Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-04-06
CURIOUS FACTS.

The bronco is wild or unbroke1
horse
The average weight of an adul. is 15o
pounds six ounces.
The brain Of man exceeds twice thA,
OF any other animal
Baltimore tailor is the father OF
twenty five children.
Nine tenths OF tho ,elegraphle errors
are due to poor handwriting.
In the grammar schools of New Haven.
Coma, cooking is taught as branch OF
study.
British Honduras WAS settled by Eng
with spain in 1867.
\ Iekin (China) weekly newspape,
has nst finished a serial story which con
tanned 2o4o chapters.
BY the plague which visited London
in 1865. no less than IS, sos persons ar.
sa d to have per.hed.
Mrs. Gleason Fillmore. OF Clarenc.
Centre, \. y, is 102 and reads four
newspapers every week.
Guiford, VI. announces a live grass
hopper that was hatched out in field
in tie mild weather Of January
A Mrs Willis. Of ST. Louis, recently
killed herself because she wanted to be
poet, and discovered sac could not
The terms bailiif or sheriff are said to
be of saxon origin. This officer wa.
appointed for counties in England il
1919.
Indiana was included in Ohio til
1901, was constituted Territory in 1909.
and admitted into the Union December
l1,,1s16.
A mince pie which a, notable house
keeper of Kansas H., had Just baked,
one day last week, exploded with sncf
violence IS to kill cat
The cost of the kilograms which pas.
between James Gordon Bennett and thu
New York Herald during his lone
absences abroad is said to be f25, OOC
per year
John c. Ropes, the lecturer OF Cam
bridge, Mass, possesses portrait o
Napoleon which is said to be tho finest
in existence. 1t represents the Emperor
at the battle of Arcola.
A tame crow belonging to fsrme
near Ridgewav, Canada. has bseu tangh
| to distinguish colors, and will pick on
from pile of articles Of variou. color
one of any color asked for.
4 physician writing upon the care o
the eyes says that it is important tina
the upper half Of all type should be Gu
very clearly, as much depends on the
upper portions of printed letters in read
! ing.
A million handbills is not nova da,
! considered an out-of-the way order. II
separteiv count them, at the rate Of sil
second and working twelve hours
dav, would take ose upon fonr day.
uninterrupted work.
The hangman at Fort SIN tn, Ark.
who mas sprung the trap on about sevent
men, says that if the condemned wi
only behave himself and follow dirse
tions. he can make his death as painles
as turning ove7 in bed
There is an immense brass Urn in th
big vestibule between the two Wander
bilt mansions on Fifth avenue, Se'
York. Itwas intended 10 hold the asht
Ct al the race # the family should d.
eide to adopt cremation.
A peculiar Old man, known only
Boxem Brown, has long ago made rs
n By peid ing 90 fins through the Ter
ritory Of New Mexico He travels Wit
team # muies. a big wagon, and abou
twenty cheap 90 n. Of assorted sizes.
While William Jackson, a Chicag
ro0ter. VAS sid nS down roo! III
,ance o. forty-fve teet he had time |
tel fellow workman that ne o-ed 'hr'
debts and had the money n his trunk
pav them Then he reached the cav
and wen. 20 his death on the froze
earth
\ placari placed OF window OF
shoemaker 81 p near CT Pp!egase, Lol
don. many Yeas ago. issad . have res
as fo..oxs "-urgers performed on az.
Boots and shoes broken ] sGs set. A.
bo1ni upr-ht disorderet feet repair
he wounded heaed. The ~ho.e cons
tuition neaded and ne body support
5y new soc By T. 7"