Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-03-28
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, Politi-
cal and Otherwise, Cul1ed
From Our Exchanges.

From Our Exchanges.
American machinery will be employ
ed In the mines at Mysore, India.
Distinction of houses is the only
policy pursued in Calcutta against the
plague.
Florida has been called the "Penin-
sula State" on account of it's geo.
graphical popularity.
An Austrian suggestion which the
Wlennese are said to favor is to ap-
proach the north pole In submarine
boats.
There is greater quantity of citric
acid in the lemons raised in California
than in those grown in the Mediter
ranean region.
For some years there have been few
brook trout in Colorado waters. Last
year nearly 100000 brook trout eggs
were placed in them.
The Publishers Circular of London
states that over 100 books on the
South African war have been pro-
auced in the last six months.
An epidemic Of dengue, or dandy
ver, is raging in Java and is spreading
westward. Business is paralyzed.
At the beginning Of the new century
there were $1,000 army and navy pen
sioners in New England drawing their
pay through the agency in Boston.
Deaf mutes are on the increase In
Germany. There are no fewer than
6,458 persons in institutions where
deaf mutes are specially instructed.
An International flying machine or
4frshfp competition is being organized
by the Aero club in Paris. A subscrip-
ton list to provide prizes has been
opened.
If the matter of founding libraries
is kept up the average American will
read his eyes and wits out.
The Russian students in the
churches have evidently been study
ing the career of Mrs. Nation.
Aguinaldo has kept from the CEN
ter of the stage so long it is believed
he is really and truly dead
Mr. WI has recently visited Chi
cago, where he is considered highly
civilized citizen of the world.
The Kansas City World says Car
negie makes John D. Rockefeller
look like selling platter.
The empire, it is thought, will be
delayed until Willie Waldorf Astor
dies. No one wants him back
New York should elect Andrew
Carnegie Mayor, regardless of his
views. He belongs to no party.
Kansas has reached q point in cul-
ture where her insane asylum has
become an asylum for the insane.
Tolstoi, the greatest of Russians,
is under surveillance on the part Of
the meanest despotism in the world.
Senator McLaurin has been well
coined so warmly into the Republi-
can party, he will undoubtedly col
lar judgeship.
The Pennsylvania troopers who
behaved badly on inauguration day
say the pie served in Washington
did it.
All members of the Order of Buf-
faloes have been ordered to attend
the opening of the Pan American
Exposition.
Castellenes shooting iron is re-
garded with wonder in France, al
though it is considered irregular to
hurt an adversary in French duel
Sorosis is thirty three years old
but none of it's members claim tc
have been in it at the beginning
They Joined later, much later.
The Gould properties have beer
increased in value $40, 100000 in thu
last six months. One quarter o
this increase accrues to Count Boni
Between one thing and another,
simple peck of trouble by no mean
marks the measure OF China's un
happiness.
AS we take troops away fror
China, the other powers send troop
there, and the concert is no longe
Harmonious.