Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-02-28

ly concerned, it is now of only the |
very slightest Importance.
According to popular science,
some mosquitoes carry malaria |
germs and some do not. The only
thing that makes this information |
no more consoling than it is is the |
difficulty of Identification.
Objections in certain quarters to
the plan of having Senator Hanna
ride in the carriage with the Presi- |
dent in the inaugural parade are not
we'll taken. Do not all sight-seers
want to see the real thing?
What, with the confagration on
that Hamburg-American liner and
the desire of the German commander
IN China to move the allied forces
up onto the firing line again, it looks
like an epidemic of blazes among the
Waldersees
England has not been sending
many exiles from South Africa to
the Island of st. Helena lately, and
now we have just sent off another
large batch of Filipinos to Guam.
This business of exporting exiles is
likely to develop into another con-
test for supremacy between the two
nations. =
The refusal of the people of Mars
to answer the signals we have been
making to them, is attributed by
Thomas Primes European scientist,
to their low order of intelligence and
impe rfect mental development,
which prevents them from under
stancing our signs. Something like
this has been suspected from the
first.
Mrs. Augusta E Stetson, the Chris
tian Scientist who has been a witness
in the contest of the will of Miss
Brush, leaving thousands to Chris
tian Science Church, refused when
asked the question in court to tell
her age. This is highly unsatisfying
to those people who were wondering
if the lady is not old enough to know
| better.
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, suf-
fers from insomnia. He says some
body has suggested the following
cure, which, however, he does not
intend to try: "When you can't sleer
get up and take drink of whiskey
Go back to bed and wait half an
hour. If you are still wakeful take
another drink and repeat it at in
tervals of thirty minutes. By and by
you won't care whether you go to
sleep OR not"
Andrew Carnegie has lately beer
giving some advice to young men OF
the subject of marriage. He thinks
that more men should marry wome1
who are older than themselves. "a
man of 25 should marry woman O.
about so, if we properly seize Mr.
Carnegie's idea," says the Nashville
American. 'sDoes Mr.. Carnegie. rec
4 ommend chloroform or the sandbae
in effecting such happy union?
The latest sensation in the Philip
pines is the discovery there by DR.
d. n. Becker, of the Geological Sur
vey, of the original Garden of Eden
in which Adam and Eve were PLACED
at the creation. just think of tn,
Stars and Stripes floating over tn
Garden of Eden! Isn't that enougl
to stir your patriotism? And just tt
think of the Garden of Eden beinl
exploited by an American land syn
dicatel Doesn't that jar you
Some of the creatures which yiel,
up their furs for fashions sake ar
not killed-they are .assassinateo
They meet death at a spears poin
while dormant within their ittl
: homes, built with infinite labor an
skill. Some of these dwellers of til
wilderness have already been hui
j, ried to the very verge of extinction
) The silver fox, a perfect creature {
a nature, bears about with him pc
y worth $1,000. He rarely looks in th
face of his kind. These foxes are s
e few and far between that when b
e any chance an Indian captures OF
: he Immediately goes Oh a spree
long duration.