The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-08-14

I620-Lands on Plymouth Rock and sets up
for himself.
l62l-Keeps Thanksgiving in no danger Of
oyer-eating.
l622-Builds a meeting house.
l623-Proclaims n Fast Day.
l628-Cuts down a May pole at Merry Mount,
as a rebuke 10 vain recreations.
lG35-Is crowded for accommodations, aud
stakes out a new farm at Connecticut.
l637-Makes var on the Autinominans and
the Pequot Indians, and whips both.
l63S-Starts a college.
l640-Sets up a printing press.
l643-Goes into a Confederaey-the first Col
onial Congress.
l649-Sets his face against the unchrIstian
custom Of wearing long hair, "a thing uncivil
and uncomely."
l65l-Is rebuked for intolerable excess and
bravery of apparel = and is forbidden to wear
gold and silver lace, or other such gewgaws.
lG52-Coins pine tree shillings, and makes
the business profitable
I663-Prints a Bible for the Indians.
I66S-Buys a " bang-up' lock and occasionally
carries a silver watch that helps him guess the
time of day. About this period learns 10 use forks
at table-a new fashion.
1925 scared b. witches again at Salem
but gets the best Of them.
1702-Founds another college, W ieh at last
settles down at New Haven.
Footprints his first newspaper in Boston.
l705-Constructs another platform this time
at Saybrook.
l7I0-Begins to sip tca-very sparingly.
l71l-Puts a letter in his first post-offce.
172O-Eats a potato, and takes one home to
plant in his garden as n curiosity.
l72l-Is innoculated for the small-pox-not
without remonstrances from his conservative
neighbors. Begins to sing by note on Sundays,
thereby encountering much opposition, and open
| ng q ten years quarrel.
1740-Nlanufactures timed ware, and starts
the first tin peddler on his travels.
l74l-Sees Faneuil Hall built. The cradle of
liberty is ready to be rocked.
l745-Builds an organ, but does not permit it
TO be played in the meeting house.
1750-Buys a bushel of potatoes for winters
use all his friends wondering what he will do
with 50 many.
l756-Puts up a franklin stove in the best
room, and tries one of the newly invented light
ming rods.
I76O-AbOut this time begins to wear a collar
TO his shirt. When he can afford it, takes his
wife to meeting in q Chaise, instead of on a pillion,
as heretofore.
l~765-Shows his dislike to stamped paper, and
joins the " Sons of Liberty
l768-Tries his hand at Type Founding-not
yet successfully-in Connecticut.
177O-Buys a homemade wooden clock.
1773-Waters his tea in Boston harbor, plants
liberty trees wherever he finds good soil.
l774-Lights Boston streets with oil lamps a
novelty Though q New Lights " have been plenty
for some years).
1776-Brother Jonathan-as he begins to be
called in the family-declares himsels free and
independent.
1780-Buys an 'Umbrille" for Sundays:
and whenever he shows it is laughed at for his
effeminacy.
1781-Starts q cotton spinning factory.
1792-Has been raising silk worms in Connec-
ticut, and now gives his minister (not his wife) q
homemade silk grown buys q carpet for the
middle of the parlor floor.
1793-Invents the Cotton Gin, and thereby
trehles the value of the Southern plantations.
l795-1800-Wears pantaloons occasionally,
but not when in full dress begins to use plates
on the breakfast and tea table.
lsO2-Has the boys and girls vaccinated.
l806-Tries to burn a piece of hard coal from
Philadelphia. \ failure.
1807-Sees a boa; go by steam ON the Hud-
son.
1815-Holds a little Convention at Hartford,
but dosen't propose TO dissolve the Union buys
one of Terry's patent 90 shelf-clocks for S36, and
regulates his watch by it.
18l7-Sets up q stove in the meeting house,
and builds a fire in it for Sunday an innovation
which is stoutly resisted by many.
1S18-Begins to run a steamboat on Long
Island Sound and after making his will, takes
passage on it to New York.
1819-Grown holder, he crosses the Atlantic in
Il steamship.
~1S23-Lights gas in Boston. at last, learns
how to make hard coal burn, and sets q crate in
his parior buys q steel pen Zone of Gillott's, sold
at $33 per gross; has his everyday shirts made
1S25--About this time puts a percussion lock
on his old musket.
1826-Buys his wife a pair of queershaped
India rubber overshoes; puts on his first false
collar.
I82S-Tastes his first tomato. doubtingly is
told that it is questionable to feed himself with
his knife. and buys silver forks for great occa-
sions.
~1S32-Builds a railroad, and rides on it.
S33-Ru the first friction match, then called
% Lucifer and afterwards Loco Foeo -
throws away the old finder box, with his flint and
steel.
1835-Invents the revolver, and sets about sup
plying the world with its peace-making. Tries a
gold pen, but cannot find a good one yet, nor till
1874.
I837-Gets in a panic, and out again, after free
use of " shin-plasters."
lS3S-Adopts the new fashion of putting his
letters in envelopes, "a fashion which does not
fairly prevail till seven years later).
1840-Sits for his daguerreotype, and gets a
f~earfully and wonderfully made picture; begins
to blow himself up with "camphene" and
q burning fuid," and continues the process for
years, with change of names of the active agents
down to and including 6 non-explosive kerosene. -
ls44-Sends his first message by the electric
telegraph.
lS47-Buys his wife a new sewing machine, in
the vain hope that somehow it will keep the
buttons on his shirt; begins to receive advices
from the spirit World"
lS55-Begins to bore and be bored by the
Tunnel.
lS5S-Celebrates the laying of the Ocean cable
sends a friendly message to John Bull. Next
week begins to doubt whether the cable has been
at all.
lS6l-Goes South to help compose Il family
quarrel takes to using paper money.
1S61-ls65-Climbs the Hill Difficulty, re-
lieyed of his pack, after January l, 1864 but
loses GREAT HEART at the last, April IA, 1865.
1S65-Gets the Atlantic cable in working order
at last, in season to send word to his British
cousins. who have been waiting for an invitation
to his funeral, that he 90 lives yet"
1S65-lS75-Is demonstrating and talking
about Resumption sends his bays to the Museum
10 sec an old-fashioned silver dollar.
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