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much of street cars or of the telephone as we do of a confidence like that.The Churchm and the Sabbath.□There were about sixty churches, of which lour were Catholic. In that day it was the oustom of the people to attend church onSunday. There were no public conveyances on that day, nor was it thought proper to ride for pleasure in one's own carriage. The streets were deserted by all except the church-goers who. in family groups, walked in silence and with austere countenances along the street. Most of those who will read these lines know how great a change has taken place in the mode of observing the dav. It is probably i rue that more people went last Sunday from this i'ity to Revere beach than were found in all its churches on last Raster morning!In 1836 the Boston pulpit was adorned by such men as Drs. Charming, Blagden, Loth rop, Ballott and Sharp, who not only exercised a powerful influence here, but elsewhere in the country, and. in the case of the first named, in Europe as well.Mitcelianeeiu.There were three regular theatres—the Tremont. on the site of the present Tremont Temple, the National, on Portland street, and the Lion, on Washington street—the latter being largely given to what is now known as variety business.Except to the few whose memory carries them back to that period, it is difficult to imagine how wide the difference is between the Boston of that dav and this. To do so, one roust suppose there are no steam railroads above forty miles in length, no streetcars, no telegraph, telephone nor electric lights, no water except such as is obtained from pumps, 110 steam elevators, no public library, no picture* taken by the aid of the sun, no last steam press.'18 and no envelopes, stamps nor street lettor-boxes. There was neither fouro tain nor statue in any street or square of the whole city, and not a foot of soil on all that section lying south of the Public Garden and west of Tremont street. In that day manufacturing was in its infancy, and most of those industries which now' contribute so much to our greatness were unknown. But what* ever was made was well made. There was as yet no great West, and our trade was limited to the Atlantic coast.There is no good reason to doubt that the coming fifty years will witness strides in invention and discovery as startling as those of the past fifty years, but the man who should attempt to outline what they will be would not only engage in a profit* less enterprise, hut would lose himself in a maze of bewilderment; for evidently man has out just commenced to learn how to tram and apply the great forces of nature designed for his use by the hand of the Almighty I J. x.Typhoid Fevor.Charles Hartford of New Castle. West*Chester county. N.Y., suffered with typhoidfever and was given up to die. He was rcstored to health in one week by taking fiveBrandreth's Pills every night and drinkingplentifully of oatmeal gruel. A few dosei of Brandreth's Pills will invariably cun any kind of fever.
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Boston Sunday Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sun, Aug 29, 1886
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