Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-01
BITS OF INFORMATION.


 Ono was admitted to the Union in 1902.
 THE first public school in Cincinnati was opened in April, 1929.
 JosEPHUs placed the creation of the world 4,65S years before the Christian era.
 CROMWELL established the first stand ing army that was organized in En- gland.
 THE early Roman candles were com- posed of strings which had been dipped ill pitch.
 BoNAPARTE, Wellington, Ney, Soult and Lannes were all born the same year, viz, 1769.
 ONLY three words in the English lan- guage contain all the vowels Ill their regular order without any repetitions- arsenious, abstemiously and facetiously.
 AN act of the British Parliament can not be questioned by the courts, except to ascertain its meaning. It can not be annulled by them under any pretext Parliament is the supreme authority.
 QUEEN VICTORIA was born at Ken sington Palace, London, May 24, 1919, and ascended the throne at the death of her uncle, King William w., June 20, 1S37 She wns married Feb. To- 1S40, to Prince Albert of Saxe- Coburg- Gotha, who died Dec. II, 1861. The Queen has had nine children, eight of whom are living.
 THE following is the length and names of the three longest railway tun- nels in the United States Hoosac: Built in 1S54-76; length, 25,0S ct; mean height, 20 feet mean width, 9 feet through mica schist, decomposed rock and granatoid gneiss. San Fernando, Built in 1S75-7G length, 6,966 feet width, 16 feet; height, 19l feet through sandstone. Under Baltimore Built in 1S71-73; length, 6,9iS feet; width, 27 feet :; height, 1S.5 feet through lock, clay and earth arched throughout.
 THE fifteen decisive battles of history, from Marathon to Waterloo, are Mara thon, ,-490 B. c. defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse, 413 B. C.. Arbela, 331 B. c. Metaurus, POT B. O.; victory of Ar minus over the Roman legions under Varus. 9 A. D.. Chalons, 451 A. D.; Tours, 732 A. D.. Hastings, 1066 A. D.. Joan of Arcs victory at Orleans, 1429 A. D. defeat of the Spanish Armada, 156S A. D. Blenheim, 1704 A. D. Pull iowa, 1709 A. D. victory of the Amer jeans over Burgoyne at Saratoga, TIT A. D.; Valmy, 1792 A. D.. Waterloo, 1915 4. D.
 THE language applied to gems ispure- ly fanciful. as is that of flowers. It is an old nonsense that has come down from the olden time, and the sentiment ascribed to precious stones Is as old as the tenth century, and for centuries was the controlling feature in making gifts of gems. The following is the imagined sentiment Garnet, constancy and tideI- ity; Amethyst, sincerity; Blackstone, courage and presence of mind; Dia- mond, innocence; Emerald, success ill love; Agate, health and long life; Cor nelian, contented mind; Sardonyx, con- iugal felicity; Chrysolyte, antidote against madness; Opal, hope; Topaz, fidelity; Turquoise, prosperity; Pearl, purity.
 In the year 1910, during the reign of Malcolm l., Scotland WAS invaded by the Danes, who made a descent on Ab- erdeenshire, selecting the still hour of midnight as the time to make descent on Staines Castle. When all was ready, and there was reasonable hope that the inmates of the castle were asleep, they commenced their march. They advanced cautiously, taking off their shoes to prevent their footsteps being heard. They approached the lofty tower, their hearts beating in joyous an- ticipation of victory. Not sound was heard from within, and they could scarcely refrain from expressions of de- light, for they had but to swim across the moat and place scaling ladders, and the castle was theirs. But in another moment a cry from themselves aroused the inmates to sense of their danger, the guards flew to their posts, and pur- sued the now-trembling Danes, who fled before them and the intruders were re- pulsed. The cause was that the moat, instead of being filled with water, was, in reality, dried up and overgrown with thistles, which pierced the unprotected feet of the assailants, who, tortured with pain, forgot their cautious silence and uttered the cry which had alarmed the inmates of the castle, and from that day the thistle has been the national emblem.