Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-13
BITS OF INFORMATION.

THERE are in the world 5000 varieties
Of postage stamps.
The expression to carry corn" means
TO bear wealth, to be rich.
TnE cost OF Chicago's water works
system has been 80, $780, 40.
RICHARD III was only 10 years old at
the opening of ShakspOre's play.
The gum used on postage stamps is
made Of the powder OF dried potatoes and
other vegetables, mixed with water.
TnE " Giants Causeway is basaltic
mole in Ireland, said to be the COM
mencement of causeway from ireland
to Scotland.
The art of iron smelling was known
in England during the time of the
Roman occupation, and working in steel
was practiced there before the Norman
conquest.
THE receipts Of the Worlds fair in
London, in 1851, were 81, 1901 600; of
Paris in 1856, s640, 600; Of London in
1862, 81, 042, $780, OF Paris in 1867, 3d.
los, 1915 ; Vienna, in 1873, 81, 032, 800;
Of Philadelphia, in 1876, S3,S13, 750;
OF Paris, in 1878, 81, $50, 749.
"a ROLAND for an Oliver" means
blow for blow, tit for tat. Roland and
Oliver were two OF the palalins OF Char
lemagne, whose exploits are so similar
that it is very difficult to keep them dis
tinct. What Roland did Oliver was sure
to do, and vice versa At hist the two
met in single combat, and fought for
five consecutive days ON an island in
the Rhine, but neither gained the slight
est advantage.
"DHU ct mon droit is the motto of
the royal family of England. 1t WIS
first assumed by Richard l., to intimate
that he held his sovereignty from God
alone. 1t seems TO have been dropped
among the immediate successors of that
Prince, but was revived by Edward ILL.,,
when he first claimed the crown OF
France. Since, in the reign OF Eliza
beth, William II. and Ammo, it hus
formed the roy al motto of England.
TAG Judiciary of the United States
consists Of the Supreme Court, with a
Chief Justice who receives salary of
$40, 500 year, and eight Associate Jus.
tees who each receive salary OF
$40, nine Circuit Judges, ut sal
airy Of Sc, 600 each /; the Court of Claims
with five Justices salary, $4,000; and
the Judges of the United States Distr ct
Courts, whose salaries range from 50, 800
to S., 900 per annum.
The Prince of Wales landed at ST.
Johns, July a, 1860, for his American
tour. He remained in the Queens do
minions for several weeks, AMI was re-
ceived with enthusiasm wherever he
went. While in the United States he
visited Chicago, st. Louis, New York,
Boston and other leading cities, and
vast crowds of people turned out to see
him in these several metropolitan CEN
tiers. The Prince was met by President
Buchanan at Washington, and visited
the various departments Of the Govern
ment. He also visited Mount Vernon,
where is the tomb of Washington.
To MAKE shoe pegs enough for Amer.
lean use consumes annually 100000
cords of timber, and TO make lucifer
matches, 300, COO cubic feet OF the best
pine are required each year. Lasts and
boot trees take 500, 600 cords of birch,
beech and maple, and the handles of
tools 500, 600 more. The baking of our
bricks consumes 2,00J,000 cords of
wood, or what would cover with forest
about so, 900 acres Of land. Telegraph
poles already up represent 500, 0, 0 trees,
and their annual repair consumes about
300, 600 more. The ties Of our railroads
consume annually thirty years growth
of rs, 600 acres, and to fence all our rail-
roads would cost 45,000,00 with q
yearly expenditure of $1,000, 900 for
repairs. These are some Of the ways
in which American forests are
going: There are others; our packing
boxes, for instance, cost, in 1874, Sl2,-
600, 900, while the timber used each yer
is making wagons and agricultural I'M
plements is valued at more than $780,
000 600.