Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-04-23
FIRST THINGS.
The Curiosity Hunter Sea rob eS tho Records
81 several ArtlsleA:

OF SWVepAs AVIbS1es"
1;he Arst bell rung in America. Was
erected Oh tie first church ever built
ia this sounttS, early IN 1894: Colum:
bus landed at Isabella, in the island oi
San Domingo, in December. 1893, and |
soon built church. Shortly after
ward new city was begun in the royal
plain Of La Vega, aud was called Ii
Vega, or the City Of the Plains. Ills
church, with its bell. and all the other
hSuses OF isabella, wis tttert moved to
La Vega. In 1912 the new City of tile
Plains was destroyed by an earthquake.
About q quarter of q century ago, In
the branches of fig tree which had
grown up among the ruins OF the bell
fry tower Of the. church. \ bel! was
i,cei, Which proved to be the original
| bell in question. and this historic bell
is now in the city of Washington 1t Is
Of bronze, eight inches by six ana
! half, bears the letter in old Gothic
! characters and has the image OF San
, Miguel on its surface,
Tho fifst drop. of blood she III the
war OF the rebellion. it has been de-
c!ared. are at the present time in the
possession OF Col B. F. Hawkins, OF
! the pension Office in Washington. They
were shed by Col. b. F. Kelley. who
commanded the federal forces At the
battle Of Phiiippi, the first bate of
the war. One of the irst bullets fired
pierced Col. Ke!1cy's lung an stained
/ his vest which waa presorvc1 Col
!: Kelley did not die, although the
| surgeon pronounced his wound mortal
The first printing press in the
United States began its civilzi 7g work
at Cambridge. Mass in Harvard uni
-ersity; in 1855. The tiest American 'nadr
Illustration, it is believed. is in Tu'ly's
almanac, OF Boston, in 1898 The first
American copper plate po: trait pub
lished in this country was In Increase
Mathcr's .Ichal, 3D." published in 170a.
the first three cngravers were Paul
Revere, Benjamin Franklin. and Isaiah
Thona.4 .,ho distinguished himself a
the BATH. Of Lexington.
The first portcraouse steak was S
named in New York city, in the famou:
sd tavern Of Martin Morrison. at So
, Pearl street This was a favorite re
sort OF senfaring men. A steak being
; called for oy an old pilot one night
Morrison said he had no steaks, bu
would cut and broil for him thicl
slice from the sirloin which had jas
. beca prepared for roasting the mex
day. Morrison's place was kn, a
the Porter house in the neighborhood
and its frequenters soon got to talking
about the Porter house steaks. Morrl
: son finally told Gibbons, his butcher ii
the Fly market, to cut up sirloins TO
him thereafter.
The first mirrors OF which there
Y any rec rd were in use among the l.
0 raelites at the time of Moses, and wer
= made of brass. When tn, Spaniard
= first landed in South America the
found mirrors OF polished black stor
n in use among the natives The fir:
m rror of solid silver was made
c pasitelcs in the time of julius C:rsa
)! In the fiitce nth century the first glas
e mirrors were made in Germany bv
b!ow-ppc, and were convex. The fir:
n manufac,ory of glass mirrors for sa
!. was established in Venice early in til
s. sixteenth century.
The first mi match was the product
o the ingenuity of John Frederick kon
"a crer, who early in this century was in
d prisoned in the penitentiary at Hohe
O. aspcrp, in Germany. He invented Il
lucifer match while in his gloom, du
h geo.. The German government TO
n badc the manufacture of matches {
the ground of public policy. bccau
s me children playing with them h;
~ caused n fire. Komerer was ruined
y Viennese competition when he was r
!, leased from prison and died paupe
n, Up to 1852 the Viennese manufac cture
"a controlled the match business of t
~, entire world. Y. Sun.