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NEW £ In 



AND FARMER 



SEPT. 2, 1R40 



MISCELLANEOUS 



THE BISHOP AND HIS KIRDS. 



A wortliy bishop, who died lately at Riilisbon, 

 hail for his arms two fieldfares, with the motto, " on- 

 not two sparrows sold fur a farthi ig ?" This 

 strange coat of arms, had often excited attention, 

 and many persons had wish«d to know its origin, 

 as it was generally reported, that the bishop had 

 chosen it for himself, and that it bore reference to 

 eome event in his early life. One day an intimate 

 friend asked him its meaning, and th« bishop re- 

 plied by relating the following story : — 



Fifty or sixty years ago, a little boy resided at 

 a village near Dillengen, on the banks of the Dan- 

 ube. His parents were very poor, and almost as 

 soon as the boy could walk, he was sent into the 

 woods to pick up sticks for fuel. When he grew 

 older, his father tanght him to pick the juniper ber- 

 ries, and carry them to a neighboring distiller, who 

 wanted them for making Hollands. Day by day, 

 the poor boy went to his task, and on his road he 



light; "you can do for ine what I should like bet 

 ter than anything else." 



" What is that ?" asked the schoolmaster, snii 

 ling. 



VR\TE AND POUDItBTTE. 



An estahlishnipnl for llie maniiraclure of ihe Mantircs 

 called Urate and Puudrelie lias lieeii erected, at a eon&idera- 

 Me expense, in llie State of New Jersey, near the city o( 

 New York ; and an ctt of ineornoralion tias been granted hy 



Teach me to read," cried the bov, falling on ' the legislature of the Stale oi New Jersey, l.y the name of 

 , . , , , , . , . . ' , 1 11 , " The Lodi Manufacturing Comiiany." for purposes of agri- 



hts knees ; " oh, dear, kind sir, teach me to read. | fuimre, wherein it is provided, that 50n sliares, a portion of 

 The schoolmaster complied. The boy came to I the stock reserved for suliscription by fanners and gardeners, 

 him at all his leisure hours, and learnt so rapidly, ' ^1'^". a limited time, shall he entitled to rccei^ve 5" '■"shels 

 ' 111- ' I ol Proudrette yearly tor five years, viz. in 1840, lb4!, IS-^i, 



that the schoolmaster recommended htm to a no- | ,^,43, and 1844, upon each share of Sioo, whicli is at the rate 

 bleman, who resided in the neighborJiood. This ] of 211 per cent, per annum, for those years, and after thai 

 , L! ■ I ■ • 1 :„ I.;, period to receive an equal dividend with '' "' ~ 



ho was as noble in hia nitnd, as in lits j^^| . 1 



I gentleman 



I birth, patronized the poor boy, and sent him to 

 I school at Ratisbon. The boy profited by his op- 

 portunities, and when be rose, as he soon did, to 

 wealth and honors, he adopted two fieldfares as 

 his arms." 



" \\ hat do you mean ?" cried the bishop's 

 friend. 



" I mean," retiirned the bishop, with a smile, 

 "that the boy was mvsf.lf." 



Do AS YOU WOULD BE DONE UNTO. — The Itorse 

 of a pious man living in Massachusetts, happening 

 passed by the open windows of the village school, j t„ gtray into the road, a neighbor of the man who 

 where he saw the schoolmaster teaching a luimbcr 

 of boys about the age of himself. He looked at 



owned the horse, put him into the pound. Meet- 

 ing the owner soon sifter, he told him what he had 

 done ; " and if I catch him in the road again," 

 said he, " I 'II do it again." " Neighbor," replied 

 the other, " not long since I looked out of my 

 window in the night, and saw your cattle in my 

 meadow, and I drove them out, and shut them in 

 your yard — and /'// do k again." Struck with 

 the reply, the man liberated the horse from the 

 pound, and paid the charges himself. " A soft 

 answer turneth away wrath." 



