Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-05-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Bill SYKES and his dog have ap- |
peared before the English court. The
burglar had taught his dog to render as
sistance by keeping guard and warning
his master of danger. Three houses had
been robbed this way.
AT Pekin, Ill, the other day, a large
gray eagle swooped down on a little
child and was raising in the air with it
when q farmer came to the rescue and
killed the voracious bird, which meas
ured over eight feet from tip to tip.
In manufacturing 800 worth of liquor
81 goes to labor. In manufacturing
500 worth of boots ana shoes S22 90 to
labor. The money turned over by one
distillery employing $50 men would, if
employed III more useful ways, give
work to Is, 900 men.
A who is we'll versed in
regard to cattle says that after the sap
north to south a distance of thirty miles
or more are sure to die, and those driven
from south to north will not die, but the
cattle they come IN contact with will die.
Driving them east and west has no effect
upon them.
IT was shown at the recent conference
that there are 42O, 900 persons confined
in this country in penal and reformatory
institutions of one kind or another. OF
this vast number, 105, $50 are children
under sixteen years of age, and 1887
are between sixteen and twenty-one.
Yet of these only II, 168 are confined in
reformatory institutions.
AN interesting seem was witnessed at
Franklin, Ga1pjn whicha dog proved
his value. While a fat.hen was near the
dog a large, hungry hawk, charmed
with her p%lumpness, attempted to seize
a rich meal. The dog seemed amused,
and watched the fight until it was plaiDf
TO him that the hen was losing strength,
when he bounced upon the hawk and
killed it.
A FLEA, one-sixteenth of an inch In
length, can jump q distance Of twenty
inches. This is 800 times its length. The
common gray rabbit jumps about nine
feet clear on the level ground. In pro-
portion to length a horse, to jump as far
as a rabbit, would have to clear ga feet
at a Jump. There is no quadruped that
has such powerful muscles in his quar-
ters as the rabbit, and none excel him in
the muscles OF his loin and back.
WHEN Ellen G. Bemis, sentenced to
Jackson, Michigan, for life for the muir
der of her son-in-law, was pardoned by
Gov. Begole she thought that life had
lost all its charms; but Mr.. Bemis, her
husband, who had been granted O di-
vorce after the woman's conviction, saw
her the other day, the old love was re.
kindled, and the pair were remarked.
Mr.. Bemis either believes the woman to
have been innocent or he is a very brave
man.
II CAN always tell the nationality of
an engineer by the complaint he Makes"
said an old engine builder and repairer.
THE Scotchman is always worried about
the 'boch losh;' Engllshmen and Irish
men are always lighting the thump,'
which they firmly believe was left for
them to remove; the German is very
much concerned about dem valves,
while the Yankee has a hard time to
keep her from chawin' too much
steam.'"
WHEN a Finland girl wishes to leave
the country she has to go first to her
clergyman and partake of the sacrament
and procure a letter of recommendation
from him; next to a physician, and OBJ
tain from him after an examination a
certificate of permission to remain absent
a certain specified number Of years.
This certificate costs her about $40. Ii
she returns promptly at the end of the
time prescribed, all is well; but if not,
Ter name is erased from the book in
which it has been entered, and she is
considered as having violated her con-
tract with the Government and loses her
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