Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-10-17
FACTS IN FEW LINES

RACED and a boulevard constructed at
a cost OF $4,000 900.
In England builders strike more Of
ten than any other workmen. Next
come Golfers and then cotton and wool
-spinners.
During the first half Of this year 261
te1tile mills were built, OF which 143
were cotton, SO knit goodsea and 25 mis-
~cellaneous.
Exports of horses and mules in Mis-
souri, last year brought 4 return Of 3d.
100000, n a greelt deal of the none
came from foreign countries.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat sug-
gests that the worlds fair there IN
1903 can make q hit by, giving a rrae-
teal illustration OF the best systems Of
public bathing facilities.
The Dominion government lobster
hatchery at Caribou, \. s., this season
has put out 1~0G,O00sO0O Holsters along
the coast Of Nova Scotia, New Bruins
wick apd Prince Edward Island.
Experts have come to the conclu-
sion that what Kills so many trees in
London is not the SCOT takes or the
want Of air or the drought, out the
Ssis, EtI1cn ATTACKS the roots, 50
tkat-tne tree. oon vvithers and dies.
The terms ~"dowager'' and "chaperon"
seem likely in the neal future to fall
a desuetude. Nowadays women not
only refuse to grow old, but they dis
like titles which seem significant of a
too mature acquaintance with Ammo
DominL.
There is a standard joke about
thieves carrying off redhot stoves, but
this is -equaled by the recent theft Of
W modern six inch Spanish guns at
Santiago, Cuba. They were carried
into q forest and broken ZIP, but the
thieves we've captured and are now in
jail.
Parts of Australia are becoming live
" rivals to Canada and the United
State IN the European apple trade.
Tasmania especially has been found a
first class apple raising country. There
are S,2-3 acres in apple orchards there,
n the product in 1899 was 363,O15
bushels.
After a thorough study of the drink
question in Russia Stanis1as Prosper,
a st. Petersburg editor, has published
a book in W1ich he seeks to prove hat
the government monopoly and the clos
ing of saloons on Sunday have led to
"a great diminution of the evil of in
temperance.
In Illinois the foreign white persons
and the native white persons Of for
eign p~aFentage represent a little over
une-half the entire population, 40 per
cent in Idaho, Is TO 20 per cent in Della
onI tho n1c+r;1+ ~ CoJr-ol;o
over s per cent in Florida and less
than 2 per cent in Georgia.
Singapore Cinnamon are indignant
with the English on account of b
Duke of York's visit. Some officials
thought 1T to decorate the hats of the
jinrihisha men with gold buttons, the
Chinese maTH OF mandarin rank, and
the Chinese il the colony refuse to ac-
eept apologies for the insult.
Subscriptions are discouragingly slow
to the proposed memorial to Sir Az
thur Sullivan in London. Hardly any
thing has been contributed in this
county,, and personal friends of the
late composer viii probably supple
ment the money on hand sufficiently
for the erection Of a statue on the
Thames embank1nent.
During the recent Ashanti cam
paign the megaphone was tried By the
British officers for giving orders, since
the columns traversins through the At
rican bush were So long that it was
Impossible 10 convey orders in the
usual way. The experiment was I'M
successful, however. because the thick
jungle and the winding paths prevent
ed the sound from travelling.
Though 1t does not cause SO much
excitement IN the world, the apple
crop Of the United States exceeds in
value even it's wheat crop. Last year,
for instance, the apple crop was 215,-
100000 barrels, or 53S, 900 bushels.
At a base of So per barrel, which is
considered q conservative estimate, the
crop netted $780, 600, 700, or nearly
$1O7, 100000 more than the value of
the wheat.
The trees now growing on the farm
(near Franklin, N. HI where Daniel
Webster was born are to be cut up into
friction matches, a manufacturing COM
pany having paid $500 for the stand
ing timber upon it. The legislature of
New Hampshire refused at it's late ses-
sion to pay $1,000 for the entire farm,
though many patriotic citizens of he
state petitioned to have it preserved as
a perpetual memorial Of New Hamp-
Shire'S greatest son.
About twenty-five years G govern
ment engineers decided to pave Penn
~--sylvania. avenue in Washington with
asphalt. That was the beginning of
he general use Of the scientific mys-
terry Of street ~pavements. Today over
234,OOO,OOO square feet of street pave
ments in he United States and Canada
are covered with asphalt. This asphalt