Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-08
THEIR FIRST APPE
Envelopes were first used in 1889.

hlNelopeb NeIe uTbt useu Ill lCO''
Ana hesis was discovered in 1874
The first steel pen was made in
1880.
The first air pump was made In
1854.
Tho first %lucifer match was made In
1898.
Mohsmmed was born at Mecca
about 5O6.
The first iron steamship was built
in 1880.
Tn" first balloon ascent WAS made
10 1898.
Coaches were first used in England
in 1869.
The first steel plate was discovered
in 1910.
The first horse railroad wac built in
l82G-.7.
The franciscan arrived in England
In 1924.
The first steamboat piled the Hud.
son in 1877.
The entire Hebrew bible was printed
in 1883.
Ships were first "copper". bottomed'
In 1882.
Col was Grs5 discovered In CAL.
fornia in 1S4S
The frat telescope was used In Eng.
land i'll 1908.
Christianity was introduced into
Japan in l549. D
Tie first watches were made at NJ.
remberg in 1477
First saw-maker's anvil brought to
America in 1919.
First almanac printed by Geo. Won
Furbach in 1860.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1902.
Percussion arms were used In the
U S. army in 1880.
The first use of a locomotive in THU
country was In 1929.
Omuibusses were first introduced II
New York In 1880.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1860.
The first COPPER cen was coined il
New Haven III 1857.
The fi'st glass factory in the United
States was built In 1880.
The first printing press in thu
United States was worked in 1920.
Glass windows were first introduced
into Eogisnd in the eighth century.
The first steam engine on this con
t,nent was brought from England ii
1853.
Tho first complete sewing machin
was patented by Elias Howe, jr,, il
1876.
The first socie'y for the promotion
of Christian knowledge was organ
lied in 1903.
The first attempt to manufacture
pins in this country was m ,de sool
after the war of 1912.
The first prayer book of Edwar,
vi. came into use by authority o
parliament on Whit Sunday, l549
The first temperance society in thi
country was organized in Saratog
county, N. Y, in March, 1903.
The first coach in Scotland wa
brought thither In 1861, when Q leel
Mary came from France. 1t belonge
to Alexander Lord Seaton.
The frat daily newspaper appeare
in 1902 The first newspaper printe,
In the United States was published
Boston on September 20, 1890.
The manufacture of porcelain wa
introduced into the province of Heir
Japan, from China, In 1913, an
Il. gin ware still bears Chinese marks
The first society for the exclusiv
purpose o~f'ciroulating the Bible wa
organized in 1905 under the name {
the British and Foreign Bible Society
The first telegraphic instrument ws
suoc q fully operated bv S. f. L
Morse, the inventor, in 1885, thong
it's utility was not demonstrated to tn
world until 1912.
The frat Union flag was unfurled o
the 1st of January, l776, over tn
camp at Cambridge. 1t had thrice
stripes of white and red, and retaine
the English CROSS In one corner.
When Capt Cook first visited Tahi'
the natives were using nails Of wooc
bone, shell and atone. When the
saw iron nails they fancied them to b
shoots of some very hard wood, ant
DESTROYS of securing such a valaabI
commodity, they planted them in the.
gardens.