Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-08-22
ACTS IN FEW LINES

The Canadian exports have increased |
by $4,000 900 during the last II months. !
Nearly 10 per cent Of the recipients |
of the Victoria cross are military doc |
tors. !
The crop bulletin for Manitoba shows |
that 100000 acres have been sown |
with wheat. The conditions are favor |
able.
Labor in the south is in great de- |
mand, and the negroes are better paid
than they have ever been in their lives |
before.
While the United States is spending
$174,965,6 25 a year for literature of all
kinds, it is drinking $1,249,1 91, 553 |
worth Of alcoholic liquors.
British farmers and dairymen are to- !
day milking 100000 COWS and produc-
ing annually in their diaries Esq 600, 900
worth of milk, butter and cheese. !
An automobile company has been !
awarded the contract for carrying the |
mails between the Ran-Amerieen, expo
sition grounds and the Buffalo Mp-a4of-
fee.
demonstrating with policemen, cab
drivers and street car conductors is a i
serious offense in Austria, as all those
personages are rated as public officers,
to insult whom means Imprisonment
and fine.
It may surprise ONE to hear that
Florida stands tenth as a fish produc-
ing state. It has a coast line, including
islands, of $500 miles. The annual
catch is about $4,000, 900 pounds, with a
total value to the fishermen Of about
$76O, 900.
, Belgian capital to the amount Of &c.,
100000 has found investment in Rus
sian enterprise. That e an amount
of "a per head in Belgium. France,
though largely interested in Russian.
loans, ETC., reaches the amount of only
f24,SOO, 600.
The wholesale mineral water manu-
facturers Of Liverpool and district have
increased the price Of their beverage
t~hreepence per dozen owing to the in
creased cost Of sugar, and the retailers
have put on a halfpenny per bottle to
the
An interesting feature of the expense
bill incurred by New York's committee
of fifteen is that devoted to losses in
J. gambling houses. Detectives who go
after evidence travel In pairs and play
the plungers' game. Very seldom do
the detectives win. So
New rules have been adopted by the
big transatlantic steamship lines: re
| garding the admission of visitors to de
parting vessels. The great crush Is
partly responsible for the change. Wis
Z itors must hereafter procure passes
: from the booking Offices t
The churches Of the borough Of Man
: haitian. New York city, will sendsabou
10000 boys and girls and nothers; tt
5 the country this summer. OF the vari
3 GUS churches the Episcopal sends b.
: far the greatest number Of iefildrep
r Trinity alone sending 1000. rr.
= A correspondent has discovered Il
8 number Of oddly named persons II
e Georgia counties. Among these, name
{ we have Sorrowful Williams, Increas
: Thomas, Merciful jenkins, Angel Jones
r Salvation White, Happiness johnson
s Purity Scott and Paradise Lee
. MI. Baldwin has shipped 40 balloon
o to Tromso for use in the north pole ez
y petition. These balloons are not IL
. tended to carry passengers. but eac
will have ten message buoys attache
Il which will be liberated automaticall,
e thus recording the route northward.
At the Buffalo exposition is exhibit
ed the smallest steam railroad in tn
- world. The rails are a foot apart, eac
- of the ten cars holds two passenger
the line is a mile long, n the enginee
.. sits on the tender, for tn re Is jus
y room enough in the cab for his feet.
N A Philadelphia firm of auctioneers r
" Gently offered at one Of their sales Rol
>, inson 8Crusoe's musket. It was a fir
old 1intlock. It was In the possessio
OF a grandniece Of Alexander Selkir
:. and it's pedigree Is much more unclou'
ed than is usually the case with objec
of this kind.
The women Of Canea, in Crete, ha,
of formed a society to oppose the lu-
- uriousness of dress. The members
a, the society wear only the simplest
~ costumes and anathematize jewelr
and ornaments. The Cretan cover
,b ment is to be petitioned to introdu'
a bill to make the wearing Of extrav
CANT clothes penal.
A dispatch from Angouleme, Franc
or reports that an invasion of locusts b;
is- taken place throughout the departing
,e- Of the Charente, more especially
TO the anton of Bouillac, where they a
CIV SO numerous and SO voracious as
Of constitute a veritable scourge. Enc
he nous fields of beans and beets ha-
20 been devastated in a few hours.
ar, e. A. Martel, the French explorer
caverns, whose discoveries unde
ground have attracted much attentio
reports that he has found in the 6