Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-10-24

Denmark leads the world in agricu1-
age a capital of fl37 invested in farm
ing. British people have only f65 a
head.
The big gray kangaroo of Australia
measures about seven feet from the tip
of its nose to the end Of its tail. 1t can
run faster than a horse and clear thirty
feet at a jump.
The Greek government has secured
a monopoly of the picture postal caro-
business. 1t has just issued cards with
siXty-four different views of famous
cities and other scenes.
In ten Irish counties there are adver-
tised 667,O0O acres of shootings, and
the rental asked is f7,SS5, or a trife
over 2A pence per acre. In most cases,
too, there are mansions attached.
The longest horse drawn railway in
b world runs from Buenos Ayres to
the town Of San Martin, a distance Of
fifty miles. Thirteen hours is allowed
for the distance, and trains run every
hour.
The business Of insuring individuals
and firms against losses from bad
OSOtS dUONe d certain mount IS one
which has grown and extended rapidly
in New York city within two or three
years.
In the eighteen years Of it's existence
the Woman's Relief corps, auxiliary to
the Grand Army, has grown from so
to $4,000 members and disbursed 81
100000 in aid to veterans and their
families.
In every state and territory prize
fights are now forbidden by law. Not
one of the fighters is a successful.
"star" in any theater, and nearly all Of
them have lost money in the keeping of
barrooms.
A writer in the Cologne Gazette de-
clares that servants in the United
States do only half as much work, de-
mand twice as much free time and
four times as much wages as servants
in Germany.
The trade and wealth Of Canada are
increasing far more rapidly than it's
population. With only one-ffteenth Of
the population Canada has a trade of
more tha one-sixth Of that of the
United States.
The packing Of sweet corn in Maine
has grown rapidly in the last few
years, until nov only New York and IL
linois exceed Maine in the number Of
cans put up. Last year about 1000
600 cans were produced.
New York has long beer distinguish
ed by its excellent breed OF horses.
This years census record shows 3O5,-
600 in the state, of which $4,000 are in
the county of New York, $4,000 in
Kings, $4,000 in Erie and 7,lOO in
Onondaga county.
The danger of living in a house that
harbors consumptives is illustrated by
the fact that Of 6,273 patients. officially
examined by the German imperial
board of health 2,177, or BAT per cent,
belonged to families that included 9TH
er victims of tuberculosis.
Germany imports vast quantities of
red wine each year for mixing wines of
her own growth. In 1900 Ass tons
were imported from Italy for this pur-
pose. 1919 tons from France, 1,272
tons from Greece, 4,S7S tons from Aus
tria Hungary and 3,478 tons from
Spain.
1t Is reported that a camera has been
placed so as to take each day one pic |
ture of the new building of the depart
ment Of physics of the Cornell univer-
sity. now being constructed. with the
object Of producing hereafter a moving
picture OF the building from its begin
ming to it's completion
In Sicilian cities an appliance which
Is IN general use and has been for a
long time Is an arrangement by which
the wind Of a horse is shut off when !
he attempts to run away. Standing
out from the nostrils Of the horses are
little leather disks, which the pulling
Of a little rein by the driver claps down
upon the animals nose, thus shutting
his wind If he tries to get beyond
control. |
With it's several hundred monster J
mills Minnesota easily leads the coun- |
try in its milling industry. The an |
nua9 output of Minneapolis mills
amounts to over 5000, 900 barrels, and |
the combined capacity of the states !
mills is considerably over 100, 600 bar ,
rels a day. The Minneapolis mills are
the finest in the world, and one system |
of five Of them grinds about 10000 !
600 bushels Of wheat a year. /