The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-05-11
FIRST OCCURRENCES

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1854.
Printed musical notes were first
used in 1873.
The first watches were made at
Nuremberg in 1477.
America was discovered In 1892.
The first printing press was set up
et Copenhagen in 1493.
Durer gave the world a prophecy Of
future wood engraving in 1927.
Jergens set the spinning wheel in mo-
ton In 1880.
Modern needles first came into use in
1916.
The first knives were used in Eng
land, and the first wheeled carriage in
France in 1859.
Religious liberty was granted to the
Huguenots in France in 1862 and was
followed by the massacre of ST. Bar
tholomew in 1872.
Cervantes wrote Don Quixote in
1873.
The first newspaper was published
In England in 1888.
Telescopes were invented in 1890.
The drst printing press in the United
States was introduced In 1929.
The first air pump was made in 1850.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared In 1852.
The first copper cent was coined In
New Haven in 1887.
The first steam engine on this con-
tinent came from England in 1853.
The first balloon ascent was made In
1888.
The first society for the Promotion OF
Christian knowledge was organized in
1898.
The first attempt to manufacture
pins In this country was made soon
after the war of 1912.
The first prayer book Of Edward vi.
fV.tN hxy n~ttx 90 x,.Is.
ment on Whit Sunday, 1549.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the eighth century.
The first steamboat piled the Hudson
in 1907.
The first sawmaker's anvil was
brought to America in 1919.
The first use OF locomotive In this
country was In 1920.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1926.
1867.
The first lucifer match was made in
1929.
The first iron steamship was built in
1880.
The first steel pen was made in 1880
Omnibuses were introduced in New
York in 1880.
Ships were first copper bottomed" ir
1887.
Envelopes were first used in 1889.
Anesthesia was discovered in 1914.
Coaches were first used in England
in 1869. :
The first steel plate was discovered
In 1880.
The Franciscans arrived in England
In 1924.
The entire Hebrew bible was printed
in 1883.
Gold was as first discovered in califor-
The first telescope was used in Eng
land in 1908.
Japan in 1549.
First almanac printed by George vor
Furbach in 1860.
Percussion arms were used In the
United States army in 1880.
The first glass factory in the United
States was built in 1880.
The first temperance society in this
country was organized in Saratoga
county, New York. in March, 1903.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Howe. jr.. in
The first coach in Scotland was
brought thither in 1861, when Queen
Mary came from France. 1t belonged
to Alexander, Lord Seaton.
The first Geographic instrument was
successfully operated by s. F. b. Morse,
was not demonstrated to the world un-
til 1912.
The first daily newspaper appeared
in 1902. The first newspaper printed
in the United States was published in
Boston on September %, 1890.
The first union flag was unfurled op
the LIST of January, 1776, over the camp
at Cambridge. It had Is stripes OF
white and red, and retained the Eng.
lish cross in one corner.
In 1850 the "shoeblack" came into
vogue. The poet Gay, in his day, re-
fers to the business, describing a
mother as instructing her son in his
calling:
go thrive; at some frequented corne,
stand;
This brush give thee. grasp it in thy
hand;
Temper the foot within this vase of oil
And let the little tripod aid thy TOLL
When Captain Cook first visited Ia.
hiti, the natives were using nails O,
wood. bone, shell and stone. When
they saw iron nails, they fancied them
to be shoots Of some very hard wood
and. DESTROYS Of securing such a valu.
able commodity, they planted them In
their gardens.