Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-01-10
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

It is announced that the sugar
war is about to end. This forecasts
an advance in prices.
It is refreshing to note that Editor
Harmsworth does not claim that his
style of journalism is divine.
The real work in South Africa has
been left to Kitchener and no intelli-
gent man believes that he will prove
unequal to the task.
Indications ere that when Quay
shakes the legislative tree on the
10Th inst. tLe Senatorial plum will
drop into his basket.
The German editors are not saying
much about the advent of the new
century. They prefer not to incur
the Kaiser's displeasure.
A contemporary says that Mr..
Cleveland speaks Understandings
and with weight" on current issues.
But it would be just like some of his
detractors to even deny the weight.
How time changes. Only hun
dred years ago we were few states
on the eastern coast of America,
while the first sun of the present
century rose and set on our pos
sessions.
Somebody has been mean enough
to start the report that these are
circus lions which Governor Roose-
Welt has started out to hunt, bought
and tied out to be killed by the
terrible Ted.
Almost any prediction that can
be made for the twentieth century
seems reasonable At least there
are those who viii believe that
whatever can be imagined is pos
sible at some time
Bishop Hartzell, of the Methodist
Episcopal church in Africa, has ar
ranged with the Rev. George H.
Reiboldt, of Indiana, to go to Zam-
besi, Africa, to conduct college at
New Orleans, in that country
The cable brings word that Prince
Chowfa Maha Vajiravudh of Siam
| is travelling in Russia This serves
Russia right She has perpetrated
| few names herself but here is one
| to make the average Russian turn
green with envy.
Senator Hanna is credited with
the intention of trying to prevent
the Jeffries-Ruhlin fight at Cincin-
matt next month, because Mayor
Fleischmann, having done a great
deal to further the affair, the Sena
tor fears it may hurt the party il
Ohio if not elsewhere. In the same
way and for much the same reason
it would be we'll for Mr.. Hanna te
try his hand at stopping the fighting
in the Philippines.
f The newly discovered elixir Of life
, if salt really does turn out to be tina
long-sought boon, ought to be cheal
= enough to place longevity within tn
reach of all. At the same time it i
. well to remember that there is a sal
! trust which will doubtless see to i
: that revival Or renewal of circula
I ton shall not be obtatnable at bal
q | gain-counter prices. It may be, in
, | deed, that the whole story is a dc
: vice of the trust to boom the pric
l of it's product.
Il In a village in New York schem
/ for discouraging intemperance ha
been proposed wherein all drinker
a of intoxicants shall be required t
take out a license costing not les
than SIS year, the names of the
Il L cense holders being published In th
r papers once every six months. Tn
e would perhaps have the effect {
IS keeping sober all who could not a
e ford to get drunk, but would pro1
= ably result in no increase in Stat
~ or city revenues, because the licens
taken out by saloons would be CO
respondingly less.