Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-05-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

BYoa Iudicrous mistake Of the copyist,
one article in the written warran. for
town meeting posted according to law
in the post Office in Winthrop, Me-,
reads: ITO raise a sum Of money for the
support of poor and other necessary
town officers"
THE ~cocoanut will not flourish away
from the seashore, and DO magnet
is truer to the pole than the root
of the cocoanut tree to the
ocean, for when the roo. breaks
through its husks it points directly
toward the sea, 10 matter in what posi-
ton the nut is placed III the ground.
THE procession of decrepit little boys
who smoke cigarettes has begun to de-
post its victims in the insane asylum in
New jersey. If it goes on increasing
there will have to be more prisons,
poorhouses, and pauper insane asylums
than all other buildings PIT together IN
a few years. -SprinNteld (INass.) Re
publican.
THERE is in the Jail OF Multnomah
county, Oregon, a Chinese leper, who IS
under Indictment for committing al as
sault to murder, and the authorities do
not know what to do with him. They
are afraid to place him on trial for fear
OF the infection, and the Legislature has
made no provision to meet the case
San Francisco CAT.
4 NEVADA paper thus notices the
death Of a prominent citizen: "He
evidently died from the same cause that
took Ben Stafford off two years ago-pul-
monary apoplexy, s~uperindIced by the
excessive use of alcoholic stimulants.
Old jim had many sterling good quail
ties. He was s~crapulousiy honest, a
Woodworking and a No. l miner, and
without all enemy in the world. His
only fault was excessive love for
whisky"
The other day a gentleman remarked
IN the presence of a little knot of others
that he could not understand why a Ger
tainindividual was always saying unkind,
harsh things of him. An excellent Judge
Of human nature, hearing the remark,
quietly asked: odd you eTer lend him
any moneylor do him a favor for which
he has not paid you?" The party said
he had done him many favors, and then
the gentleman said: ooh, well he will
never forgive you until he hes paid you
what he owes" and this seems to be the
rule under such circumstances in most
instances.
THE local paper, says a good author
ty, is the best read paper in the world.
All city papers cannot SUPPLY the place
of the home paper. No other contains
the marriages and the deaths, I'd say
nothing of divorces and births. No
other paper gives the time of the next
ball, picnic or political meeting; 40
other publishes the "roll Of honor" of
the public schools no other d:scu, ses
the affairs of the town and county, or
Gives III detail the local news, which can
be obtained by no other source. Every
body reads it, and this is why the local
paper is the best read in the world and
the best advertising medium for its cir.
culation extant.
ABOUT a fortnight before Christmas
the yacht 1olanthe, with three men on
board, sailed out of Port Philip Bay,
Victoria, and was never seen agaiu. On
the Goth Of December a huge white
shark was caught at Frankston. a small
village near Melbourne. Some of the
leunger5 on the beach facetiously sug-
gested that relics Of the missing crew
might be looked for inside the fish.
The shark, therefore, was cut open, ano
in the stomach were actually found 6
human hand, a mass of sodden rags, 6
broken wooden pipe. and a gold watct
and chain. The watch was i~mmediatel,
recognized as having belonged to one, o
the yacLtsmen who had been on board
the Iolanthe.