Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-11-28
FACTS IN
LINES

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An American d. Y is about
to commence oper;,. London
Steam dredges COS. 100000 are |
being introduced in ! -ln gold re- |
gions-
Vast forests of rich yellow and sug-
ar pine are being opened up in eastern
Washington.
The first fire engine used in this
country was brought from England to
New York in 1881.
To commend anarchist crime in a
public place is a punishable ofense
according to French law.
The New Zealand government is
raising the wages of its railway en-
ployees to the extent of 100000.
The Belgian government is drawing
up a bill providing for the total sup
preston Of Sunday newspapers.
The assessed valuation of the state
of Idaho has increased $4,649,5 $50 in a
single year., and the total now is
$50, 1856 1856.
The government agricultural experts
are hard at work trying to evolve an
orange tree that will prosper under
cold weather.
The ink Of the Greeks and Romans
was merely lampblack mingled with
gum in the proportion Of three parts of
the former to one OF the latter.
Dundee, Scotland, has started an
electric street sweeper and watering
machine. 1t is worked by a trolley
arm which run on the tramway wire.
Coffee merchants figure out a worlds
supply of coffee this year Of 24,OOO,OOO
bags, with a demand for only 15,OOO,-
600 bags, and they do not know what
to do.
Sweden spends SIS, 1000 a year in
coal and has 100000 to 100000 cleo
trical horsepower going to waste. The
government is thinking about utilizing
some of it.
California's state flower is the golden
poppy, and one of the professors at
Stanford university has published a
book devoted exclusively to the flower
mo its legendary history. .
The skin of the musk OK, which is a
denizen Of the Barren Grounds n
the arctic region of Canada, has taken
the place Of that Of the extinct buff
fa1o for sleigh robes. 1t varies in price
from $50 to as low as So for a poor az
tcle.
Line 1nUuSIEIdl OSpE6SSIOu IL OOIIIduy
is reaching serious proportions. En-
ployment agencies are deluged with ap-
plicants. From the mining regions
come reports of numerous dismissals
and reduced work. The same is true
in iron and steel work.
Gigantic water power Developments
are projected in the Alps. There are
now in the French Alps forty-eight FAC
tories supplied by 100000 horsepower,
electrically generated. Engineers estt
mate that 100000 horsepower Is DOW
running to a In the Alps.
The royal library at Windsor castle
is about to be enlarged by the inclusion
Of a room adjoining hitherto used by
the lord in waiting. This will enab1e
many thousands more volumes to be
added to the hundred thousand valu-
able works now on the shelves.
So great has become the demand for
American coal in Europe that it has
been decided to build an immense re
ceivfug station for unloading, screening
and grading coal in northern France.
Rates have been made on French roads
.Which will drive German coal out of
eentral Europe.
DR.. Bizarre Of Corr has published a
pamphlet in which he tries to prove
that the Adriatic has for more than a
Thousand years been rising and en-
tGroaching on it's shores. The lowest
parts of Triest are experiencing trou-
BILE already, and in course of time Ven
Ice will be buried in the mud Of the Ia
COON
It is reported from the City of Me2-
leo that Senior Sabine Osuna has In
Rented an ingenious and yet seemingly
very simple affair styled the "Contador
Rapido Siglo Xxx" twentieth century
rapid calculator) The apparatus, which
resembles the ancient Chinese counting
machine, is for the purpose Of rapid
computation
New York state has more COWS than
Pennsylvania and New Jersey com
bined and more than any other one
state in the Union, Iowa being second
Illinois third and Wisconsin fourth.
hi entire number Of COWS in the states
and territories in the exact censu fig
ures is 16,292,360, with a total va1ua-
zion of $514,812, JOG.
The beaver, the staple fur Of the
French regime, is now becoming scarce
and its price varies greatly according
to fashion Even the skin of the in
offensive rabbit has now a positive
market value, as it is dressed, clipped
and dyed a deep brown, almost black,
and then becomes what is called "elec-
trio SEAL" much in vogue for ladies'
Jackets.
The trees now growing on the farm
near Franklin, n. H., where Daniel
Webster was born are to be cut uI
int friction matches, a manufacturing