Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-03-21
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POiti-
cal and Otherwise, Cu1ed
From Our Exchanges.

Gomez denies that interview IN
which he is made to favor continued
occupation Of Cuba by Americans.
The denial was hardly necessary.
Gomez is as anxious to get into the
meal tub as any of them.
New York genealog SITS have traced
Gen. Ulysses S Grants ancestry
back to Asiatic pirates 600 b. g. its
q newly coined name that your ge-
nealogists can't trace as far back as
you are willing for it to go and feel
able to pay for.
A man in Indiana has applied for
pension on the ground that the sub
stitute he engaged for $500 was
killed Doubtless pensions have been
granted for smaller considerations,
but the facts In the case were not
made so patent in the application.
Andrew Carnegie, accompanied by
Mrs. Carnegie ana their daughter,
sailed for Southampton Wednesday
on the St. Louis Mr. Carnegie ex-
poets to return to tins country in
October. He will spend most Of the
time while abroad at Skibo Castle, in
Scotland.
A woman testified in New York
police court Sunday against her
husband, who had been arrested on
the charge of attempting to shoot
her She is quoted as saying: Your
honor, he pulled revolver from his
pocket and instead of hitting me, he
shot the nose off my lovely new tea
pot, the scoundrel!' ....
An Atlanta contributor has been
reading ''Jane Eyre with such dis
appointment that he advises people
to refrain, as rule, from reading a
book twice. Though Thackeray sat
up all night to read this story, and
Dickens cried over it, this Atlanta
critic thinks the SIX publishers who
rejected the MSS were far more
sane than the one who brought it
out.
Trinity Hall, one of the most
handsome of the Harvard dormito-
ries, was Quilted by fire few
nights ago. During the most exciting
period of the fire, while furniture
moving was in progress on the
ground floor. some student at pia-
no, with water half way to his knees
and smoke hiding his identity,
played Fair Harvard" without a
break.
A flying wedding recently took
place in Nevada town. In order to
catch a train, the bride and groom,
minister and witnesses, all bundled
into hotel omnibus, aud the cere-
mony was performed while the dri-
YER whipped his horses to the rail
way station. sit was close
squeeze" says the ambiguous re-
port, ''but they caught the train,
and everybody was happy"
A Kansas farmer who had peck
of lima beans on exhibition at the
Paris Exposition has just received
the following letter from French
man, who evidently doesn't know
much about the vegetable in ques-
tion: ''My Dear Sir-I bought the
peck Of beans which you had on ex
hibition here, and they are excellent
Can you send me small package o1
the seed? I wish to see if they viii
grow in France"
Another gunner who may be il
line for promotion to the rank O
ensign is Joseph A. Mitchell, of th'
cruiser Newark, who has returned
from China. During the late seq
of Pekin he worked the gun know
as .'Betsy, the international gun,
which was resurrected from a Chi
nese junk shop, was mounted on a.
Austrian carriage and italian wheels
fired Russian cartridges and CHI
nese balls (molded in the ground b
British smlth) and was manipula1
ed by an American gunner.