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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



JAN. 85, 1843. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



FROM LINES ON CHARITY, 



BY MnS. SIGOURNEY. 



The Christian loves his own. Hut is his God 

 Content with this, who, lull of houiity, pours 

 His Sun ray on the evil and the good, 

 And, like a jmrent, gathereth round his board 

 The thankless wilh the just ? 

 Speak, servants of that Blessed one who gave 

 The glorious precept, '' Love your enemies ; — 

 Is it enough that ye should /ore your friends, 

 Even as the heathen do? 



God of strength ! 

 Be watchful ; and when we daily kneel 

 Beside our pillow of repose, and say, 

 " Forgive us, Paiher, even as lac forgive," 

 Grant that the oil-repeated prayer seal not 

 Our condemnation. 



The Punster Of all the grievances in society, 



the professed punster is to me the most intolerable. 

 You cannot be safe in his company a minute. If 

 you venture an observation, he seizes on it with 

 the voracity of a mastiff. The silence of a puns- 

 ter is portentous as the calm before a storm. He 

 sits "hushed in grim repose," till the expected 

 word comes ; and then it is his cue. His ambition 

 is to set the circle in a roar — to perpetrate the 

 most execrable pun. 



He comes into your room with half-a-dozen fa- 

 mous extempore puns, which have cost him a morn- 

 ing's labor to concoct. As long as he can clinch 

 a word, or raise a laugh, he does not care how old 

 or how bad tlie pun is. He will call a servant 

 singing in a garret, "on attic warbler." He calls 

 a friend of mine an itnit-harian, because he has 

 but one lock of hair on his head. He addresses 

 a shoemaker as the sovereign of the soul. He 

 calls a toper a spiritual being ; and if you are a 

 lawyer, he supposes you raise your steam from 

 Coke. He is indefatigable in chasing down his 

 pun ; he reads only to find out resemblances, and 

 listens only to bring in his pun. He is fond of no 

 play save a play upon words, and he makes game of 

 every thing — 



" A wit with dunces and a dunce wilh wits." 

 His favorite poet is Crabbe, and his light reading, 

 Joe Miller and "Flowers of Wit." His brain is 

 full of the " eggs of bon-motsand specks of repar- 

 tees." If you are in a dilemma, and ask him what 

 steps you should take, he recommends the Court 

 steps. Dancing he calls the " essence of Iwps" — 

 and if you ask him to ring the bell, with great so- 

 lemnity ho puts a ring on the finger of some pretty 

 girl. A loafer in tatters he calls an open man — 

 and blacksmiths he proves to be rogues, because 

 they are in \.he forging business. If you tell iiim 

 his coat is too short, he tells you it will be /ong' bo- 

 fore he gets another. In short he seems to like a 

 good thing in proportion to its ago, and wishes to 

 shine not so much as the inventor as the transmit- 

 ter of a jest. Ho lives upon a ;>ihi, and finishes 

 hia career of a bad di-g-esi-ion. — The Pledge, 



The Jrab Horse. — A most moving incident, il- 

 lustrative of the extraordinary strength, as well as 

 attachment of the Arab horse, is given by De La- 

 martine, in his beautiful Travels in the East: 



"An Arab chief, with his tribe, had attacked in 

 the night a caravan of Damascus, and plundered it. 

 When loaded with their spoil, however, the robbers 

 were overtaken in their return by some horsemen 

 of the Pacha of Acre, who killed several, and bound 

 the remainder with cords. In Ihis state of bondage 

 they brought one of the prisoners, named Abou el 

 Marock, to Acre, and laid him, bound hand and 

 foot, wounded as he was, at the entrance of their 

 tent, where they slept during the night. Kept 

 awake by his wounds, the Arab heard his horse's 

 neijih at a little distance, and being desirous to 

 stroke, for the last time, the companion of his life, 

 he dragged himself, bound as he was, to his horse, 

 which was picketed at a little distance. 'Poor 

 friend,' said he, 'what will you do among the 

 Turks.' You will be shut up under the roof of a 

 khan, with the horses of a pacha or anaga; no 

 longer will the women and the children of the tent 

 bring you barley, camel's milk, or dourra in the 

 hollow of their hands ; no longer will you gallop 

 free as the wind of Egypt in the desert; no longer 

 will you cleave with your bosom the waters of the 

 Jordan. If I am to be a slave, at least, may you 

 go free. Go, return to your tent, which you know 

 so well ; tell my wife that Abou el Marock will re- 

 turn no more ; but put your head still in the folds 

 of the tent, and lick the hands of my beloved child- 

 ren.' With these words, as his hands were tied, 

 he undid with his teeth the fetters which held the 

 • ourser bound, and set him at liberty ; but the no- 

 ble animal, on receiving its freedom, instead of 

 bounding away to the desert, bent his head over 

 his master, and seeing him in fetters and on the 

 ground, took him up gently by his clothes in his 

 teeth, and set off at full speed towards home. With- 

 out ever resting, he made straight for the distant 

 but well known tent in the mountains of Arabia. 

