Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-12-17

Of apoplexy.
James l. died from drinking and the
effects of vice.
Illinois has II 800 pensioners who
draw 50. 600. 600 year
Finger nails two inches long are tho
pride of a Baltimore woman.
M. Victor lingo has just given
$1,000 to the poor of Paris
A monument to Dean Stanley IS to
be raisedsin Westminster Abbey.
William Rufus died the death Of the
poor stays which he hunted.
The first sun dial was erected ia
Rome i'll the year of the city 4i7.
George Stephenson. inventor of the
locomotive, Was born June 8, l1Sl.
The wheat crop of the Canadian Do
minion for 1881 Is 2S, 600, 600 bushels.
There are 1900 square miles Of ice
IN the Alps, from 50 TO 600 fec, thick.
The ivory of the wslrus is covered
with enamel so hard rs to strike fire with
flint or steel.
Prom 5000 to 5000 people in the
United States are incurally addicted to
the use of opium.
William III, died of ccnsumptivo
habits of body and from the stumbling
of his horse.
The Egyptians placed Il mummy at
their fcstal boards to remind them Of
Immortality.
-Surnames began in France in the
year 1000, and III England in the time of
the Conquest
A new public school building in
New Orleans has been named the Gar
field School.
AT the Tallahassee Fla State Fair
premium of Sc WAS offered for the
best darned stocking
William the Comaneror died from
enormous fat. from drink, and from the
violence of his passions.
Among the Anglo-SAxons the scienco
of medicine and of the law was monopo-
lized by the clergy.
The question of the Hanoyerian
succession to the throne of England WAS
carried by a single vote.
A child born in Anamosa, Iowa. last
month, weighed but one pound and
seven ounces
More than 1000 Mormon converts
have left Liverpool for Utah during the
past summer.
Adelaide Ann Proctors poems are
| increasing i'll popularity ana are being
| republished extensively III England
The annual production ofpins in the
United States for several years past has
been about seven billions.
During the past year half the nilles
on the Pacific slope Yielded in gold
| 80. 41S, ,37S, ami in silver SO, 2i4,77s
! The Japeness sent l.272. 75G tole-
grams last year over their own wires
Pretty good for people who have no
| alphabet.
Massachusetts with arpopula,ion ci
| 800, 900 inhabitants, hss 600 divorces
annually. England with a population
OF "a 900, 900 has 800
| Stone collins occur among the
| Anglo-Saxons as early "a G9J, and were
not quite obsolete before the reign Of
| Henry VIII.
| M. Gambctta says that the strength
| Of France Is, Ill great measure, du" 10
the thrift and industry of French wo-
men.
| Tennessee cattle that have been
| compelled to live on withercd grass during
the long drouth are reported IN remark
ably good condion
British trade returns for September
show q decrease In imports Of 81 ,oei. 900,
and an Increase III exports Of fs13 900.
The three hundredth anniversary Of
the annexation Of Siberia 10 the Cars
empire will soon be celebrated at Irkutsk
kand In other cities Of Asiatic Russia
| Queen Victoria has just beer buy
ing several large farms III Wiltshire, al
though land in England Is unproiaising
as an investment at present.
The network Of German subter-
ranean cable Is completed. II connects
221 towns, and has cost about 81, 600.
900.
According 10 tue last census tho
outlay for building and repairing farm
fences during 1879 III eleven South RI
and Southwestern States aggregated
sl3, 565, ,74e.
Tho sowing Of forest pine seed hAs
, begun bv the Shakers g. Enfield, Conn.
and the State authorities are considering
. plans ~ encourage this industry
The Impress Augusta has been for
pidden by her ph..iciAils 10 aace,sd
stairs, and al elevator has been con
s,ruc,sl ii the palac. AZ Berlin.
PA recent religious c-asus taken III
russia shows that that country cou.ain.
; II, ,si5, i62 Prote.tants, 9.2n5, i3S Catho-
lies, 1853. .Gi5 Jcas, i2,Jls Dizsenters
and -, ,pf, persons protesting 10 reA
gion.
The city Of Bangor is the headquar,
,ers of the lumber business Of Maine.
This year there have been 200, oog. e-s
8 fee, Of logs IN It's boosas and localities
: above, and ai,ou, lfo, 90. go feet have
: been manufactured and shipped - mar
: ke:
a Tho number Of students at tt.t
Vienna University Is Low s. ioI. oxclu
sive Of 5oi unattached students. Or con.
Z siierably more silan al the German
. University Of Berlin and Leipzig. Thirty
i've are Americans.