-
form
The gentleman who stole freight
train in Illinois the other day came
| to grief. His methods are crude; he
should have gobbled the whole road
and then he would have been re-
spected by all
Under the Wisconsin 11s.w fol The
regulation of the lobby, in operation
now for the first time, thirty seven
Legislative counsel and two .'leg1s-
/ lative agents" have registered.
The Agricultural Department is
now exploiting the Augora goat as a
source OF great possible profit to the
American farmer, and we may ex-
pect to see the Angora goat craze
| follow the Belgian hare craze.
Considering the nature of the pro
ceedings of the D. A. r. Convention
in Washington last week. Mrs, Don
aid McLean's charge that the asso-
citation is being run as an auxiliary
to the United States Senate is in
deed appalling.
It is nip and tuck, says an ex-
change, whether the Beers can de-
stroy British bridges in South At
RIGA faster than American contract
ors can erect them; and as long as
the British can pay for the game we
are willing to play it.
| George Washington slipped bran
dy from the decanter from which the
guests at the supper given in th'
Livingston-Avenue Baptist Church
in Brunswick, n. J., drank lemonad'
on his birthday. In Georges da.
such .'soft stuff" hardly filed tn
bill.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt was re
Gently asked what had been tn
happiest moment in her interesting
life. The world famous actress i
reported to have answered, .withou
the smallest hesitation, that it wa
when shs was II and took the priz
for recitation at the Conservation
in Paris.
} An Atlanta automobile gently en-
! croached upon the domain of tn
strenuous end of Georgia mule
, The automobile is in the repair shoI
: the chauffeur is in the hospital an
the gentle Georgia mule smiles soft
ly as he contemplates the frailty an
: vanity of mans proudest mechanics
] triumph.
Thirteen years ago Sim Bell an
e his wife, of Ottumwa, Iowa, qual
4 relied because they could not agre
on name for their baby daughte
From that time neither spoke to th
), other until last week. when bot
happened to attend the same re
vival meeting in a local church. Tt