The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-21
BITS OF INFORMATION.

THERE are in the world 5000 varieties
of postage stamps.
The expression q to carry corn" means
to bear wealth, to be rich.
THE cost of Chicago's water works
system has been s., $50, 374. 40.
R1cHARD III was only 10 years old at
the opening of Shakspare's play.
The gum used on postage stamps is
made of the powder of dried potatoes and
other vegetables, mixed with water.
THE " Giants Causeway is a basaltic
mole in Ireland, said to be the com
mencement of eauseway from Ireland
to Scotland.
The art of iron smelling was known
IN England during the time of the
Roman occupation, and working In steel
was practiced there before the Norman
conquest.
THE receipts of the Worlds fair in
London, IN 1851, were S., 100, 900: of
Paris in 1856, S640, 600: of London in
1862, 2,042, $50; of Paris In 1867, g.
lob, SO Vienna, in 1878, s. O32, 800;
of Philadelphia, in 1876, 3,813, $50:
of Paris, in 1878, s., $50, 749.
GA ROLAND for an Oliver means a
blow for blow, tit for tat. Roland and
Oliver were two of the paladins of Char
lemagne, whose exploits are so similar
that it is very difficult to keep them dis
tinct. What Roland did Oliver was sure
to do, and vice versa. At last the two
met in single combat, and fought for
five consecutive days on an island in
the Rhine, but neither gained the slight
est advantage.
"DIEU ct mon droit " is the motto of
the royal family of England. 1t was
first assumed by Richard l., to intimate
that he held his sovereignty from God
alone. 1t seems to have been dropped
among the immediate successors of that
Prince, but was revived by Edward ILL.,,
when he first claimed the crown of
France. Since, in the reign OF Eliza
beth, William II. and Anne, it has
tormeU the royal motto of England.
TIE Judiciary of the United States
consists of the Supreme Court, with q
Chief Justice who receives a salary of
| $40, 800 a year, and eight Associate JUS
tees who each receive Il salary of
$4,000: nine Circuit Judges, at a sal
| airy of sc, 600 each the Court of Claims
with five Justices salary, $4,000; and
the Judges Of the United States District
Courts, whose salaries range from So, 500
to SIS, 900 per annum.
The Prince of Wales landed at ST,
Johns, July "a, 1860, for his American
tour. He remained in the Queens do
minions for several weeks, and was re-
ceived with enthusiasm wherever he
went. While in the United States he
visited Chicago, st. Louis, New York,
Boston and other leading cities, and
vast crowds of people turned out to see
him in these several metropolitan CEN
tiers. The Prince was met by President
Buchanan at Washington, and visited
the various departments of the Govern
ment. He also visited Mount Vernon,
where is the tomb of Washington.
To MAKE shoe pegs enough for Amer
lean use consumes annually 100000
| cords of timber, and to make lucifer
| matches, 100000 cubic feet of the best
pine are required each year. Lasts and
| boot trees take 500, 900 cords of birch,
beech and maple, and the handles of
tools 100000 more. The baking of our
bricks consumes 100000 cords of
wood, or what would cover with forest
about so, 600 acres of land. Telegraph
poles already up represent 800, 900 trees,
and their annual repair consumes about
100000 more. The ties Of our railroads
consume annually thirty years growth
of 75, 600 acres, and to fence all our rail
roads would cost $40, 0,00O with a
yearly expenditure of SIS, 100000 for
repairs. These are some of the ways
in which American forests are
going: There are others; our packing
boxes, for instance, cost, in 1874, $12,-
100000, while the timber used each year
is making wagons and agricultural inn
plements is valued at more than $780,
| 600, 900.