Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1884-09-05

For the SENTINEL.
WHAT UNCLE SAM HAS DONE
SINCE COMING OF AGE,

1776 Declares himself of age, and
capable of attending to his own affairs
Takes him nearly eight years to convince
his cruel parent of the truth of his as
sertion and earn his freedom.
1889 Selects his friend George as "a
ruler for his nophews, establishes sew
eral departments and begins to get the
machinery of government in working
order.
1790-Count the members of his
family-nearly four millions. Decides
on building u capital city and naming it
after his friend, George.
l791.-Spins cotton and tries bank
ing.
1872. Attempts to leave off reckon
ing in L, s., d., and adopt 3 and c.
Gets them often mixed. Start6 mint.
1871. Has slight misunderstand-
ing with his old ally, France
1893. Hoses his friend, George.
1900. Wears pantaloons while about
his work, resorving his "small clothes"
for State occasions.
1901 Carries war into Africa, and
sets an example to Europe by thrashing
the Barbary pirates. Getting to be a
"big boy" now.
1902. Has his family vaccinatcd.
l806.--lFails to make the hard coal
found in Pennsylvania burn.
1907 Sees steamboat on the Hud-
son. Stops the slave trade
1S12.-Asscrts his independence for
the second time, and copvinces John
Bulr' of the fact Establishes a Land
Office, that his boys and girls may each
have farm.
1815.--Buys shclf-clock for 1886.
18l7.-Scandalizes his neighbors by
putting up stove in the church.
18l8.-Takes passage in steamer TO
New York from Boston, after making
his will.
1819.-Gets holder and crosses the
Atlantic in steamship.
1820.-Exports ice to the East and
West Indies.
1922. burns gas and hard COAL
Buys one Of Gillotts steel pens at $50
gross has shirt made without rui-
1cs.
1921 percussion lock on his
old gun, aud starts the temperance move
mcnt. Gives his children homeopathic
pills when not very sick
1926. Rides in ral-car drawn by
horses puts on false collar, and buys
his wife curious pair of India-rubbcr
oycrshoes.
1828.-Tries tomato, or Glove APP
plc," heretofore believed to be poison
Gus.
1880. -Rides in New York omni-
bus. Invents Mormonism.
1882. Builds steam railroad. Sets
down on Notification. Gets the cholera
1888 Lights his tallow candles and
gas with lucirer" or loco .foco"
match Sometimes uses envelopes, but
postage is yet too high for their general
use. Seals his letters with wax or wa
fcrs.
1885 --Invents a repeating pistol, but
finds it difficult for several years to "gct
them off" his hands.
1887. Gets into panic, but out
again by a free use of "shin-plastcrs E"
1910. Sits for his Daguerrootypc -
Sends box Of goods by "cxpress, and
blows aud burns himself up by free
use Of camphcne and other "burning
fluids"
1874. Sends message by electric
telegraph.
1916. Buys his wife Howe Sew
ing Machine. Begins to receive advicos
from the spirit world through the medi-
um Of the Fox girls.
1847. -Revels in the Halls Of the
Montezumas
1848. --Commences monument TO
bis friend, George. Kossuth, Hun
garian patriot visits him aud sets the
fashion Of wearing boards and soft hats,
silk "beavers" and smooth faces having
been long the rule.
1S49. Discovers golden inheritance
for his boys in California.
1850. Begins 10 make and drink la.
ger beer in New York. Sets up.as a
wine grower
1S51.--Reduccs postage TO three cents
per half ounce letter and issues rcgu.
lar set Of stamps. Sends the yacht
"Amcrica" to England as model
1853.-Forces an mountaineering
with the japanese
1858. Celebrates the laying Of the
Atlantic cable, but finds himself de-
ccivcd. Bores for oil in Pennsylvania,