Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-09-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

6CHWATKA 1etl over n
rocking chair in San Francisco the other
day and broke his arm, after exploring
the Arctic regions withou ut accident.
OVER one hundred bushels of grass
hoppers have been captured this summer
on one farm il Plymouth, n. a., by the
owner. for which he received bounty OF
81 per bushel.
Two and twenty-five dozen
eggs shipped from Cape Breton to Bos-
ton were accidently found to have been
cooked by the heat Of freshly cut grass
in which they were packed.
THE Italian Government has been ad-
vised by its Consuls to prohibit the emf
grafton of organists with monkeys, o n
the ground that they give q bad reputa-
ton to Italy in foreign countries.
AT Osborne, New Zealand, in March
last, died A. 81. Braithwaite, the man
who designed the locomotive Novelty,
which competed with George Stephen
sons locomotive Rocket, so many years
age.
THE law prohibiting the sale of malt
and spirituous liquors in Iowa has
doomed the sale Of buttermilk in that
State and many saloons are to be opened
for its sale by persons who formerly sold
intoxicants.
THE State Treasurer of New Hamp-
shire has issued a notice to the Select
men of towns, that in presenting claims
for bounties on ~woOdchucks, they must
certify that none of the animals were
killed on Sunday, else the claim viii
not be allowed.
WATERLOO is a small and insignificant
village in the province of South Brabant
in Belgium. Brussels, the capital Of
Belgium, is distant about nine miles in a
N. n. E. direction, SO that Byron's poet
ical assertion that the cannons' opening
roar was heard in the capital may not
have been altogether imaginary.
A STORY is on the rounds to the effect
that the Mayor of Boston sent two pack
ages exactly alike in weight and con-
tents by mail a few days ago. One Of
them was bound to Paris, France, 5000
miles or sc away, and the postage on it
was 20 cents. The other was destined
for Worcester, forty miles away and the
postage was % cents.
The other day a woman fell into that
pellucid stream, the Irwell, near Man
chester. She was rescued alive, but sub
sequently died. An inquest revealed
the interesting fact that the cause of her
death was not drowning as had naturally
been supposed, but poisoning by swal-
lowing the waters Of the river. This is
a pleasant idea.
DIAMOND discovery has had much the
same effect at Cape Colony as gold had
in California Colonists, dazzled at the
rapid rise to wealth of a few, have aban-
doned agriculture for diamond seeking,
only to find penury. This state Of af-
fairs is reflected in the bankruptcy court.
There is a returning disposition now to
trust more to mother earth's vegetable
rather than pinerafpoductonss !
TIFF bog peat of Mexico IS now being
used on a cdasidenh5s @qeaTaslffdes for
locomotives. Stationary engines, smelling
purppses aaiths' fre2saM hdsehold
use. The peat. is mixed with proper
proportion 4ot: bitnmenspnds is 1ail Rot
only-to bum freely, and without smoke
in much quantity, bat to- give a higher
dynamic equivalent of heat than the
same amount Of wood.
A PROMINENT operator In speaking OIL
the reduction in wheat which had taken
place of late, remarked: "'The stocks oil
the world on the 1st of the present
month were only As, 500, 900 bushels
against 81. 500, 900 on the 1st of January
and GO, 000, 900 on July l, 1888. These
figures represent the wheat and flour re-
duced to wheat in ten principal cities OF
Europe and the visible supply IL
America"
A GREAT financier is a thief who sue
eec.ls. A thief Is a great tinancicr VIII
fails.
No. 10000.
This is the number actually reached
this week hv the Mason x Ham.in Organ
and Piano company IN the regular mum
herring IF their world renowned cah!net
organs. Having commenced business II
1911. the average number Of organs pro
ductd per annum has keen 5000. which
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