Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-28

RITS OF INFORMATION.

SIR HUMPHREY DAvY invented his safe
ty lamp, to prevent accidents when are
liable to occur III coal mines, so early as
1915.
THE signature of Boz" used by
Dickens, was adopted from Moses
pronounced through the nose-a nick
name Of his younger brother.
The phrase "piping hot " originated
from the custom of baker blowing
pipe or horn in the villages OF England
to let the people. know he had Just
drawn his bread hot from the oven.
MolAsses, liquorice paste, q decoc-
ton of figs. and glycerine ere used III the
manufacture If plug tobacco to 1mpart q
sweet taste. give color and prevent rapid
driving common salt and other salts are
used for havor,ng anise and other arc
matics are added for their flavor.
BANCROFT, in his history, has the fol-
lowing iii regard to the introduction OF
slaves into what is row United States
| territory: In the month of August,
| 1919, Dutch man ofwar entered james
| river and landed twenty negroes for sale.
| This, indeed. was a sad introduction of
negro slavery III the English colonies.
| The most Of the authorities make the
date December, 1920.
MRs. SAnAHJ. Hale, lifetime editor
| Of "Godey's LadS's Book, wrote
Mary Ha! a Little Lamb The Or
icin Of the poem / this: A daughter
Of Mrs. Hale neighbor was taken very
i'll. and the doctor was asking the girl +
mother what she had been eating. Mrs.
Hale, who had gust come over to the
house. heard the mothe" say: 9 Mary
had a litfke lamb. and Mary loves lambs
Won know These simple words touche,
Mrs. Hale SO deeply that she went home
and wrote the immortal poem.
Tr is said that the custom of present
inc rons ut Easter Is the survival of III
Old pagan custom celebrating the ami
xnrsory Of the creation or the deluge
| The egg presented by the pagans WAS Al
alluslou 10 the mundane egg, for wilici
| Ormuzd and AlrinaH lie to conten
~ ill the cona"mmatlon Of al things
= The custom OF dytlng egga at Easter
f very old and common t all cullntrlts
a Int NAV have been taken back to tn
n Fast l,v Christian travellers.
V GsE house of John o Groat's was sit
;, mated on Dnncan's bay Head, the mos
: northcrly point il Great Britain. 1t "
ceiyel lis name from John Of Groat an
his brothers. WHO came from Holland i
1889. The house WIS octagon III shape
. being one room, with eight windows AN
!, eight doors, to admit eight members {
. the family, the heads OF differel
+; branches Of it, TO prevent their qnarre
: for precedence at table, which on Oh
~ Occasion nearly proved fatal. BY tn
- c1ntriv;nce each came III at his ow
, door. au.I sat nj IN cctagon table,
which. OF course, their places were a
y alike.
I'd THe Spaniard+ visited Canada prev
," GUS to the French, and, finding no go
J OF silver which they were III search c
ie often said among themselves. = ~
10 nnda," there is nothing here. The L
u dians learned this sentence aud its mea
Pc inc. The French a4giyed, and the L
LII dams, who did not want their cJmpan
and surprising they were also Spaltiar'
in on the same mission, were anxious
adj inform them IN the Spanish senten
es g ora 4Qda." Flle French, who kn'
he rs little Spanish as the Indians, su
es posed this incesBAt recurring sound W
nd the name of the country, and gave 1t
en- name OF 'Ckamaa, which it has Dor
1t ever since.