A SCORE OF BEGINNINGS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 272, 13 June 1888, Page 2

A SCORE OF BEGINNINGS.

Envelopes were fii^l used in 1839. The (list stool pen was m.uL in 1830. The iiist luciCcr iu.itv.h was made in 17'.tf\ The fust hoise l.iiho.ul was built in IB2i>. The lust iion steam>hipwas builtin 18150. The fir^t balloon ascent w as madem 1798. The iiiht steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807. The first telescope was used in England inIGOS. Tho fust watches tveic made iti Ne«rombcrg- in 1477. The fust newspaper adveitisement nppemed in 1G52. The first ennper cent was coined in New Haven in 1687. The iiist t;l.ihs faetoiy was built in tho United States in 1780. The fiist piintin.i; pics in the United States w-ii-? worked in I(J'2O. j Prceus.sion arms weie first used in the United Stites army in 1830 Ohm winduws were fust introduced into Enjjluni in tho eighth uentmy. The lirst ste.un engine in America was bionj»lit fiom England in 1753. The liist coiuploto sewing maehiuo was patented by Klias Howe, Ji., in 184 G. The first attempt to mannC.ieturewpin.s in America was made soon after tho war of 18(52. The first telegraphic instrument was successfully operated by S. F. B. Moise, the inventor, in 1835, though its utility was not denionstiated to the world until 1842.

Very Like an Anthem. — A sailor who had been to a cathedial and hoard soino very line music was descanting- pui ticularly upon an anthem which gave him much pleasure His shipmate, listened for a time, and then said •* " I say, Bill, what's a hanthem ?" " What !" replied Bill, "do 3'on mean to say you don't know what a hanthem is ?" *" Not mo." ll Well, then, I'll tell ycr. Tf I was to toll ypr, ♦ Ere, Bill, give me that'andspike,' tli.it would'nt he a hanthem; but was I to nay, "Bill, Bill, Bill, ?ivo, give, give, mo, give, me that, Bill give me, give me that hand, srive me that hand, handspike, spike, Bill, give, give mo that, that hand, handspike, spike, spike, spike, Ah-men, ah-men. Bill givemothathandspike, spike. Ah-mcn.' why, tint would be a hanthem."