Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-02-21
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

trees.
The United States contains nearly
5000, 900 separate farms.
Insurance companies will now take
risks for limited mounts on football
players.
About 1000 people in Paris are en-
ployed in he preparation of human
hair for the market.
The recent census shows that about
IL per cent of the population of the
United States is colored.
There is not much show for Hawaii
for statehood. The registered vote for
the Stands is only II, 200.
The miners of the Yukon district,
Alaska, employ $3.50 men, who receive
| an average of 81 an hour.
Russia proposes to increase the num-
Der of it's troops on the German and
| Austrian boundaries to 100000 men.
Australians are trying hard to obtain
a market in London for the passion
fruit, which is so popular at the an
tipodes.
A Christmas tree for dogs was one
/ of the features of a Chicago mans
celebration Of that holiday. The man
has eight dogs, all fond of candy. He
has no children.
A permanent life line, consisting of a
| strong wire cable, has been stretched
! along the entire distance of the Chicago
drainage canal, 81 miles, to be used in
case of accident.
The American quail imported into
Sweden some time ago seem to thrive
and increase in number. It remains to
be seen, however, whether the birds
can stand the long winters there.
According to Blanco's works on the
fora of the Philippines there are %
genera of palms, with 81 species, on
those islands.
A family of five generations is now
living at Sunderland, the ages Of the
representatives of each generation be-
ing respectively 80, 6S, so, 80 n 10.
The Fayal mine, located at Eveleth,
Mimi, has cleared shipments of a trife
over 100000 gross tons of iron ore
for the season. This is the largest ship
ment in point of tonnage ever made
by any min in the world.
Wal vessels are more "tonnable'
now than they were only a few years
ago. Nelson required one man for ev-
cry -four tons of burden in his ships.
" CAdO1O fOSSS1S VI
today to do with one man to every II
tons.
A London paper commenting on the
fact hat upward of 100, 600 horses
had persisted in the South African war
up to date sees in this condition Of
affairs a potent reason for the success
of the motor vehicle as a military adj
junct.
The remnant of the one great Penob-
scot tribe of Indians now living on an
island near Oldtown, Me-, have their
own form of government. At their
recent election they chose a prohibit
ZIONIST chief named Mitchell Attean
by a vote of 25 to %.
Salmon skin is about the best water
proof material that can be worn. The
Eskimos use it for both boots and
shirts. Should it become the fashion
outside of the arctic regions, however,
the chances are that the expense would
be too great for general utilization.
!, A balloon fitted with automatic in
struments was sent up recently in
Paris and came down safely. The in
strument showed that it had risen to
!; $4,000 feet, or over 1917 miles,. At that
height the temperature outside the
) balloon was 1O2 degrees below zero.
: In the course Of the demolition of the
/ gasometer in the old town gas works
at Mayence a large bale of cloth, well
/ preserved, and a great humber of
French bayonets and chassepot rifles
5 were found between the inner and out.
/ er containers of the gasometer. They
must have been there for at least sc
years.
: The best collection of Chinese coins
L to be found outside of China has beer
e given to the Archaeological museum OF
the University of Pennsylvania by
: Rev. e. W. living, a Honolulu mission
5 airy. The collection goes back to a time
i over $500 years ago and includes those
odd early Chinese coins which were
made in the form of spades, raZors
keys, shirts and tools.
: A dispatch to a London newspaper
= = from Rome says that the pope has or
=, dered that about 10000 old swords
halberds, spears and battleaXes in thu
Vatican armory be melted and thu
. iron sold. A furnace for the PURPOSE
has been erected in the Vatican gar
: dens. The weapons are useless ex
: cept as curios and cost a great dea
y to keep them polished.
6 Western timber is composed almos
| entirely of conifers. Forests of tn
western coast probably are the denses
and heaviest on earth. They may b
9 compared with those Of tropical re
gions, such as the forests of the Anna
zon and Kongo basins. While the jun
gle of the tropics may be denser, tn
trees are by no means as large, nor d
. they contain as much lumber.
Automobilism and the increasin
- necessity for some form of traction flo
:. goods and messengers better suited t