Friday, May 19, 1950
GOLDSBORO HI NEWS
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History Reveiwed As
Far Back As 1400 A.D.
As We Wuz
DID YOU KNOW:
That when cast iron stoves
were first manufactured, the pro
motors had great difficulty in
selling them because the story-
had been circulated that iron
when heated gives off a poison
ous gas.
That a French monarch for
bade the use oivblue cloth in
both men and women’s clothing
because, “God’s sky is blue, and
man’s imitation can only be in
sulting to the Almighty.”
That during his lifetime as
xuler of the French state, a well
known monarch prohibited the
sale of life insurance because,
■‘^Only the Almighty knows when
a man is going to die, and there
fore investing in life insurance
can only mean gambling with
God.”
That aftex seeing a room “Car
peted” (tapestried) on the sides
as well as on the floor, a wise
acre wag exclaimed, “This is no
room, it has five floors and no
walls.”
Many Are Doubtful
That in 1865, eleven years be
fore Bell invented the telephone,
the editor of an eastern newspa
per, in discussing the various
reports ad rumors that had been
circulating for 10 years, wrote,
•“Well informed people know
that it is impossible to transmit
the human voice over wires and
that, were it possible to do so,
the thing would be of no value.”
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That neither the theory nor
the practice of the modern say
ing “Cleanliness is next to god
liness,” was known up to about
a century and a half ago. Fan
cy exterior clothing was worn
by the elite, but 'bathing was
conspicooos by its absence, while
onderwear, worn only in win
ter, was rarely or never changed.
A Little Ditty
Here’s a little ditty written 500
years ago:
Carriages without horses shall go
And accident fill the world with
woe.
Around the world thoughts shall
fly,
In the twinkling of an eye.
Water shall yet wonders do,
Now strange, shall yet be true;
The world upside down shall be,
And gold found at the root of a
tree.
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse or ass 'be at his
side.
Under water man shall walk.
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall eat,
shall talk.
In the air man shall be seen,
In white, in black, in red, in
green.
As easily as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found under stone,
In a land that’s not now know.
Fire and water shall more won
ders do,
England will at last admit a Jew.
That Ci Crozet in 1826 declared
that “a rate of speed of more
than six miles an hour would ex
ceed the bounds set by prudence,
though some of the sanguine ad
vocates of railways would ex
tend this limit to nine miles an
hour.”
That an eloquent diveine in
the United States went so far as
to declare that the introduction
of the railroad would require
the building of many insane asy
lums, as people might be driven
mad with terror at the sight of
locomotives rushing across the
country with nothing to draw
them.
—Information gotten from
Fools and Foolishness,
by Harry C. McKnown.
Ashton Griffin is the first
Goldsboro High student ever to
win the Angier Duke Scholar
ship.
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Lots of Wit
Pictured above is a first grade room at Walnutt Street school,
taught by Miss Smith. Students are supposed to be in the
twelftth grade now. (Last week’s pictures were of Sara Hunt
and Walter Culbreth.)
LC.U. Drive
Held In G.H.S.
A total of S29.52 was raised in
G.H.S. for the Intern^Vional
Christian University, which will
be built in Japan with money
raised by this country.
Each person contributing a
dollar or more will have his
name written on a scroll and
sent with the money to Japan.
Each homeroom giving a dollar
or more will have the room num
ber put on this scroll, also.
The rooms contributing to the
I.C.U. are as follows in order of
the amount given: Room 12,
$4.02; room 20, $3.00; room 13,
S2.56; room 19, $2.40; room 8,
S2.29; room 9, $2.12; room 11,
S1.82; room 24, $1.50; room 7,
$1.42; room 10, $1.35; room 16,
$1.27; room 1, $1.25; room 17,
$1.11; room 2, $1.00; room 18,
$1.00; room 4, $.63; room 4,
$.65; room 25, $.50; and room
3, $ .25.
Miss Clyte Spicer’s homeroom
led, followed by Miss Janie
Ipock’s room, in the drive.
Student Puts Woes
To Popular Music
By FAYE PARNELL
Sung to the tune: "I Can Dream,
Can't I?"
I’m aware my grades are a sad
affair.
There’re many points lacking
there—
But I can dream, can’t I?
Can’t I pretend that I’m grad-u-
ating,
On June the 8th?
My grade is 69.
For one point I pine.
I can’t see any hope for me.
I work so hope-less-ly;
But I can dream, can’t I?
Can’t I hope.
For it’s not so far away
Until graduation day—
And I can dream, can’t I?
By Faye Peirnell
Have you ever paid attention
to what small children say? I
have never heard funnier or
more original sayings than they
make, and in their infantile
minds they know no better.
At the supper table the other
day the discussion centered
around cats and their kittens.
“One day Judy (my niece) dis
covered them, with big round
eyes she exclaimed:
“ ‘Look, mother, she laid some
little kittens’.”
Another one told on my cou
sin is this: “My aunt had a cat
with three little kittens; my
cousin being only six, cut a
shine for one. The kitten had
not been weaned and couldn’t
leave their mother. This didn’t
make any difference to my cou
sin. My aunt promised her one
when they got big enough to
eat. To which my cousin re
plied:
“I don’t want to eat it; I want
to keep it.”
On the radio one day a man
told this one:
A man was sitting down one
evening trying to read the pa
per. His young daughter asked
question after question disturb
ing her father.
He asked her, “Don’t you know
that curiosity killed a cat?”
There was a long pause.
“Daddy, what did the cat
ask?”
Let’s see you top these.
W. H. BEST
& SONS
Remember When?
Libby Lou dated other boys?
Joyce Pate had pigtails?
Pat couldn’t drive?
Nobody parked in back of
Ed’s Drive-In?
Lucille had long hair?
Ruth didn’t mind being called
Minnie?
Callie didn’t date Rod?
Julian and Barbara went to
gether?
The girls weren’t slow?
George L. wasn’t bashful?
Emily dated Herman?
There was a Spanish Club?
The Hi News had a gossip col
umn?
The Library was not noisy?
K. D. talked in a whisper?
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