Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-15
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

1T Is said that every member OF the
Illinois bar both drank and gambled
when Judge David Davis first joined it;
he having made up his mind to do
neither, has outlived them all.
MAUD s. was sold for enough money
to buy over three miles Of barreled
-four, laid end to end, or enough to fill
a space seven hundred feet square and
ten feet high with loaves Of bread.
AT CHARTER Oak Park, Hartford,
Maud s. was driven around the track by
MIR. Bair and made mile in 2. 18}. She
was then urged a little and made q
second mile in 2.13i. She is a smart
beast.
AFTER careful inquiry, the Moravians
OF Bethlehem, Pa, have decided that
the Esquimaux OF Alaska present greater
obstacles to conversion than any other
people on earth, and therefore have sent
missionaries to them.
WHEN q farmer was swindled ont OF q
AtIou1duI dolidi5 ny DuiICo OuCe
side a circus at Springfield, Mass. it was
the proprietor Of the show who went
bail for the s~coundrel4, and, under
pressure, restored the money.
When Sitting Bnll WAS asked what had
most impressed him since reaching the
white mans country, he replied that the
whites went on the streets and made
money when they were little children
nd ought to be at play.
IT is no Joke that the Mayor Of Brain.
erd, Mimi, has issued az order prohibit
ing Mother Hubbard costumes in the
streets. The girls wore them scant and
thin, he says, and, as q guardian OF
public morals, he felt bound to Interfere.
VERY positive in her testimony was the
Des MONIES woman who accused a boy
Of stealing her watch III a street car; but
after securing his committal for trial she
found the timepiecc safe at hone, where
she had inadvertently lief. it on going
nut.
The fact Of having pawned his watch
when in need of funds, at the suggestion
of Sophia Petrovska, hanged III 1881,
caused Hartmann, the Nlliiist, to make
an error in the time Of firing the match
nj the mine which was intended to xii.
the Gar, who owed his life to this acci.
dent.
In subduing a thousand women con.
victs in a Spanish prison, of which they
had gained possession by open revolt,
the troops were ordered to use none but
blank cartridges, and while q noise OF
musketry wa being made at the main
entrance, q hole was battered in the
wall at another point, thus af1ording in.
gress.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the London 7cle
graph says: 81 had an interview with
Lieutenant Ray, of Polar fame, who is
thin, wiry man. full Of energy, with a palt
face, and deep set eyes. He is inclined t.
look favorably on the Northern regions
On the northern shore of North Americ;
he says there is a grand climate, which
would prove n perfect %sanitarium agains
malaria"
JOIN A. SUFFER- is buried in a corne
of the old Moravian burial ground il
Litiz, Pa. 1t was on his farm IN Cali
fornla while digging for a mill race tina
gold was first discovered in 1919. Fl
was born in Germany and went to Gal,
fornia from the Sandwich Islands. Fl
died not long ago in Litiz, where hi
children were being educated.
The Chinese troops are uniformed i
the hues o. the rainbow, besides blac
and white. Imagine one hundred laur
drymen in scarlet bloIses and royal pun
pie trousers drawn up in line, adjoinin
them a company in pure white, then
company in bright green, then che i
light blue, and you have a Chinese reg
ment. Wfnn they march they llf. u
their feet like cats in the snow.
The Christ an world embraces thre
great divisions Greek, Roman an
Protestant. As to numbers, the Roma
Catholic Church IS the largest (ov,
300, 600. 0OO). and nearly equals the tw
others combined: the Creek Church
the smallest (brtween 50. uu0. go an
30, 600, 000l; the Protestant lover leo
000, O00) is the most progressive III a
new countries. where the Teutonic ra,
and the English language prevails.
Not Such n Tramp.