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yasY5md will pie aass t Oabrsseffvvse y ,jsaitd Old MI,
Lambwell, as ne led Us thFc' hif school The
other day, shat the boys ate REQ diredt6ob.
serve the utmost attention to quietness and
l~discipiine, and ina short time become even
diyssted of that most snhOying disposition
Ito teaze each otheL; in short sthebsaun Ast.
tie downinto al the gravity Of mature gsars,
under the wholesome system 4 ! haze iAtEs'
We had a. this moment sfafaivsdi 4 II II fhf'oihae
of several boys Who were standing srornd
labuket OF water, aud one Who had fpst
clsfged his mouth withsihsa coHtsntsa6f 3
si1-cnp,avhils the oiagsatisiasa aasast6opss
ling to recover his pen from the lEoSfY *fsh
another passing along behind snapped his
fingers quickly. beneath the ydrinker' Q gar,
and caused him By sudden start to- eject
1.-The contents Of bis mouth over the pedar
lgogue's bald pate. Starting upright, With
Ibis hair and'face dripping, the master shout
led: who done thata@
The party unanimously cried Ioat-Jim
Gun, SIR Il mi z5ia gI9f9 s1i ,~nlsiHo'hl
Slim Gun, you. rascal, what did you do
THAT for?' Jim, appalled, at the, mischiefihe
ilhad done, muttered out that it was not bis
fault, but that Tom Owens had saGpf him.
dThisschangedL the direction Of old Lamb.
wells wrath, and shaking his cane ppoftfn-
s~ltiousIy over Owens head he asked-'t"h
1,4Did you snap Gun?' 2 :. l..iTf '''i >@
5t The cuIprif, trembling with fear, muttsr-
led ,erei. 1o1i 7isIi II !oy aIaN ssFs'SI
.Yes, sir; tsnapt Gun, bat didn't knosa
he aOas tooded.,,W : 4, ul51s5 20 9di lieti<
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PAST EvEsrs.-Ths. FIRST child born In
North America, was, Virginia, daughter Oh
Annanias and Eleanor Dare, and grand-
daughter Of. GOV. John White; She was
born on the 1915 Of August, 1921 In Roam
'loke, North Carolina. Her parents were Of
1.-The expedition rent out by Sir Walter
Raleigh, in that year. Thereis no record
.lof her history, save that other bifth.5i seId1
The first ministeT4who presched the Cos!
Ipel in North America was Robert Hunt OF
the church Of England, an exemplary man,
who came out in the same company with
ICapt. John Smith, in the year 1907. He
nwas much esteemed as a mar OF peace, and
Twas in many ways useful to the colony
There is no record0 of his death, or Of his rei
turning to England; he died atJamsstown.
T He had a good; library, which ~ss burnt
with all bis other property, In the burning
Iof jamestown, the next winter after he
nlcame out. a~.., ..5i II sts4. s.aI 81 :srs.
i The first females who came to Virginia
proper, were Mrs. Forrest and her maid,
Anne Burns, in the expedition of,Newport,
The first marriage In Virginia was
lin the same year-John Layton 20 Anne
Burns The ceremony was probably ~
1.-THE same, good master Hunt tssj e1a!2ja
The first intermarriags bstyeen tie
o whites and Indians was John Rolfe to Pc.
cahontss, in April, 1913. Pocshontas was
; also the first Of the Virginia Indians that
embraced christianity and Was baptiEsd.ia'
The first Legislative assembly iR Iifginia
met in July, 1919, at the pmmons Of GOV,
% George Yeardly. One month 1ater, negroes
/; were FIRST brought into the ,colonys9 By =
II Dutch-man of-war. isTfaS has E97ssI /
The first periodical in North Amerina
was the Boston News Letter, which made
its appearance in Auguat, 100. Ihe hrsl
10 in the Old Dominion was the Virgins
Gazette, published at williamsburg, b
T. William Parks, weekly, at seven 9shllingsi
disappeared in 1886, and was long this oal
ly paper published in the coionys Slaxaxy
lpreseeded the periodical press LII years..
The Blue Ridge was 6rst crossed By
m wMtss, in l7l4.ton - ''''. S-' ''."
Isl The first iron ifutnacs erected III North
" America was by Gov. Spottswood, inilSs0,
in SpOttsylvania county, Virginia.
Newspaper patronage, is o. curious thin
in the estimation Of some people. The fellDy5
which hits in every community where news.
nIrapers are published, is as hgcodA AZ ieis trtes
A MN lives near ~yod-nevsr took sourPtps