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JUNE: a 1. 1843. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



j1 Good Sign. — There is mi mistake in llie sign 

 (lescribeil ui the followiiiti iirlicle. WlialHver niiiy 

 be tliotiL'lit (if Millerisni in the abstract, in the con- 

 crete, this piirticuhir omen is worthy to be specially 

 regardi'il. We fin(i it without credit in an ex- 

 change paper, but its authenticity Bhoiild not be 

 <|nestioned <ni that account, as such tilings " t-oine- 

 times occur." — Worcestir JEgis. 



A Mr Biindjnan, pilot of a flatboat on the Ohio, 

 recently saw a most wonderful sig-n in the lieavens. 

 lie was walchmg eascrly the comet's tail, wlicn 

 all at once he saw the tail curl up, and form in big 

 letters the word 



PAY 



He did n't pay iniich attention to it, but in a few 

 minutes he looked round ajiaiii, and saw distinctly 

 in the same place, the uord 

 T II K 



Astonished at this, he ran below to inform the 

 captain, and when he had pot back, upon looking; 

 at the tail, he found that it had chanijed again, and 

 liad lormed the word 



PRINTER. 



Whereupon he and the captain marvelled great- 

 ly, and resnlved instantly to heed the admonition, 

 and as soon as they got liome to pay the printer. 



We wish a good many coulil see that same sight, 

 and profit by it. 



Fair Jf'enther Heart rs uncivil to their Ministers. 

 — The following remarks are from a sermon by the 

 Ute Rev. ISradford Homer: 



"I beseech you that you be not over sciupulous 

 about the height of the thermometer, or the aspect 

 of the clouds on a Sabbath morning ; tliat you 

 doom not the prcdcher to come in from a lowering 

 and desolate sky, to the more desolate scene of an 

 empty church. I mean not to intrude upon the 

 delicacies of life, and 1 know that there are many 

 constiiutions that will not bear an e.xposuro to the 

 inclemency of the storm. I leave every man's con- 

 science to his bodily physician. But 1 beg of you 

 to be consistent patients: that admirable doctor, 

 13 never more stupid than under the sound of the 

 church-going bell ; and if the lire-fide of home 

 looks inviting, and the storm beats cheerlessly 

 against the window; above all, if the heart from 

 within does not cry out for the courts of the Lord, 

 It IS easy, too easy, to get an invalid's exemption 

 from one unscientific guide, or conjure up some 

 lion, in the shape of a formidable siiow-drifi, or 

 a pelting rain, or a burning sun, no one ol which 

 would excuse iis to a client, or a customer, but 

 any one of ihein can be put off on the minister or 

 <jod. Still, politeness forbids me to enter the pri- 

 vate circle and say to this and that person, you 

 ought to be a„ church. But as a minister, you 

 must excuse me, if I beg you to remember the man 

 whose profession obliges him to go to church in 

 all weathers; nhose taste will not permit him to 

 reward the faithful few with an old sermon, or a 

 desultory talk inspired by empty pews ; whose 

 sense of justice obliges him to bring but the hard 

 earnings of a week's toil, when one and another 

 and another, for whom that sermon was written, 

 are not in their seals. I say I wish they would 

 iliiuk of him from the good easy chair, and by the 

 blazing hearth of home, and cast on him the light 

 of their faces." 



./J Remiirknble. Man. — At a temperance meeting 

 recentlv held in Alabama, Colonel Lahmanousky, 

 who had been twentythree years a siddier in the 

 armies of Napoleon, addressed the meeting. He 

 arose before the audience, tall, erect, and vigorous, 

 with the glow of health in his face, and said : 

 " Yon see a man before you seventynine years old. 

