Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-24
AS We GO ALONG.
Snapshots, Witty, Wise and Other.
wise.

New York held an election for mayor
in 1905, and it does not know yet who
was elected.
At any rate hat earthquake in
Jamaica seems to have had lots OF
ginger in it.
If we were as sorry for other people
in adversely as we are for ourselves
we'd be more charitable.
some verses entitled 1.-THE Old Water
Filter merely go to prove that a poet
can sing about anything.
While Norway had an earthquake
shock, it was not severe enough to jolt
that idle ssh' in Trondhie1n.
1t is reasonable to suppose that a
poet, in the course Of his career, says
many things he does not mean.
Lower fares are demanded in nearly
all the legislatures, but not a word IS
said about Pullman rates and tips.
A preacher who is said to have pro.
posed tw~enty-four times and is not
married yet, must be a hopeful cuss.
Seventy-two persons were lynched in
1906, and it has been estimated that
one-quarter of that were wholly
innocent.
An anthropologist says that the future
American will be of the Rockefeller
type. Something like 2SO-point, we
should say.
IF everybody knew everybody else
we'd have such a contempt for each
other that there would be no living to-
gether in peace.
The Ohio river is flooding it's banks
on the Kentucky side, just as if it
thought the people OF that state ever
felt the need Of water.
The railroads and street cars got
away with 1876 victims last year, not
to mention those killed by empty guns
and loaded chauffeurs.
LET us be thankful that wea are sober
and out Of JAIL" prayed the chaplain of
the Colorado senate, and all the sena-
tors blushed a delicate pink
It takes a man with a mean DISPOSE
ton to point out that while we don't
have to buy any coal now, the chances
are that ice will be high next summer.
An English physician has discovered
that high collars produce headaches.
NJ l--l --oJ-4oI Ly n on, hiro a ton
Of high collars and high balls must be
particularly fierce.
Scientists in Germany are eagerly
discussing the reported discovery OF
a new natural force. Prevalent ideas
in regard to the mechanism of the
universe have been so revolutionized,
in the course of the last 10 years, by
the discovery Of X-rays, radium and
so forth, as to suggest the existence of
still more unknown forms of energy
and ~unrevealed forces.
1t looks a good deal as though GER
tain United States senators were en-
couraging a fast and furious debate on
the race question in order that the SEN
ate may not find time to enact some
important legislation to which they OBJ
ject, such as the bill which passed the
house by a rousing majority a year ago
to help the people of the Philippines
without hurting anybody else.
AT first blush it would hardly seem
that there was any connection between
oI;1ae ool hirb 0r% hut fhoro iC
though it is of a negative sort. Art
dealers have found since the automo-
bile craze became acute that their sales
have fallen off tremendously. The man
who owns IN automobile hasn't any
time for art, and very few men with a
taste for art can afford to own an au-
tomobile. Their are a few very rich
persons who can afford to indulge both
Iuxuries, but not many.
In the eight years of great business
/, activity about 1900, 600 immigrants
have gone back to the countries from
which they came to America, In the
same period an unknown number OF
Americans-certainly 100, 900 or more
have gone to Canada and other for
.eign lands to establish their homes.
Immigration is not the only move-
ment of population in America. There
is emigration also. Taking full ac-
count OF the backward movement OF
Immigrants across the Atlantic, the
Immigration Of the last two or three
years has not been much greater than
that of the early sos, a quarter of a
onr,turr 400 If Is lnnch less in mo