The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-24
BITS OF INFORMATION.

The word "cash," which is so {
quently used. is from the French teri.
caisSe, meaning chest or coffin for keep
ing money.
OVER twenty years ago more than 100
tons of steel wire were used every year
In the manufacture of pins. Some houses
produce 80, 600, 900 daily throughout the
year.
NYE county, Nevada, is the largest
county in the United States, covering
"a, 900 acres. The smallest is the county
of New York, and it has the largest pop
ulation.
The term Quaker was first applied to
the sect in derision. When George Fox,
the founder, was brought before the
magistrate he told him to quake before
the word of the Lord.
BoMBARDs were large ale barrels, and
the vessels used to carry ale to soldiers
on duty, from whence came lombard
men, for one who carried about provis-
ions, corrupted by the sailors into bum
boat
ACCORDING to the census returns the
lowest percentage of illiteracy is in Ne
braska, 1.73 unable to read, and 2.55
unable to write. The highest is in
South Carolina, 1892 unable to read,
and 81. Is unable to write.
THE name gazette used by many news
papers was derived from small Vene-
tan coin, gazetta, that being the price
paid per copy of a newspaper printed at
Vienna during the invasion of that city
by Sultan Soloman in the sixteenth cent
ury. The paper was called "Gazetta
oil Venezia and is said to be the oldest
printed newspaper.
ACCORDING to the census of 1880 there
are in the United States 1913, 800
males, while there are 1885, 1868 fe-
males, which gives the female popula-
ton majority of 882, $751; The parts
that go to make up the total population
of 80, 155, 783 are as follows: Native,
43, ATS, $40; foreign, 6,676, 943; white,
43, 400, $40; colored, $3.50, 1913 /; Chinese,
los, 1855; Indians, &c, 407.
The phoenix was fabulous bird that
was said to live in Arabia, and of which
Herodotus gives the following account
in that part of his work which treats on
Egypt: "The phoenix is another sacred
bird, which I have never seen except in
efigy. He rarely appears in Egypt
once only in 500 years, Immediately
after the death of his father, as the
Heliopolitans affirm. If the painters
describe him truly. his feathers repre-
sent mixture of crimson and gold and
he resembles the eagle in outline and
size. They affirm that he contrives the
following thing, which to me is not
credible. They say that he comes from
Arabia, and, bringing the body of his
father inclosed in myrrh, buries him in
the temple of the sun and that he
brings him in the following manner ::
First he molds as great q quantity of
myrrh into the shape of an egg as he is
we'll able to carry and, after having
tried the weight, he hollows out the egg,
and puts his parent into it, and stops up
with some more myrrh the hole through
which he had introduced the body, so
that the weight is the same as before !;
he then carries the whole mass to the
temple of the sun in Egypt. Such is
the account they give of the phoenix. !"
The popular version is that, on arriving
at the age of 500 years, the phoenix
built funeral pile, of wood and arc
matte gums, and, lighting it by the fan
ming of its wings, was consumed to
ashes, out of which arose new phoenix.