The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-20
BITS OF INFORMATION.


SLAVERY was abolished In Mexico in
1925.
CHECKERS is the oldest game recorded
II history, it being 1000 years old.
THa longest bridge in this country
spans the Ohio at Louisville. 1t is a
few feet less than mile In length. The
cost was $2,O16,819.
1T is probable that there were no
playing cards before the year 1890.
They we've then invented, the story goes,
to divert Charles w., of France, who
was fallen into melancholy DISPOSE
ton.
PREvIoUs to 1881 nominations for
State officers were made by members of
the State Legislatures, while nomina-
tions for President and Vice President
were made in caucuses of members of
Congress.
MARY ANDERSON, the actress, was
born in Sacramento, CAL, July %, 1859
At an early age she went to Louisville,
Ky, making that city her home. Her
father, Charles Anderson, lost his life in
the Confederate army.
ONE HUNDRED AND sIxTY-Two varieties
of postage stamps have been issued by
the United States, thirty-two varieties
by Great Britain, and sixty varieties by
France. In this country 127 have been
in use at one time.
| IT is estimated that there are AGO, DOC, :
| 900 Mohammedans in the world $50,
| 900, 900 Buddhists, and 195, 1000, 600 Ro-
man Catholics. The Mohammedans are
by at least 100, 100000 the most numer-
GUS sect in the world.
THE discovery of trichin@ in the hog
was made about thirty-five years ago by
a member of the Philadelphia Academy
of Natural Sciences. The temperature
of boiling water will kill trichinm, as
well as all other parasitic worms, so that
by cooking meats well all danger is re-
moved.
The wooden tables on which the
Greeks wrote their laws were fastened
together at one end, and, as they were
large but roughly hewn, they had much
the appearance of the trunk of tree
cut into planks, and were therefore called
"codex, which means stump of tree
or part of a trunk, and hence our term
"Code."
THOMAS PAINE, Just before his death,
requested to be inferred in a Quaker
burial ground, but, the Quakers refusing
to permit this, his remains were taken
to New Rochelle and buried on his farm.
In 1919 William Goblet, the English
reformer, took his bones to England. A
monument was erected to his memory il
1889 within few feet of the spot where
he was originally buried.
TOBIAS HoBsoN was carrier and inn
keeper ct Cambridge, Eng, where he
! built handsome conduit, and settled
"seven lays" of pasture ground toward
it's maintenance. " He kept a stable of
forty good cattle, always ready and fit
for travelling but when man came fol-
a horse he was led into the stable, but
was obliged to take the animal which
stood nearest the door so that every
customer was served according to his
chance, and every horse ridden with the
same Justice" Hence the phrase
Hobson's Choice this or none.
AN EHgg4l6n paper illus COAn pttLCo eoHe
of the words used in England and Amer
lea pertaining to railway travel In
America the carriage is "ear," bag
gage van baggage Car, station is
"depot," booking Office is ticket
office, your portmanteau is "valise,
and your box "trunk," the lines are
described as the "track," the facing
points are switches" the driver is the
engineer" the stoker is the " fire
man." and the guard is the "conduc
tor" Pretty much the only word COM
mon in England and America is the word
train but the goods train is over there
"freight train" When you leave the
train to go to your hotel you take not a
cab but "hack, or if you are haunted
by the demon of economy you go by the
"horse car" but not by the " tramway.