Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-05-02
GOSSIP Of The WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POHti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

California fruit Gamers ship 5O,OO0,-
600 cans a year.
Khaki cloth is out Of fashion in Eng
land, the tailors offering quantities of
it 'at a ruinous discount"
The French are not supposed to be
great travellers. Yet the Touring club
of France has $4,000 members.
Berlin is to have a school for coach
men, in which drivers are to be taught
to get along in the crowded city
streets.
The enormous production of tea in
India and Ceylon has led English trad
ers to take steps to reduce the quanti-
ty somewhat and to improve the quail
ty.
There are places on the Bowery in
New York where a man can get
shave for 3 cents. For 2 cents more
he can have his face washed with bay
rum.
Of the worlds rubber supply of 81
800 tons, $4,000 come from the Anna
zon basin, $500 from other parts of
South America and "a, 900 from tropical
Africa.
Iowa Falls, Ia, is not large place,
but it is not without civic pride. The
city has decided to have a fine system
of public parks and is willing to pay
for them.
Some 100000 has been subscribed in
Switzerland to fund which is being
raised for supplying a home in that
country for destitute Boer men, Wo-
men and children.
1t took force of auditors a week to
locate a discrepancy of II cents be-
tween the accounts of the city comp
troller and the city treasurer of Phila-
delphia in a sum total of $60,00O,000.
The distinction among animals of re
quiring least sleep belongs to the ele-
plant. In spite of it's capacity for
hard work, the elephant seldom if ever
sleeps more than four or occasionally
five hours.
French, which used to be the world
language, now ranks fifth, being
spoken by only 4o,O0O,OO0, while Eng
lish is spoken by 115,OO0,OO0, Russian
by SO,0O0,OOO, German by 7O,OOO,OOO
and Spanish by 50,O0O,000.
A Birmingham England druggist
was fined $10O the other day for sell
ing camphorated oil which contained
only rs per cent of the quantity in the
oil prepared according to the British
pharmacopPia.
Eau de cologne poured on a hand
kerchfef and inhaled two or three min
utes several times a day when the first
symptoms of a cold in the head are
noted is regarded as an infallible cure
by French physician, DR.. Roux.
French sportsmen are inconso1able
over a recent edict enacting that no
hunter in the French Sudan may kill
in one year more than two elephants,
two rhinoceroses, six hippopotamuses,
four buffaloes and one giraffe under
penalties ranging from f6 to fS.
1t may be that a mouse show will be
the next thing in the exhibition of live
stock. 1t is said that in England the
breeding of mice has reached a high
state of development and that a Man
chester man recently paid $125 for a
black and tan mouse of distinguished
ancestry.
Many plants long classed among the
worst and most useless of weeds have
been found in recent years to possess
considerable feeding value, as shown
by analysis. 1t is claimed that even
Canada thistles, cut when in bloom
and stored and their spikes softened
in silos, will make a valuable winter
food for sheep.
At an inquest at Columbus, O., where
a baby had burned to death by an ac-
cident, its clothing having caught fire,
one of the jurymen offered this advice:
If people would only rinse clothing aft
er washing in a solution of alum and
water, they would never take fire. If
they came in contact with a fame,
they would merely smolder.
Among the odd changes brought
about by the succession of King Ed
ward VII is that while Victoria's face
on British gold coins looked to the left
King Edwards looks to the right. This
is in accordance with long establish
ed custom that makes each successive
sovereign face the opposite way on the
coins from his or her predecessor
The Austrian military balloon Eagle
manned by two officers, after rising t
q height of 1000 meters and passing
through a temperature of "a degree
below zero, landed at Lublin, in Rus
sia. The descent was assisted by som
Moscow students, but the officers wer
taken to the chief of police, in who's
custody they remained until their ideu
" was established.