Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-03-14

Aft r searching thirty years for a
lost husband Chicago woman at
last succee ded in locating aman who
answered the description. But he
proved an alibi
It took force of auditors a week
to locate discrepancy of II cents
between the accounts of the City
Comptroller and the City Treasurer
of Philadelphia, in sum total Of
$50, 100000.
The passage in Proverbs which
was touched by the Presidents lips
when he took the oath of Office ad-
ministered by Chief Justice Fuller,
was: 1.-THE wise in heart shall be
called prudent; and the sweetness of
the lips increaseth the learning"
The prestige of ''the fighting race"
has not been diminished by the
scrimmage with nationalist members
in the House of Commons. Six po-
licemen suficed for each member"
demurely says the pre- dispatch,
with the exception of Mr.. Flavin.
who is a big man, and required
eight"
A Paris young man advertised for
a wife under an assumed name few
months ago. His sister, seeing the
advertisement, answered it under an
assumed name. and desperate case
was soon ripe enough for an ex-
change of photographs; then the ro-
nance fell to 35 degrees below zero
in less than two minutes.
The Chicago Post insists that no.
body ''can figure out in advance just
what a woman will do," basing it's
remarks on case in Pennsylvania
where man thrashed his wife, ex-
pecting she would sue him for di-
vorce. Instead of that she had him
arrested for assault and battery and
he is naturally disgusted.
This comes from st. Louis: 'sThe
suburban real estate man was at
tempting to interest prospective
purchaser. ANY malaria?' asked the
latter Not trace of it. Our drain
age is perfect. We have absolutely
no sickness in the community. Pure
water. pure air. everything THAT
will do interrupted the prospective
purchaser; this place is too healthy
for me. I'm a doctor, Good day,
SIR
They have militant way of col
lecting city taxes in Omaha. The
treasurer of that city has announced
that on certain date he will start
out with force of deputies and fur
niture vans, and after demanding set
tlement of claims of delinquents, he
will proceed to serve warrants and
seize personal property to satisfy the
assessment claims. He will doubtless
have a rough time of iG before he
gets through
The mother-in-law joke receives
solar plexus jolt in story that comes
from Paris. M. Sauvagne, whose wife
is eighteen years old and charming,
found her mother so mucn more
beautiful and soulful, from his point
of view, that he fell madly in love
with her. The wife brought quit for
divorce, and the husband prayed the
court to grant it, so that he might
become the husband of his mother
in-law. Verify, truth is often stran-
ger than fiction.
At Guilford, England. the quaint
custom of throwing dice for the
maids money" was observed re-
Gently. A sum was invested by a
mayor of the borough in the seven
teenth century, from which $50 is
given annually to a servant girl OF
| good repute who has been IN the
same service for over two years
There were two applicants The
prize was won by Martha Shingler,
| who threw 7. The same dico-box has
been used for sixty years.
Lieutenant Totten, formerly pro.
fessor at Yale, inclines to the belief
that Nova Persei, the new star in
the constellation of Persieus, is the
SO called star of Bethlehem, which
according to astronomers, appears
at intervals of 317 years. He also as
serts that this same star twas on tn.
| meridian at midnight when the grea
pyramid was built The balance O