Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-04-25
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News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

A hber company of Lockport, n. Y,
is preparing to manufacture gun stocks
of fiber with view to tightening the
weight Of the present rifle. The ord
nance officers on duty at Springfield,
Mass, will supervise the manufacture.
Cattlemen are considering the ad-
visibility of reseeding the Black Hills
and eastern Wyoming ranges, where
native grass has been nearly killed by
overcrowding of cattle. 1t has been
found that five grasses and two alfal-
fas will grow in that section without
irrigation.
According to statistics just published
the population of Greenland at the end
of 1899 numbered 5,174 males and $500
females, together 1924 souls. Since
1898 the population has increased by
08. The number of births was 465 and
of deaths 1853. Of 81 fatal accidents q
were caused by drowning.
Professor Robert Gersung, an emil
nent surgeon of Austria, is credited
with an important discovery in the
scientific world. 1t consists of the
use of a mixture of paraffin and vase
line in curing physical deformities and
filling in cavities caused by the re-
moval of portions of bones.
Berrien county, Mich, on the rec
ord of 1900, claims to be the greatest
peach growing section in the world.
The number of acres cultivated last
year was 4,753, and the total yield of
peaches was 14O,992 bushels, being
more than half the entire Michigan
crop. Van Buren county came next
with 58,8S7 bushels.
The schools of Vienna are to have
medical attention. There the board Of
education is considering the appoint
ment of a staff of medical school in
spectors. 1t is proposed that the du-
ties of these officials shall include
periodical inspections of the schools,
which shall be more frequent during
conta gious epidemics.
Colored people are still willing to
brave the disadvantage of emigration
to Monrovia, in West Africa. Only re-
Gently 16 adventurous members of the
race sailed from New York for that
country, where land will be given them
by the Liberian Colonial society of
Birmingham, Ala. More Of them con-
template going to Liberia within few
weeks.
Large deposits of magnesic have
been found in southern India, and the
officers of a Portland cement works
at Madras have succeeded in producing
a white cement plaster which has mag
nesium for basis. This cement can
be used for plastering walls and dries
SO speedily that rooms are ready for
occupancy within 4S hours. 1t can be
painted or else colored by mixing col
oring matter.
The Germans are claiming that, in
spite of all our boasting, they are in
creasing their production of pig iron
faster than the United States. This
seems to be the fact. The German
output Of pig iron the past year was
1851, ,742 tons, representing an increase
of 75 per cent since 1890. The United
States output last year was 1879, ,242
tons, representing an increase of &c
per cent since 1890.
Near Rio Grande City, Tex, an i'm
mense deposit of an unknown gaseous
substance has been discovered. Pieces
of it ignite quickly and give out
strong fame which lasts for a re
markably long period. 1t is said by
scientists that the substance is either
an unknown mineral or ordinary clay
highly charged with natural gas. II
either case the value of the deposit as
fuel is immense, as it covers many
thousands of acres and is of immense
depth.