Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-02-05
What syasn'i One Hundred Years
Ago.


Ago.
One hundred years ago, wedding
tours were not fashionable.
One hundred years, ago, Bill Allen
was 4 youthful Granger.
One hundred years ago, the gin best
known was not the cotton gin.
One hundred years ago, there were
no Pacific Railroad subsidies.
One hundred years ago, men did not
die of Presidential maggots in the
brain.
One hundred years ago, there were
70 Confederate Generals in Congress.
One hundred years ago, farmers did
not cut there legs of with moving ma
chimes
One hundred years ago, our mothers
did not worry over disordered sewing
machines.
One hundred years ago, horses which
could trot mile in 2:l4 were somewhat
scarce.
One hundred years ago, there was no
fast mail train between New York and
Chicago.
One hundred years ago, there were
no disputes about the the impoliteness
of street car drivers.
One hundred years ago, people did
not enjoy the inestimable pleasure of
growing about gas bills.
One hundred years ago, "crooked
,,.L ;,I.,,, ,,.os NOT LnO,yn Our fOretath .
ers took theirs straight.
One hundred years ago, University
boat clubs were not entered at pool
sales like fighting cocks in 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 very much pretera-
bic to the original grinders.
One hundred years ago, time and tiGe
waited for nobody, and now nobody
waits for either time or tide.
One hundred years ago, kerosene
lamps did not explode and assist women
10 shuttle off their mortal coil.
One hundred years ago, it was not
committing suicide by going up in bal
looms and coming down without them.
One hundred years ago, it was not
considered injurious to the health OF
morals of pupils to read the Bible in
the schools.
One hundred years ago, there was nc
Turkish harems at Salt Lake, and nc
Ann Elias suing for the nineteenth
part Of divorce
One hundred years ago, England was
not very far behind the United States
in all that goes to make nation pow
erful and progressive.
One hundred years ago, the great cry
heard throughout all this section OF
country, was not for ''zwei glass beer
One hundred years ago, the right OF
the schoolInastcr to ''wip" was not ques
toned deeper aud more lasting i'm
preston was oitener made with the gao
than with the blackboard.
One hundred years ago, every man
cut his own coat according to his c!otE
every man was estimated at his rea
value-shoddy was rot known-nobody
had struck "ile'-and true merit anc
honest worth were the only grounds fol
promotion.
One hundred years ago, Susan B
Anthony did not remain in Kansas tC
avoid taking the stand as witness in
the Brooklyn scandal business.
One hundred years ago, Young wo
man did not lose caste by wetting hcl
hands in dish-water or rubbing the skin
off her knuckles Oh a washboard.
One hundred years ago, the physician
who could not draw every form Of dis
ease from the system by tapping large
vein in the arm was not much Of doc
tor.
Ore hundred years ago, wounded
patriots were not driven from the pub
lie soup-houses TO make room for men
who took up arms against the nations S
life.
One hundred years ago, :here was nc
Boss Tweed to steal the funds of New
York city with one hand and hold the
reius of the Democratic party with the
other.
One hundred years ago, the producer
carried his surplus products 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 ire in their pockets in the
shape of a piece Of Spunk, Il piece Of
steel, and a flint.
One bundled years ago. public Of
iicer or other citizen could not steal
enough to make the act respectable and
insure the actor prominent position
in the "frst circles"
One hundred years ago there was nc
real negroes in Congress-none darker
than the New Orleans Democratic Con.
gresham were admitted to the first