Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-19
BITS OF INFORMATION.

OF the populati 7n of Ireland 76.6 per cent. are Catholics.
 THE Bible has been translated into 226 languages and dia!ects, and in the last eight years 40, GOO, GOO copies have been circulated.
 EIGHT of the Presidents of the United States have been members of the Ma sonic fraternity Washington, Jackson, Pierce, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Garfield and Arthur.
 THERE are now IT, ,726 locomotives in the country, of which New England has 1,7OO, the Middle States 6,000, the West. ern States 7,S00, the Southern States 1900, the Pacific States 420. Pennsyl- vania has 2,70O, New York 2,O00, lii nois 1900, Massachusetts 9GS, Georgia 303, Virginia 300 and Florida 36. The shops in the country now turn out 2, 800 locomotives @ year.
 JULIUS CESAR died in the year 14 B. C., and Jesus Christ was born ill either the fourth or the sixth year before the Christian era. Augustus was Elm peror of Rome at the time Of his birth. Tiberius Glaudius Caesar WAS Emperor at the time that Christ said, Render unto Cesar the things which are Caesar's." Tiberius was still Emperor at the time of the crucifxion of Christ.
 CONGRESS resolved on June Il, 1777, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thir- teen stripes, alternate rcd and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in blue field, representing new con stellation." This is the recorded legisla- tive action for the adoption of natioaal flag. The resolution was notpromulgatsd until Sept. 3. It is supposed that the flag was first unfurled by Paul Jones oA the Ranger It is not known by whom the stars were suggested. By some they have been ascribed to John Adams, and by others 1t has been urged that the en- tire flag was borrowed from the coat of arms of the Washington family, but | both coniectures are without proof, and the latter is improbable.
 THE history of mathematics may be divided into three great periods, each characterized by the introduction of i'm 1 portaDt new methods. In the first, the era of Greek and Roman supremacy, l geometry was almost exclusively cuit;- vated. While arithmetic was hardly more than @ mechanical calculation by means of the abecus, geometrical meth ods attained degree Of elegance scarce ly to be surpassed, as appears from the rank still maintained by Euclid Alter the decline of Rome the science took refuge among the Arabs, who trans. lated and preserved the literary treas. ures of Greece. The Arabian phiioso phers were, however, rather learned than inventive, and added little to the heritage. But they intreduced the sec end great period in the progress ot mathematics by imparting to Europe the decimal arithmetic, and the algebrait calculus, both Of which were perhaps oi Indian origin.
 THE origin of the Order of the Garter the highest order of knighthood in thu world, has beeR yariously given. Popu lar tradition ascribes 1t to Edward III. on the occasion of a court bail, at whicl he was dancing with the Countess O Salisbury. The lady accidentally dropped her garter the King picked it up, and observing the courtiers smile, restored 1t to the Countess with the words: "Hon .soit Qui naaL 9 pense" (eyil be to hin who evil thinks), and shortly afterwart founded the order as an incentive tc chivalry among his Knights. Anothe. account states that the King founded i with the hope of attracting the bes soldiers in Europe to his interest, ant invited Knights to the tournaments helC at Windsor. At the battle of Crecy, il 1346, he is said to have given lis garte for the signal Of battle, and aiterward ;. having been victorious by sea and land and having King David of Scotland prisoner, in memory of these grand events instituted the order on the 23d c April, 1342. IAe original Knights in clndad EdHnrd the BIaek Prince ant twenty fosir other gkss seleessd iron araong the highest nt5olas in the lansl among vhoza the names af the Earl Q Salisbury sud tho 4ir Thomas Hollan, who married tIie Bl2cIE Prince's widos are found. The gartezs as now worn b the Knights, is of blue veiSc borderei with gold, and has the above mc..sa in scribed on 1t.