Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

boys threw q i've cat through q TlnOOW
into the kitchen of Mrs. John Norsk, q
young woman of nineteen, the animal
striking her in the face. The cat had
been dipped in water and then covered
with -four. The woman was so fright
ened that she went into commissions and
died during the night.
WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN, OF San Francis.
co, las obtained from the Mexican Gov
eminent a concession of 70, 600 acres of
land within ten miles of a railway for an
ostrich farm, and will receive a bonus of
5000 apiece for the first two hundred o.
triches imported into the country. The
concession has to be confirmed bv Con-
gress, however, before possession can be
taken.
TIE soldiers in the province OF Hun.
Nan, China, are armed in almost nedim-
val style, their equipment consisting ola
helmet, coat of mail, sword and battle
az. The mail coat is so arranged that
In case Of defeat the wearer can throw it
instantly off and escape by fight Sew
eral Hun-Nan suits of armor are in pri-
vate collections in New York city. 5
THE wealthiest man in the world is
the Chinese banker Han-Qua, of Can
ton. He pays taxes upon an estate Of
$3.50, 900, 600, and is estimated to be
worth a billion taels, which, in our
money, would be about fourteen hun
dred million dollars.
ONE Of the greatest curiosities in
Japan is the wonderful variety of coins
that are daily used. in some instances
it takes 1000 pieces to make a dollar.
These are called ''cash," and are seldom
received by foreigners.
JEWS in Jerusalem were until lately a
few hundred families, who had gone
there to die in the land of their fathers
Now there are at least so, 900, or about
one-third of the population. They de-
vote themselves almost exclusively to
mercantile occupations. The new
corners are mostly from Bulgaria, Rus
STA and Hungary.
HANLAN was meurned as dead at
Keighley, England, by relatives and
friends who thought that they found his
body in a pond. The widow got the
money on his life insurance policy, and
o 0 took a second husband. But Han.
Ian has emerged from an hospital alive
and well, but greatly displeased.
ILLUSTRATING Chinese cheap labor
and competition, the cigar manufacture
ers Of San Francisco are useful exam
pies. While there are about 500 white
persons employed, there are about 1000
or 5000 Chinese, and the white men re-
ceive 81 to $22.50 a week and the
Chinese S..
AN idea Of the extent to which women
bet at horse races may be gained from
the fact that during the season at Sara
toga the French pool boys collected
$1,000 from them; and their Judgment
was generally bad, for they won back
only 50, 600.
LARGE numbers Of dried and smoked
lizards are imported by the Chinese
physicians. They are used in cases of
consumption and anmmia with consider
able success. Their virtue seems to he
in the large amount of heterogeneous
compounds and phosphates they con
tain.
OF 270 illuminate factories started in
Europe during the present century 261
have disappeared by explosion. Fulmi-
mates are now made in small quantity at
a time in low sheds. These are so
arranged that an explosion throws them
over, and little damage is done.
Loco, a Western weed, acts upon
horses and cattle just as alcohol does on
man. They lose all appetite for nor.
mai food, become apparently intoxica
ted at times, and finally die from a dis
ease strangely lik, delirum tremens.
From the vice cones the California ex-
preston. "as bad as a locoed horse"