INTERESTING ITEMS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 29, 9 April 1907, Page 7

INTERESTING ITEMS.

The first steamer built in England appeared in LSI";. I I The first black-lead pencil was sharpened in 1505. I "I ‘ The first census in England was taken on March 10th. 1801, 1 * I The first surname was adopted in the reign of Edward the Confessor. j * ! The first books were bound by Attains, King of Pergamus, in 198 11. G. | J. i The, first game of cricket, then : known us club-hall, was played in 1 HOG. The first pocket-handkerchiefs, utilised ns they are to-day. we.ro manufactured at Paisley in 1713. * - The first typewriter ever made appeared in 1714, the work of Henry Mills. j —*l* I The first playbill was issue/* from Drury Lane Theatre or April Blh, 10(53. j ,t, j The first bread was made by pia Greeks ; the first windmills by lh« Saracens. A. • The first spectacles were wu)do b» Alexander del Spina about the yen/ 1285. | *- | The first glass window in s;n. land was put up in an abbey about the i year (580. .?♦ The first cavalry regiment raised in England was the Horse Guards af Edward VI.. 1550. T ; The first canal was made in Eng-' land, when Henry I. joined the, Trcn* to the Witham in 1134. j * I The first steamboat was made by Papin, and destroyed by the boatmen of the Weser in 1699. I * I The first advertisements known in England were small bills fixed to the doors of St. Paul’s Church. i The first quill pens were used in 553 ; the first steel ones in 1820, when the first gross of them sold for £7 4s. * j The first coins wore struck in brass about 1481 li.C., and in gold and silver by Pheidon, tyrant of Argos, about 802 H.C. j q* I The first hook containing musical characters was issued in 1495 from : the press of the celebrated “Wynkon de Wordo.” * The first linen made In England was manufactured by Flemish refugees under the protection of Xlonry Hi., in 1253. * | The first glass bottle In tho world was made by the .Romani about tho year 70 A.IJ. Tho first made In England appeared about •