Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-10-04
CURlOBSsfACTS.


Kerosene wassintroduced in 1926.
Coal was first usedas fuel in 1884.
Lead pencils were first used in 1894.
The.first postage stamps were used in
1910.
The first newspaper was printed in
1904.
A California man has Matched out 300
tarantulas in an incubator.
Fools or licensed testers were kept at
court in England up to the time of
Charles I.
The manufacturers of gauze and arti-
cles of light fabric began at Paisley, in
Scotland, about 1853.
The discovery of gluten, an ingredient
of grain, is attributed to Beccaria, who
lived in the eighteenth century.
The Petit Journal of Paris has dali
circulation of nearly million copies, the
largest attained by any newspaper in the
world.
The London Globe has coined new
word which shall stand in the same rela-
ton to love, as aquatics does to genuine
navigation, and has hit upon fanatics"
Censors were Roman magistrates whose
duty it was to survey and rate property,
and correct the manners of the people.
The first two cersors were appointed
443 B. G.
A very old pear tree is now standing
on the grounds of w. H. Smith in Rich
mond, Me. Its exact age is not known,
but its identity can be traced back for
$50 years. 1t still produces fruit.
A kitchen table with as many drawers
beneath it as writing desk, and having
high back like sideboard full of
pigeon-holes Tor kitchen utensils, is a re-
cent addition to the hired girls COM
fort.
An ingenious sor of New York State
has patented a milking instrument Be
coming tired apparently of getting the
lacteal fluid in the usual way he has con.
structed pump, the end of which is to
be inserted in the udder.
Hospital Sunday, days on which col
lections were made in the churches for
the benefit of the hospitals, began at
Birmingham, England, November 13,
1859. The hospital Sunday system was
adopted in the United States in 1874
A Gothic government was established
in CASTLE about 500. BY the marriage
of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of
CASTLE, in 1474, the first step toward the
union of Aragon and CASTLE was taken.
Both kingdoms became one monarchy in
1479.
John D. Nutting, while prospecting
for garnets in the mountains near the
county house in Warren County, N. Y,
has discovered ore which he believes to
be rich in silver He also states that
there are traces of gold and copper in
the ore.
The fastest time made by railroad
train between New York and Chicago
was made by the Jarrett and Palmer
train in 1876. The time was about
twenty hours. The fastest regular time
is between New York and Philadelphia
ninety miles in 2:20, including stops.
Alaska presents the anomalous condi
tlon of being a Territory of the United
States without territorial government,
having no laws except Treasury regula-
tions, no political subdivisions, but a
customs district, with a collector and the
necessary subordinate officials.
There is lady in Milwaukee, Wis,
who is the mother of nine children.
None of them was named until it was
twelve years old. They were simply
called by their nicknames and numbers,
cone" "Two," etc. When they were
twelve years old each chose his own name
and was baptized.
Captain Hall, the Arctic naviga-
tor, perished from the effects of
the severe climate in the winter of 1874.
His crew cut his grave in the ice, and
the first mate read the service from his
prayer book. The seasons have de-
stroyed every vestige of his burial place,
Il, "a b1 fni1nI