Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-10-31
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News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

AO@4tCI4A A0S NoAGA5 SS E~$
creased in value by about 100000.
Some Of the Missourians and many
Eoutherners urge that Missouri should
no longer be classed as a southern
state
New Zealand sent Great Britain
3.4sT.197 .hundfedwe1ght OF mutton,
valued at. f ,657.450. IN the curse Of
last year.
All British newspapers combined had
q ejaculation of 10000 In 1901. Their
present circulation is estimated at
$780, 900 a day.
The city authorities Of Dover, Eng
land, have received authority from par
1fament to .scrape the staring adver-
Of that coast.
A large. number Of cutt1efsh have
recently been caught off the north
coast Of Germany. AS they have never
before been met with in these waters
&c is difficult to account for their pres
ence.
OF all the European countries which
enjoy representative government but
four declined tie bicamera1 system Of
parliamentary construction. These
countries are Norway. Servia, Greece
and Bulgaria.
According to~a new Berlin police or
der, ~costernongers are to be almost
entirely banished from the streets. Up
TO the present they have been allowed
for a few hours in the mornings in a
few side streets only.
There are now In operation Ia Bel
GUM eleven extensive mills where
eernmeal is ground. One mill at Alost
has a capacity Of 100000 pounds
per year.. It is said that all the mills
Ore crowded at present
The Nebraska state game warden
mas forbidden the farmers to fight the
grasshpppers with poison, saying that
3Ae loss of birds. and game Is too easily
Or price TO pay for the destruction Of
comparatively few Insects
"A competitors in the recent PaFss-Ber-
an motor race, while making seventy
an arched curve Ia the road with his
car, which leaped high In the air and
bounded back like a rubber ball.
President MeKinley's death occurred
on the anniversary of the death of the
Duke of Wellington, who died Sept IA,
1852, and also On the anniversary Of
the death of General MontpaIm, who
Has killed Sept in TIA g fssHebec.
Ragis ness has A~eIDeass4H fire en-
zines which measure sfx to ten feet
and weigh two and a half tons, or,
when fully equipped, $3.50 pounds.
They start to work Instantly. The
pump delivers twenty gallons a min
ute
a regular system Of fncapacftating
men from serving in the Russian army
by causing them to go temporarily
deaf has been. discovered at Odessa.
The proprietors, Messrs. Schapira and
Essigmann, who did a great trade,
have been arrested.
The Swedish government has under
consideration the substitution Of cleo
tricity for steam on all the Swedish
railroads, the abundance Of water pow
er in the country not only making the
project feasible, but holding out prom
Use of a great saving.
It Is evident that Americans are
wearing ont a great deal of shoe leath-
gu these days. In Lynn, Mass, the
center Of the shoe trade, the factories
are running full time, and great diff
Guilty is experienced in getting enough
hands to do the work.
In Dublin bay the little fishes are
having a bard life owing to numerous
sharks. One, a "bottle nose' gentle
man. has been caught, and 1t measured
five and a half feet long. Another,
measuring eight feet, proved too strong
for. the line, which had to be cut.
Last year there were registered in
Paris somewhat over 5000 motor car
rfages and about 1000 motor cycles,
the later comprising motor bicycles,
motor tricycles and the like. Prac-
tfcallE all Of the French automobiles
have been of the Internal combustion
type.
There Is d small English village Of
the name Of Allesley where the church
bell is rung at 5 o'clock every morning
IN summer and at 6 o'clock in winter
In order to arouse sleeping lie abeds
and enable them to start work In good
time. The curfew bell is also tolled at
8o'clock each evening.
The silk industry was introduced into
france from Italy at the beginning of
the fourteenth century when discon-
tented italian weaver established
themselves at Lyons. In the sixteenth
century the industry was introduced
on an extended scale, and in 1850
France surpassed Italy and has since
kept the position of leader.
There was an explosion at the rail
way station in Santa Cruz one day re
Gently which badly frightened the peo-
pie waiting for the train. The entire
bottom Of a valise was blown out. The
owner, who feared that he would be
suspected as an anarchist, explained
that two years ago he had placed dyna.
mia oanS In tho zaliSa uhiln nr11nino