Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-10-24
GOSSIP Of The WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News OF the Stage, Social, P0Iiti-
cal and Otherwise, CulIed
From Our Exchanges.

boston is threatened with cod
fish ball famine. Now if there is
failure Of the baked bean crop thos
Bostonians will starve to death.
Sir Thomas Lipton wanted a 12
knot breeze. On further investiga
tion we think it will be discovered
that he got about a 12-knot one.
It apperrs that the Columbia out
pointed the Shamrock. We could
have given Sir Thomas few point
ers ourselves, but it is now too late
They do say that there IS a cam
paign going on in Virginia, but sc
far we haven't even smelt the powder
about here.-Pe Petersburg Index-Ap
peal.
Most of the names of the mem
bers of President Roosevelt's cab.
met are short-Hay, Gage, Root,
Smith and Knox. But this cannot
be said of Long.
Anew trial has been granted to
Caleb Powers in the Goebel muir
der case. But the chances are the
next jury will be as safely Demo
cratic as the former one,
Each side of the New York mu-
nicipal contest is accusing the other
of being in league with Tom Platt.
As campaign issue Mr.. Platt seems
to answer any sort of purpose.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has
provided a body guard for every
European in his country, He prob
ably thinks this is cheaper, in the
long run, than paying an indemnity.
We are informed by wireless tele-
graphy that the Hon. j. Pope
Brown is intently watching the
Hon. Seth Lows experiment of re
signing one Office before he gets the
other.
We are not attacking any mans
faith Or lack of it, but, nevertheless,
just for information, we would Ike
to know what those people who
claim there is NO hell think will be-
come of Czolgosz.
Since President Roosevelt has
shown disposition to appoint only
the best men TO Office, whenever a
colored Republican hears some one
whistling go Away Back and Sit
Down." he naturally wonders if it
means him.
And now Emperor William shows |
disposition to have Venezuela send
to Berlin special ambassador of |
humiliation and apology, clad in
humiliating garb. Isn't Bill rather |
inclined to overdo this spectacular |
diplomacy act?
Richard Wagner is to have one of |
the finest monuments in Berlin, and |
it is to be erected in the Thiergar-
ten strasse, in an open place where |
it can be seen from all sides. From
among sixty one competitors ten
have been selected to compete once
more for the honor of building it.
HThe Gar is much interested in all
improvements in ships, and he has a
collection Of models of the most
famous vessels of ali kinds which !
he likes to show to his visit, rs. Els
marine museum contains at present
about thirty of these models, in
copper. steel or wood. Some cost as
much as S12, GOO each
A local paper of Sterling, Kansas,
noted the other day that "a feet of
prairie schooners passed through
Sterling Wednesday in q straight
away race to windward, with Okla
homa as the final goal. They left
here in bunch at 1892. with club
topsails and jibs set, with fair pros
poets for a pleasant voyuge They
had balloon jibs and spinnakers furl-
ed away in their feed boxes, and it
is expected all will finish the course
before the expiration of the time
limit"