Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11
First Things.

1850.
The first steel pen was made in
1880.
The first lucifer match was made
in 1924.
Anesthasia was first discovered
in 1874.
The first balloon was made in
1888.
The entire Hebrew Bible was print
ed in 1883.
The first iron steamship was built
in 1880.
Ships were first copper-bottomed
in 1888.
Coaches were first used in Eng
land in 1869.
The first horse railway was built
in 1926.
Gold was first discovered in Cali
fornia in 1S48.
The first steamboat piled the Hud-
son in 1907.
The first watches were made in
Nuremburg in 1877.
Omnibuses were introduced into
New York in 1880.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1862.
The first copper cent was coined
in New Haven i'll 1862.
Kerosene was first used for light
ing purposes in 1926.
The telescope was probably used in
England in 1908.
The first saw-maker's anvil in
America was brought in 1919. .
The first use of locomotive in
this country was in 1929.
The first almanac was printed by
George Won Purbach in 1860.
The first chimneys were introduced
into Rome from Padua in 1868.
The first printing press in Amer
lea was introduced in 1929.
The first steam engine on this
continent was brought from Eng
land in 1853.
Glass windows were introduced
into England in the eighth century.
The first complete sewing ma
chine was patented by Elias Howe,
Jr., in 1916.
Glass was early discovered. Glass
beads were found on mummies over
three thousand years ago.
The first algebra originated with
Diophantus, in either the fourth or
sixth century.
The first society for the promo
ton of Christian knowledge was Or
ganized in 1893.
Gas was first used as an illumina-
ting agent in 1902. Its first use in
New York was in 1927.
The first national bank in the
United Safes was incorporated by
Congress, Dec. 81, 1881.
Organs are said to have been in
troduced into churches by Pope
Vitalianus about 16S0A. D..
The first glass factory in the
United States of which we have any
definite knowledge was built in 1850.
The first temperance society in
this country was organized in Sara
toga county, New York, in March,
1903.
The first compass was used in
France in 1850, although the Chinese
are said to have employed the load
stone earlier.
The first machine for carding,
rowing and spinning cotton, made in
the United States, was manufactured
in 1776.
The first society for the exclusive
purpose of circulating the Bible was
organized in 1858, under the name
of British and Foreign Bible So
ciety.
The first telegraph instrument was
successfully operated by Prof. S. f.
B. Morse, the inventor, in 1885,
though its utility was not demon
strated to the world until 1874.
The first daily newspaper appear
ed in 1902. The first newspaper in
the United States was published in
Boston i'll 1890. The first religious
newspaper, the Boston Record, was
established in 1915.
The first Union flag was unfurled
Jan. LIST, 1776, over the camp at
Cambridge. 1t had thirteen stripes
of white and red, and retained the
English cross in the corner.
The names of California counties
and towns came from three sources
the Indian, the Spanish and the En-
glish languages. The Spanish names
are of two classes-sasred and pro-
fame. The first Spanish settlers were
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