Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-07-10
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

japanese cotton mills have no advan-
tage over American mills, despite the
fact that the average daily wages for
men is 15 cents and women 91a cents.
No fewer than 1000 Paris landlords
have refused to provide a proper drain
age system in their houses in accord
ance with the new sanitary regulations.
The worlds NATIONAL Indebtedness is
estimated at $31, POI, ,749, ,274, ten times
as great as the worlds national debts
amounted to during the Napoleonic
wars.
Ten thousand English sovereigns,
after lying for nearly 125 years at the
bottom of East bay, Lake Champlain.
have been recovered and are now de-
posted in the Allen National bank in
Fairhaven.
The gas accounts of the city of Glas-
gov show total revenue for the past
year of 1860. .492 and expenditure of
1924 The quantity of gas made
was 6,121, 1861, 800 cubic feet and the
quantity sold 5,475, $4,000 feet.
The city of Philadelphia has in its
treasury more than $4,000 belonging
to persons who never called for it when
their bonds, registered and nonregis-
tered, matured and became payable or
who left uncollected coupons on their
bonds.
The newest floral wonder is the Shas-
ia daisy, originated by flower grower
of California. It measures a foot in
circumference and when one was eX-
hibited recently in a florists window
in San Francisco people literally flock
ed to see it.
Deer forests are much more expen-
sive in Scotland than grouse moors.
They range from f1,OOO to $4,000 or
even $4,000 for the season. according
to the sport obtained and whether the
place gives salmon fishing and grouse
shooting as we'll as Devastating.
Last year 3S6 tons of cigarettes, val
ued at $1.737 900. or fully five times as
many as ten years ago. were consumed
in Germany. These cigarettes came
from France, Austria Hungary. Rus
sia, Turkey, Egypt. Algeria and the
United States, 60 per cent coming
from Egypt.
A good portion of the money invested
In Hawaii is owned by residents of the
islands, but some comes from the Unit
ed States. Not long ago a loan of a
quarter of a million dollars on the es-
tates inherited by Prince David and
Prince Cupid was taken up by San
Francisco capital.
The great iron ore companies of
Spain have combined under English
capital, and fifteen immense and mod
ern blast furnaces will be built az
quickly as the material can be fur
nished. England must have cheap steel
to meet American competition. and this
is the only way to get it.
Two large German iron concerns, the
Hasper and the Baroper, which paid
respectively 80 per cent and 15 per cent
dividends last year, have passed their
1901 dividends. The Hasper carries
forward it's entire net earnings as a spe-
cial reserve against possible losses on
the company's accumulated stock Of
iron.
An arrangement has just been made
whereby the Berlin gas lamps in the
streets will be lighted automatically
and simultaneously by MEANS of an
electric attachment. The current will
be switched on from the Central sta
ton, and d spark will ignite the gas.
which will be turned on by a special
apparatus.
Paris is only just beginning to realize
the priceless treasures which 1t has Sc
cured by the late Baron Adolph Roths-
child's bequest of medieval gold and
silver smiths work to the Louvre. 1t
will all go into one room, which is now
being prepared for it, but it will repre-
sent value of $4.OOO,OOO. Most of the
objects are connected with religion.
In st. Louis the nutcracking indus
try gives employment to considera-
BILE number of persons, there being
three plants in the city. The nut
crackers are driven by electricity, each
nut being fed individually into the
crusher. After the shells are cracked
the nuts are winnowed by an air blast.
and the meat is picked from the crush
ed shells by hand, women and girls
being employed for this part of the
work.
There has lately been formed i'm
France an international committee on
the price of wheat. 1t has already re-
ceived the support of France, Austria
Hungary, Portugal and Switzerland.
The object Of the association, or COM
mittee, is not simply to register after a
mechanical fashion the prices quoted
in the bourses Of different countries,
but to obtain influence. little by little.
In the ultimate fixing Of the marked
/. price.