Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-02-13
FACTS IN Far 9

The hay harvested in the Tn:
States in 1901 amount 70 @i.0<nt..
tons.
The number of government cfic:.
In France is 416,OOO. Fifty years ago :;
was $4,000.
A coming demand fer an eight hour
day in mining is announced in the cen
trail western coalields.
The national forest reserves Of the
United States now cover an area Of
nearly 100000 acres.
Never before has there beer UGH de-
votion to Mohammedanism as in India
MT this time under British rule.
DR.. Mahafy Of Trinity college, Dub
lin. believes that about 800 languages
are spoken throughout the world.
In b last thirty-three ear &24O.-
100000 has been spent in this country
pon an Indian population Of 10000.
The Commercial club OF Louisville
uses advertising space in street cars
and on billboards to enjoin readers to
p~atronize home industries.
Grasshoppers are no great a plngue
mt 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 a very great increase in
the demand for German schoolboeks.
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
e&
Portable lamps burning oil sprayed
by compressed air are recommended
by the Westminster City Engineer for
street illumination during fogs in Lon
don.
The French have coined the word
'saluminothermy" for the process of
getting very great heat quickly and in
extensively by the oxidation of alumni
tum.
Since the commencement Of the war
in South Africa Scotland has sent to
the front $500 noncommissioned Off
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
one body of shareholders, unable to
find a 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 kin of the musk OK, which is a
denizen of the barren grounds" and
the arctic regions Of Canada, has
taken the place of that Of the extinct
buffalo for sleigh robes. It varies in
price from $50 to as low as IS for a
poor article.
OF prominent persons mentioned in
the new issue Of "Who's Who In Amer
1ca,' those born in New York number
2,O66, In Massachusetts, 1,130, in Penn
eylvania 1920, in Ohio $3.50. These are
5,O22 of the 1851 subjects whose "a
ords are given.
Dredging rivers in gold bearing coun-
tries for gold has become a great ia
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 it along
the banks.
All records in the British east coast
autumn herring fishery have been bro
ken At Yarmouth during fifteen weeks
fishing 28,666 lasts landed and al
Lowestoft 9,1CO lasts. The combined
catches represent the enormous yielC
Of $50, 900, 900 behring's.
The water sources Of Hawaii are to
oe examined by a hydraulic engineer
employed for that purpose by the Sec
rotary Of the interior. It is claimed
that large areas of Hawaiian land now
practically ~valueless 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,OOO,OOO,O OO
acres of land are devoted to the cult
walton of tobacco. The world consumes
each year $500. 100000 pounds, or
2,812,5OO 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
rife 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 monu
ment to a local Joan of Arc. Her name
wa Nadyeshada Andreyevna Durova,
and she died in 1866, aged S3. Impelled
by patriotism, she had is a young wo
man enlisted in the army and distin-
guished herself by bravery in the wal
of 1912.