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Show AHUNDRED YEARS AGO. & day laborer;re ceived two shillings shil-lings a day. Every gentlemen wore a cue and powdered his hair. Imprisonment for debt was a common practice. There was not a public library ! in the United States. . j There was only one' hat factory, and that made cocked hats. There nrere no maps, charts-or globes in the eohoolrooms. Virginia contained a' fifth of the whole population of the country. Books were very expensive. "The Lives 61 the Poets" cost 815. Two stage coaches bore all the travel between "New York and Boston. The Mississippi Valley waa not so well known as the heart of Africa mow is. |