Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-03-20
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
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DIVERS SOURCES.
News OF the Stage Social, POliti-
Cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

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Five gold beds have been discovered
In the western states of America by
means of an electrical ~"divining rod"
The Paris-Vienna automobile race,
'under auspices similar to those of the
Paris-BerIin race of 1901, will be held
In July.
Realty sales in the city of London
during 1901 were 95, 553, 09S, comparing
with G4,934, 769 in 1900 and E6,29O,314
In 1899.
In memory Of the late Miss Kate
Greenaway it is proposed to endow a
cot in one Of the children's hospitals in
london.
Copper money in France is TO be
gradually replaced this year by alu-
minimum bronze pennies of a pale yel-
Aow color.
According to official central market
statistics recently issued, 800 tons OF
4snails were sold in Paris during the
year 1901.
Thirty million stamps bearing King
Edwards portrait were placed on sale
In the postofices throughout England
on New Years day.
Belgium has a place where alcoholic
drinks are sold for every So persons,
Prussia one for $50, Austria for 900,
Russia for 991 and Norway for $1,000.
A country laborer Of Brescia while
cleaning an eel discovered in it's stom-
ach a large black pearl, which has been
purchased by a Milan jeweler for ST.
800.
Prizes amounting to 100000, it is
said, will be offered in the grand inter
national airshtp race which the Paris
Aero club is organizing for next sum-
mer.
Twenty years g a few foreigners
had ventured he risk of life incident
DO q landing in Korea, but today tts
capital has an American street railway
giant
Husbands IN LuneburE Prussia.
must be home at IL o'clock at night or
gay a fine Of about $3.50, half OF which
goes to the complainant who Is usual
b the wife.
Since the establishment Of the gam
ing tables land on the Riviera fifty
miles from Monaco which vas former
" only worth $25 an acre has been
sold for $4,000 IN acre.
The pope is stated to have refused
the application for permission to settle
in Rome which was made by several
of the religious congregations expelled
from France under the new law.
Quails are becoming so scarce in Eu-
rope that France and Germany have
Joined in prohibiting b killing Of the
birds and even the transport Of dead
Quails across their respective terrific
gies.
DR.. Ware, head master Of Elton, pro-
poses to build a classic ship, probably
on the model Of a Roman or Grecian
trireme, and to moor it in the Thames
opposite the houses Of parliament dur
ing coronation week.
King Leopold of Belgium has been
consulted as to the construction Of a
road from Ostend to the French from
tier to be reserved exclusively for mo-
tor car racing. Efforts are to be made
in France to nave the o continued
90 Paris.
NJ. Hamard. the French sculptor, has
Just completed in Paris the model of a
statue of Marshal Rochambeau to be
presented to the city of Washington as
a companion statue of Lafayette. 1t
will be ready to send to the United
States in April.
The Bengal chamber Of Is
protesting against the proposed Aus
tralian prohibition Of colored labor on
mail steamers on the ground that the
interests of the Indian companies and
of 10000 Indian seamen and fremen
ar thereby gravely imperiled.
Work has begun in the Salt river
valley on a great plan for the growing
of citrus fruit indoors. The project
xinvolves the roofing of more than 1,O0C
acres of orange, lemon and pomelc
trees and is undertaken by he Terri
torial Association of Citrus Fruit Grow
4ers.
Bicycling seems on the way to joir
roller skating in france az an extinct
craze, and the big velodromes, like thu
1rinks, are empty. An attempt is be
ing made to turn them into open all
~fheaters for classical plays and operas
AT Roubaix the experiment will be
&made next summer.
In the Lyons tobacco factory 1873 wo
men and girls, from sixteen to twenty
eight ear Of age, work ten hours
day in the cigar department, and onl.
Dne of them earns as high as 81 pc
day. Their situations are very desira
BILE, and there is nov a list of applica
~tions for places containing over so
names.
It is often said that the French pres
.adent receives no more than $4,000
year for his services. That is, as
matter OF fact, the actual salary o
sthe head Of the republic, but it is no
generally known that M. Loubet
supplied gratuitously with a numbe
~Of household ne~cessaries which repre-
sent in value at least $4,000 a year
For fruit. vegetables, game, oil, log
Tor his fires, gas and electricity he pay
nothing, while, in addition, his house
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