| Show BEFORE 1800 Is 1745 not a house in maine had a pane of glass anit established the first hospital in ameriba in 1751 OLIVER bedstead has been sold by auction for fifty guineas 1 A BANK known as the united states bank was established at philadelphia in 1791 together with the national mint which issued its forsti chinin 1792 THE first book of any kind published in philadelphia was atkins Al manack for the year 1686 it was an unpaged pamphlet of twenty only copies of which are now known to exist each being worth anore than ais weight in twenty dollar notes STOWED away in one of the omat ro the capitol in remains of the first printing press brought to this country it was printed the freemanb freemans fre emans oath foe massachusetts chu the first thing printed in sri fish north america A of richmond Eich mond va has comb into possession of a revolutionary relic in tho shape of general daniel morgans mess chest which is estimated as being ono hundred and twenty five years old tho chest is made of pine heavily ribbed will ron and is closed by an old tat ponderous lock compared tho carda it is a common saying that you can judge a man by his visiting card says bloston traveler A lately arrived not ten miles from boston recently left his cheap printed carbat the house of one of his parishioners and his neatly engraved one at an others the T he houses were respectively in unfashionable and fashionable quarters of tho city but the happened to be cousins they met they compared cards as women will and that rector now wonders why he is growing in disfavor with oma of his |
