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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



OCT. 13, 1843. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Educate your Children Early. — What is the ob- 

 ject of education ? To form the character. How 

 is this to be done ? Not by lesaons, but princi- 

 pally through the influence of example, and circum- 

 stances, and situation. How soon is the child ex- 

 posed to these influences? From tl.c moment it 

 opens its eyes and feels the pressure of its mother's 

 bosom — from that time it becomes capable of no- 

 ticing what passes around it, and knowing the dif- 

 ference of one thing from another. So powerful 

 are the tjraduul and unnoticed influences of these 

 early months, that the infant, if indulged or humor- 

 ed, may grow into a petty tyrant at ten months old, 

 and totlle about in two years, a selfish, discontent- 

 ed, irritable thing, that every one but tlie mother 

 turns from in disgust. During tliis period, every 

 human being is making its first observations, and 

 acquiring its first experience; passes his early 

 judgments, forms opinions, acquires habits. They 

 may be ingrained into their characters for life. 

 Some right and some wrong notions njay take with 

 firm liold, and some impressions, good or bad, may 

 sink so deep as to be with scarcely any force, eradi- 

 cated. There is no doubt that many of these incu- 

 rable crookednesses of disposition which we attri- 

 bute to nature, would be found, if they could be 

 traced, to have originated in tlie early circumstan- 

 ces of life; just as a deformed or stunted tree, not 

 from any natural perversity of seed, from which it 

 sprung, but from the circnmatances of the eoil and 

 situation where it grew — Journal of Education. 



Job Dodge, or the Stormy Day. — It was a half 

 drizzling, half stormy day in the middle of Novem- 

 ber — just such a day as puts nervous people in a 

 bad humor witli themselves and every body else. 

 Job Dodge was brooding over the fire immediately 

 after breakfast. His wife addressed him as follows : 



"Mr Dodge, can't you mend that front door- 

 latch today ?" 



" No," was the answer. 



"Well, can't you mend the handle of the water 

 pail ?" 



" No." 



"Well, can't you fi-X a handle to the mop ?" 



" No." 



"Well, can't you put up some pins for the 

 clothes, in our chamber?" 



"No." 



"Well, can't you fix that north window, to tiiat 

 the rain and snow won't drive in ?" 



"No, no, no," answered the husband, sharply. 



He then took his hat, and was on the point of 

 leaving the house, when his wife, knowing that he 

 was going to the tavern, where he would meet some 

 of his V. et-day companions, asked him kindly to 

 stop a moment. She then got her bonnet and 

 cloak, and said to hor husband, " Ynu are going to 

 the tavern : with your leave, I will go with you." 

 The husbar.d stared. " Yes," said the wife, " I may 

 as well go as you : if you go and waste the day at 

 the tavern, why shall I not do the same ?" 



Job felt the reproof. He shut the door; hung 

 up his hat; got the liamnier and nails; did all his 

 wife had requested, and sat down by the fire at 

 night, a better and happier man. — Siltcted. 



A Bold Preacher. — Samuel Davies, when Presi- 

 dent of Princeton College, visited England for the 

 purpose of obtaining donations for that institution. 

 The King (George H.,) had a curio.'sily to hear a 

 preacher from "the wilds of America." He ac- 

 cordingly attended on one occasion when Mr Da- 

 vies preached, and was so much struck with his 

 commanding eloquence, that he expressed his as- 

 tonishment loud enough to be heard half way 

 over the house, in such terms as these: "He is a 

 wonderful man !" " Why, he beats my bishops !" 

 &c. Davies, observing that the King was attract- 

 ing more attention tl'.an himself, paused, and look- 

 ing his Majesty full in the face, gave him, in an 

 emphatic tone, the following beautiful rebuke : 

 "When the lion roareth, let the beasts of the for- 

 est tremble ; and when the Lord speaketh, let the 

 kings of the earth keep silence." The King in- 

 stantly shrunk back in his seat, like a schoolboy 

 that had been rapped over the head by his master, 

 and remained quiet during the remainder of the 

 sermon. The next day the monarch sent for him, 

 and gave him fifty guineas for the institution over 

 which he presided, observing at the same time to 

 his courtiers, " He is an honest man ; an honest 

 man." Not one of his silken bishops would have 

 dured him such a reproof. — Selected. 



