Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-12-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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4 CASE has been found in Chicago
where @ woman was paying o pawn
broker $50 per year for TIE use of So.
This was paying pretty dearly for the
whistle. !
The two islands in the Straits OF Sun !
da, Steers and Caimeyer, which sprang
~ last wear &, the time of the Krakatoa
eruption, have again been swallowed up
by the sea.
A PROPOSITION to give tue present
Lord Mayor of London q second term
was promptly snufed out by that high
f~urctionarv, who seems to have had
quite enough Of it.
IT IS calculated that the Southern
States. owing to the fine crops there.
viii reduce their purchase OF foodstuf
this year IRON s175 900 60 or 500, 00o,- !
900 to less than S125. 600, coo.
a .cAKEIAGE is being built for En-
peror William, the whole upper portion
OF which is to be constructed Of glass,
and which is to enable the monarch to
attend manoelvres, parades, and other
pnbl,c occasions III Gufavorable Weather.
E1sScH X. BErcE, Register of the
CHitcd states Treasury, Is handsome,
dighIti "a coiOred man. His wife is beau
tiful aud almost Write Ill color. She
was formerly a school teacher, and two
Of her sisters are still employed ii that
capacity in Indianapolis.
II Missouri there is a lake which is
u.il1e. 1t possesses n beach largely
composed Of lead sand. 7 lis has been
pioluctd by the gradual breaking down
Of a bank containing veins Of galena.
The water is said TO be poisonous. and.
IT is said that there are four unique
mountains in Lower California, two of
alum, one Of alum and sulphur mixed,
aud one Of alum. The alum and sui
phnr are almost chemically pure. It is
estimated that in these mountains there
are LOO, 0JO, 600 tons of alum and l,000,-
900 tons Of sulphur.
AT one time, when Louis Jennings
Was the night editor Of the New York
Times, he reached the Office to find that
not a line Of editorial copy had been
prepared and not an editorial writer was
il the Office. He calmly sat down, Sc
lected a variety OF topics and wrot four
columns al editorials.
MISS MILDLY MORGAN, the famous live
stock reporter, has been regularly en-
p.oyed in the Times and Herald for a
number of years past, and is recognized
as the best authority on live stock in
TIE world. She purchased Victor
Enlanueis stud OF horses for him and
received a diamond studded watch as an
evidence Of his regard.
The dreadful discovery has been made
ut Toulouse that q woman sn posed to
have died Of cholera was inferred alive.
Tie coffin was temporarily placed in a
dead house, and when taken up again it
vas found tina. the position Of the body
had changed. Examination amply con.
.irtned the suspicion. It is to be feared
That. this a frequent event in panics
about disease.
IuE B",uos Iyrcs Standard saws the
saIaderes OF Uruguay have slaughtered
about 10000 head OF cattle up to the
enl Of June. Tuis means SIG, 900 O0O
70 the country on that item alone. To
tbs has to b. added half a million hides
!, of animals slau Uttered for consumption,
aud the wool and produce Of about SIS,
10000 sheep: al this IN the hands OF
ahont SOC. coo people.
WESTERN paper says that the work
houses and prisons Of the West are grad
ualiy filing mp with the kids sent ou'
there by the New York philanthrcpists
% fad homes and become goody g3od
Tne>e boys are sent West with the hes
Il motives, and # they go to the bad j
= to he So lily regretted. Taey wouie
be wicked all their lives unless SEPARATED
from their evil associates in the f .st.