Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-08-23
Points Worth Knowing.

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Harvard is the oldest college in the
limited States, established i'll 1928.
The highest denomination of United
States legal tender notes is $4,000.
The first iron ore discovered in this
country was found in Virginia in I7I5.
A needle passes through eighty
operations in the course of manufacture.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the Eighth Century.
The first complete sewing machine was
patented by Elias Howe, Jr., i'll 1876.
The most extensive park is Deer Park
at Denmark 1t contains 200 acres.
At Naples in 1856, during the Plague,
which lasted rs weeks, 10000 people
died.
Robert Ralks established the first Sun
day School at Glouster, England, 1881.
The first volunteer fire company in the
United States was at Philadelphia, 1886.
St. Augustine, oldest city in the United
States, founded by the Spaniards, 1905.
In ITS there were only twenty
newspapers published i'll the United
States.
Jamestown, Va, founded in 1907;
first permanent English settlement in
America.
The Manhattan Elevated Railroad,
New York, carries 5000 passengers per
day.
London is the largest city in the world,
containing a population of 4,764 ,3I2
persons.
The first public schools in America
were established in the New England
States about 1912
The largest park i'll the United States
is Paramount, at Philadelphia. IL con-
tains 2, 74o acres.
Monkey Wrench" is not the correct
name, but Money, Charles Moncky being
the inventor.
The largest university is Oxford, in
England. 1t consists of seventy one
colleges and five halls
The average expense of passenger
steamship, New York to Liverpool and
return, is about $4,000.
Glass mirrors first made by Venetians
in the Thirteenth Century. Polished
metal was used before that time
The term Almighty Dollar" originated
with Washington Irving, as satire on
the American love for gain.
The largest school in the world is the
Jews free school of Spitalsfeld, England,
which has daily attendance of 2,Soo
pupils.
The largest empire in the world is
that of Great Britain, being S,557,65S
square miles, and more than a sixth part
of the globe.
The great steamships consume about
three hundred tons of coal in twenty
four hours, equal to about 456 pounds
per minute
The first deaf and dumb asylum was
founded in England, by Thomas Braid
wood, 1860; and the first in the United
ola'es was at Hartford, 1877.
Nine men out of ten think that "The
Lord tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb" is FROM the Bible, whereas,
Lawrence Sterne is the author.
The largert ship ever built was the
Great Eastern. Her total length was
900 feet; breadth, us feet: total weigh,
When launched IL 900 tons.
II train were run at the rate of &C
miles per hour, day and night, without a
s'op' 1t would require $50 years to make
tue journey from the earth to the sun.
The present national colors of the
o"''eu States were not adopted by
N'neress until I777. The flag was frs
used by Washington at Cambridge
January l, 1916.
me total number of newspaper
published in the world at the present
"ie is estimated at 10000, of which
about one half are printed in the English
language.
Inc longest span of wire in the worl,
- used Tor telegraph in India over til,
l''er Kistuah. 1t is over 5000 feet, an,
stretched between two hills, 1900 fee
high
mere are in the United States 80 90
miles of railway, about half the mileap
Vi the world The estimated cost is 60,
o'ooo'ooo They employ about 900
600 people.
N china all land belongs to the state
ana small sum per acre, never altere
through long centuries, is paid as rem
'h's Is the only tax in the country, an
y amounts to about sixty cents per head
sew Orleans has the largest custom
se IN the world. 1t was begun
l'4o and finished in 1873. 1t is built
quincy Granite, the interior beir
nnshed in finest marble. 1t has II
0olns' Estimated cost 100000.
Inc United States ~, - r