Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-19
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THE word brandy is of German origin, brannt vein, signifying burnt wine.
 THERE are POI, ,O0O, 900 Roman Catho- lies and 106, 100000 Protestants in the world.
 A PALINDRoME is word that reads backward and forward alike. For in stance, madam. The salutation of the first man to the first woman is said to have been Madam, I'm Adam.
 THE highest mountain on the North American continents Mount St. Elias, il Alaska, whose elevation is 17,780 feet Next to 1t come the volcano of Popoca- tapetl, in Mexico, in 17,700 feet, and Orizaba, also in Mexico, 17,370 feet.
 THE second Governor of Bermuda was Captain Daniel Tucker, of Virginia, from which colony those islands were settled. The old negro melody "Get out O de way, old Dan Tucker" refers, it Is supposed, to this Bermulian dig n1tary.
 Woo1sAcK, the name given to the seat of the Lord High Chancellor ot England in the House of Lords, IS S called from its being 9 large square bae of wool, without back or arms, covered with red cloth. Wool was the staple commodity of England in the reign O. Edward ILL, when the woolsack was | first used.
 THE followers of Buddba outnumbel those ct all other religions combinet Buddhism being the religion of two fifGhs of the human race. At the pres ent time 1t is the religion of the multi tude in China, while the learned men o' that most conservative nation cling to the more modern teachings of Confu- cius, which date back only some 55l years 5. c.
 HERE is fact for smokers: The choicest cigarettes in New York are now made of discarded cigar stumps, These gatherings of the |" butt pickers have ? real Havana flavor quite their own. They are used for "fillers " for cigar cites, and quite an extensive trade is done in them. Probably they do moi make such bad cigarettes after all, il one could forget the association.
 LICENSES, when first issued, were moi for traders, but were introduced by Richard l., 119J, for. the purpose ol levying money, and were sold to thost of the nobility who desired to enter the tournaments. The General Lcens in. act was adopted in England in 1928 though licenses for public houses were granted in 1851. In the United States the license tax was levied by act ot Congress, July 1, 1862.
 IN the year 1850 the Wings were known as "Silver Greys." The " Hunk CTS" were the Bourbon Democrats o that day. In England the Barn Burn CTS were ultra radicals or dest,uctives who burnt the barns ''in order to reform social and political abuses" In the United States "Barn Burners" wgs thS name given to a party having its origin in the opposition to the pefpetual rent system which had taken root in New York The 't Woolly Heads '" were tho original Abolitionists.
 YlIR WAS the personiication of Chaos or the first created being, produced ty the antagonjsm of heat and cold. Ht is called giant, in the Scandinavian mythology, and was nourished by tn COW Audhumla While he slept, mar and woman grew out of his left arm and sons from his feet Thus was gen erated the race of ost-giants. Odir and his two brothers slew Ymir, ant threw his carcass in the Ginnungaga, ; for the abyss of abysses), where hi. blesd formed the waters of the eartl and the ecean, his bones the mountains his teeth the. soeks, bis skull the sky his brains the clouds, his hair plants o every kind, and his eyesSows the wal of defensa against the g1ai1ts. ase COW Audhunia, which nollzished Xmir vii sorl streams of milk, produced n1un' hair, on tt.sa first day, by licking th' frost-covered sJoras; on the second day q mans head, and on taae third day, ! aompIeJe human being. named Barl