 He arrived there in safety, and laid his master safe 

 down at the feet of his wife and children, and im- 

 mediately dropped down dead wilh fatigue. The 

 whole tribe mourned him ; the poets celebrated his 

 fidelity ; and his name is still constantly in the 

 mouths of the Arabs of Jericho." 



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GREEN'S PAXfeNT STRAW CUTTER, 



JOSEPH liRECK & CO. at the New England A 

 lural Warehouse and Seed Stove Nos. 61 andSSlNorlh Mar 

 ket Street, have for sale. Green's Palent Straw, Hay am 

 Stalk Culler, operating on a mechanical principle not heint 

 applied in any implement for this purpose. The mosl prom 

 inent effecls of this application, and some of the «onsequei: 

 peculiarities of the machine are: 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum of power requisil 

 to use it, that the strength of a half grown hoy is sufficien 

 to work it elticienlly. 



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

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

 hy any other machine even when worked by horse or steatls!! 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which th 5 

 cut, require sharpening less often ihan those of any olhe 

 straw cutter. 



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

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

 complicated maciiiiies in general use lo get out of order. 



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AGRICU1.TURAL IMPIiEMEXTS, &c. 



The Proprietors of the New England Agricultural Ware 

 house and Seed Store No. 61 and 62 North Warliel siree 

 would inform their cuslomcrs and the public generally the 

 they have on hand the most extensive assortment of Agr: 

 cultural and Horticultural Tools to he found in the Unite 

 States. Part of which are the follow' 



Sharp Shooting. — They tell some tough sto- 

 ries of the western hunters. The following is a 

 specimen. The reader of course will not believe 

 it — unless ho chooses to. We copy as we find if. 



" At a late hunt at the West, ono of the sports- 

 men in firing at a squirrel, sent a rifie ball through 

 a bee-tree. He did n't wish to partake of the ho- 

 ney, which was issuing pretty fast from the bullet- 

 hole, until bis return from the hunt ; but how to 

 stop it, was a (|uestioii for immediate decision. 

 Well, taking a bit of pine, he made a plug of the 

 proper size, put it. in the muzzle of his rifle and 

 shot it into the hole as snug as could be — thus pre- 

 venting any further waste!" 



1000 Howard's Palent Cast 



Iron Ploughs. 

 300 Common do. do. 

 200 Cultivators. 

 100 Greene's Straw Cutters. 

 60!Willis' do. do. 

 100 Common do. do. 

 100 Willis' Palent Corn 



Shellers. 

 50 Common do do. 

 2o0 Willis' Seed Sowers. 

 60 " Vegetable Cutters 

 60 Common do. do. 



200 Hand Corn Mills. 

 200 Grain Cradles. 

 100 Ox Yokes. 

 1500 Doz. Scythe Stones. 

 3000 " Austin's Rifles. 

 March 17. 



100 doz. Cast Steel Shoveli 

 150 " Common do. 

 100 " Spades. 

 500 " Grass Scythes. 



P.ttent Snaiths. 



Common do. 



Hay Rakes. 



Garden do. 



Manure Forks. 



Hay do. 

 600 Pair Trace Chains. 

 100 " Truck do. 

 100 Draft do. 

 600 Tie up do. 

 60 doz. Haller do. 

 1000 yards Fence do. 

 25 Grind Stones on rollers; 



300 

 200 

 500 

 200 

 200 

 300 



MUCK MANUAL.. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., The Muck Mar 

 ual for Farmers. By Dr S. L. Dana; price SI. 

 Boston, April 13. 



"Day AFTER THE Fair." — The Vermont States- 

 man announces that its editor, Mr Day. has gone 

 to get married. — Bost. Trans. 



An Irishman inquired at the Post Odice if there 

 was a letter for him. " Your name, sir," said the 

 clerk. " An' is'nt it on the letter surely," said Pat. 



The editor of the New Orleans Tropic was de- 

 termined to keep Thanksgiving as nearly in the New 

 England mode as the climate would admit. He 

 announced his intention as follows : " We shall 

 luxuriate over our dinner till about four o'clock, ; we 

 shall then go out and slide on a smooth plank for half 

 an hour ; ' teter' for another half hour, and then pitch 

 cents until iavk. In the evening we shall go a- 

 courting." 



TYE UP CHAINS. 



Just received by 600 Chains for tyeing up Cattle. 



These chains, introduced by E. H. Dekbv, Esq. of Salcn 

 and Col. jAcaoEs, for the purpose of securing tattle to ih 

 stall, are loiind IG be the safest and most convenient mod 

 of fastening cows and onen to the stanchion. 



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

 Market st. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leading Chains. 

 200 " Draft Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CO 

 No. 62 North Market st. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A WEEKLT PAPER. 



Terms, $2 per year t« advance, oi$2 53 ifnot pai 

 within tiiirty days. 



N. IS. — Postmasters are permitted by law to frank ^ 

 subscriptions and remittances for newspapers, witlioi 

 expense to subscribers. 



TUTTLE ASD DEPIKITT, FKIKTEEg. 



