Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-11-08
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Wyoming is twice as large as England.
The first steel pen was made in 1880.
Boston is two hundred and sixty years
old.
The first game Of cricket was played in
London, England, in 1774.
New Haven, Conn, is called the City
of Elms; Nashville, Tenn, the City Of
Rocks.
At Eureka, Cal, one Of the miners hss
a pet sheep that follows him all through
the mine.
1t is said that some Of the trees at the
base Of Mount Tacoma; in Washington,
are $50 feet tail.
The heart Of a man guillotined in
France recently continued to beat six
minutes after the head was severed.
Roller skates we're first patented by a
London fruitcrcr named Tyers in 1923,
and his pattern had one line Of wheels.
A woman at Hagcrstoyn, Nd, has a
goose which came into her possession
when she was married, twenty-one years
ago.
Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams, the author
ess Of "Ncarcr Ny God to Thee" was an
EngIishwoman. She lived in Cambridge,
England, aud didf in 1919.
As early as 1853 a Bristol and Exeter
broad-gauge locomotive, carrying a light
load and turning on a falling grade, de-
velopcd a speed Of eighty miles an hour
Gloves with webs between the fingers
are a new invention intended to aid
swimmers in 9e1ing a better purchase on
the water than IS given By the bare hand.
A Pennsylvania horse thief, recently
captured, had a memorandum Of many
owners Of valuable horses, and maps
showing every road in the eastern part of
tue State.
The yellow Stone National PARK ex-
tends sixty-Gyc miles north and south
ard fifty miles east and west, contains
1916 square miles, and is upward of
5000 feet above the sea level.
Frederick Babucc, of Reading, Penn,
suddenly experienced a loss OF weight
from l56 to eighty-six pounds, and soon
aftcrward found the. cause Of it to be
five lizards that had been living In his
stomach.
1t is estimated that if the tobacco used
in France during a single year were
twisted into a cord two inches In thick
ness, it would be long enough to encirclt
the earth thirty times, following the linz
of the equator.
Paris, Ky, claims TO be the larges
live turkey market in the world, and
that fact IS attractively set forth in al
advertisement of the advantages a%ccruine
to the fortunate persons who are WISE
enough not to live anywhere else.
A man owned a f~vc-foot strip Of Lane
In New York city and quarreled with tn
owner of tAc adjoining property over tn
price Of it. He then built two houses OF
the strip, which was a block long. Tn
houses arc four stories high and but thre
feet wide inside, but have deep bow win
dows which are utilized for rooms.
Here is the oman of fgures' at hi
weary work again: There are over 300,
900 people who walk about the streets {
London daily, and in SO doing they wca
away a ton Of leather PARTICLES from thci
boots and shoes. THIS would in a yea
form q leather belt six inches wide an
ou~c-fourth Of IN inch thick long enoug
to reach from London to New York.
Tie origin Of the expression "IIob
sons choice is given thus: Tobias Hob
son was the first man in England to hir
ont hackney horses. When a customC
came for a horse lie was led into the stabl
where there was a great choice, but IIot
son Obliged him to take the horse nearc'
the door; 50 that everybody was alik
well served, according to his chance
from whence it became a proverb, whc
what ought to be your selection was force
upon you e say, '%'IIobson's choice