Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-12-08
SELECT SETTINGS.

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1t IS possible in France 10 insure the
life OF 8 child enc day old.
Sixteen thousand persons persisted by
famine at Cape Verde iu11.5.
GeorgeII. died q mailman. and George
". died Of gluttony and drunkenness.
4 necklace of human knucklebones
was the gift received by q missionary
from q partial chief.
English coin was made sterlingin 1916,
before which rents were mostly paid IN
kind, and money was found only IN the
Golfers Of barons.
Enir, a title Of the caliphs among the
Turks and persians. was first awarded to
the descendants OF Mahomets daughter,
Fatinla, about 600.
Jew York harbor was frozen over, adj
hitting the passage of teams on the ice
between the city and Staten Island, ID.
ESQ. The bay was again frozen IN
1921.
The stuffed skin of a black pony which
belonged to the 1,ueen Of Spain makes a
novel hobhy horse for the little king. In
the portrait Of his ma esty the riding
u0rSe l. q prominent feature
MIR. w. II. Scott, usher at the Georgia
Eunatic Asylum, has made, from Febru-
4ry II. 1854, 10 October /, 1883, 3ol4
! rounds of one mile each, and has con.
Quoted IL, $50 visitors through the build
ing and grounds.
\ pittsburg goat got away with a bag
Of oates and two pounds OF Single nails
at a single sitting, and though given TO
serious rejection for two succeeding
days. she eventually recovered her
wonted placidity Of demeanor.
Nervous persons are afraid to attend
the service in the Bristol Cathedral, Eng
land, as the building literally swarms
with rats. The creatures are to be seen
running about in the nave while service
is proceeding in a the choir.
The first telegraph office was opened
IN Washington IN 1915, and the receipts
from April | 10 1 inclusive were one cent.
On April } the receipts rose to 124 cents,
and Oh the 9Th and til fell oil to nothing.
April 8 the Office tool in S1.32, and on
April 8 $1.oi.
Miss Ella Baker, an English woman,
the author Of several successful stories
Tor young people was stung under the
eye by q bee, and applied some simple
remedy. TIE swelling did not go down,
and in a short time she awoke from sleep
in q ~convulsivc tit and died within q
minute.
A curious bird, with the wings of an
owl and the face Of a monkey, wa caught
the other day down in irglnla, n will
be sent to the Smithsonian Institute tor
exhibition, unless it should be reclaimed
by the Republican National Committee
IS a stray orator, masqueradlng around
IN that gulse.
A doctor in an Ohio town, who lives
On a street leading to the cemetery, has
! reversible sign. Usually the sign
presents his name and Office hours, but
when q funeral passes he turns it over.
and then the following legend IS dis
played: Not my patient; l cure all who
follow my directions"
August Fonda, a lawyer, was walking
On the railroad track at Biloxi. Mass,
when the engine struck him and threw
aim to a considerable distance. He sup
posed that he was killed, but two physi-
clans, after a long and careful eNamlna-
ton, found that Mr.. Fonda was not hurt
IN the least, and, after some difficulty,
succeed in convincing him of the fact.
On a lonely road rear Sag Harbor,
Ione Island, lives u man who claims t.
be a brother of General Boulanger. He
has been a hermit for years. He is
handsome, courteous Frenchman, whc
seems to haze known the world we'll il
other days. He receives letters and
newspapers from France. He goes by
the name Of 1.-THE Count among his
~ueighbors.
\ Bridgeport, Conn, newspaper says
that a cat was caught by a locomotive
thc other day and cut ia two pieces by
wheel which passed over the body bach
IF the shoulders. .After the locomotiv,
had passed. says The paper, ''the forward
parts of the cats body dragged them
selves to the home yard, two or thre'
yards distant, and there the little remain
ING life fiickered out in a few seconds