Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-02-28
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
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DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, PO1iti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

The new Indian lands that are to be
opened for settlement are said to COM
pose one of the richest tracts IN the
world The Apache, Comanche, hlowa
and Wichita reservations, which are to
be opened. contain about 3.5O0,OOO
acres of land of which two-thirds 1s
available to white settlers.
Old time pawnbrokers in New York
are to meet increased competition from
the Provident Loan society, which was
R pet scheme of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt. A third branch of the soci-
ETY. is about to be opened, this time in
the Tenderloin district richest of all
fields for the pawnbroker.
In order to see how fast a buzzard
really could fly a good specimen Of the
tribe was shipped from Charleston to
New York and there released at an ap-
pointed hour. 1t was expected that the
bird would take a day at least on the
trip home but the buzzard fooled the
experts and got there in four hours.
Silk ribbons were used in the court of
Victoria to hold newspaper clippings
designed for the royal perusal. She
never saw the papers in their original
state. They were carefully perused by
an official, who cut out what he thought
would please her, pinned the clippings
on the ribbons and laid them on her ia
ble
Central America is the tramps' Nee
ca There are many "hoboes" who
drift down there and none who come
back. In Nicaragua or Costa Rfca, for
example, all they have to do is to mar
~ a native wife and settle down in
some little banana or cocoanut grove in
the interior to a life of peace and no
work.
Leading architects desire to have
their profession given the same stand
ing as that of lawyers and doctors. No
man can practice law until he has been
admitted to the bar or medicine until
he has passed required examination
and received a certificate. But anybody
can call himself an architect whether
he is qualified or not.
Oregon has been known as the Web
foot State. During the rainy season
the precipitation is so constant and
heavy that it is humorously said the
climate of that state is best appreciated
by animals having webbed feet 1t is
also called the Beaver State, from the
former abundance of these animals
along it's water courses.
An experiment farm is to be started
200 miles from Manila by the United
States Philippine commission for the
purpose of ascertaining what seeds and
plants from this country can be sue
cessfully cultivated on the far eastern
islands. The University of California
G. -
the required seeds and plants.
Along the line of the recent inven
tions is a process for spinning paper
into a fine thread which cannot only be
used for sewing, but out of which {
very beautiful fabric can be woven
Specimens of tabIecloths and napkin!
made by this process were exhibited re
Gently which compared very well in ap
pearance with the fine articles of linen
An old porter at the City hotel in JET
ferson City, Mo, stepped into that hos
telry after the close of the war to re
fresh himself with drink. He placed
his rifle in corner, took his drink, en-
gagged in conversation with the prOprie
tor of the hotel and was given employ
ment Immediately. He has been a
efficient servant Of the establishment
ever since that event.
The German Protectorate in east Al
rica has a coast line of 620 miles, al
area of 3S4,OO0 square miles and in
cludes a portion of Zanzibar. The poI
ulation is estimated at 100000 native
and about 1000 foreigners, mostly Gel
mans. The country is being rapidl
developed, for the German governmen
is encouraging commercial enterpris
and immigration by bounties and sui
sides.
A Chicago inventor has perfected an
patented a device for registering til
number of calls on the telephon
which has heretofore been tried in vail
1t has long been the aim of telephor
companies to adjust rates according
the number of calls, but the labor
keeping account of the same rendere
it impracticable until the Chicago art
san supplied the long needed inventio
which is reported to be exceeding
simple.
A Matter of Fact.
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