The Republican journal., 1876-03-02
Some Things That Were Not One
Hundred Years Ago.

One hundred years ago wedding tours We're
not fashionable
One hundred wears ago the gin best known
was not the cotton-gln.
One hundred years ago there was no Pacific
railroad subsidies.
One hundred years ago farmers did not cut
their legs OIL with moving machines.
one hundred years ago mothers did not wor-
ry over dSordered sewing machines.
one hundred years ago horses which could
trot a mile in 2:li We're somewhat scarce.
One hundred years ago there was no fast mail
train between New York and Chicago.
one hundred Years ago there We're no disputes
about the im9ulitencsS of strect-Car drivers.
One hundred years ago people did not enjoy
the incsli,nable pleasure of growing about gas
bills.
one hundred years ago '.crooked" whiskev
was not known. our iorefathers took theirs
straight.
one hundred years ago university boat clubs
were entered at pool-saes like tighting-cocks in
Il pit.
One hundred years ago every young man was
not an applicant for position as clerk or book
keeper.
One hundred years ago false teeth were not
considered preferable to the original grinders.
One hundred years ago time and tide waited
for nobody, and now nobody waits for time or
tide.
one hundred years ago kerosene lamps did
not explode and dassist women to shuttle of their
mortal coil.
One hundred years ago men did not commit
suicide by going up in balloons and coming
down without them.
One hundred Years ago there was no steam on
the canal-even the driver on the tow-path did
not steam up in those days.
one hundred Years ago there We're no Turkish
harcns at salt Lake, and no Ann ELIAS suing
for the nineteenth part of divorce.
One hundred wears ago England was not very
far behind The United States in all that goes to
make nation powerful and progressive.
One hundred years ago young lady did not
lose caste by getting her hands wet in dish
water or rubbing the skin off her knuckIes on a
WaSh-board
one hundred years ago the physician who
could not draw every form of disease from the
system by tapping a vein in the arm, was not
much of a doctor.
one hundred wears ago the producer carried
his surplus produce to market ON his horse, the
products being placed in one end OF the bag and
the jug in the other end.
One hundred years ago our fathers did not
light their pipes With matches but carried fire
in their pockets i'll the shape of piece of punk
piece OF steel and Il flint.
one hundred years ago public officer or
other citizens could not steal enough to make
the act respectable and insure the actor prom
inent position in the first circles"
one hundred years ago the condition of the
weather on the 1st day Of January was not tele-
graphcd all over the continent on the evening of
December 81. Things have changed.
One hundred years ago people did not worry
about rapid trnsits and cheap transportations
but threw their bags of grain across the backs
Of their horses and uncomplainingly '.went to
mill.7
One hundred years ago every man cut his
coat according to his cIoth-eycry man was es-
timated at his real value-shoddv was not
known nobody had struck '.ie" - and true
merit and honest worth We're the only grounds
for promotion.
one hundred years ago, TO tell the truth, peo-
pie generally died from natural causes, while
in our day they step out through steamboat eX-
plosons, railroad smash-ups, hurricanes, circu-
lar saws, and in a thousand other ways discoy-
cred since the birth of the Oldest inhabitant.