Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-04-04

Great Britain ships frewood from
Australia for her troops in China.
Glasgow has five public baths, the
cost of which varied from $4,000 to
S1O3, 1000.
In the English army a soldier is
drummed to church just as he is to
drill or dress parade.
Experiments are being made in In
dia with the locust fungus in the hope
Of exterminating that pest.
The lawn at Buckingham palace is
large enough to allow ample room for
over 1000 men to maneuver.
In the police court in Cincinnati it
has been decided that insanity caused
by liquor is no excuse for crime.
In China funeral professions have
the right of way in the streets, and all
traffic must make way for them.
The salt production in Michigan last
year filled 4, 4,82O,865 barrels, a gain over
the preceding year Of 5,416 barrels.
There are irrigating bitches at Las
Cruces, N. M, that have been in con-
tfnuous service for three centuries.
No person will be permitted to make
pilgrimage to Mecca this season from
any of the infected portions of India.
At present there are 10000 Sunday
schools in the United States, with
100000 teachers and 100000 pupils.
Florida has been health resort as
far back as the days of Ponce de Leon,
who pronounced it the Land of Flow
ers.''
Salmon fry in Oregon are fed on can
ned heads and tails Of salmon till they
are old enough to be planted in the
rivers.
The South Side Alley Elevated road Of
Chicago has put in a system of electric
gongs to head off the men who have
been robbing it's stations. The ticket
seller can by a slight movement Of foot
or hand spring the alarm by means of
a projecting button of comfortable size
which is placed on level with the seat
of his high chair.
Instantly huge gong on the station
platform outside the ticket Office is set
to laundering, and the sound, it is said,
will penetrate the air for a distance of
nearly mile. At the same time and
by the same motion of foot or hand
similar gongs In every station will be
set off, the nearest police station noti-
| III
eny persons who may be on the streets
| will be told to look for fleeing burglars.
''Our SYSTEM" the company officials
explain, 'is not protected by patents,
but it will not be duplicated readily.
| From the tests we have made it seems
absolutely certain that any further at
| tempts to burglarize our stations or to
hold up the ticket sellers will fall
| e1,o ofr F,7Io
We are in receipt of a communlca-
ton from a correspondent in the city
of Boone, Ia, who sends So and some
sketches of a table he is building, evil
dently intended for some gambling es-
tablishment in that town. A plate of
soft iron is located about the middle
of the board under the cloth, and cleo
tric wires pass up the legs of the table
and connect with the plate. By pressure
of the foot or by some similar means
the electric current may be established,
and the plate becomes magnetized
The loaded dice can thereby be manip-
ulated at the will of the operator. The
correspondent had had some difficulty
| in carrying out his plans successfully
and desires US to assist him in over
coming the defects by specifying ''the
amount and sizes of wire or ampere
turns and size and shape of magnets
necessary"
We have returned the amount OF
the bribe offered and take this oppor
tunity of informing him that we do MOI
care to become an accessory in his
crime.-Scientific American.
Yellow journalism is successful from
a financial standpoint. The profits
of the New York Herald last yeal
amounted to nearly $750,OOO, or abou
$1,000 per day. Mr.. Pulitzer's ne
profits for the same time were $500,
900, his income having fallen off since
the New York World dropped from
cents to cent. The New York Jour
nal, it is generally understood, came
out even, although Mr.. Hearst nigh
have made money had he not continued
to invest more in pushing his circula
ton. This young newspaper magne
seems determined to have his paper:
bought in every town in the United
States, and his ambition to that enc
knows no limit. Thus far his result:
| are unprecedented. The New Yorl
Evening Journal has a circulation il
Boston alone of 10000. Mr.. Bennett
and Mr.. Pulitzer are each worth $25,
100000, all of which has been made
in the newspaper business. The Hears
estate, on which Mr.. Hearst can draw
Indefinitely, it seems, is worth NOR,
than $30,OOo,OOO. and $6,O00,0OO, it il
estimated, has already been invested
in the New York Journal and Chicago
American, without any profits as yet
3 Allen Sangree in Ainslee's.
+ Tears come easiest to woman whe1
5 she is weakest, to man when he i
8 strongest.
Q A wise and venerable Boston lad