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FIRST THINGS.


A Very Interesting Chapter on EHr.y In.
vcntions.
The first almanac was printed by Geo.
Won Purbach, in 1460.
The first copper cent was coined in
New Haven in 1857.
The first watches was made at Nu-
remburg in lat.
Omnibuses were introduced in New
York in 1880.
The first college in the United States
was founded in 1866.
The first compass was used in France
in 1850, though the Chinese are said to
have employed the loadstone earlier.
The first chimneys were introduced
into Rome fran Padua in 1868.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1852.
The first air pump was made in 1850.
The first algebra originated with
Diophantus, in either the fourth or
sixth century.
The first balloon ascent was made in
1888.
The first national bank in the United
States was Incorporated by Congress.
Dec. 81, 1871.
The first attempt to manufacture pins
in this country, was made soon after the
wal of 1912.
The first printing press in the United
States was introduced in 1929.
Coaches were first used in England in
1869.
Gas was first used as IN illuminating
agent in 1902. Its first use in New York
was in 1927.
The first glass factory in the United
States of which we have definite knowl-
edge was built in 1880.
Gold was first discovered in California
in 1S4S.
The first use of q locomotive in this
country was in 1929.
The first horse railroad was built in
1857.
The first daily newspaper appeared in
1902. The first newspaper in the United
States wa published in Boston, Septem-
Der 25, 1890. The first religious news
paper, the Boston Record, was estab-
lished in 1916.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1926.
The first Union flag was unfurled on
the first of January, 1776, over the camp
at Cambridge. 1t had thirteen stripes
of white and red, and retained the Eng
lish cross in n corner.
The first steam engine on this CONT
nent was brought from England in 1853.
The first sa%wmaker's anvil was
brought to America in 1919.
' The first temperance society in this
country was organized in Saratoga coun-
ty, n. Y, in March, 1908.
Glass was early discovered. Glass
beads were found on mummies over 5000
years old.
Glass window were first introduced
into England in the eighth century.
Anasthesia was first discovered in
1874.
The first steel pen was made in 1880.
The first machine for carding, rowing
and spinning cotton, made in the United
States. was manufactured in 1856.
Organs are said to have been first in
troduced into churches by Pope Vitalia-
nus, about A. D. 1870.
Envelopes we're first used in 1889.
The first complete sewing machine
was p~atened by Elias Howe, Jr., in
1916.
The first iron steamship was built in
1880.
Ships were first "copper.bottomed "
ina17S3.
Tie first telegraph instrument was
successfully operated by S. F. B. Morse,
the inventor, in 1885, though its utility
was not demonstrated to the world until
1874.
The first luoifer match was made in
1929.
The first steamboat piled the Hudson
in 1907
me first society for the exclusive pur-
pose Of circulating the Bible, was organ
lied 10 1905, under the name of "Brit-
ish and Foreign Bible Society,""
The entire Hebrew Bible was printed
in 14SS.
The first society for the promotion of
Christian knowledge, was organized in
1893. =.
The first telescope was probably used
IN England in 1908.