. Bill Nye's history of the United States. in, and home-spun was the principal material used for Washington had sixteen spinning-wheels inher house. Her husband often wore homespunwhile at home, and on rainy days sometimesplaced a pair of home-made trousers of the barn-door variety in the Presidential chair. Money was very scarce, and ammu-nition very valuable. In 1635 musket-balls passed for farthings, and to see aNew England peasant making changewith the red brother at thirtyyards was a common and de-lightful scene. The first press was set upin Cambridge in 1639, with thestatem
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. in, and home-spun was the principal material used for Washington had sixteen spinning-wheels inher house. Her husband often wore homespunwhile at home, and on rainy days sometimesplaced a pair of home-made trousers of the barn-door variety in the Presidential chair. Money was very scarce, and ammu-nition very valuable. In 1635 musket-balls passed for farthings, and to see aNew England peasant making changewith the red brother at thirtyyards was a common and de-lightful scene. The first press was set upin Cambridge in 1639, with thestatement that it had come tostay. Books printed in thosedays were mostly sermons filledwith the most comfortable assur-ance that the man who let loose his intellect andallowed it to disbelieve some very difficult things would be essentially well, I hate to say right here in a book what would happen to him. The first daily paper, called 77/^? Federal Orrery,was issued three hundred years after Columbusdiscovered America. It was not popular, and. BOOKS FILLED WITH ASSURANCES OFFUTURE DAMNATION. 134 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. killed off the news-boys who tried to call it on thestreets : so it perished. There was a public library in New York, fromwhich books were loaned at fourpence hapennyper week. New York thus became very earlythe seat of learning, and soon afterwards beganto abuse the site where Chicago now stands. Travel was slow, the people went on horsebackor afoot, and when they could go by boat it wasregarded as a success. Wagons finally made thetrip from New York to Philadelphia in the wildtime of forty-eight hours, and the line was calledThe Flying Dutchman, or some other euphoni-ous name. Benjamin Franklin, whose biographyoccurs in Chapter XV., was then Postmaster-General. He was the first bald-headed man of any prom-inence in the history of America. He and hisdaughter Sally took a trip in a chaise, lookingover the entire system, and going to all pleased t
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