Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-03
BITS OF INFORMATION.

TIE ancient athletic games were leap
ing, foot races, darling, quoits, wrest-
ling and boxing.
New ORLEANS is called the Crescent
City" on account Of the circular bend Of
the river on which it stands.
TIE word "blanket was so called
from Thomas Blanket, who established
mandatory for these goods. at Bris-
tol, in 1910.
In the time OF William the Conqueror
an English pound was an actual pounds
weight Of silver, and coined into 20
shiliings. Now pound is worth less
than four ounces of silver, and is coined
into Is shillings.
THERE were four famous labyrinths in
history. The first was built by Della
lus, in the Island of Crete, about 1910
B. G.. the second, in Egypt, in the Isle
of Morris, in 6s3 B. @. the third at
Lemnos, remarkable for its sumptuous
pillars, and the fourth at Clucium, in
Italy, in Sob. O.
THE President of Chilli is elected for
five years. The national Congress is
composed Of thirty-seven members, cho-
sen for six years. The Chamber of Dep.
uties consists Of 100 members, elected
for three years. Suffrage is universal to
citizens able to read and write, and pay
ing small annual tax.
The sobriquet Iron Duke" applied
to the Duke OF Wellington, arose out OF
the building of an iron steamboat, which
piled between Liverpool and Dublin,
and which Its owners called the Duke of
Wellington. The term "Iron Duke :"
was first applied to the vessel, and af-
terward to the Duke.
SAM PATCH twice jumped over Niagara
falls-the first time from rock seventy
feet above the water at the brink, and
the second from -aGfold at the foot Of
what was then called the Biddle stair
case. Both jumps occurred in October.
1929. He met his death the same year
in jumping from the brink Of the upper
falls of the Genesee river, he being in
toxicated at the time.
THE origin of the saying which speaks
OF the difference 'twixt tweedledum
and tweedledee" is thus explained !:
The author was John Byron, an English
writer of celebrity, born 1891, died
1853, and originated in the feuds be-
tween the friends of the composers
Handel and Bononcini. The Duke Of
Marlborough and most OF the nobility
took Bononcini by the hand, but the
Prince of Wales, with Pope and Ar
buthnot, were for Handel. The lines
are a, follows
Some say, compared to Bononclni,
That Mynht er Handlers but ntnny;
Others aver that he TO Handel
Ia scarcely fit to no d a candle.
Strange all this difference should be
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweed.edeel
The original OF Shakspeare's Shylock
was Sampson Ceneda, Hebrew Insurer.
Paul Secchi, q merchant of the city of
Venice, heard by a private letter that
Sir Francis Drake had captured and pill
LACED San Domingo, and so informed
Ceneda. The latter discredited the re-
port and bet q pound OF flesh that it
. was false. Secchi wagered ], 600 crowns
that it was true. The report was con.
frmed, and Secchi claimed that which
ne had won. The Pope-Sextus "
told him he could have it, but that he
must take neither more nor less than q
pound, on pain Of being hanged. So
says Gregory Lati, in his Life of Sextus
"" Shakespeare, however, reverses the
order and makes the usurer demand the
pound of flesh from the merchant.
THERE are 10000 oystermen in Vir