Show WHEN OUR COUNTRY WAS NEW tire parquet of a theater was called the pit and was filled with the rabble vaccination had not become popular and smallpox was an everyday every day disease TUE whipping post and pillory were still standing in boston and new york tim tough characters where such existed bad no brass knuckles nor revolvers vol vers THE mississippi valley was not so well known as the heart of africa now is TUREE of the books in every library came from beyond the atlantic TWENTY days were required for a letter to go g o from new york to charleston by land THE number of toasts drunk at a banquet equaled the number of states in the union united states contained fewer people than now livo in new york and its suburbs QUININE was unknown when a man had agac fits he took peruvian bark and whisky IN most families no cooking was done on sunday a cold sunday dinner was the rule |