Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-12-11
Some Things Not generaIIy .Kpown,

Dating from the Christian era com
menced in Italy in 525 and in England in
S46.
The title of doctor was in vented in the
twelfth century, at the first establish
ment of the universities.
The pianofOrte was invented by a
German named Americus Backers. and
was first used in public at Covent Gar
den theater in 1867.
1t is fact not generally known that
Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the
potato into England on his return from
America in the year 1884.
The following sentence of only forty
eight letters contains all the letters of
the alphabet: John P. Brady, give me
black walnut box of quite a small
size"
Bells were first set up in churches as
defense against thunder and lightning.
The first bell hung in England was in
S45. Chimes were invented in Belgium
in 1887.
According to the old law for ealcula-
ting tonnage. Noah's ark measured d.
76l tons, to the Great Eastern's 23,O95.
The ark is said to have been SAT feet
long, while the great steamship is $50
feet in length.
The first translation Of the Bible into
English was made by John Wickliffe,
about 1854. 1t was never printed, but
manus ript copies Of it exist The first
English printed Bible was that of Will
liam Tyndall, of which he New Testa-
ment was published in 1926.
About $1,000 varieties of colors are
employed by the mosaic workers of
Rome, and each Of these varieties has
q oh Oh
600 tintS are afforded, which the artist
can distinguish with the greatest facility.
Even with this variety the workers
find lack of tints.
An old church in Westehester county
has the following consonants written be-
side the altar under the ten command
ments:
PRSV VRYPRF CTMN
Y R X T II S P r G PIT STN
The use of the vowel Z will complete
the sense and rhyme.
Banks were first established by the
Lombard Jews in Italy. The name is
derived from banco, termed applied to
the benches erected in the market places
for the exchanges of money. The first
public bank was at Venice in 1850. The
Bank OF England was established in 1893.
Three years later its notes were at twenty
per cent. discount.
The Sandwich Islands alphabet has
twelve letters; the Burmese, nineteen; !;
the Italian. twenty; the Bengalese,
twenty one; Hebrew Syriac, Chaldee,
each twenty-five; French, twenty-three !;
Greek, twenty-four; Latin, twenty five; ;
German, Dutch and English, each
twenty-six; Spanish and Sclavonic,
twenty-seven each: Arabic, twenty
eight; Persian and Coptic, thirty-two: !:
Georgian, thirty-fve; Armenian, thirty
eight; Russian, forty-one; Muscovite.
forty-three; Sanscrit and Japanese,
fifty; Ethiopic and Tartarian. 2O2 each,
In a cellar of the Hotel de Vile. in
Bremen, is the famous Rosenwein, de-
posted there nearly two and a half cen
turies ago. There were twelve large
cases, each bearing the name of one Of
the apostles. One case of this wine ,.on-
tanning fine Oxhoft of 204 bottles cost
500 rix dollars in 1924 Including the
expense of keeping I'D the cellar, and OF
the contributions, interests of the
amounts and interests upon interests. an
loxhofG costs at the present time 555,-.
657 $40 rix dollars, which would make
a single glass Of the wine, one-eighth of
bottle, represent 1912, $3.50, OF at the
rate of $272 per drop. A magistrate of
Bremen is privileged to have one bottle
of the wine whenever he entertains a
guest of European reputation.
T1e word news is generally attributed
to the adjective new. Some ingenious
mind, however, finds its origin in Gus
tom in former times of placing on the
newspapers of the day the initial letters
of the cardinal points Of the compass,
thus: