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Show B ' What Washington Did Not Know. B H We don't like to bo irreverent, but H vwould liko to nsk what did our forefathers forefath-ers els know? What for instance, did H George Washington know.? He never B . saw a steamboat; lie never saw a fast m mail train ; he never held his ear to a R telephone; ho .never eat lor his picture B in a photograph gallery; he never rc-B rc-B .ceived u .telegraph dispatch; he never B .sighted a Krupp gun ; lie never listened B no thu 'ilzz" of an electric pen; he B never saw a pretty girl run a sowing B machino; he never saw afcclf-propolliug B engine go down the street to a tne; l.o B Jiover heard of evolution, he never took B laughing gas; lie never had a set of stoio B '' teeth; he never attended an inter B national exposition; hi ne.-er owned B u bonanza mine; he never knew ''O'd K l'rob." He but why goon? No, when B Jio took an excursion, it wna on a flat I b. at. When ho moved ofTon a tiain, it was on a muto train. When ho wanted to talk to a man in Milwaukee he had to go there. When he wanted hit picture taken it was done in prolo with a piece of blnck paper and a pair of shears. When he got thu returns troiu back counties they had to be brought in by a man with an ox cart. When he took aim at thn enemy ho hnd to trust to a crooked-barreled old flint lock. When he wrote it was with a goose luill. When ho had anything to mend lis grandmother did it with a darning needle. Whflii ho went to a lire ho stood in lino and passed bu5kets. When he looked at a clam ho never knew it waB any relation of his Wiien ho went to a concert ho heard a cracked iiddlo and an insane clarinet. When he had a tooth pulled he sat down and never topped jelling. Ex. |