The latest Fish Story is this, from the St. Louis 

 Organ : 



"A few miles from St. Lonis, on the Illinois 

 shore, are large lakes, which abound with fish of 

 the choicest kind. The prairies are filled with 

 cattle, which resort to the borders of the lakes, in 

 the heat of the day, and sometimes go into them up 

 to their middle and lash themselves with dripping 

 tails to keep the flies off. While a large two year 

 old bull of the Durham breed, was lashing himself in 

 the water and dipping his nose in the rippling 

 wave to cool it, an enormous fish caught him by 

 the nose and drew it under; when with a powerful 

 struggle he drew it up again; and you could see 

 the fish fast to his snout, half his length out of wa- 

 ter. The roaring of the bull and the thrashing of 

 the fish was quite an exciting scene, and the battle 

 continued some time, until the hull appeared to 

 grow faint, and eventually gave up: the last that 

 was seen of him that evening, was at some dis- 

 tance in the lake, when the rump of the bull would 

 bob up occasionally like a float. It is said that 

 the fish and bull were both found the next day on 

 the lake shore, dead ; the horns of the bull beinf 

 through the fish near the gills." 



Horace Walpole tells the annexed anecdote of a 

 humane jailor in Oxfordshire, who made the fol- 

 lowing application to one of his condemned prison- 

 ers. " My good friend ! 1 have a little favor to ask 

 of you, which, from your obliging disposition, I 

 doubt not yon will readily grant. You are ordered 

 for execution on Pridiy week. I have a particular 

 engagement on that day ; if it makes no difference 

 to you, ivould you say 7ie.xt Friday instead .'" 



Posthumous charities are the very essence of 

 selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when 

 alive, would not give away a penny. — Lacon. 



A secret is like silence — ynu cannot talk about 

 it and keep it; it is like money— when once you 

 know there is any concealed, it is half discovered. 

 " .My dear iMurpliy," said an Irishman to his friend, 

 "why did ye betray that sacret I told you." "Is 

 it betraying ye call it? An sure when I found I 

 was n't able to kape it myself, did 'nt I do well to 

 tell it to somebody that could .'" — Selected. 



A Dutch Advertisement. — We copy this from aa 

 exchange paper: — 



Sothering. — I dakea dis vay to inform de biiblio 

 vot I can do — dat I can Make stove Bipe.-^, brass 

 Copper, and tin vork of any kind, from a Still vorin 

 to a Vistle, and I can Sother up de hooter, de bots 

 vot has hole in 'em, and make em just as coot aa 

 new. All dish I vill do for de Moneys, at mine 

 old shtand in dish little Village, neer Vare de car. 

 pentcr lives vot makes de Wheel barrows, mendi 

 sick Hosses and Tolcs de bell. 



Haks Vanbruggen. 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW CUTTER. 



JOSEPH BKECK &. CO. at the New England Aqricii 

 lural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 and52]\orlli Ma 

 kel Street, have for sale. Green's Patent Straw, Hay ai 

 Stalk Culler, operating on a mechanical principle not I elii 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The most |,rni 

 inent effects of this application, and some of the conseque 

 peculiarities of the machine are: 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum o( power requisi 

 to use it, that the slrenglh of a half grown hoy is suliicie 

 to work it efficiently. 



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

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been claim 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or slec 

 power. 



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

 cut, require sharpening less olien than lliose of any oil 

 straw cutter. 



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

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable as I 

 complicated machines in general use to get out of order. 



SAYLE'S GARDEN ENGINE. 



This is a splendid article. It will throw a constant stre: 

 of water to the distance of 50 or 60 feet, wiili great for 

 and ill case of fire would tte a good suhslitule for a fire i 

 gine. The most perCccl article for the purpose ever inl 

 duced. For sale liy J. BRliCK & CO., N'o. 51 and 52 No 

 Market street. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leading Chains. 

 200 " Urafl Chains. For sale by J. BRECK &C 

 No. 52 North Market si. 



POUDRETTE. 



For sale 200 Barrels Poudreite, at S2 per liarrel, 1 

 BRECK & CO, 61 and 52 North Market si., Boston. 

 May 18. 



TYF, rP CHAINS. 



Just received by 600 Chains for tyeing up Catlle. 



These chains, introduced liy E. H. Debbv, Esq. of SaW 

 and Col. Jacques, for the purpose of securing callle lo 

 stall, are found lo tie the safest and most convenient ni 

 of fastening cows and oxen lo the stanchion. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., No. 62 No 

 Market St. 



NEW F. NGLANU FARMER. 



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