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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



JULY aO, 184 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Similes. — " Prny, mother, what arc similes? 

 They are resemblances, my child ; Ihe word 

 simile means a thing; that is like another. We 

 often use them to give clearness and energy to our 

 ideas. I will tell yon some similes in common 

 use, and put into rhyme so that you may remem- 

 ber them. 



As proud as a peacock — as round as a pea ; 



As blithe as a lark— as brisk as a bee ; 



As li^ht as a feather — as sure as a gun ; 



As green as the grass — as brown as a bun ; 



As rich as a Jew — as warm as toast ; 



As cross as two slicks — as deaf as a post. 



As sharp as a needle — as strong as an ox; 



As grave as a judge — as sly as a fox. 



As old as the hills — as straight as a dart j 



Ass'ill as the grave — as swift as a hart. 



As solid as marble — as firm as a rock ; 



As Bofi as a plum — as dull as a block. 



As pale as a lily — as blind as a bat ; 



As white as a sheet — as black as my hat. 



As yellow as gold — as red as a cherry; 



As wet as water — as brown as a berry. 



As plain as a pikestafl'— as big as a house ; 



As flat ;iS Ihe table — at; sleek as a m-tuse. 



As tall as the steeple — as round as a cheese ; 



As broad as 'tis long — as long as you please. 



Merry's Museum. 



Nobility of Labor. — The man who labors in 

 some honest occupation and supports himself by 

 his own industry is one of nature's noblemen. He 

 carries with him an independence of feeling un- 

 known to many a titled aristocrat who spurns the 

 idea of labor, and holds in utter contempt the man 

 who lives alone upim the result of his own indus- 

 try. To what pitiful shilts and disreputable means 

 are the labor haters often driven to maintain the 

 digniiy to which they aspire, the dignity of living 

 without manual labor. 



Many, not relishing work, think that some pro- 

 fessional parsults would elevate them in the scale 

 of human dignity, and, in spite of what nature de- 

 signed them for, commenced a profession in which 

 they can never rise above mediocrity, whereas they 

 might acquire reputation in their legitimate sphere. 

 How many of the three professional hangers-on 

 may every where be met with, who by some means 

 have obtamed a fine suit of clothes, and being too 

 proud to work, live a life of miserable dependence, 

 and encounter the sneers and jibes of the honest 

 mechanic who asks no favors but from heaven, and 

 a plenty of employment from his fellow men. 



Many a poor, laughed at doctor, and pettifog- 

 ging la wyer who are more than half starving for 

 want of em|)loyment, might have made good me- 

 chanics, been respected in their calling, and in the 

 enjoyment of at least a decent competency. Pa- 

 rents, we advise you to let your children follow the 

 indications of nature in their choice of pursuits 

 through life. — Lickinu Valley [Ky) Register. 



A Parson well paid. — The income of the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury is stated to be £41,000 

 a year which makes £788 9*. 2*/. per week, £112 

 6«. M. per day, and £4 13s. 6d. per hour, reckon- 

 ing 24 hours to the day." 



This is at the rate of about one hundred dollars 

 every three hours of breath the Archbishop draws. 

 What a charge for working his own lungs, and 



living ! If we deduct for his sleeping eight hours, 

 and for his eating Jour hours, — (and this is very 

 little, for a hiah feeding Englishman usually sits 

 fours hours at his dinner-table) — for exercise and 

 recreation four hours — it takes our parson the re- 

 mainder of his twenty four to receive and count 

 his cash without leaving him a minute to say his 

 prayers. Archbishops, however, manage money 

 and divine matters for the most part by deputy, and 

 in this way gain time for many secular employ- 

 ments which we have not taken into our estimate 

 of occupations, which cost the people so dear. — 

 Glohc. 



Chri.stian Phila>"Thopy. — Seldom are we call- 

 ed upon to record a finer incident than recently 

 came to our knowledge. A gentleman well known 

 in onrcity, who has been constrained by severe pe- 

 cuniary losses to abandon the business which at 

 one time bade fair to enrich him, was induced to 

 ask his creditors to discharge him, on condition of 

 his giving up all his property. He preferred to do 

 this instead of availing himself of the boon extend- 

 ed to him in common with thousands of his fellow 

 citizens, by the benevolence of Congres.^. His 

 creditors, without one exception, signed his dis- 

 charge ; but one of them whom he almost loared 

 to approach, having been compelled to pay his en- 

 dorsement on an " accommodation note" for two 

 thousand dollars — actuated by a peculiarly gen- 

 erous as well as Christian feeling, remarked to the 

 applicant for relief, (or he observed his embarrass- 

 ments, " Come on, don't be afraid. I know what 

 you have come for," and instantly affixed his name 

 to the discharge. Not satisfied with doing this, 

 after a short pause, he seized his hand and said, 

 " Take this — I know you must be short of money 

 — you have a large family to support, and it will 

 help you." The debtor to his utter amazement 

 found it was a check for one hundred dollars ! 

