Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-07-04
FACTS IN A FEW

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1t costs f13,146,OOO per annum to
run the government of London.
A century ago the potato was a new
and unpopular article Of food in
France.
\ Inc bookkeepers Of Cincinnati have
an organization and hold regular
monthly meetings.
England has no journal of forestry.
German has several, one of which is
in its seventy-sixth year.
Deaths of children under 5 years Of
age In Boston last year were g. IA DER
cent of the total mortality.
Ihe total number of icehouses along
n Hudson is 445, with a total ton
mage capacity of 3, 76S, 900.
IN lSol there were only 5000 Italian
speaking people in the United States.
NOW there are over 400, 600
Last year the farmers of the United
States received $780, 900, 700 more for
their products than in 1899.
Ihe baton now carried by German
held marshals while performing duties
OF distinction resembles a riding whip.
Ohio had the largest number of small
pox cases last year, 1,666, Tennessee
coming next with 1893 and Minnesota
with S75.
The daily circulation of
In the United Kingdom rose from Co.
ooo copies in 1901 to 100000 in 1850
and now reaches $500, 900.
Hamburg's ava observatory will be
removed to the village Of Bergersdorf,
as the smoke and Earring of the city in
terfere with the observations.
Steeple Clayton, in North Bucks,
England, claims the distinction Of be-
ing the first parish to adopt the public
libraries act in the reign Of Kin Ed
ward VII.
During the year 1900 the Berlin cleo
trio trans caused 1862 accidents, in
volving the loss of 90 lives, while 1874
persons were severely and 1902 slight
ly injured.
The biggest and most costly hotel in
Boston is to go up this season on the
site of the Brunswick. 1t is to be in
elegance a rival of New York's Wal
dorf-Astoria.
Seattle proposes to build a canal
eight miles long from Puget sound to
Lake Washington, which is 20 miles
long and 200 feet deep and will make
an ideal harbor.
Municipal ownership of electric
plants Is on the increase in Canada.
Woodstock and Kingston, Ont, are the
latest to acquire the electric plants as
municipal property.
Some. 70 different varieties of olives
are now grown in California. There is
no specific variety known as the
S0J1pQno olive h11f onu Ionro ,ou:o4-
may be thus designated.
An expert claims that the eastern
slope of the Andes in South America
is richer in gold han the Klondike
country and gold can be taken with
much less work and privation.
Somewhat Of the going to and fro Of
the people may be guessed at when it
is known hat 100000 900 passengers
and 100000 O tons of goods are car
ried in a year on the worlds railways.
The rivers Of the Emerald Isle have
generally a dark color owing to the
fact b a most of them at some point
in their course flow through peat
marshes or beds which impart q dark
hue to the water.
The new law in South Carolina
against the pistol carrying habit makes
1t unlawful for any person except a
peace officer to carry a deadly weapon
than 20 inches in length or four
pounds in weight.
The habits of wasps were closely
by Reaumur, who placed the
insects under glass hives and so do
them as to be able to OBJ
serve all the operations carried on
their nests.
An English writer who has been in
the production of butter
cheese in all countries SAYS that
largest creamery in the world is
1t Lincoln, Neb. 1t has q capacity of
10000 pounds of butter per day and
n average daily output of 1900
Among the Sioux Indians there are
. churches, constituting b Da-
:ota Indian presbytery. These are In
1orth n South Dakota, Nebraska
nd Montana. Three years ago there
7ere- 1881 members of these churches,
nth 16 native ministers, one lay
reacher and two assistants.
A prominent American firm of gaso-
ne automobile builders has shipped
lree postal wagons to the government
t New South Wales. They are of nine
orsepower each and capable of carry
lg 1000 pounds of mail. The contract
as secured in competition with sever
English firms.
We have in America two great states
he areas Of which nave probably new
been traversed. These are Maine in
le north and Texas in the south,
mere immense treasures in woods,
Llnerals, game and other articles Of
lbstantial profit are worth all the SELL
ment inspired by practically valueless
lpeditions to frigid zones.
The output of watches in Switzerland
st year was the largest ever recorded.