Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-04-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THR sudden and unusual ringing of a
school bell at Monticello, n. Y, the
other day, was explained by the circum-
stance that the new teacher used the
end of the bell rope to correct 9 refrac
tory pupil.
THE North Carolina Legislature has
passed a bill prohibiting the selling or
giving of cigars or cigarettes to boys
under ten years Of age. The bill Is de-
signed to check a rapidly -growing evi'
in the State.
A VESSEL passing the island OF Guern-
sey reported having seen al enormous
ball Of fire shoot from the heavens and
fall with a terrific explosion into the sea
to the west OF the island. Houses were
shaken and great alarm prevailed.
Col. BUEEABY was enormously strong
and used to twist pokerB and carry
ponies up stairs. This accounts for the
serious embarrassment Of the Arab who
gave him his death wound, but whom
Burnaby got by the throat and strangled
before he himself died.
A YOUNG gentleman Of AdairsviIle, Ga,
made the mistake of proposing to his
sweetheart by postal card. The card
was read by about twenty persons be-
fore it fell into the hands Of the one for
whom it was intended. A Zig social sen
satiOn is the consequence
Ton ELL1orr, e rich young farmer Of
Dakota, having announced that no
would never marry until wheat cold at 81
per bushel, a ~neighboriag farmer, who
hEs a daughter willing TO relieve Toms
loneliness, has offered to take his entire
crop at 81 a bushel and give him a check
for 1t at the wedding.
WIN. ROBERTSON, a young man living
IN Louisburg, n. c., while in o grog
shop. made a bet that he could drink a
quart of whisky inside OF forty minutes.
The money was put up, and he drank
tho liquor from the quart measure, get
ting through in thirty one minutes. He
died two hours afterward.
IAltN4Ni41Cbh llCl SidItS DIldt nc
can "keep one stove going during six
months with the sunhower stalks pro.
luced on an acre of land. The seed
produced and fed to fowls pays for al
the work of cultivation. Fe burns the
smaller heads with the stalks, which
are cut IL the fail to the required length.
A KANSAS criminal, indicted and con
Qicted upon three distinct counts, has
been sentenced to Imprisonment for
three years upon the first charge, for
ten years upon the second and for the
rest of his natural life upon the third.
1t would seem as if the last sentence
might cause him to lose interest some
what in the other tive.
A New ORLEANS doctor calls attention
to q very simple fact which merits atten.
ton from medicine takers. If the medi
cine is mixed with very cold water, and
q few swallows of the water be taken as
n preparatory dose, the nerves of the
organ of taste become sufficiently be
numbed to make the medicine nearly
tasteless. This method will not dis
guise bitter tastes, but acts we'll in oils
and salines.
AT A meeting of the st. Petersburg
Health Committee the fact was brough
to light that the large death rate in Rus
sian hospitals is caused by the lack O
uourishing food for patients. The al
lowance of about fourteen cents a ia,
for diet does nor suffice to buy so mucI
as a pound of beef for broth, and O
such food IS the patients succeed il
procuring they arc partially robbed b.
the ill-fed nurses.
70 TEST the purity of water there la
been found no better or simpler wa
than to fill q clean pint bottle three
fourths full of the water to be tested an
dissolve in the water half a teaspoonlu
OF the purest sugar-loaf or grenulate
will answer-cork the bottle, and plac
it IN q warm place for two days. If j
twenty-four to ~ferty-eight hours til
water becomes cloudy or milky, it is III
fit for domestic use.
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