Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-09-19
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same prCmpLneSS Lud6 we WoulN
shoot a dog that Is foaming at the
mouth.
The Chicago police have been dig
ging up vacant lots that were sup
posed to be salted with bombs. Any
thing to distract public attention
from the police themselves, Ell?
Somebody has patented q mechan-
ical device for turning over leaves of
music But we have seen the time
when we would rather have had a
device with which to turn over the
piano.
Sir George Dibbs, who has just
presented to King Edward a walk
ing stick Of hig own make. has twice
been Premier of New South Wales,
and has held numerous other posts
of the highest Importance in Aus
tralia; and it was while he was a
prominent public man that he had
the courage TO refuse to pay what he
buChSAO Ill 0ALO1 L1OidbC AA1A vi &OSbos
He was committed to Darlingnurst
jail, Sydney, for a year, and served
the sentence out.
Bertram Hiles, an Englishman,
has become a painter in spite Of the
fact that he lost both arms in an &C
cident when he was a child. He
had developed at that time a taste
for drawing, and the loss Of his arms
did not swerve him from his deter
mination to become an artist. lie
therefore set to work holding the
pencil or brush with his mouth. at
the age of sixteen he exhibited a
water color study at the Bristol
Fine Art Academy end a little later
won an at scholarship valued at 100
guineas.
The collection of drawings by
Victor Hugo which Paul Meurice-
whom the poet referred to in his
letters as his most faithful and de-
voted friend-intends to give to the
city of Paris, together with the other
contents of his Hugo Museum, be-
longed at first to Nine. Drouet. At
her death they were ~bequeathed to
her nephew, a German ph1lologist
named Koch. Hugo tried repeatedly
to buy them back, but Koch refused
to part with them. Paul Meurice
attempted the same thing, and after
fifteen years he succeeded. These
drawings show that Victor Hugo
had considerable talent as a carlca
turist.
General John H. Littlefeld, who
studied under Abraham Lincoln,
gives this anecdote of his in Success:
All clients knew that, with old
Abe as their lawyer, they would win
their case, If it was fair; if it was
not, that it was a waste of time to
take it to him. After listening some
time one day to a would-be clients
statement, with his eyes on the cell
ing, he swung around in his chair
and exclaimed: "Aell, you have 8
pretty good case in technical law.
but a pretty bad one in equity ano
Justice. You'll have to get some
other fellow to win this case for you
I couldn't do it. All the time while
talking to that jury I'd be thinking
"Lincoln, you're a liar" and [ be
lieve I should forget myself and say
it out loud"
One of the latest health fads is tt
sleep in the open air. It is particu
Iarly recommended by it's INVENTOR
for lung troubles. But the grea
weakness of most of these new theo
ries is that they do not work in gen
eral practice. Almost simultaneou'
with the discovery of improved
methods for postponing interview
with undertakers, exceptions to thei
operation start up. It has Away
been so. An old case is on recort
where the typhoid patient of a back
country practitioner, in defiance O
orders, ate a hearty meal of cabbage
Strange to say, he recovered. In
stantly the doctor noted down tina
cabbage was a specific for typhoid
In another instance he purposel
tried it, and the result was not s
happy. He then investigated fun
Their, and found the first patient wa
q carpenter. He thereupon mad