Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-12

Argos, about S62 b. c.
The first panorama was exhibited
in Edinburgh by Robert Barker
about 1888, by which he portrayed
view of the city.
The first encyclopaedia was
"Phny's Natural History" which
contains 10000 facts compiled
from 1000 books by 100 authors.
Movable scenery was first used in
theatres i'll 1908. IL was invented
by Baldassare Peruzzi, and display
ed in Rome before Leo Y.
The first glass bottle in the world
was made by the Romans about the
year 70 A. ID. The first made in
England appeared about 1868.
The first playbill was issued from
Drury Lane Theatre on April 9Th,
1868, and the piece represented was
the Humorous Lieutenant"
The first ship was brought from
Egypt to Greece by Danaus in 1885
b. c. The first double-decked ship
was built by the Tyrians, 1855, B. G.
The first woolen cloth made in
England was manufactured about
1880, though it was not dyed and
dressed by our cOuntrymen until
1867.
The first voyage around the
world was made in the Victoria, a
ship which formed part of the ex-
petition that sailed under Magellan
in 1919.
The first street paved in London
for the use Of foot passengers was.
York street, leading from the
north side of st. James Square to
Jermyn street.
The first trousers in their present
shape were introduced into the
British Army in 1913, and tolerat-
ed as a legitimate portion of even
ing dress in 1915.
The first toll-gate originated in
1857, the sum of one penny being
exacted for every wagon that pas
sed through certain manor in
Northumberland.
The first London directory was
printed in 1877; the first Post
Office Directory" in 1900. The
former contained sixty-four pages,
with the names of 1,790 persons.
The first formal and written
treaty made in England with any
foreign nation was entered into at
Kingston between Henry Iii. and
Dauphin Of France, September IL,
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The first striking clock was M
ported into Europe by the Persians
about the year 800 A. ID. 1t was
brought as present to Charlie
mague, from Abdella, King of Per-
sia, by two monks of Jerusalem.
The first newspaper published in
the world was the Roman Acta
Diurna, 69l B. G. The first one
published in England, the Mercuri-
us Aulicus, afterwards the Oxford;
then London Gazette, was establish
ed in January, 1912.
The first luclfer match was
struck in 1884.
The first black-lsad pencil was
sharpened in 1855.
The first game of cricket, then
known as club-ball, was played in
1900.
The first tolerably accurate map
of England was drawn by Charles
Lilly in 1540.
The first Kaleidoscope was in
vented by Sir David Brewster of
Edinburg, in 1914.
The first dictionary was compiled
by Chinaman, Pa-out-she, who
lived about 100 b. C.
The first air balloon was con-
structed by Jesuit, Francisco
Mendoza, about 1920; the first fire
balloon by Josef Montgolfier, in
1882.
The great English Almanac ap-
peared in l347, brought out at
Trinity College, Cambridge; and
the first printed almanac was
"Shepheard's Kalendar," 1897.
The first Christian church built
in England is said to have been
erected at Glastonbury. Somerset,
about the first century. 1t was six
ty feet long, and thirty-six broad,
and made of rods, wattled or inter-