Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-29
BITS OF INFORMATION.

THERE are about 15O public libraries in the United States.
 GonD is little over donble the weight of iron, and IS the heaviest of the metals, except platinum, when the latter Is fused.
 THE greatest length of the United States from east to west IS 2, 800 miles greatest breadth from north to south. 1,600 miles; average breadth, 1,200 miles.
 RATS are said to have strong aver sion to asphodel, and to banish the rodents plant asphodel near the barn or stable where they are, or put sonhe ill their holes.
 THE population of the city proper of London was in 1901, 156, ,S59; 1s11, 120, 909; 1921, 125, ,434; 1881, 125,574; 1841, 125, 003; 1851, 122, 440; 1851, l12, 2,063; 1871, 74,697; 1881, 52, ,5s9.
 TIE following are the proportions of nutriment contained in 1,030 parts of 1.-the articlss of food mentioned: Mntto |, 29o; chicken, 270; beef, 260; veal, 25l; pork, 240; blood, 215; codfish, 2I0 :. milk, 72; wheat, 95G; nuts, 93J.
 TEE salary of Speaker of the House is 1 S8,G00. Congressnlen receive 8, 050 tScr annum and mileage, 21 cents per- mile of travel, each session, to and from Washington. Allowance for stationery and newspapers, Si25 per annum.
 TIE Drunken Parliament ]" was n Scotch Parliament assembled at Edm-
 burgh, Jan. l, 1851. Burnet says: 's It
 was mad, warning time, and 10 wol-
 der 1t WAS so, when the men of affairs
 were almost perpetnaly drunk.
 TIE whole length of navigation in tie
 Suez canal is eighty-eight geographical
 miles. Or this distance sixty-six miles
 are actual canal formed by cuttings,
 fourteen miles are made by dfeagiDg
 through lakes, and eight miles required
 no works the natural depth being equal
 to that of the canal. The entire cost,
 including harbors, was about SlGo; ;O00.-
 GOO. It Is regarded as making saving
 Qf thirty-six days on the voyage frolu
 Western Europe to the East lndles.
 THE capacity of some of the noted
 buildings of Europe is as follows
 St. Peter's Church, Rome. ..4nco
 St Pallis; London. 30
 St Sopha's. Consantlnople- 3j.'Dl
 Florence Cathedral .s,3
 St. fetronius, Bologna. 24, ,0:
 St Pauis, Home ..-.-..--.---.--..----... S2.aaI
 St John Lateran. nUl
 Notre Dame, Paris. s.................... a1,n ! Pisa Cathed. al IS. 'srD
 St Stephens, vienna. ....-.....-- :, ,i'h
 ST. Danln1co, Eo4ogEa i2,' tA st. Peters, Bologna. II ,5u1
 Cathedral tf Vienna III ..o,
 St. Mark, Venice. T Q ]
 Milan Cathedral T,u59 'sSPUN butter is the same as "roast
 butter" and this WAS once a delicate test , of hcusewifery. A spit was thrust ] through pound of firm butter, and, after being very thickly pasted with 5 flour, 1t was set before tine fire. In tho 7 days of turnspits and smokejacks it was 5 easy to turn this steadily and constantly. [ The problem was for the housekeeper to l do this after these contrivances passed . away The butter was pasted constant : ly, and the heat drew the butter out into g the flour. As soon as one baste R,as 9 Drowned lightly, another was thro. i}uzz 9 When finished, you had an exctlleat 6 roll of puff paste five times the orix.1h3 S pound of butter, and when perleef{x e cooked there was & hollow at the lealz . exactly the size of the original poissf. |, When served, this hollow could be aZzz k with jelly or preserves.
 > THE Eolian harp is composed of q e rectangular box, made of very tilfn U ooTds, 3 inches deep a1d inches HlIfze. !, and long enough to it across the Ni1s > dow ill which it is to be placed. Aetfe e top of each end of the box is glued a e strip of wood about half all inch i'll n height; these strips serve as bridge n for the strings, which are stretched Ii lengthwise across the top of the box, 9t and are made of catgut or wire. These $ strings should be tuned in unison by Is means of pegs constructed as in the d violin, and with the same number. l. When the instrument is exposed i'll a Ie window partly open, so as to allow cur 70 rent of air to pass over the strings, 8
 most agreeable combination of tones is
 produced, constantly varying in pitch
 and intensity with the force of the wind f und forming harmonies of wild and t melancholy character.