Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-05-01
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grroru Our E1xcllang ges.
President Roosevelt is shaved
every day.
Straw hats have again appeared
ON the scene.
Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago,
completed his forty-second year last
Thursday.
England is going to coin e2 pieces
in gold. They will be about the size
of our $40 coins.
Private McCulloch, of the Guards
Reserves, an Irishman oft foot lO4,
is now the tallest man in the British
army.
The Duke of Argyll is endeavor-
ing to acclimatize wild Canadian
turkeys and geese on the shores OF
Loeb Fyne, Argyllshire.
Despite his great and wealth
Richard Croker is said to be disap-
pointed and embittered over his fail
ure to become national Democratic
leader.
The first act of honesty Congress
owes the Philippines is an act giving
them honest money. Dishonest
money is always followed by an end
less train of other dishonesties.
A subsidized English theatre is
projected in Paris, with the object Of
enabling French students to become
familiar with the English language.
The scheme is favored by the uni
versity professors
Baroness Burdett-C COutts, now SO
years of age, intends to look at king
Edward Wis coronation process
sion out of the same windows from
which she looked on Queen Vic
toria's 81 years ago.
Citizens of Charleston, S. c., are
urging that the name of Meeting
street, one Of the widest and most
important in their city, be changed
to Hampton avenue, in memory OF
the late General Wade Hampton.
Chicago, April 27.-Hon. j. Ster-
ling Morton, former Secretary OF Ag-
riculture, died this afternoon at the
home of his son, Mark Morton, at
Lake Forest, Ill. Last November
Mr.. Morton contracted a severe cold
while speaking at the stock show in
Cucago,~An attack of grip followed,
and from this he never entirely re-
covered. A week ago he suffered a
stroke of apoplexy. The immediate
cause of his death was inflammation
Of the bronchial arteries.
An eggshell farm is a part of one
of the primary school departments
of study II Buffalo. Each child takes
an ec,e~leil about twO-thirds whole.
The chId's name is written on the
shell and after lesson on soils suf-
ficient earth is placed in the shell tC
fill it. Each one in room is given
the same kind of seed to plant. AT:
ter the plant becomes too large fol
the shell the child is encouraged tC
take it home and plant in garden.
The teachers aim to teach the COM
pleted history Of the plant from seed
to seed.
Sol Smith Russell, the actor, who
had been in poor health for several
years, died at his home in Washing
ton yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Russell
had been afflicted for some years
with intermittent attacks of par
alysis, the last of which came upo1
him Friday night. Sol Smith was
one of the quaintest and most de
Hghtful of comedians with manner
almost entirely his own. In gentle
humorous, wistful characters, ,shreWC
and a little awkward, he was unsur
passed, and in some respects his ar
was not unlike that of Joseph Jeffer
son. Mr.. Russell was born in Maine
in 1849. He was drummer boy il
the Union army during the civi
war.