The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-03-24
Some Facts Ahont Our Country.

The first hOOp-skirr WAS worn by a
New York lady in l740. She was ar
rested by the police.
In 1892 the United States produced
S505O0,OOO worth of silver and 1872 90O,-
QUO Of gold.
The people of this country paw annu-
ally $4OO,OOO,0OO for shoes and $500, 900, 900
for hats.
The first axes made in the United
States were manufactured at Hartford,
Conn.,, in 1926.
The first book printed in tie United
Mass, 1910.
In 1890 there was lOl ,645 deaths from
consumption, more than from any other
one cause.
Samuel Hopkins, in 1870, took out the
nrst patent. 1t secured him the right
to make potash.
In 1888 Noah Webster printed the first
spelllng-book ever manufactured in
this country.
There are in the country 490 colleges
and universities, with SAP professors
tEfsd teachers.
I 1--WE first white child born in the
Colonies was Virginia Dare, at Roanoke
lslana} August Is, 1857.
The Island of Attu, the most western
point OF our territory, is $500 miles west
OF San Francisco.
The total destruction by fires in the
United States for eighteen years before
1892 was 81 200 944,6l7.
There were 2,444 railroad accidents in
this country la 1892; 100 persons we're
killed and 26S5 injured.
ln 1927 the New York Cornell ordered
! bOuseholders to hang out lanterns: the
INST street lighting.
New York was the first city incorpor-
ated in the limits of the United States.
Its charter was dated 1864.
The United States have 1852, 766 per.
sous OF school age, of whom 300, l3C
are enrolled in school.
The first bank established in the
United States was Incorporated al
Philadelphia, December 81, 1881.
The geographical center ofthe United
States territory is in British America
42O miles north of the Montana line.
! In 1920 the first clocks were intro.
duced, 10 be placed in the churhees, the
hour glass having been previously
used.
The total record immigration to this
country is 1904 ,093, almost rs MANY a,
the entire population of Spain.
In Albany, n. Y, about 1874, the first
carriages were made, all previously
used having been Imported from Eng.
land.
Mount Vernon took it's name from
Admiral Vernon, of the English navy
with whom Lawrence WASHINGTON
served.
The first discovery of land in the
limits of the United States vas OF
April, l5l2, by DeLeon, and the land
was Florida.
There are 10000 manufactures usine
900 100000 of materials and producing
sn annual output of 900,0OO,0OO.
The eastern gulf coast has the heavi
est rains, over 60 inches year; Arizons
and New Mexico the least, less than II
inches.
A silver United States dollar is one
incn and n half in diameter; a half-dol-
lar one inch; quarter three-quarters
of an inch.
There are on our coasts and rivers
lu2l light houses and beacons, 70 light.
ships, 30 fog Signals, 1900 river lights
and nearly 5000 buoys.
The motto, +. Pluribus Unum wa,
taken from the title Lage of the Gen
tlemen's Magazine, at the tune of the
revolution, having a large circulatio.
in the colonies.
In lzS4 the first turnpike road was
made, sixty-two miles long, between
Lancaster and Philadelphia, so called
because it WAS required TO be so hard
that pike could not be driven through
iG.
This country is One-third the size OF
the British Empire, nearly one-half as
large as the Russian Empire, fourth
smaller than the Chinese Empire, a
fourth larger than France and all its
colonies, twice rs large AS the Turkish
Empire, and nearly as large as Brazil.