Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-04-21
sOME VALUABLE FACTS.
Interesting Data That Everybody
Should Preserve.


There are nearly 100000 Cinnamon
in the United States. Il
The cotton crop of the United States
in 1886 was ., 550,000 bales.
The salt production of the United
States was nearly five millions in
1880.
The United States has paid out
more than ninety millions for public
buildings.
Publick Occurrences, the first Amer
lean newspaper, appeared at Boston
in 1919.
In 1885 307 persons were killed and
$3.50 were wounded in railway acct
dents.
The value of the real and personal
property of Illinois in 1880 was 49,
100000.
OF the twenty-siX barons who sign
ed the Magma Charta only three
could write their names.
Harvard is the oldest college in
this country. 1t was founded in
1888. William and Mary was not
founded until 1888. Yale was estab-
lished seven years later.
New York furnished 467, 047 sol
diers to the Union armies during the
war. Pennsylvania was next with
366, JOY, Ohio next with 319,659, and
Illinois next with 259, 147.
DATES OF NOTABLE EVENTS.
The reformation began in lj17.
Magma Charta was signed in 1915.
The Suez canal was opened 1869.
The first watches were made in
1919.
Organs were first used in the year
755.
The war of the Roses occurred in
1855.
The first musical notes were used
in 1888.
The first newspapers were printed
in 1894.
The first postoffice was established
in 1916.
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay
both died in 1852.
Printing vas introduced into Eng.
land in 1474.
Joan of Arc, the sainted maid Of
Orleans, died in 1881.
The first Gotten was raised in the
United States in 1921.
| Aaron Burr died the year before
Queen Victoria's accession in 1887.
The oldest city in the United States
st. Augustine, was founded in 1915
SHAKESPEARE died in 1916, four years
before the Pilgrim fathers landed Oh
Plymouth Rock.
The modern needle came into us
in 1916, and five years later the frs
knives were used in England.
Printing was known in China il
the sixth century, but was not intro
duced into America until 1889.
The piano was invented in 171C
the lightning-rod came forty-tw
years later, and gas was used 70
light in 1892.
Alaska was purchased from Russi
t in 1867, just sixty-three years afte
Jefferson made the Louisiana pun
t chase.
The first telegraph line was opene
: between Baltimore and Washingto
l in 1874. The first photograph ha
g been made forty-two years before.
In 1851 LaSalle discovered tn
/. Mississippi, and just 100 years late
Robert Raikes established the fir
e Sunday-school at Gloucester, Enf
Il land.
s The first American library VIZ
: founded in 1858, and only four yea
p later public schools were established
? In just ten years enlightenment a
s tanned the point of printing the fir
e newspaper advertisement.
II SECOND TITLES OF CITIES.
/, Chicago is called the Garden Cit.
u Boston is the Hub, or the Model
Athens.
Nashville is the Rock City, he
kuk the Gate City and Pittsburg Il
20 Iron or Smoky City.
# Lowell is the City Of Spindles, Mi
q waukee the Cream City and S
g Louis the Mound City.
8, Washington is called tine City
! Magnificent Distances, while Ne
York is known as Gotham.
=, Louisville is the falls City, Cinci
II !, natl the Queen City and New Orleal
- the Crescent City.
,' Brooklyn is the City of Churche
- while Philadelphia, the Quaker Cit
,, is the City of Brotherly Love.
~ Rochester is the Flour City al
., Springfield is the Flower City, viii