The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-13
MILE-STONES.

The author is J. Hammond Trumbull, of
Hartford
1920. Lands on Plymouth Rock, and sets up
1921. Keeps Thanksgiving in no danger of
overeating.
1922 Builds meeting-house.
1928 Proclaims Fast Day.
1923. Cuts down May Pole at Merry Mount,
as q rebuke to vain recreationa.
1885. Is crowded for accommodations. and
stakes out new farm at Connecticut
1887. Makes war on the Antinomieps, and
the Pequot Indians, and whips both.
1888. Starts College. and
1910. Sets up Printing Press.
1913. Goes into ConfederRcy- FIRST Col
0nial Congress.
1913. Lays down the Cambridge Platform.
Hangs witch.
1919. Sets his face against the unchristian
custom of wearing long hair, - thing uncivil
and uncomely."
1861. Is rebuked for ''intolerable excess and
bravery of apparel" and is forbidden TO wear
gold and oliver lace, or other such gew-gaws.
1852. Coins Pine Tree Shillings, and makes
the business profitable.
1868. Prints Bible for the Indians.
1880. Buys ''hang-up" clook, and occasion
ally carries silver watch that helps him guess
the time of day. About this period learns to
use Forks at table; new fashion.
1892. is scared by Witches again, at Salem,
but gets the better of them.
1901. Pounds cnother College, which, after
a while, settles down at New Haven.
1904. Prints his first Newspaper, in Boston.
1705 Tastes Coffee as luxury, and at his
own table.
1907 Constructs another PI0tfosqss-this time
at Saybrook.
17iO 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 PeStofice.
1920. Eats a Potdto-and takes one home to
plant in his garden as a curiosity.
1921. In0ctlGted for the Small Pox-not
without grave remonstrance from his conserva-
tive neighbors. Begins to Sing by note on
Sundays, thereby encountering much Cpposi-
ton and opening ten years quarrel.
1910. Manufactures tiu-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 Orqon; but does not yen per-
NIT it to be played in the Meeting house.
1850. Buys bushel of Potatoes for Winters
ute-alI his friends wondering what he will dc
with so many.
1855. Puts up Franklin Stovc 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 u pill
ion as heretofore.
1865. Shows his dislike to stamped Pepper,
and joins the $ Sons of Liberty"
1853. Tries his hand at Type Foaadiag-not
yet successfully-in Connecticut.
1910. Buys homemade Wooden Clock.
1773 Waters his Tea in Boston Harbor.
Plants Liberty Trees, wherever he finds good
soil,
1774. Lights Boston streets with oil Lamps !;
a novelty Though ''New Lights" had been
plenty some years before).
1775 Shows Lord Percy how to march to
g 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 a site for
Bunker Hill monument
1776. Brother JOndtbdn-as he begins to be
called in the family-declares himself to be
Free and Independent.
1880. BUYS an Umbrillo" for Sundays, and
whenever he shows it is laughed at for his eff
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.
1893. Invents the Cotton GSn-Rnd thereby
trebles the value of Southern plantations.
1795-1800. Wears PGntGlOonS occasionally,
but not when in full dress. Begins to use
Plates on the breakfast and tea table.
1902. Has the boys and girls 06ccSsdted.
from Philadelphia a failure.
1907. Sees boat go by Steam on the Hud-
son.
1916. Holds little Convention at Hartford,
but doesn't propose to dissolve the Union.
Buys one of Terry's patent "Shelf Clocks = for
1856, and regulates his watch by 1t.
1917. Sets up Stove In the Meeting mouse,
and builds fire in it on Sunday an innovation
which is stoutly resisted by many.
1918. Begins to run a Steamboat on Long
Island Southland 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 Cbut doesn't light
Boston with gas till 1929. At last learns how
to make Hard Coal burn, and sets CRATE In
his parlor. Buys a Steel Pen Gone of Gillotts,
sold at 1888 per gross). Has his every day Shirts
made without Ruftes
1926 About this time puts a Percussion LocE
1896 Buys his wife pair of queer-shaped
India Rubber overshoes. Puts on his first
False Collar. Tries an Experimental rail-
road by horse power.
1923. Tastes his first Tomato doubungly.
Is told that it is UNREASONABLE to feed himself
with his knife-and buys SitUer Forks for great
occasions.
1888. BUYS his first Friction Mdtch-then
called 'sLucifer,'' and afterward 'sLoco-
Foco" Throws away the old Tinder-Dox, with
rs flint and STEEL
1895. Inyents the Reuoluer, and sets about
supplying the world with it, as a peacemaker.
Tries a Gold Pen, but cannot find good one
yet-nor till 1874. Builds real Railroad, and
rides on it.
1897. Gets in panic-and out again after
free use of ''shinplasters."
1888. Adopts the new fashion of putting his
letters in Envelopes, Ga fashion which does not
fairly prevail till seven years later).
1910 Sits for hia )1O1LpT.1'POtlfDo and gets
picture fearfully and wonderfully made. Be
gins to blow himself UP with Ca1nphene' and
8 Burning Fluid = and continues the process
for years, with changes of name of the active
agent, down to and including "Non-Explosive
Kerosene"
1874 Sends his first message by the EIec-
trio Telegraph.
1847. Buys his wife 8 Se,oing Machine
the vain hope that somehow it will keep the
buttons on his shirts. Begins to receive ad-
vices from the Esprit World"
1856. Begins to bore and be bored by the