Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-12-10
BITS OF INFORMATION.

THREE attempts have been made to assasslnate Queen Victoria.
 THE theater of Marcellus, at Rome, was capable of seating 20, 1000 persons.
 IT has been estimated that 1000, GOO men perished in the wars begun to re- cover the Holy Land.
 WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON was the oldest man elected President, and Gen. Grant the youngest.
 AN Italian writer says that 10000 operas have been written since 1900, of which 10, 900 have been produced by the sons of Italy.
 IT Is stated that it takes 20, 900 roses to produce half an ounce of the altar, which accounts for the high price de- manded for the pure article.
 ENGLAND produces more tin than my other country in the world. There are tin mines in Bohemia, Saxony, Spain, Portugal, Malacca and Australia.
 WARREN HASTINGS, Governor General of India, was tried by the peers of Great Britain for high crimes and misdemean- ors. One of the charges was his accept ance of G100, ,000 from the Eabob of Dude. The trial lasted seven years and three months, terminating in his ac- quittal.
 THE White House was first built in l792, at cost of s330,000. It was not occupied until 1S00 It was rebuilt in 1918. Its porticoes were not finished until 1929. Altogether, 1t Is computed to have cost for building, rebuilding and furnishing about S1, 700,0 900. The whole structure has frontage of ITO feet and depth of 6S feet, and its vestibule is 50x40 feet. The garden and park which inclose the mansion occupy twenty acres. The Cabinet-room, 40x3O feet, Is on the second floor. The White House was. modelled after the palace of the Duke of Leicester.
 THE phrase Speaking for buncombe" originated near the close of the debate on the famous Missouri Question" in the sixteenth Congress. It was then used by Felix Walter, who lived at Waynesyille, in Haywood, the most western county of North Carolina, near the adjacent county of Buncombe, which formed part of his district. The old man rose to speak, while the House was impatiently calling for the "ques- tion and several members gathered around him, begging him to deS1st. He persevered, however, for while, declar- ing that the people of his district ex- pected 1t, and that he was bound to make a speech for Buncombe"
 THE phrase According to Gunter !" refers to Edmund Gunter, distin- | guished English mathematician, who was born ill l58l and died in 1926. lie | Is known as the inventor of the chain commonly used by surveyors for meas uriug land, and of the flat wooden rule marked with scales on equal parts of sines, chords, etc, and also with Ioga- | rithns of these various parts, which is used to solve problems in surveying and navigation mechanically with the aid of iividers alone. Hence in the use of the phrase, anything is according to Gun ter which is done quite right and ad- mits of no improvement.
 A LONDON paper once printed the fol- lowing in regard to the "origin of the custom of making fools on the 1st of April" This Is said to have begun from the mistake of Noah ill sending tue dove out ot the ark before the water had abated, on the first day of the month among the Hebrews which answers to the 1st of April; a..d to perpetuate the memory of this deliverance 1t was thought proper, whoever forgot so re- markable. q circumstance, to punish them by sending them upon some sleeve. less erraiid similar to that intellectual message upon which the bird was sent by tine patriarch. The custom appears to be of great antiquity, and to have been derived by the Romans from some of the Eastern natiors.