Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-09-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES


The 81 beet sugar factories in this
country now yield more han a third of
our domestic sugar product.
A s~earchfight on the electric tower Of
the Pan-American exposition at Buffa-
10 casts rays for a distance Of so miles.
For the first time for 1000 years an
ordination service in st. David's cathe-
dral, Cardiff. has just been conducted
in Welsh.
A new Berlin municipal budget
shows that 300 streets in Berlin are
planted with A, 900 trees, which repre-
sent a value of 100000.
Cardiff has grown more quickly than
any other large British town of late
years. From 1881 to 1891 it's popula-
ton rose from $1,000 to $4,000.
Canoe building is one of the indus
tries of Kennebunkport, Me-, which
used to build great ships and wen now
launches an occasional schooner.
A runaway horse in Denver the other
day finished his flight by landing in the
interior of a rapidly moving trolley car,
where he rode for nearly a block before
the vehicle could be stopped.
By a law passed recently the most
incorrigible of the rateros, or pickpock-
cts, of the City OF Mexico are to be put
to work on the tobacco fields in the in
terror Of Tehuantepec.
The number Of arrests for drunken
ness in New Orleans, 5000 in a year, is
larger than in Baltimore, although the
population of Baltimore is 5OS,0OO and
that of New Orleans 28S,OO0 only.
The king of Italy received $4,000
kilograms of congratulations in the
first day or two after the birth of his
daughter. He also received 10000 re-
quests for money in honor Of the event.
The total number Of experiments on
living animals in thesUnited Kingdom
in 1900 was 1O,S39, 2,370 more than in
the previous year. 1t is stated that but
few of these experiments were in any
serious degree painful.
The London Lancet declares that
"the prices asked for wine at big no.
tells are so monstrously high and the
wine offered is so often bad<that this
fact alone accounts for an increasing
demand for whisky as a dinner bever-
age"
Milwaukee has twice as many sa-
looms as Detroit, though the population
of the two cities is almost exactly the
same, but in Milwaukee, a beer drink
ing city, the number of arrests for
drunkenness is considerably less than
in Detroit.
A strange sight was witnessed at
Bologna recently. A bellringer at a
church was struck by a great bell and
thrown violently through the window
of tho touor on fn tho roof Cnrnn R0
feet below. He escaped with nothing
more than a shock.
Last year the markets of New York
paid as revenue into the city treasury
$25S, 900 from rents, exclusive of $4S,-
900 collected from stalls and privileges
in Wal1abOut market, Brooklyn, and
$4,000 from market cellar rents, a total
! of more than 100000.
\The committee Of the German Wo-
mems General association has decided
to found in Leipsic a library consist
ing of books, no matter in what lam
guage, written by or about women, and
has issued an earnest appeal for lit
erary contributions for the execution
of this purpose.
1t is nine years since the Transsibe-
rfan railway was commenced, and
! 3,24O miles of rails have been laid,
showing an average of $50 miles a
| year. The connection between Europe
and Vladivostok is now assured by
means of the steamship service in the
| center of Siberia.
A veritable quick luncheon" it is
said, is to be had at a restaurant in
Paris, where a dinner of several
c~~l
in the form of tablets can be consumed
in a few minutes. The entire meal in.
deed can be carried about in the vest
pocket or>pocketbook.
The-Vermont custom of not hanging
a convicted murderer until two years
after the passing of the, death sentence
upon him is founded upon the assump
ton that any possible doubttas to his
guilt will be removed in that time, anG
all danger of putting an innocent mar
to death is thus eliminated.
A machine that will do the work OF
80 expert mathematicians is being con
structed by the government in it's sci
enti1c instrument shop on Capitol hill
in Washington. 1t is to be an improve
ment On the instrument in use in the
bureau Of the coast survey which has
charge OF calculating the tides.
1t is said that there were. at leas
100000 mustangs scattered over thu
plains of Arizona. New Mexico and
Texas ten years ago and that nov
nearly al Of them are gone. A few
were caught and kept by the Indians
in their reservations, but the wilt
horse in his natural state is PRACTICAL,
extinct.
New York claims to be the sunnies
of the large cities. The United State
weather bureau has charts in light ant
shade showing from 1870 to 1895 hoy