Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-02-21

The apartment which the late King
Humbert of Italy used to occupy at the
Quirinal has been shut. Nothing will
be changed in it, and none but mem
bers of the royal family will be allowed
to visit it.
There are pitts young men in the
medical colleges of the United States,
less than half as many. 1854, in the
law schools and only about one-third
as many, S,261, in the theological SEM
inarieS.
italian macaroni is no longer made
by hand, but by machinery. According
to the British consul at Naples about
10000 cases of macaroni are annually
exported to England and 100000 to the
United States.
The town of E%atonville, Fla, has
1900 Inhabitants, with not a single
white among them. 1t has its full
quota of public officials, a bank and
other business establishments requisite
in a town>of it's size.
The lake regions seem to he attract
i've to people. In Ohio during the last
ten years the largest rate of increase in
population was in the lake cities and
counties. The same conditions are true
of the states of Michigan and Wiscon-
SIM.
About II, 900, 900 Italians are exposed
to malarial fever. There are about
100000 cases every year, with an
average mortality of $1,000. This
proves that mosquitoes are more dead
ly in Italy han snakes and tigers in
India.
London has a new dance called the
G. 1. V. The couples are arranged
as in other quadrilles, but the mu-
sic rattles right through the dance
without a pause, embracing the most
popular movements used in ordinary
quadrilles and some new ones.
There are LOO Chinese pupils in
Queens college, Hongkong, varying in
age from 9 up to %, n many Of
them have family cares in the shape OF
a wife n children at home. Each
year sees a decrease in the proportion
of married schoolboys, and the V
age age becomes less every year..
tuberculosis has been placed among
the diseases which are subject to quar-
antine. The commissioners of immi-
grafton has so decided in the case of a
Japanese who arrived at San Francisco
from Japan ill with this lung trouble.
1t was decided that the patient could
not land. but must return to the port
from which he sailed.
A frequent difficulty encountered by
postal authorities in Australia is the
cheap and expeditions delivery of mails
to outlying localities. Many Of these
n1oooS ~ hrn1ro1c of ~iloc f,,or, tho
nearest railway line, and the route is
apt to be through drought stricken
country, where the dry roads are at
times impossible, even by camels. This
is conspicuously the case in tropical
Queensland.
An interesting relic in the shape of a
piece of a granite bowlder, containing
what appear to be two human foot
prints, has been loaned to the museum
at st. J~ohnsbury, VT, by William A.
Chase of Morrisville. The rock from
which the piece was quarried has been
q curiosity in CRANKY for a century. 1t
is a granite bowlder weighing several
tons. situated one and one-half miles
from Gallups Mills.
A gunmaker in Metz is said to have
invented a remarkable new cartridge
for small arms of all kinds. The case
is composed of a transparent %celluloid
material and the contents can there
fore easily be examined from the out
side. It is also gas tight and cause
no recoil. Some astonishing results
were obtained at some recent trials,
and the military authorities are giving
the matter their attention.
During the past Is months a new re
public. known by the name of Acre
has sprung up in the forest country
lying partly in Brazil and partly il
Bolivia. 1t has been established by
} rich Brazilian banker and rubber dealel
named Aries, who has set himself VI
!, as president yer a community OF
| about 10000 people, all of whom ar
Z in his employ. Demonstrations have
been ma "e against the little country
: by both Brazil and Bolivia, but it holds
, its own.
, MOZLEy'S LEMON ELIXIR.