Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-02-28


expert, has invented a parafin lamp |
for the purpose of lighting buoys. 1t |
is designed to burn three months with |
out attention.
The longest lived people have gener- |
ally been those who made breakfast |
the principal meal of the day. The
stomach has more vigor in the morning |
than at any time
The United kingdom Of Great Brit |
ain and Ireland started into existence
on Jan. 1, 1901, with a population Of
15,70O,OOO It's population now in round
numbers is 41,000,00O.
The brutal Spanish bullfghts are as
popular as ever in that land. The aver
age number of horses killed in Spain
every year exceeds 5000, while from
1000 to 1000 bulls are sacrificed.
The annual loss to France caused by
the ravages of hailstorms is said to
amount to about 100000 francs.
From 1873 to 1895 the figures varied
from &C, O,OOO,O 900 to 134, 100000 francs,
Sing Sings name is derived from
"Sint Sics,' the title of a former branch
of the Mohegan Indians. The inhab
itants of the town want to call it Ossin-
ing, which is the name of the town
ship.
Memberships in the New York Stock
Exchange are now held to be worth
$50, 900, and one has been sold at these
figures. In 1893 two memberships were
sold, one at $13,50O and the other at
$17.5OO.
Each year about 1000 900 bushels Of
wheat are grown in Africa. Australia
stands at the foot of the great wheat
producing countries, being credited
with a product of about 35,OOO,O00
bushels a year.
A young negro in Cincinnati swore
falsely as to his age in order to get
marriage license. His mother said that
he had sworn falsely, but that he
should be excused on the ground that
he was ''in love and enchanted
Ordinary tumblers will hold water
because the globules of water are too
big to squeeze through glass, but glass
is as full of holes as a sponge. and air
blows right through it because the
specks of air are smaller than the
holes.
The population of the whole world is
about 1,5OO,OOO.OO0 Of this Great Brit
Russia, 500 per cent; France, 6.3 per
cent; United States, ST per cent; Ger
many, 46 per cent; Austria Hungary,
81 per cent; Italy, % per cent.
In 1900 the Indian canoe was practi-
cally the only floating vehicle on the
great lakes, which hold one-third of all
the fresh water in the world. Today
the lake feet numbers several thou
sand steel steamers, with 20 shipyards
on the shores of the lakes to add con-
stantly to the number.
The far northwest has entered into
competition with the Mississippi valley
for the wheat trade Of the world. A
British steamer has loaded wheat a
/ Tacoma for Liverpool via the 'Suez ca
nal. The Cape Horn route is shorter
but is less desirable because Of the cos
of and difficulty of procuring coal.
j Bamboo fiber makes absolutely the
best copying paper there is, and tht
bamboo paper is made almost exclu
sively in Japan. For that reason-sim
ply because they have the raw materia
and we have not-we buy a great dea
of copying paper in Japan and the Jap
anese, on the other hand, buy larg
quantities of different kinds of pape
| from us.
By act of the Continental congress
passed in 1855, one-thirty- sixth part o
all the public lands belonging to th
United States were Set apart perpetual
1y as an endowment for the publi
schools of the country. Under this ant
succeeding acts 100000 acres hav
been granted during the past centur,
for the support Of public schools an
LICE, 900 acres to universities and col
leges.
One Of the things that appear to hav
been sttled by the Boer war is the dis
appearance from the British army @
the organization known as the arm
corps. It is stated authoritatively tha
the division is the largest tactical uni
that can be conveniently employed i
the field. The army corps sent to Sout
! Africa went to pieces Immediately af
er it landed, and all subsequent re-e1
| forcements went out as divisions.
Three months. ago a party of MOI
| mon students began three years tri
into South America to search for trace
| of the last survivors of the Nephite
believed by the Mormons to have bee
the first people of this country. Bel
jamin Gluff, president of the Brigham
Young academy. in Provo, Utah, wh
is in charge of the expedition, say
, that many prehistoric ruins have bee
: unearthed which tend to uphold tt
. Mormon traditions.
! The royal game of sofia claims Il
many sided German emperor as pla
= err 1t somewhat resembles the gan
of checkers. Thirty pieces are used
play. and there are 100 squares on Il
table There are at present on view
A. London the actual pieces and tab
used by the kaiser The exhibit. whit
!" is valued at 10000, is Of delicately e