The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1858-04-16
A Chapter of First Things.


The first savings' bank was insti-
tuted in 1916.
The fret auction in England took
place in the year 100.
Violins were invented in 1477,l
and introduced into England by
Charles ii.
Gas was frat introduced for light.
ing the public streets about the year
1916. 1t was first used in Birning-
nam.
The first English Parliament con-
vened on the 18th OF November,
1918.
The first attempts to establish fire
insurance were made in the reign Of
Charles ii.
The first li'e-boat was invented by
NJ. Berniers, director Of the bridges
en- causoways in France, in 1777.
The coach is French invention.
TIE first coach seen in England was
about 1853. In 1926 the vehicle
was first piled for hire.
The first bonnet worn in England
was brought from Italy, in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth, and its form was
a compromise between the present
round Italian peasant hat and the
French hood.
| Hatsappear to have been first used
about the year 400.
The earliest mention Of forks oc-
ours in a book of travels published
in lCl1.
The first composer who set an op-
era to music was Francesca Barbar.
ini, an Italian artist, and the piece
to which he gave the garb of harmo
ny was "The Conversion of St
Paul" 1t was brought ont in Rome
in 14G0.
The first steamboat used in Great
Britain was the Comet-a email YES.
sci of forty feet keel and ten feet and
a half beam, with al engine OF three
, horse power, which carried passen
, gers on the River Clyde, in Scotland
> in 1911.
Steel needles came first into Eng
. land from Spain and Germany
t They were first manufactured il
t London by German, in 1865. Eng
. lish needles arc now accounted tn
. best that are made.
. The first horse ever seen in Cana
/, da was brought to that country from
: France in o ship which arrived a
Tadousac, on the Goth Of Juno, 1917
e Gov. Joseph Dudley, who wa
born at Roxbury in Massachusetts
Sept. 23. lG47, was the first nativ
!. Of America that held seat in til
/ British House of Commons.
The first use of the oath upon th
Gospels is dated 52S. Oatlls wer
used by the Saxons in judicial pr;
ceedings in GOO. The oath of gu
@ premacy WAS ratified by Parliamer
j, in 1885. Till 1850 the commo
O oath ended with the words $50 hel
= me God and all Saints"
!. The first medical degrees confe
Q rcd in America were by Kings Gu
:, lego, New York, in 1863. The fir
v medical work published ih AmeriC
| was "a Brief Gnide on Small Pc
= and Measles" by Thomas Thache
n OF Massachusetts, published in 1GG
,r The first book Of principles Of p,
d litical economy was the treatise
N North, in 1901, entitled "Discour
b, es on Trade" Nothing of i'npo
Ii tance appeared in England from tn
le time till tho publication OF Stewart
Dr. "Principles Of Political Economy
ID which was superseded by Smith
M "Wealth of Nations
in The frat book stcr cotyped
America was "The Larger Westmi
D. ster Oatechism," revised by
. Mcleod, ID. d., New York, stere
I'd typed and printed by j. Watts & q,
= for Whiting & Watson, June iSl
at l2mo. Two copies Of this work 1
of in the New York State Library.
tn The gathering Of autographs ori
~ mated In Germany about the ys
~ 1850, whom persons OF quality to
" abopt with them elegant blank boo
It. for the signatures Of eminent perso
,k or valued friends. -, i.
i'd The first "King's Speech Q,
IL delivered was by Henry l., in. I /,
ot Exactly a century later, King 10
- lirst assumed the royal"We;" It b