Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-10-18
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

EEGLISE OpluloA oA IAO NACCI~ - |
petition sympathizes with the American
idea that 10. more Arctic expeditions
should be sent ont, but hints that it
will rot prevent other Arctic expeditions
anv more than the latest accident on the !,
Mont Blanc viii prevent Alpine ascents.
AN artificial flower maker r~eioices IN
the extravaganza of the time. Bouquets
of artificial flowers are carried by many
ladies' at balls. a wreath OF artificial
flowers IS q pretty trimming for a
dress. One made for a lady at Saratoga
was Of pinks and dropping grass, and
cost 800.
a CHINESE physician in this country
lays that a very small proportion of Chi
namen die Of consumption, b~ecause,
three hundred years ago, T'sang Loo, a
learned doctor, discovered that people
become afflicted with the disease by
breathing through the mouth instead Of
The nose.
THERE are more than q quarter OF. a
million women in London who work with
their needle for q bare subsistence.
Their lot since the introduction of the
sewing machine is even worse than the.
condition depicted in the "Song of the
Shirt" Then they might live, now they
barely exist.
Mr.. THOMAS CoNRoY is a hardworking
rloor,olcn -, Tra,n ,r3o Eo11c Do who
in fulfllment of a VOW, for twenty-six
years has refused to touch fortune of
e5, 900 and accumulated interest await
ing him in Dublin, Ireland, until his re-
latiyes should apologize for having er-
~roneously accused him of sympathy
with the Molly Mcguire organization.
FROM a paper contributed by the
veteran scholar, DIR. Edkins, to a recent
number of the Chinese Recorder, it ap-
pears that about B. G. 2200 the Chinese
possessed q knowledge of the art OF
writing, a year of 366 days with an in
tercalary month, the astrolabe, the
zodiac, the cycle of sixty, Of twelve
musical reeds forming a gamut, which
also constituted the basis of a denary
neurology for measures OF length,
weight, and capacity, divination, and a
feudal system.
IT is said that the following anecdote,
which has been told of a number of peo-
pie, originated with Lord Cowley, who
at one of his own parties in Paris. was
leaning against the mantlepiece when
an unknown gentleman said to him,
do you mean to say that Lord Cowley's
parties are never l~ivelier than this ?"
"Never." "Well," said the stranger,
"then I shall take myself off at once"
you're alucky man." said Lord Cow
icy, with a sigh; I'm obliged to stop"
THE manufacture of ''buffalo-horn"
furniture has become an industry IN
New York City. The horns are not
those of the bison, as is commonly be-
heved, but are from the cattle killed in
the abattoirs. They are sold at the
slaughter houses for a little more than
what the button manufacturers give, are
cleaned, dried, scraped and polished.
The cost of making these horn goods is
less than that of carved wood, but they
bring two or three times more than the
latter. The new industry is almost mo
nopolized by Germars from Saxony.
On the Dist of July. 1909, died DAME
Lambert, at the early age of 80. What
his actual weight was at the time Of hi
death is not exactly known; but three
years before that melancholy event
when he exhibited himself at his house,
So Picadily, he weighed, according te
& of his exhibition bills, 1922 pounds
London weight. The coffin enclosing
his remains, which was with some diff
Guilty deposited IN St. Marks Church
yard, contained no less than 112 super
fcial feet of elm, was 6 feet / inche
long, t feet / inches wide, and 2 feet
inches deep.
Gross CareleSSnesS.