Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-18
BITS OF INFORMATI0E.

THTRE are in the world G,0O0 varieties
of postage stamps.
THE expression " to carry corn" means
TO bear wealth, to be rich.
The cost of Chicago's water works
system has been IS, $50, 374. 10.
RICHARD III was only 19 years Old at
the opening of Shakspare's play.
The gum used OH postage stamps is
made of the powder of dried potatoes and
other vegetables, mixed with water.
TnE Giants Causeway is basaltic
mole in Ireland, said to be the com
mencement of a causeway 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 81, 100000; OF
Paris in 1856, S640,000; of London In
1862, S2,O42, $50; of Paris in 1867, $2,-
103,G75 Vienna, in 1873, 81, ,032, 800;
of Philadelphia, in 1876, $3,813, $50:
OF Paris, in 1878, $2,530,749.
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.
"DrFU ct mon droit is the motto OF
she 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
formed the royal motto Of England.
THE Judiciary of the United States
consists of the Supreme Court, with a
Chief Justice who receives a salary OF
SO, 500 year, and eight Associate JUS
tees who each receive salary OF
10000: nine Circuit Judges, at a sal
ary of So, 600 each o.; the Court of Claims
with five Justices salary, 81, 800; and
the Judges of the United States District
Courts, whose salaries range from So, 500
to $1,000 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
pa,,I in, ho l.
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-
ters. The Prince was met by Presiden.
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 100, 600
cords of timber, and to make lucifer
matches, 300, 600 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 500, 900 more. The baking of our
bricks consumes 2,000,000 cords OF
wood, or what would cover with forest
about $4,000 acres of land. Telegraph
poles already up represent SOC, 900 trees,
and their annual repair consumes about
800, 900 more. The ties of our railroads
consume annually thirty years growth
of 70, 600 acres, and to fence all our rail
roads would cost S45, 900, 600, with a
yearly expenditure of Sl5, 100000 fo,
repairs. These are some of the ways
IN. which American forests are
gong: There are others; our packing
boxes, for instance, cost, in 1874 s12.
0O0,OO0, while the timber used each wear
is making wagons and agricultural i'm.
plements is valued at more than s1OO
100000