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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



DEC. 37, 184 



MISCELLANEOUS 



win Ertrnardinnry Miser Perhaps there never 



was a more perfect miser than "Old Hunks," one 

 of the nc lest men in London, who died sorno few 

 years since. Though possessing wealth to the 

 amount of an hundred thousand pounds sterling, he 

 frequently abstained from food for a nunjber of 

 days together, saying that hunger was the very 

 best Bauce. Sometimes he indulged himself in 

 the luxury of spoiled moat purchased at the sham- 

 bles, giving as a reason for choosing such, that 

 meat was good for nothing except it h.id a smelt as 

 well as a taste. At other times he lived wholly 

 upon scraps of crackers, salt fish and candle ends, 

 which he collected at various places in his wander- 

 ings about town, frequently passing himself off as 

 a beggar. Of his attire, it was impossible to give 

 any description, being so patched and darned that 

 it would puzzle a tailor to decide whether any of 

 the original fabric remained. He used to boast 

 that hjs raiment lasted ns long as that of the child- 

 ren of Israel in the wilderness, having purchased 

 it more than forty years ago of an old clothes- 

 dealer. Tlie nearest approach to any sort of char- 

 ity ever obperved in him was, when once seeing a 

 couple of vagrants in the slocks, he gave them 

 some good advice, remarking that he bad once done 

 business in stocks, but always found it proHtable to 

 sell out on the slightest advance. 



Finding a debtor unable to repay a email loan, 

 he received in payment a coffin of refuse wood, 

 which, by a happy thouoht, he used for a cupboard. 

 In his old age, his economical habits led him to 

 have recourse to expedients which frequently 

 brought him into danger. Once, in the evening, 

 when pinched by hunger, he intruded himself into 

 a cellar at .Mile End, the resort of a club of va- 

 grants, who there spent nightly the earnings of the 

 day in nocturnal orgies ; but he was speedily de- 

 tected, and expelled with so much rudeness that 

 one of his legs was seriously injured. The wound, 

 for want of medical attendance and proper food, 

 soon gangrened, and he found himself forced to 

 apply, under n fictitious name, to a charity hospi- 

 tal for relief, where the injured leg was amputated. 

 This be considered as rather a god-send than a 

 misfortune, as it saved him the necessity of pro- 

 curing more than one hoot or shoe at a time, and 

 enabled him frequently to feign himself a disabled 

 sailor or soldier, and obtain charity under those 

 characters. 



Overcome at last with the infirmities of ago and 

 sickness, he was found, liy a distant relative, per- 

 ishing on a heap of straw, but too late to be bene- 

 fited by medical aid. He retained his love of econ- 

 omy to the last, rebuking an attendant for extrava- 

 gance in lighting two tallow candles, observing 

 that he had lived a long lif-j without using a can- 

 dle, and one was full enough for any man to see to 

 die by ! At the hour of death, he was visited by 

 the clergyman of the parish, wlio reminded him of 

 his approaching dissolution, discoursing upon the 

 vanity of life, the impotence of riches, and the 

 hopes of another existence, and exhorted him to 

 show his benevolence in pious bequests to the 

 church. The old miser died game, and exhibited 

 his ruling passion strong in death: clutching his 

 rags in his attenuated fingers with a convulsive 

 grasp, he exclaimed — " Could I live tny life over 

 again, I should do very differently from what I have 

 done — yes, sir, with tliat knowledge of the follies 

 and errors of mankind, of which you have spoken, 



1 should then make twenty per cent, where I have noio 

 made only tm .'" Tlie intensity of his emotions as 

 he uttered this declaration overcame him, nature 

 gave way, and he sunk back a corpse upon his 

 pillow. — Yankee Blade. 



Use nf Slander. — That slander is often benefi. 

 cial to the person slandered, is indisputable. We 

 recollect an anecdote in point. A man somewhere 

 out West was elected to congress. He was totally 

 unqualified, in every respect, for the position. A 

 friend al Washington once asked him — 



" How was it you managed to get elected ?" 



'• I stole a pig." 



" Hey ? — What ? — How ? la stealing pigs con- 

 sidered a qualification for Congress .'" 



" No — but as soon as it was known, the papers 

 on 't other side took it up, and of course our'n had 

 to defend ine. A great noise was made about it : 

 we called it an 'infamous attempt to destroy the 

 spotless reputation of an innocent man, for party 

 purposes' — the people got roused, and I got in." 



At the next election his opponent was chosen. 

 A friend meeting the defeated candidate one day, 

 asked how it happened. 



" Oh, blast the feller" — ho replied ; " he smelt 

 the rat and got the start of me. He stole a sheep ." 

 —Sat. Post. 