Revolu rIO^ART Akmy. — We find the follow- 

 ing in an old Vermont paper : The number of regu- 

 lars furnished to the revolutionary army, were, by 

 New England, 147,441 ; by the Middle States, 

 56,.571 ; by the Southern States, 5C,9S)7. It ap- 

 pears by the above, that Ne»v England, consisting 

 of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 

 and Connecticut furnished more troops for the de- 

 fence of the country, than the other nine states, 

 by 3872. The number of troops furnished by 

 St;utli Carolina, was 6,448 ; Massachusetts, (J7,907. 

 Ceorsia, 2G97 : Connecticut, 31,939. 



these boys, with feelings almost of envy, so ear- 

 nestly did he long to be among them. He knew 

 it was in vain to ask his father to send him to 

 school, for he knew that his parents had no money 

 to pay the schoolmaster ; and he often passed the 

 whole day, thinking, while he was gathering hia 

 juniper berries, what he could possibly do to please 

 the schoolmaster, in hope of getting some lessons. 

 One day when he was walking along, he saw two 

 of the boys belonging to the school, trying to set 

 a trap, and he asked one what it was for ? The 

 boy told him that the schoolmaster was very fond 

 of fieldfares, and they were setting the trap to 

 catch .some. This delighted the poor boy, for he 

 recollected that he had often seen a great number 

 of these birds in the juniper wood, where they 

 came to cat the berries, and he had no doubt but 

 he could catch some. 



The next day the little boy borrowed an old 

 basket of his mother, and when ho went to the 

 wood, he had the great delight to catch two field- 

 fares. He put them in the basket, and tying an 

 old handkerchief over it, he took them to the 

 schoolmaster's house. Just as he arrived at the 

 door, he saw the two little boys, who had been set- 

 ting the trap, and with some alarm he asked them 

 if they had caught any birds. They answered in 

 the negative ; and the boy, his heart beating with 

 joy, gained admittance into the schoolmaster's pre- 

 sence. Iti'a few words he told liow he had seen 

 the boys setting the trap, and how lie had caught 

 the birds, to bring them as a present to his master. 



" A present, my good boy I" cried the school- 

 master ; "you do not look as if you could afford to 

 make presents. Tell me your price, and I will 

 pay it to you, and thank you besides." 



"I would rather give them to you, sir, if you 

 please," said the boy. 



The schoolmaster looked at the boy as he stood 

 before him, with bare head and feet, and ragged 

 trowsers that reached only half way down his na- 

 ked legs. " Vou are a singular boy !" said he ; j A Profitable Voyage. — Mr Hatch informs 

 " but if you will not take money, you must tell nie 1 us that the ship Hector arrived at New Bedford, 

 what I can do for you ; as I cannot accept your from the Pacific, last evening, with a cargo of 

 present, without doing something for it in return, twenty seven hundred barrels of oil— having been 

 Is there anything that I can do for you ?" j out only twrnty-six months ! The cargo is worth 



"Oh, yes!" said the boy, trembling with de- about «i'^/i(j/ (/lousanrf rfoWar* .' — Transcript. 



To TAKE OFF THE IMPRESSION OF PbINTS. 



Ti'.ke Venice or Windsor soap, which must be cut 

 into small pieces ; a certain quantity of potash, 

 with as much quick lime, and boil the whole in a 

 pot. Wet the engraved side of the print gently 

 with this liquor, then apply to it a sheet of while 

 paper, and roll it several times with a roller, in or- 

 der that the impression may be complete. 



New Invfntion. — It is said, that a cute Yan- 

 kee, in the Old Bay State, has invented a kind of 

 musical clock, that he has attached to a cradle, 

 and the musical department sings the baby to sleep, 

 'I his cute labor saving machine, it is thought will 

 induce many wary bachelors to forego their celiba- 

 cy, and venture upon a series of connubialities. 



he other stock- 

 lolders. 



