Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-07-25
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Young man who asked him how to
achieve success. His answer was,
"Don't watch the clock"
Admiral Dewey's ancestors lived
in the old town of Lebanon, Conn,
well known as the home of Jonathan
Trumbull and his son, an artist, and
in 100 Josiah Dewey bought from
Oneco, son of the great Michigan
chief, Uncas, what is yet known
thereabout as the Five.Mile Pur-
chase.
j. Pierpont Morgan has purchas-
ed abroad a Persian rug, probably
the rarest of it's kind in existence,
for which he paid $4,000. The rug
measures 10 feet 6 inches by 10 feet,
made of Persian silk in Tabriz,
Persia, and was woven by Moham-
medan friars $50 years ago for a
shah.-New York Times.
The report Of the condition of the
corr crop shows the average to be
80 per cent lower than it was this
time last year, and 9 per cent below
the average for the past ten years.
In addition to this there is a de-
crease of 4OO,O 900 acres in the area
planted. If things get much worse
cornbread will soon taste as good
as cake.
1.-THE Hawaiian Islands are full of
beautiful women who are willing to
become wives of ambitious young
Americans who go to Hawaii to
make their fortunes" says Miss
Rose Davidson, who is to repre-
sent Hawai- at the Pan-American
Exposition. And they are heires-
ses, too, many of them, she says.
Six thousand coins collected by
Cardinal Randi have been bought
by Pope Leo and added to the fine
collection in the Vatican. Many
fell into the Cardinals hands in
1862 for their weight in silver, when
Pope Plus introduced the French
monetary system, and the old coins
were retired by the papal govern
ment.
There is talk of the establishment
of a womans college of matrimony
to be located in Chelsea. England,
where the duties Of a wife will be.
come the subject of a two year
course of study. The curriculum
will embrace not only the usual
branches of housewifery, such as
cooking, sewing and laundry work,
but is intended to deal with physio.
logy and medicine rs well, SO that
the students will receive mental
discipline in connection with the
manual training.
A farmer named Kropf, in..Dickin.
son county, Kas., declared early in
the spring that God informed him
that the wheat crop this year would
be a failure, and to prove his belief
in the revelation he sold his OWL
wheat crop for 81 an acre. The
crop having turned out to be phe-
nomenally large, he was asked the
other day to say something in re
gard to the matter, and replied:
st take it as a dispensation from the
Lord not to talk so much, and tt
keep to myself hereafter what H.
tells me-"
The wife of a Methodist ministe.
in West Virginia has been married
three times. Her maiden nam,
was Partridge; her first HUSBAND
Was named Robin, her second Spar
row. and the present ones name i
Quale. There are now two youni
Robins, one Sparrow and three lit
tie Quales. One grandfather is
Swami and another was q Jay, bu
he's dead and now a bird of para
disc. They live on Hawk avenue
J'aglesville Canary Islands, and tn
follow who wrote the above is
Tyre bird, an interested relative c
the family,
An elderly, blind white hors
used to furnish the power that drov
some of the presses at Harper
Brothers in the early SOS of til
last century. In those days pub
fishers, like the rest of the WORLD
were not so much in a hurry a
they are now. The old horse wa
humanely chosen for his blindness
as his work was to be performed i
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