Pretty Good for a M'nman. — "What would you 

 charge to knit me a pair of stockings such as those .'" 

 inquired a foppish young fellow of a lady who was 

 knitting a thick, warm pair of woolens for winter. 



" Would you have socks or stockings .'" inquired 

 the lady. 



" I want them to come up over the calf," re- 

 plied the inquirer. 



"In that case it would take some time to esti- 

 mate. 1 have never knit stockings to cover one's 

 whole body." — Exch. pap. 



PATENT COItN SHELLER. 



A Corn shellcr is one of the most convenient and labor 

 saving implemenis that the praclical iarmer has in use. 

 Various machines for this purpose have been invented. Jl 

 can be used in all cases for large or small sized ears. It is 

 very simple in its construclion, and durable in its operation, 

 and no way lial.le to gel out ofortler; one man can work il 

 lo good advantage, though a man to turn, and a boy to feed it, 

 w Tks il much better than one alone. They are so liglil and 

 port.ihle, as to be easily removed from place lo place, and 

 one machine will serve lor several lamdies or even the in- 

 baliitants of a small town. 



Fur sale al ihe Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store 

 Nos. 51 and 33 North Market Street. 



JOSEPH ERECK &. CO. 



Nov. I. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH 



Great improvements have been made the past year 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs; the mould 

 has heen so formed as to Iny the furrme rompletehj 

 iummg m every particle of grass or sliMle. andicavii 

 f^rounit in the best possible mavncr. The leiioih o 

 mould board has bf n very much increased, so iha 

 Ploneh works with the greatest ease, both with resp. 

 the holding and the team. The Committee at the lati 

 ol Ploughs at Worcester, say, 



" Should our opinion be asked as to which of Ihe Pli 

 we should prefer for use on a farm, we might perhaps i 

 the inquirer, i( your land is mostly light and easy lo 

 try 1 rouly & Mears, but if your land is' hcavii, hard or. 



BEGIN WITH Mr. HowAHD'S.'' 



Al the above me-.f.oned irial the Howard Plnugl 

 more work, with the same power of team, than any 

 plough exhibited. No other turned more than twenty 

 and one half inches, lo the 112 lbs. draught, whi 

 Howard Plough turned twentmine and one'half ind 

 the same power of team ! All acknowledge that Hov 

 Ploughs are much the strongest aud most substan 

 made. 



There has been quite an improvement made on the 

 or land side of this Plough, which can be renewed wi 

 having 10 furnish a new landside: ihis shoe likewise se 

 the monid board and landside together, and slrengthei 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from S6 lo S|5. A PI 

 sufficient for breaking up with four eaiile. will cost 

 *lo 60, and with cutler *t, with wheel and culler, 

 extra. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and reli 

 the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed 1 

 Nos. 51 & 52 Norlh Market Street, by 



JOSKPH BRECK & C 



WILLIS'S LATEST l.H PROVED VEGETABLE 

 CITTEK. 



For sale at the New England Agricultural Warehouse, 

 No. 51 and 52 Norlh Market Streei, Hosion, Willis's La- 

 test Improved Vegetaljle Culler. This macnine surpasses 

 all others tor the purpose of Culling Ruta Baga, Mangel 

 Wurtzel, and other roots. The great objection lo other 

 machines, is their cutting the roots into slices, which makes 

 it almost impossible lor Ihe cattle lo gel hold of them ; this 

 machine with a In lie a lie ration, cuts them into large or small 

 ]>ieces. ol such shape as is most convcnienl for the cattle lo 

 eat. It will cut wilh case Irom one to two bushels of roots 

 per mimue. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



Nov. 1. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 2U0 " Truck and leading Chains. 



2U0 " Draft Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CO., 

 No. 52 Norlh Market si. 



HARRIS' TREATISE ON INSECTS. 

 For sale by JOSEPH KRECK CO., Hams' Treatises 

 on [iibecis. Price 9i. Also, the second ediliuii ot' Dana' 

 Muck Manual, price 02j els. Feb 15. 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW CL'TTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. al the Now Ensland Agi 

 luial Warehouse nnd Seed Store Nos. 61 and>2 .North 

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

 Slalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle nol b 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The most ji 

 incnl effecis of this application, and some of the conseij 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum ol power reqi 

 louse il, that ihe slrenglhof a half grown boy is sutti 

 lo work il efficiently. 



2. With even ibis moderalepower, il easily culstwob 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fasi as hiis been da: 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or s' 

 power. 



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

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any ( 

 straw cutler. 



4. The machine is simple inits construction, made am 

 together very strongly. It is therefore nol so liable ai 

 complicated machines in general use lo gel oiii of ordi 



LACTO.VIETERS— a simple instrument fortes 

 the quality of milk. For sale by J BRECK & C( 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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