Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-03-28

be among the finest in the world. The
veins run from to IA feet camel and
bituminous coal.
It is officially reported at Yokohama
that 400 fishermen are missing. It is
believed that they perished in the
heavy storm which ragged on Jan. 10 off
the west coast of Japan.
Montana, Colorado and Arizona were
ahead of California last year in the ag-
gregate production of metals. The ag-
gregate of Montana alone was $59,O00,-
600 and of Colorado $47,O00,000.
A private letter from China says
that the soldiers at Tien-tsin are using
the cannon balls in the arsenal to pave
the roads. They have found an enor-
nous quantity Of iron shot and shell
Of different sizes which some ingenious
Yankee suggested would be a good sub
stitute for paving stones.
Cattlemen in South Dakota are gen.
orally agreed that it is time to abandon
the present method of branding cattle
as cruel. In New Zealand they have a
composition which is used to make an
easily distinguishable mark 1t is ap-
piled with a cold iron, destroying the
hair or hide, but not causing pain to
the animal
At sale Of crown mining lands re-
Gently held in the Klondike a man
named Dawson purchased a claim on
Gold bottom for 81. He Immediately
began digging and next day struck a
rich streak. Before the week was
ended he had been offered $4,000 for
the claim, but refused to sell at that
figure.
From statistics cleaned by Cecil Ra-
leigh of London it is learned that about
25,OOO persons are employed by theat-
rical managers in Great Britain, the
average weekly salary being $40. On a
certain day designated by Mr.. Raleigh
there were being played 13O melodra-
mas, S3 musical and farcical pieces, So
plays and Shakespearean plays.
The popularity Of London's municipal
bands has grown by leaps and bounds
since they first started their perform
ances in 1892. The modest f3, 900 then
granted has now had to be increased
to nearly 100000. The sum to be set
anart for music in 1901 is 9,56o. Last
season $4,000 was devoted to bands,
and 1,O45 performances were given.
At an experiment in st. Joseph, Mo-,
cat was apparently killed by a shock
of electricity carefully administered.
Two hours after the heart had ceased
to beat the current was reversed, and
the second shock restored the heart
beats, family at first, but growing
stronger until the cat was finally re-
leased, as playful and frisky as ever.
Westwood, the estate of Sir John
'Pakington, who was said to be the
original of Addison's Sir Roger de Co
verley, has passed out of the hands Of
the Pakington family. They have own
ed it since the time of Elizabeth. A
Yorkshire manufacturer has bought it
for S35O,OOO. A sadly large number of
the historic homes of England are 60
ing to new owners.
A resident of Chicago who was born
in England, but who has been engaged
in the baking trade in the Prairie City
for several years, has just taken out
naturalization papers. He was a loyal
subject to the late Queen Victoria, but
when a king ascended the throne, as
the case has been, he renounced al
legiance to Great Britain and has been
made an American citizen.
The managers of the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo are endeavoring
to secure permission to run off an auto
mobile road race some time during next
summer. A level so mile stretch Of
road near the city has been selected,
and valuable prizes will be offerad. The
promoters desire it to be understood
that they do not favor promiscuous
road racing and if the desired permis-
sion is granted they will take unusual
precautions to avoid accidents.
In spite Of the fact that the expert
ments made in the American army
with oil as fuel have been entirely un-
satisfactory some of the French and
German vessels on the China station
are having complete success with it.
The advantages of petroleum if it can
be properly utilized are very great. AT
Singapore, for example, coal now costs
about $14 ton, while oil costs but Sc a
ton and has a steam raising power 20
per cent greater than that of coal.
It is stated that a South American
shrub called yerva or yerba or yerba
mate is destined to attract considera-
BILE attention in the near future. From
it's leaves a tea is infused which pos
sesses the properties of invigorating
without inebriating, to which may be
! added the sustaining properties usual
| ly attributed to coffee. The plant is 9
small evergreen shrub of the holly
| family. Verbal is the native name
| for the places where it is found grow
| ing wild along the Paraguay river
| Natives have for centuries prepared
the tea by gently roasting the greer
leaves until dry enough to grind to {
| powder. Systematic attempts at cult
vation are now to be made, the belle
being held that mate should hold ;
place in the markets of the world equa