 There is something refreshing in such a scene as 

 this. The debtor told us the slory, and while nar- 

 rating it, his eyes but too plainly indicated how 

 his heart felt the generosity of one who had suf- 

 fered by his misfortunes. The same morning this 

 fine specimen of nature's nobility has discharged 

 another person, who owed him nine thousand dol- 

 lars. There is no romance in this. — JV. Y. Com- 

 mereicil. 



Extracts. — Every man is guilty of wrong, which 

 it would be wrong for any other man to attempt to 

 right. We cannot act right where we have 

 no right to act. It might be good for the idle, 

 were ho compelled to labor ; and for the spend- 

 thrift, were we to control his estate. But what 

 would be attended with partial good, would involve 

 universal evil, endangering all personal liberty and 

 separate interest. In righting one man's wrong, 

 we would wrong every man's right. 



Virtue is both a title and an estate ; a title the 

 most exalted, because it is God who confers it; an 

 estate the most rich, because it endures forever. 

 Envy may not derogate the title, because it is writ- 

 ten in the book of Heaven ; and fraud cannot di- 

 minish the estate, because no sin can reach it. 



There is nothing purer than honesty — nothing 

 sweeter than charity ; nothing warmer than love — 

 nothing richer than wisdom — nothing brighter than 

 virtue — and nothing more steadlast than faith. 

 These united in one mind, form the pure-^t and 

 sweetest, the warmest, the richest, the brightest 

 and the most steadf«3t happiness. 



When we see birds at the approach of rain 

 annointing their plumage with oil, to shield off" th 

 drops, should not it remind us, when the storms c 

 contention threaten us, to apply the oil of forbear- 

 ance, and thus prevent the chiling drops from en 

 tering our hearts. 



To accomplish much, a man must live as if h 

 were immortal. 



GRBEN'.S PATENT STUAW CUTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK &- CO. al Ihe New England Agncu 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Slore Nns. 61 and.«.2Korih Ma 

 ket Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hay ni 

 Stalk Culler, operating on a mechaiiicsl principle not belo 

 applied InaHy implement for this purpose. The most proi 

 inent effects of this application, and some of the cunsequi 

 pcculiariiies of the machine are : , 



1. So great a reduction of the quanlmn of power reqiiisi| 

 lo use it, that ihc strength of a half grown hoy is sufticie 

 to work il efficiently. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two bus 

 els a minute, which is full twice as lasl as has been clainu 

 liy any other machine even when worked by horse or slea 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which til 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any oth 

 straw cjtter. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and i 

 together very strongly. Il is therefore not so liable as 1 

 complicated machines in general use to get out of order. 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, &c. 



The I'roprielors of the New England Agricultural Wai ) 

 house and Seed Store No. 61 and 52 North Market sire' ' 

 would inform their customers and the pulilic generally if 

 they have on hand Ihe most extensive assortment of Ag 

 cultuial and Horticultural Tools to be found in the L'nil 

 States. Part of which are the following : 

 1000 Howard's Patent Cast 



Iron Ploughs 

 300 Common do. do. 

 aoo Cultivators. 

 100 Hreene's Straw Cutlers 

 60 Willis' do. do. 

 100 Comm^jn do. do. 

 100 Wiflfe' Patent Corn 



Shellers. 

 50 Common do do. 

 2u0 Willis' Seed Sowers. 

 50 " Vegetable Cullers 

 50 Common do. do. 



200 Hand Corn Mills. 

 200 Grain Cradles. 

 100 Ox Yokes. 

 1500 Doz- Scythe Stones. 

 3000 '• Austin's Rifles. 

 March 17. 



SOUTH DOVl'lV STOCK. 



For sale by the subscriber at the fool of Alwell's Aven 

 in the city of Piovidence, one imported Southdown Bue 

 Six liwes and four Lambs. The above are of ihe purt 

 blood, and second lo none in the country. 



June 8. 8w JOHN GILES. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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