 I have fought two hiinJnd hnllles ; have fourteen 

 wounds on my body, have lived thirty days on 

 horse flesh, with the bark of trees for my bread, 

 snow and ice for my drink, the canopy of heaven 

 for my covering, without stockings or shoes on my 

 feet, and with only a few rags for my clothing. In 

 the deserts o, Egypt, I have marched for days with 

 a burning sun upon my naked head, feet blistered 

 hy the scorching sand, and with eyes, nostrils and 

 month filled with dust, and with a thirst so tor- 

 menting that 1 have torn open the veins of my 

 arm and sucked my own blood ! Do you ask how 

 could I survive all these horrors? I answer, that, 

 next to the kind. providence of God, I owe my pre- 

 servation, my health and vigor, to this fact, that I 

 never drank a drop of spirituous liquor in my life — 

 and," he continued, " Baron Larry, chief of the 

 medical staff of the French army, has stated it as 

 a fact, that the six thousand survivors who safely 

 returned from Egypt, were all men who abstained 

 from the use of ardent spirits." 



" I expect to witness a good many deathbed 

 scenes in my day," said a young niedi»al practi- 

 tioner to an old physician. " No doubt that you 

 will," was the reply, " if you have much practice." 



A noblPinaii told Lord Chesterfield he had drank 

 six bottles of champaigne. " That," said his lord- 

 ship, "IS more than I can sivntlow." A polite way 

 of saying, / btlicve you he, sir. 



CHEESE PRESSES. 



SELF-GOVERMNG CHEESE PRES.SES— two kinds 

 — lately iinprn\ed hy tlie Shakers. These are so construct- 

 ed that ihcy gnVerii and regulate themselves without weights, 

 and are hy far ihe best presses now in use. 



K"rsale at llie N. E. Agricultural Warehouse, 51 and 52 

 North Market street. JOS. BRECK &. CO. 



June 7, 1343. 



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HOWARDS IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



Great improyemenis have heon nmile ttie post ye.ir in l!ii» 

 form ami worlimaiiship o( these Plousjhs ; ihe nronld bi arc! 

 has hcen so formed as to lat/ i'le Jurroir ■u>7;i/ilf!ehi orcr, 

 turning in everij parfide of grass or stuWe, and leav'inq (lie 

 n-rounU in the brst possible manner. The length of the 

 mould hoard has Ik n verv muoh incroasef', so ihal Ihe 

 Ploiiirh works wiih the o;rcatesi ease, holh wiih respect to 

 ihe hoUling and llie team. The Committee at the !ale trial 

 of Ploughs at Worrester, say, 



".Should our opinion he asked as to which of thePlouL'hs 

 we should prefer lor use on a (arm, we imisht perhaps say to 

 the inquirer, it your land is mostly lighl'an.f easy to work, 

 try Prouty & Wears, liut if vour landis licarij, hard orrochi, 



BKGIN WITH Mh. HoWAIlD'a.'' 



Al the aliove rner.tioned irial the Howard Plough did 

 more tmrk.iedh Ihe same pmer of leant, than any other 

 plough eihibitrd. No other turned more than Iweni'. se/cii 

 and one half inches, to the 112 Ihs. drausht, while ihe 

 Hmrard I-'loitgh turned twenlyninc and onchalfinckes.to 

 the same power of team ! All acknowleriKC that Howard's 

 Plouglis are much the strongest and most sulistantially 

 made. 



There has Iieen quite an improvement made on the shtie, 

 or land side of this Plough, which can he renewed without 



having to liiraish a new landside; this shr 

 Ihe mould hoard and laiulside together, an 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from SC t( 

 sufficient for breaking up with four call! 



' likewise secuies 

 :i slreugthens the 



A Plonuh, 

 cost alioiit 



S.o 50, aud with cutler $1, with wheel and culler, $2 60 

 e.\tra. 



The ahove Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and retail, as 

 the New England Agricultural VVarehnasi' and Seed Sl.ue, 

 Nos. 51 & 52 -Morlh Market Street, hy 



JOSEPH BRECK & C(». 



GRINDSTONES ON FRICTION ROLLERS. 



Grindstones of ililTerent sizes, hung on friction rollera and 

 moved wiih a loot Header, is louild to be a great noprove- 

 meiit on the old mode of hanging grindstones. Stones hung 

 in this manner are hecoming daily more in use, and wherever 

 used, give universal sati.-faclion. The rollers can he attach- 

 ed to slones hung in the comnuui way. For sale liy J. 

 URECK & Co. ."No. 51 North Rlaiket street. 



LACTO.METERS— a simple inslriinient for testing 

 the quality of milk. For sale by J. BRECK & CO. 



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