The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-01-26
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rsHeEs attempts have bom mnsse g.
Ass'sssiDate Queen Victoria ~
TEE theater of hfarc,llus, n: Isnn,s,.
wac eapssble d seating "a, cW per,s,E.A
Il has been estimated that ., QQ,s) ,ool
racn pelished in the wars begun to ra,
cover H1e Holy Land. a... .-'
WILLIAM HEERy HARRISON wna IT,,
Oldest man eloctsd President, and Con.
Grant the youngest.
Az Italian writer aays that a.. 900
operas have beea written since ICUu, OF
which 10, coo have been produced by t,.e
sons Of ls.iy.
IT is stated that il takes 80, ,DQ0 roses
to produce hslf mn ounce Of tho altar,
which accounts for the high price dc
nartle1 for Che pure article.
ENsE.AsD produces more tin then any
other country in the world. There nte
tin mines IN Bohemia, Saxony, Spain,
Portugal, MaIacca and Australia.
WARREN HASTINGS, Governor Geueral
Of India, vas tried by the peers Of Greet
Britain for lEgh crimes end 1nisdemean-
or. One Of the charges was his accent
anse OF s100,C00 from the Naboh Of
Dude. The trial lasted seven years ats.
three monthA Terminating in his ac-
quittal.
TEE White House vas frs: built l.,
1892, Ut cost OF $4,000. It was not
occupied until $500. Il was rebuilt il
1918 Its porticoes were not iin.sle>l
until 1929. Altogether, it is computed
to have cost for building, rebuilding ap,i
furnishing about 81, 700, 800. The wnoi
structure has frontage Of l7o fe.ss nr,,
q depth Of 6S feet and its vcstl!,u.
'o0AG feet. 1Ite1Sa1deA snt, iet.sh wgll,:i
inclose the mansion occupy twv,lty atrc,,.
The Cabinet-roo,n, 40x3O feet, Is Oh, ;hr
second floor. The White HoJ,,sa Was
modelled after the palace OF tae Duke vi
Leicester.
TIE phrase Speaking for buncunbe !"
originated hear the close of the deb.t,.
on the famous 60 Missouri Question, il
the sixteenth Congress. It was the
used by Felix walter, WHO lived at
WaNesville, in haywood, the most
western county OF North Carolina, n,,l1
the adjacent county Of Buncombe,
which formed part OF his district. .hu
Old man rose to speak, while tho Eonss
was impatiently calling for the "qAs-
ton aud several members glthrrsi
around him, begging him to ode;lst. liz
perseve,ed, however, for whiis, deciar-
ing that the people OF bis district ex~
pected it, and that he was bound to
"nake speech for Bunoosabc."
THE phrase According to Gunter."
refers to Edmund Guuter, q distin-
guished English mathematician, WHO
was born in 1881 and died IN 1929. He
is known as the inventor of ttlo chain
commonly used by surveyors for pees-
nlfng land, and Of the Cat wooden rule
marked With scales on equal parts sf
siues, chords, ETC., and also with logo
ritha,s Of these various parts, winch is
used to solve problems In surveying end
navigation mechanically with the uii 81
dNiders alone. Hence in the use oi the
phrase, anything is according to Cur
Der /" which Ia done quite right end lG-
mlts G DO Improvement .,-
A LONDON paper once printed the fol-
lowing in regard to the "orign OF the
custom oi making fools on the lst Of
April:" "Tl.is Is ssid to havs hgua
from the ,nistsie Of Noah n sending the
dove out OF the ark before the water had
flbated- On the first daV OF the mott
anong the Hebrews winch answers to
the lst Of Aprl; AID to perpesuass tho
memory OF this delivexNns Is wne
thought proper, whoever forgot SO re-
mArkahe a circumstance, to punish
them by sending them upon some sleeve
leas errani similar to that inefectn.l
rs.sssaes upon which the bid was seat
b5 ti.a is.tfi4rch- The custom appears
to Ds os great antiquity, and to have
been derived BY the Romano from some
of the Eastern nations.