T!ie Manufactory has gone into operation according to 

 law j a sufficient nundier of shares having licen snhscrihed 

 for that puipose. and capital paid in ; and the first dividend 

 has Ijeen regularly paid to tlie subscrihers — the next divi- 

 dend is payalde in September. Kut the Company needs a 

 larger moneyed capiiai than it now has, to carry it on to bet- 

 ter advantage. Inquiries having fieen made whether all the 

 stock had been taken, and tlie difficulty at the present lime 

 of otitainiiig funds, to a sufTicient amount, from a few indi- 

 viduals, has induced a renewal of this notice to farmers and 

 gardeners, and every other perscn who may have s|)are lunds, 

 (as every person is now permitted to subscribe,) that there is 

 yet a considerable portion of the reserved stock, which, by 

 law, is to receive 20 per cent, per annum, payable in Prou- 

 drette, one half in May, and the other half in September, in 

 the years 1840, 1S4I, 1812, 1-543, and 1844, not yet subscribed 

 for, and tlie t)Ooks arc now open to receive subscriptions for 

 the same, by any person, whether gardener, farmer or other- 

 wise, at the office of ihc Lodi IVlanufacluring Company, No. 

 73 Cedar Street, in the city of New York. Terms lor the 

 reserved stock, SlOO per share in cash; and for ihe other 

 portion of ihe slock an instalment of S25 per share on sub- 

 scribing, and the residue (being S75 per share) to be called 

 in by instalments of fis per share, aher thirty days notice 



These manures have been fairly tested and very generally 

 approved of as being the cheapest and best maimres, ana 

 more economically applied than any other known substance 

 used for manure. 



As the article can be furnished from the city of New York, 

 only to a limited extent, (not more ihan sufficient to manure 

 35.000 acres anmially,) it must follow, that 111 a few years it 

 will necessarily be confined to the use of the stockholders 

 alone. 



It is important to agriculture, and the enterprise deserves 

 the liberal support of every enlightened farmer. By order, 

 WILLIAM M. WILSON, Secretary. 



At an election for Directors of the Lodi Manufacturing 

 Company, held at Jersey City on the 6lh day of July, 1840, 

 the following persons were elected Directors of the Compa- 

 ny, to hold their offices until the first Monday in October 

 ne.xt, namely, Anthony Dcy and Jacob C. ttey, of New 

 York ; J D. Miller, Andrew S. Garr and Rodman M. Price, 

 of New Jersey. 



Agust 12. 



TIE UP CHAINS. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural Ware- 

 house, a good supply of those celebrated Chains for tying 

 up cattle. These chains, introduced by E. H. Perby, Esq. 

 of Salem, and Col. Jacques, of Charlestown, for tlie pur- 

 pose of securing cattle to the stall, are found to be the safest 

 and most convenient mo le of fastening cows and oxen to the 

 stanchion. They consist of a chain which passes round the 

 animal's neck, and by a ring attacheii to the stall, plays free- 

 ly up and down, and leaves the animal ai lihcriy to lie down 

 or rise at pleasure, and keeps him oerfeclly secure. 



July 15. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. _ 



BERKSHIRE: PIGS FROM HAWS'S STOCK. ' 



The subscriber has on hand a few liltres, from some of 

 the largest and finest sows in llie country, sired by Losing's 

 and other imported boars. Also, the smaller class of Berk-' 

 shire pigs, which are very beautiful animals, and delicious- 

 porkers.. Either of the above stocks will be disposed of 

 extremely low by applying to Z. STANDISH. 



N. B. The pigs will be neatly caged and shipped at New 

 York, without extra charge, if required. Unquestionable 

 reference will be given for thorough breeding. 



Albany, August 19. 41 



THE NEW S5NGI.AXD PARRIEK 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at S3 per annum 

 payable at the cud of the year — but those who pay wilhm 

 sixtydays from the lime of subscribing are entitled to a cie' 

 ductionof 58 cents. 



TDTTLE, DENNETT AND CHISHOLM, PRINTERS, 



n SX'IIOO! S'I'rtl.KT ...nOETON 



