The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-03
CURIOUS CULLINGS
From American HisiOry-COm
piled for Sunday Morning
BacOO Readers.

While Washington was serving
his first term, two stages and twelve
horses sutficed to carry all the travel
ers and goods passing between New
York and Boston, then the two great
commercial centers of the country.
The harness of the horses was mos "
made of rope.
On the very day when the far,
mers and plOughmen of Middlesex
drove the British out of Lexington,
John Harc cock was to have stood trial
for defrauding the customs. In every
town prominent characters could be
pointed cut, who. when the States
were under British rule had constant.
ly stored away in their attics and eel,
lars struggled goods.
An emigrant steamer now brings
out each passage from Queenstown
more human beings than, a hundred
years ago, crossed the ocean in both
directions in the space ofa twelve
months. So lac as 1895, a gentle
man who had been alb, oad was pointed
out even in the large cities as "the
gentleman who has been to Europe.
Out of the great northwestern
territory, coded and purchased,
congress, in 1884, proposed to lay out
seventeen new states. They were TO
be, as tar as possible, two degrees of
latitude in width and arranged in
three tiers. Odd names were suggest
ed for them, such as Sylvania, Cher
ronesus, Michiganis, Assenisipis,
Meiropotamia, Illinois, Saratoga,
Polypotamia, Pelisipia.
In the old Dutch churches in
New York city, an hour glass wss In
variably placed at the right hand OF
the preacher, and huge sounding
board over his head. The first psalm
was announced by movable numbers
hung on three sides of the pulpit.
The clerk sat in the deacon's pew. To
him were entrusted the notices to be
read, which he fastened to long pole
and passed up to the minister. When
the last grain bad run out of the
glass, his three raps brought the SER
mon to a close.
The man who may well be called
the father of American Methodism,
who watched and tended it in its cary
years, who shaped Its course, who
found it weak and left it strong, was
Francis Asburg. He wss an English
man and sprsng from the middle class.
When be landed in America in 1872,
there ueIo sUaILeIed Gvuu Ne~ Work
to Georgia six preachers and a thOus-
and members of the sect. When
Burgoyne surrendered, the member
ship had increased to seven thousand
souls and forty ministers. This growth
is the more remaskable as every En-
glish preacher except Asburg deserted
his flock and went back to England
when the Revolution broke out.
The Order of the Cincinnsti was
formed in 1888, at the suggestion OF
General Knox. Members were ex-
clusively officers of tbs army and
navy. They had, 1t was said, been
united for eight years in defense of q
common cause. Now that the hour
of disbandment was near, it seemed
but fitting that a great society should
be formed to perpetrate in peace the
friendships formed in war and to en-
able them to deliberate in secret on
the welfare of the union. But the
country heard with mingled feelings
of alarm and disgust that military
order had been established, that its
honors had been made hereditary,
that Frenchmea bad been admitted
to its Ianls and that the eagle anu
the blue ribbon were daily to be seen
at the proudest courts. The order for
many years met with violent opposi'
lion.
"Those little girls across the street
never 60 out mamma. They look from
the window all day long. | wonder Why