The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-14
MILE.STONES.

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The following, which was first pub
lished last year, now appears, with some
variations from the original text. in tho
Hartford Courant Almanac for 1876.
The author is j. Hammond Trumbull, of
Hartford
1920. Lands on Plymouth Rock, and sets up
l62l: Keeps Thanksgiving no danger Of
overeating.
J 1922. Builds meeting house. ..s
1898. Proclaims Fast Day.
1923; Cuts down May Pole at Merry Mount.
as rebuke to vain recreatons
1885. Is crowded for accommodated and
stakes out new farm ut Connecticut
1887. Makes war ON the Antinomiars and
the Pequot Indians, and whips both.
1888. Starts College, and
1640. Sets up Printing Press
1643. Goes into q Confederscy-the first Col
164s Lays down the Cambridge Platform.
Hangs a witch.
1649 Sets his face against the unchristian
custom Of wearing long hair, "a thing uncivil
and uncomely"
1861. Is rebuked for "intolerabls excess and
bravery of apparel" and is forbidden to wear
gold and silver lace, or other such gew-gaws.
1852. Coins Pine Tree Shillings, and makes
the business profitable.
1868. Prints Bible for the Indians.
1850. Buys ''hang-up" clock, and OCCASION
ally carries silver watch that helps him guess
the time Of day. About tits period learns to
use Forks at table; new fashion.
1892. Ii scared by Witches again, at Salem,
but gets the better of them.
1701. Pounds another College, which, after
a while. settles down at New Haven.
1904. Prints his first Newspaper, in Boston.
1705. Tastes Coffee AZ a luxury, and at his
own table.
1907. Constructs another Platform this time
ut Saykrook.
ITO. Begins to sip Tea very sparingly. 1t
does not come into family use till five and
wenty years later.
Iii. Puts letter into his first Poao6ice.
1920. Eats POtdto-and takes one home to
plant in his garden AZ a curiosity.
1721. IpOcuLdted for the Small Pox-not
without grave remonstrance from his conserva-
tive neighbors. Begins to Sing by note on
Sundays, thereby encountering much 0pposi-
ton and opening a ten years quarrel.
1740. Manufactures tin-ware, and starts the
| first Tin PeoidIer on his travels.
1742. Sees Faneuil Hall built. The Cradle Of
Liberty is ready to be rocked.
1745. Builds an organ; but does not yet per-
NIT it to be played in the Westinghouse.
1850. Buys bushel Of Potatoes for Winters
ute-all his friends wondering what he will do
with so many.
1855. Puts up a Franklin Store in his best
room and tries one OF the newly invented
lightning Rods.
I76O. About this time begins to wear collar
to his shirt. When he can afford it takes his
wife TO meeting III Ctdise, instead Of on pill
! ion AZ heretofore.
1765. Shows his dislike to stamped Paper,
and joins the Sons Of Liberty"
1868. Tries his hand at Type Fousd,ug-not
yet successfully-in Connecticut.
1910. BUYS a homemade Wooden Cto6.
1773. Waters his Tea in Boston Harbor.
Plants Liberty Trees, wherever he finds good
soil.
IVA. Lights Boston streets with oil lamps
novelty, Though New Lights" had been
plenty some years before).
1775. Shows Lord Percy how to march to
Yankee Doodle" Calls at Ticonderoga to
take lodgings for the season: Sends Gen.
Putnam (under the command Of several Colo
nes) with small party, to select site for
Bunker Hill monument.
1776. Brother Jondthan-as he begins to be
called in the family-declares himself to be
Free and Independent.
1850. BUYS an Umbrillo" for Sundays and
whenever he shows it is laughed at for his Of
feminacy.
1891. Starts Cotton Spinning factory.
1892. Has been raising Silk Worms in Con-
necticut and now gives his minister (not his
wife, homemade silk gown. Buys Carpet
for the middle Of the parlor floor.
1898. &nvents the Cotton Gin-and thereby
trebles the value Of Southern plantations.
1795-1800. Wears Pd,,taloons occasionally,
but not when in full dress. Begins to use
1902. Has the boys and girls Uocciadted.
1906. Tries to burn piece Of Hard Coal
from Philadelphia +; failure.
1907. Sees boat go by Steam on the Hud-
son.
1915. Holds little Convention at Hartford,
but doesn't propose to dissolve the Union.
Buys one of Terrys patent "Shelf Clocks for
$50, and regulates his watch by 1t.
1917. Sets up a Stove in the Westinghouse
and builds fire init on Sunday; an innovation
which is stoutly resisted by many.
1918. Begins to run a Steamboat on Long
Island Sound-and takes passage on it to New
York after making his will.
1919. Grown holder, he crosses the Atlantic
! in a steamship.
1922. Lights Gas in Boston (but doesn't light
Boston with gas till 1929. At last learns how
to make Hard Coal burn, and sets CRATE in
his parlor. Buys Steel Pen Zone of Gillott's,
sold at S33 per gross). Has his every -day Shirts
made without R,lites.
1925. About this time puts Percussion Lock
on his old musket.
1926. Buys his wife pair Of queer-shaped
India Rubber overshoes. Puts, on his first
False Collar. Tries an "Experipental rail-
road by horse power.
1928. Tastes his first Tomato Gdoubtingly.
IL told that it is Questionable to feed himself
with his knife-and buys Silrer FORKS for great
occasions.
1885. BUYS his first Friction Match-then
called "Lucifer," and aftsrward g Noco-
Foco. Throws away the OLD .Ipqer-poA, WIN
Is flint and steel.
1885. Invents the ReuolUer, and sets about
supplying the world with it, as apeacemaker.
Tries Gold Pen, but cannot find good one
yet--nor till 1874. Builds a real Railroad, and
rides on it. ,.r
1887. Gets in panic-and out. again after
free use of 'shinplasters."
1888. Adopts the new fashion OF putting his
letters in Envelopes, "a fashion which does not
fairly prevail till seven years later).
1910. Sits for his Ddguerreotype, and gets
picture fearfully and wonderfully made. Be-
gins to blow himself up with "Camphene' and
Burning Fluid y and continues the process
for years, with changes Of name OF the active
agent, down to and including Non-Explosve
Kerosene"
1874. Sends his first message by the EIec-
trio Telegraph.
1Si7. Buys his wife Se,oing Mdchine-in
the vain hope that somehow it will keep the
, buttons on his shirts. Begins to receive adj
J vices from the Esprit World"
| 1855 Begins TO bore and be bored by tho
Hoosac Tunnel.
1858. Celebrates the laying OF the Oced"
] Gable, and sends friendly message TO Jonn
: Bull. Next week begins to doubt whether the
4 cable has been laid at all.