Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-07-17
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.
In the last thirty y-three years $780,
100000 has been spent in this country
upon an Indian population of 100000.
The Commercial club of Louisville
uses advertising space in street cars
and on billboards to enjoin readers to
patronize home industries.
Grasshoppers are so great a plague
at Hay, New South Wales, that they
obscure all the street lamps at night.
leaving the town in total darkness.
Booksellers who supply English
schools report that there has been in
recent years very great increase in
the demand for German schoolbooks.
The governor of Finland has ordered
the prosecution of the Lutheran pas
tors who refuse to read the new Rus
sian army regulations in their church
eG.
Portable lamps burning oil sprayed
by compressed air are recommended
by the Westminster City Engineer for
street illumination during foRs In Lon
dan.
The French have coined the word
S'm%uminothermy' for tho process OF
@eGs1ng very great heat quickly ana IN
axpenslvely by the oxidation OF alumni
tu1A
Since the commencement Of the war
Am South Africa Scotland has sent to
the front 1880 no1commissioned on
GERS and men and $50 officers; total
1880.
Cinnamon are the merchant seamen
Of the future, says a consular report
from Shanghai. Over 1900 British yes
sells entered the port last year manned
by Chinese crews.
So many company meetings were
held In London one day recently that
Dne body Of shareholders, unable to
6nd hall in the city, were compelled
to meet at the Hotel Cecil.
The Turkish secret police agents who
were expelled from Paris during the
recent suspension of diplomatic rela-
lions between France and Turkey will
not be allowed to return to France.
The skin of the musk OK, which is
denizen of the "barren grounds" and
the arctic regions of Canada. has
taken the place of that of the extinct
price from $50 to as low as So for
poor article.
OF prominent persons mentioned in
the new issue of 'Who's Who In Amer
lca," those born in New York number
2C66. In Massachusetts, 1,13O, In Penn
sylvania 1920. in Ohio 500. These are
6,O22 of the 1861 subjects whose rec
ords are given.
Dredging rivers in gold bearing coun-
tries for gold has become a great in
Gustry, and dredges Of wonderful pow
er and capacity are being built to
dredge sixty feet below the water line
and to reach sixty feet above 1t along
the banks.
All records in the British east coas'
autumn herring fishery have been bro
ken. At Yarmouth during fifteen weeks
fishing 2S,666 lasts landed and al
Lowestoft 100 lasts. The combined
catches represent the enormous yielC
of 630,OO0,000 herrings.
The water sources Of Hawaii are to
De examined by hydrau aulic engineer
employed for that purpose by the Sec
retary Of the Interior It is claimed
that large areas OF Hawaiian land now
practically vaiueless can be made pro-
ductive by utilizing water which now
flows unchecked into the sea.
Today smokers are numbered by mil
lions, a fact to which the treasures OF
most nations have to be devoutly thank
full. 1t is estimated that 1,000,000O00
acres of land are devoted to the culti-
walton of tobacco. The world consumes
each year 6,3OO,0 100000 pounds, or
2,912, 800 tons, worth $500, 100000.
The growth of football in Switzer-
land is not looked upon by the military
authorities with a very favorable eye
owing to the fact that the young men
of the country are beginning to neglect
rifle shooting, devoting all their spare
time to football. In consequence the
various cadet corps are suffering from
lack of members.
In the Russian town Of Jelabuga
there was recently unveiled a menu-
ment to a local Joan of Arc. Her name
was Nadyeshada Andreyevna Durova,
and she died in 1866, aged 93. Impelled
by patriotism, she had as young wo-
man enlisted in the army and distin-
guished herself by bravery in the war
Of 1872.
TO the Chilean government project for
M new fast line of steamers between
the Pacific and Mediterranean ports,
with headquarters at Valparaiso and O
capital of a quarter of million ster-
ling in 10000 shares, a subvention to
be granted on condition that the steam
ers should be armed as cruisers in war
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