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Show The first steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807. The first watches were made in Nuremburg in 1477. Omnibuses were introduced in New York in 1830. The first newspaper advertisement appeared in 1652. The State of Texas in future will in no case pay any witness fees. There are 500 vacant houses in Memphis, the result of the late epidemic. Glass windows were first introduced into England in the eighth century. Christ Church, Boston, is now more than one hundred and fifty years old. The first complete sewing machine was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1840. The first society for the promotion of Christian knowledge was organized in 1698. The coal-fields of Alabama are estimated to contain 52,000,000,000 bushels of coal. "At one fell swoop" twenty-five applicants were admitted to the South Carolina bar. The first algebra originated with Diophantus, in either the fourth or sixth century. Glass was early discovered. Glass beads were found on mummies over three thousand years old. The total expenses and loss of resources to Franco from the Franco-German war is 1?,939,000,000 francs. Strange as it may appear, a ball of a ton weight and another of the same material of an ounce weight, falling from any height will reach the ground at the same time. The first Union flag was unfurled on the 1st of January, 1770, over the camp at Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of white and red, and retained the English cross in one corner. In silver-wire gilt, the coating of the gold is usually only the 3,384,000 part of an inch in thickness; nevertheless it is so perfect as not to exhibit cracks when examined by the microscope. The first daily newspaper appeared in 1702. The first newspaper in the United States was published in Boston on September 25, 1790. The first religious newspaper, the Boston Record, was established in 1815. Buffon? combined plane glass mirrors only 6 inches by 8, and with 40 of them he set on fire a tarred oak plank 65 feet distant; with 98, at 126 feet; with 112, at 138 feet; with 164, at 150 feet; with 168, at 200 feet; and he melted all the metals at from 30 to 40 feet distant. There are a thousand wonderful things in science which have never yet been discovered-let the world keep up the research. An act to prevent and punish the intermarrying of races, passed at the last session of the South Caroling Legislature, provides that any person so offending shall be subject to a fine of not less than $300, or imprisonment for not less than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. Any clergyman or magistrate who shall unite in the bonds of matrimony persons of different races is subject to the same penalty. Cartersville, (Ga.) Express: Middle Tennessee is rapidly regaining her old-time prestige as a mule market. Maury county is in the lead of all others in this respect, and her county seat, Columbia, is one of the largest mule markets in the world. Over $100,000 worth of mules alone have been shipped from that point south within the past ten days or two weeks, not counting many droves that have been driven south on foot. |