Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-08-30
SELECT SIFTINGS.

The invention of the anchor is ascribet
to the Tuscans.
Illinois has more miles of railway
than any other State.
Somebody has invented an s.illumins.
ted cat, guaranteed to scare rats.
Union, in Toledo County, Conn. has
no doctor, NO lawyer and no minister.
Relic hunters are already disfeuring
the hendricks monument at Indianapolis,
Ind.
Columbia is the wealthiest Of Ameri.
can universities, and Harvard comes
next.
An undertaken has been arrested at
Pittsburg for ob~stsucting traffic with a
funeral.
A Philadelphis syndicate has Jus,
struck a solid mass Of native copper il
Michigan.
More shoes are manufactured at Haver.
hill, Mass, than in any other city of the
United States.
A man in Providence, R. l., has a pet
spider, which has spun its web in its
owner hat, where it lives.
The india rubber tree grows wild 10
Lee County, Fla, and in Fort MYERS it is
used as a shade and ornamental tree.
The best thing with which to polish
eyeglasses and spectacles with is a bit of
newspaper. Moisten the glasses and rub
dry.
Wheat is harvested in every month of
the year. In January the Australian
crop is made, and in December that of
Burmah.
A forty-year-old wagon is seen daily
on the streets of Denison, Texas. 1t was
made of bois dare, known in the North
As Usage orange.
E. s. living, Postmaster at Chester
Cross Roads, Ohio, has received a check
drawn in his favor from the Government
for one cent in settlement of his accounts.
Peppermint culture is confined mainly
TO q few towns in central New York
and Michigan, and where it is carried on
extensively there is,-no doubt, consider
able profit made in extracting the oil.
W. s. Williams, Of Cherokee County,
Ala, is the father of twcnty-three chill
1ren, the eldest of whom is forty-ni1a
years old, the youngest six. Mr.. Will
iams is in his SEVENTEEN year, md is still
1sle and vigorous.
The Treasurer of st. Clair County.
Mich, received an envelope the other
day containing 800 in money. 1t was
from ONE conscience-stricken man, and
the only explanation inclosed was the
TACT that the money wasn't his.
A smart Biddeford (Me.) boy has gone
nto the business of raising eagles. He
found three eagles eggs in the woods
md carried them home, placing them
ander a hen that had just commenced to
'et. The eggs Matched, and the young
saglets are now doing well.
Manlstique has an aqueous volcano, a
spring of $50 feet wide and 400 feet
ong. The water and sand boil up from
l depth of slxty-tive feet and throw the
title lake up into conical shape. 1t
supplies a creek twenty feet wide and
.wo feet deep the year round.
A veritable monstrosity was found in
IN empty tenement house in Galena, H.,
n the shape of a kitten having four dis
inct heads, eight front feet aud four
lind feet, all attached to one perfectly
;ormed body. The kitten was apparently
ibouta week old and was one of a litter
If eight.
The government statistician of New
South Wales has estimated the population
If Australia at the beginning of the cur
'ent year to be 1886, 79S. This is an
Increase during 1889 of 113, 995, or 3. 10
per cent. The population of New Zealand
S now $50 ,279, an increase during the
rear of IL, 1899.
By a new regulation recently made by
The Senate of the University of Vienna
students on m~atriculating must present
The Dean of the Faculty which they wish
% enter with their photographs. These
works of art will be used to identify
candidates when interesting questions as
20 ~"signing up,"etc., arise.