Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-03-12
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The Kaiser is as handy at theology
as at bill collecting.
Senator Morgan has at any raGa
achieved an extra session Of the
Senate.
MIR. Addicks says ne viii wait,
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rendered
him consid FABLE assistance II reach
ing this wiz f decision
After a long struggle in the Mis-
souri, Legislature, baseball, football
and high-balI have all won the right
Of way on Sundays in that State.
The superstitious have not failed
TO note that the 18th comes on Friday
this month just as it did last month,
and yet we have not had any Garth
quakes.
Professor Stems, a Paris special
ist, claims to have discovered the
secret of restoring lost eyesight,
through an apparatus which supplies
the place of the eye while the brain
does the rest. All right, but seeing
is believing with many i'll this case.
The Annapolis Naval Academy is
being arranged for the reception Of
the $50 new rniddies who are to be
appointed in accordance with the re-
cent act of Congress. Neanw hile, the
life of the average Congressman is not
happy one, for he is expected to Sc
cure cadetships for most Of the bright
boys in his district.
Dr.. E. A. Alderman, president Of
TulaneUniversity,i in a recent address
at the North, referring to the situa-
ton in the the South that preceded
the war, said that the system then
in vogue did not produce in any just
degree either wealth Or letters, that
it arrested immigration, branded la
Dor, minimized invention, empha-
sized the caste feeling. and set the
badge of pauperisn OH the schools Of
the plain people
The Stuart Monument Association
have shown unwonted activity Of
late, and now have made quite sure
that the great Virginian cavaIyman
shall have a monument worthy Of
his fame. 1t will be the third eque-
strian statue to be raised n Rich
mond, the others being dedicated TO
Washington and Lee. The site Sc
lecteI is on the Capitol Square.
In the matter Of quantity Missouri
leads ali the States as an apple grow
er The figures show that thero are
-. 600, 600 apple trees planted ia Mis-
sourI, which is said to be 5000, ,00C
more than any other State can at the
present time show. The people Of
Missouri also boast somewhat Of the
excellent quality Of the fruit that il
annually gathered from these trees
Joseph H. Perkins, the veteran
coin collector and relic hunter, viii
publish a work Of eight volumes
containing the biographies Of nearly
$4,000 centenarians and photopraph
Of 600. He has been collecting then
all his life. He says that there arr
at present 4, 900 centenarians in th
United States. The oldest man il
the world, he says, is Manuel de
Vale. a Mexican, living near Sal
Francisco, who is 157. All parts Q
the world are included in this col
lection.
Lancaster, KY, March 9.-N or
man Argo, said to have been tn
original of Mrs. Stoves world fa
NOUS character Of "Uncle Tom,"
dead at Paint Lick at the reputed ag
of111 years. Argo was born slav
and belonged to General Samut
Kennedy, wealthy planter OF Gar
rard county and former member
the Kentucky Legislature. Mr.
stowe obtained most of the materis
for .AJncle Toms Cabin" from tt
Kerhedy plantation.