Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-08-10
1853. Tries his hand at type found.

ITO Buys homemade woodeI
clock.
1173. Waters his tea in Boston Har
Dor. Plants liberty trees wherever h'
finds good soil
1774. Lights Boston streets with oil
lamps; novelty, (though New Lights
had been plenty some years before.
1775. Shows Lord Percy how tc
march to "Yankee Doodle" Calls a
Ticonderoga to take lodgings for the
season. Sends Gen. Putnam, under
the command of several colonels, will
small party, to select site for Bun
ker Hill Monument.
1716. Brother Jonathon-as he be
gins to be called in the family-declarei
himself free and independent.
1880. Buys an "Umbrillo," for Sun
days; and whenever he shows it j:
laughed at for his effeminacy.
1871. Starts cotton spinning facto
ry.
1892. Has been raising silk worms
in Connecticut; and now gives bis min
lister, not his wife, q homemade sill
gown. Buys carpet for the middle
of the parlor floor.
1893. Invents the cotton gin-and
thereby trebles the value of the South
ern plantations.
1795-1800. Wears pantaloons occa
sionally, but not when in full dress
Begins to use plates on the breakfast
and tea table.
1902 Has the boys and girls vacci
mated.
1906. Tries to burn piece of hard
coal from Philadelphia;-a failure.
1907. Sees boat go by steam on
the Hudson.
1915. Holds little convention at
Hartford, but doesn't propose to dis
solve the Union. Buys one of Terry's
patent shelf clocks for $36 and regu.
lates his watch by it.
1917. Sets up stove in q meeting.
house, and builds fire in it on Sun.
day, an innovation which is stoutly re-
sisted by many.
1918. Begins to run a steamboat on
Long Island Sound-and takes pas.
sage on it to New York, after making
his will.
1919. Grown bolder, he crosses the
Atlantic in a steamship.
1922. Lights gas in Boston, (but
does not light Boston with gas till
1929 At last learns how to make
hard coal burn, and gets CRATE in his
parlor. Buys steel pen. Has his
everyday shirts made without ruffles.
1925. About this time puts per-
cussion lock on his old musket.
1926. Buys his wife pair of queer
shaped India rubber overshoes. Puts
on his first false collar. Tries an "Ex-
perimental" railroad with horse power.
1928. Tastes bis first tomato-doubt-
ingly. Is told that it is questionable
to feed himself with his knife-and
buys silver forks for great occasions.
1888 Rubs his first friction match
then called a "Lucifer," and after
wards Loco Foco." Throws away
the old tirder-box with its flint and
steel.
1885. Invents the revolver, and sets
about supplying the world with it, as
a peacemaker. Tries a gold pen, but
can not find good one-not till 1874.
Builds real railroad, and rides on it.
1887. Gets in panic-and out
again, after free use of "shin-plasters. u
1888. Adopts the new fashion OF
putting his letters in envelopes, "a fash
ion which does not prevail till seven
years later.)
1910. Sits for his daguerreotype, and
gets picture fearfully and wonderful
ly made. Begins to blow himself up
with "camphene" and burning fluid"
and continues the process for years,
with changes of name of the active
agent, down to and including "non-ex-
plosive kerosene"
1874 Sends bis first message by the
electric telegraph.
1S47. Buys bis wife sewing ma'
chine-in the vain hope that somehow
it will keep the buttons on his shirts.
Begins to receive advices from the
"spirit world"
1855. Begins to bore and be bored
by the Hoosac Tunnel.
1858. Celebrates the laying of the
ocean cable, and sends friendly mes
sage to john Bull. Next week, begins
to doubt whether the cable has been
laid ut all.
1861. Goes south to help compose a
family quarrel Takes to using paper
money.
1861-65. Climbs the Hill Difficulty
relieved of Lis pack after January l,
1864; but loses Great Heart, April IA,
1865.
1865. 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
funeraD that he "lives yet"
1868 Is reconstructing, and talk.
ing about resumption. Sends his boys
to the museum to see an old-fashioned
silver dollar.
1875. Goes to Bunker Hill to pay
honor to the illustrious men who com
manded Gen. Putnam. Thinks he
wont initiate, and helps strangle west.
ern rag baby. Gets ready to celebrate
his second golden wedding by grand
family reunion, next yea-, in Philadel
phia.
1876. Celebrates his first Centennial
by grand celebration at Philadelphia
in which he is joined by his sisters, his
cousins and his aunts.
Whenever you are sick and the
doctor tries this and that, stop fooline
and take Peruna.'
The total number of entries for ex
hibition at the great Atlanta Exhibi
tion down to July 18th, was 1886
and their character shows the allen
bracing nature of the exhibits, only
two entries having been hitherto made
of the same kind of articles. Among
m o-r; m ntfural avh;hit, tho p,ocf nromi