Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-04-04
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

American exports of corn have aver
aged 173,O0O,OOO bushels a year since
1895, an increase Of 254 per cent over
the preceding five years.
In the region of the southern Urals
n Russian laborer gets only Is cents a
day, and man with a horse and a
cart costs 40 cents day.
r<At numerous mines in Siberia 1000
men and 500 horses are used on sin
= gle property to produce gold not ex-
ceeding $2,OOO,OOO per annum.
At present pennies are all coined in
Philadelphia by law, because there
was formerly no demand for them in
the southwest and the far west.
About 100000 barrels of beer in a
twelvemonth would be a fair estimate
of the consumption in Chicago. There
are 6,371 licensed places in Chicago.
One of the latest inventions is an
Imitation vaccination scar that you can
paste on your arm and thus fool the
health officer. The scar costs dime.
The number Of letters passing
through the London postoff1ce averaged
10000 daily in 1901, rising to 100000 in
1910, to 100000 in 1870 and to $780,
600 in 1900.
If American farmers could get for
their apples the prices which prevail in
England, they would soon all be inde-
pendent, as but little of the fruit is
grown there.
What an English paper says is the
greatest incubator in the world is at
Batary, near Sydney, Australia. 1t
accommodates IL 40 duck eggs or A.
OSO hens eggs.
Eastern oysters do not reproduce
well in the colder waters of Oregon
and Washington. An attempt is to be
made, therefore, to acclimate there the
fine large oysters of northern Japan.
Sunday consultations at the Paris
hospitals were not well attended by the
working classes, the workingman pre-
ferring to lose days work rather than
a few Of his hours of idleness on Sun
day.
In suit brought at Columbus. O., to
recover payment for pane of glass
the novel defense was brought that
the plaintiff had taken the glass from
a coffin and that the grewsome associ-
ations connected with it made it unfit
for use.
Three hundred persons in London
earn a living-and several of them are
growing rich-by providing meals for
the cats Of the metropolis, which they
deliver regularly once, twice and thrice
day, as may suit the owners of the
feline pets.
An American musical instrument
company has issued circulars broad
cast in London offering to 200 pupils in
each district two free music lessons
per week for II months. One of the
conditions attached to this novel offer
is that each pupil shall recommend the
company's instruments to friends of
the family.
The galleries of congress now begin
to resemble the orchestra chairs of a
theater in the evening. This is not Sc
much due to the bright and pretty cos
tunes of numerous brides, but to the
fact that nearly all the ladies remove
their hats. 1t is a new custom in the
galleries, but it is one that gives to the
sessions of the senate the character OF
an afternoon tea.
Paper wood is as hard as wood itself
is susceptible of brilliant treatment, is
vastly lighter, perfectly adjustible an6
absolutely freproof. The erection o1
skyscrapers necessitated a very serious
study Of fireproofng treatment OF
wood, and the result is that paper is
coming very largely into use in al
cases where woodwork has to be used
It is particularly adaptable for ceilings
and is becoming popular for that pur
pose.
Two thousand Japs were put to worl
by the Great Northern railroad yea
ago. They took the places of white
men in all branches, and there were
many who predicted the necessity o
excluding the Japanese, just as th
Chinese were before them The fear
however, was ill founded. The RAILROAD
has come to the conclusion that Japa
nese at 81 a day are more expensiv
than white men at $1.25. Orders hav
been given to discharge the Japanes
as fast as their places can be filed.
Reports that the Odessey is to b
dramatized and that another igh
of the stage has issued direction
for adapting the Rubaiyat impel u
to contemplate the day when tn
Constitution and Declaration of IL
dependence will be produced in th
form of staged illustrations of al
cient and defunct literature.