The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-27
Brother JOnathan's Adventures.

1920. Lands on Plymouth Rock, and
sets up for himself: k*
1921. Keeps Thanksgiving-in no dan.
ger Of overeating. I
1922. Builds Meeting house.
1928. Proclaims Fast Day.
1923. Cuts down May Pole at Merry
Mount as a rebuke to vain recreations.
1885. Is crowded for accommodations
L 1887. Makes war on the Antinomians
and the Pequot Indians, and whips both
1888. Starts College, and
1910. Sets up Printing Press.
1913. Goes into a Confederacy-the first
Colonial Congress. e..
1913. Lays down the Cambridge Plat.
form. Hangs Witch.
1649. Sets his face against the unchris-
tian custom of wearing long hair, "a
thing uncivil and uncomely"
1861. Is rebuked for "intolerable ex.
cess and bravery of apparel" and is for.
hidden to wear gold and silver lace, or
other such gewg aws.
1862. Coins Pine-Tree Shillings, and
makes the business profitable
1868. Prints Bible for the Indians.
1880. Buys bang-up' Clock, and
occasionally carries silver watch that
helps him guess the time of day. About
this period learns to use Forks at table; a
new fashion.
1892. Is scared by Witches again, at
Salem; but gets the better of them.
1901. Pounds another College, which,
after while, settles down at New Haven.
1704. Prints his first Newspaper, in
Boston.
1905 Tastes Coffee as a luxury, and at
his own table.
1907. Constructs another Platform-this
time at Saybrook.
ITO. Begins to sip Tea-very sparing-
ly. 1t does not come into family use till
five and twenty years later.
I'LL. Puts letter into his first Post
office.
1920. Eats a Potato-and takes one
home to plant in his garden as curiosity
| 1921. Is Inoculated for the Small Pox-
not without grave remonstrance from his
conservative neighbors. Begins to Sing
by note on Sundays, thereby encountering
much opposition and opening a ten years
quarrel.
174O. Manufactures Tin-ware, and starts
the first Tin Peddler on his travels.
1742. Sees Faneuil Hall built The
cradle of Liberty is ready to be rocked.
1745. Builds an Organ; but docs not
yet permit it to be played in the Meeting
house.
1850. Buys bushel of Potatoes for
Winters use-all his friends wondering
what he will do with so many.
1855. Puts up a Franklin Stove in his
best room; and tries one of the newly
invented Lightning Rods.
1850. About this time begins to wear a
Collar to his shirt. When he can afford
it, takes his wife to meeting in chaise,
instead of on pillion, as heretofore.
1865. Shows his dislike to stamped
Paper, and joins the "Sons Of Liberty
176S. Tries his hand at Type Founding
not yet successfully Connecticut.
| ITO. Buys home made Wooden Clock
| 1918. Waters his Tea in Boston Harbor.
Plants Liberty Trees wherever he finds
good soil.
1774. Lights Boston streets with oil
Lamps; novelty Though New Lights
had been plenty some years hefore.)
to Yankee Doodle" Calls at Ticon.
deroga to take lodgings for the season.
Sends Gen. Putnam, with a small party,
ment.
| DAOtAC1 Coudludu-stS liz UtEluS
to be called in the family-declares him.
self Free and Independent.
1880. Buys an "Umbrllo" for Sundays
and whenever he shows it is laughed al
for his etfeminacy.
1901. Starts Cotton Spinning factory
1902. Has been raising Silk Worms in
Connecticut; and now gives his minister
mot his wife) a homemade silk gown
Buys Carpet for the middle of the par
lor floor.
1893. Invents the Cotton Gin-and there.
by trebles the value of Southern planta.
tiors.
1795-1S00. Wears Pantaloons occasion.
ally, but not when in full dress. Begins
to use Plates on the breakfast and tea.
table.
1902. Has the boys and girls vaccinated.
1906. Tries to burn piece of Hard Goa
from Philadelphia; a failure.
1907. Sees a boat go by Steam, on the
Hudson.
1915. Buys one of Terry's patent "Shell
Clocks" for $1,000, and regulates his
watch by it.
1917. Sets up Stove in the Meeting
house, and builds fire in it on Sunday
an innovation which is stoutly resisted BY
many.
1917. Begins to run a Steam boat or
Long Island Sound-and takes passage or
it TO New York, after making his will.
1919. Grown holder, he crosses the At.
lantic in steam ship.
1922. Lights Gas in Boston (but doesn't
light Boston with gas till 1899. AT last
learns how to make Hard Coal burn, and
sets CRATE in his parlor. Buys Steel
Pen Zone of Gillott's, sold at thirty-three
dollars per gross). Has his everyday
Shirts made without Ruff1es.
1925. About this time puts a Percussion
Lock on his old musket.
1926. Buys his wife a pair of queer.
shaped India Rubber overshoes. Puts on
his first False Collar. Tries an g Expert.
mental" railroad, by horsepower
1928. Tastes his first Misunderstanding.
ly. Is told that it is questionable to feed
himself with his knife-and buys Silver
Forks for great occasions.
1888. Buys his first Friction Match
then called a "Lucifer," and afterwards
Loco oco." Throws away the old
finder Box with its flint and steel.
1885. 1nvents the Revolver, and sets
about supplying the world with it, as 8
peacemaker. Tries Gold Pen, but can
not find a good one yet-nor till 1874
Builds real Railroad and rides on it.
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 Oaguerreotvpe, and