The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-10-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

which is an Invaluable acquisition 10 DAIRY
To enable the farmer to Judge of her size, it is
stated that we'll fattened she seldom exceeds
GOO pounds. Cows of this breed said to
average six and half gallons of milk per day,
from the time their calves are taken from them
till they become dry; and this product is OBJ
tanned with only good grass feed. In addition
10 the gain of milk is that from the saving in
the feed, as this breed of cows, from their
smalIness of size, consume but about one half
the amount of the larger ones
A PRoLIFIc BREED. Six Ewes owned by
Dea. Lloyd Shaw of RaynhaIa, each produced
lambs in December last; and in June last, four
of the same sheep again had lambs, all of which
al both times, have been raised and are thriv-
ing. Instances of this animal breeding twice
a year may be known, but are probably very
rare One of these sheep, we are told, has
done so before Taunton Reporter.
ExrRAoRDINARY YIELD. The fact has re-
Gently come to our knowledge, that farmer
the last year, in West Newbury, from one po-
tato, used seed, gathered four bushels and a
half of potatoes We understand him to say
that the potato weighed two and a half pounds,
that in planting he cut out all the eyes, and d.
vided the potato into several pieces, in order to
plant as much ground as he could with it.
NJ E. Farmer.
The signers of the American Declaration of
Independence were 46 in number, and the av-
erage length Of their lives was about So years
4 of the number attained to 80 and upwards J;
IA exceeded so years; and %, or l in D,
reached 20 years The longevity of the New
England Delegation was still more remarkable,
their number was IA, the average of whose
lives was rs years
A correspondent of the N. Y. Courier says:
One hundred and twenty-eight years have
elapsed since the occurrence of the formation
of double human being as recorded by the
celebrated Button wide Hist. Nat de rhomms,
Royal Edit vol Az it was that of the girls
Judith aud Helena, born in Hungary, united
back to back with an alvine organ. They lived
81 years the first died from severe attack
of fever, and the other Immediately followed
her, showing no specific symptom of disease
A person who dsalt largely in eggs at Paris,
made some public experiments in order to
shew his manner of preserving them. large
number was placed in a vessel in which was
some water saturated with lime and little
salt They were locked up and kept in that
state for several years. The vessel in which
they had been placed was opened in the month
of January last, and the eggs, without one ex-
ception, we're found 10 be in excellent preser-
walton. An omelette was made for the compa-
ny, and it was declared to be as good as if the
eggs had only been kept two or three days.
"REFoRM" A few weeks since an honest
man, faithful and competent, was removed from
the post office in Bethlehem, in this State, for
no other reason than that he voted for Mr..
Adams, and one Ira Woodman appointed, so
ignorant that he could not read his own COM
mission, and who had no other qualification
than his hurraing exploits" The Haverhill
IN. H Post, of Wednesday informs, that
Woodman has just been apprehended for steal
ing money frem the mail, and that he has been
committed TO the jail in that village.
Kecme Sentinel
The Dedham Register says that in field
near that village, were found, recently, forty
eggs about one third the size of a hens egg
Each was found to contain young snake, on
being opened, which moved about euite merri-
ly on being put in a warm place. They were
of the kind called house addels, and average
about Ii inches in length.
On the afternoon of the 30th ult. lad man,
ed Blackinton, only II years of age, shot bear
on one of the mountains near North Adams,
Berkshire county. He was assisted by dog
who escaped from fraternal hug with which
the bear had at first greeted him, and hung
upon his rear, retarding his progress towards
the young man, until repeated shots brought
him to the ground. The bear weighed 400 lbs
cub, on neighbering tree, cut and run.
BENEFIT OF NEWSPAPER. The English
papers have published the case of a work-house
pauper, who, by means of an advertisement in
newspaper, had come in possession of one
hundred thousand pounds [$450,000 He had
formerly been a lamp-ghter What is re-
markable, he is not at all elated by his good
fortune, but bears his change of condition like
philosopher.
At the latest advices from Liverpool. the
shares in the Liverpool and Manchester rail
road had again experienced rise, and were at
Gl37 advance share, and none to be OBJ
tanned at that price This shows the increas-
ing confidence in rail roads.
BY the Canal just opened between the Ches-
apeake and Delaware, the distance by inland
navigation from Baltimore to Philadelphia is
about 100 mies-down the Chesapeake, bv sea.
and up the Delaware it is about 500
A remarkable instance of the ferocity of rats.
occurred lately at Wigginton. As Mr Hoar,
Jr., of Tringgrange Farm, was returning home
about 10 O'Clock at night, he saw upwards of
100 rats approaching him on the common; he
threw stones among them, when they instantly
surrounded him, and several ran up his body as
high as his shoulders. With much difficulty
Mr.. Hoar succeeded in beating them off both
his hands were severely bitten, covered with
blood, and inflamed-LOndon Farmers Jour.
A colored lad, waiter at the Syracuse House.
was arrested at Syracuse, N. " on suspicion
of having stolen $500 from Lot Clarke, ESQ.
he having gone out in the evening to buy SOME
trinkets. 1t is stated that he would not confess
the robbery until the sheriff was sent for, who
took him into an upper room, put halter
about his neck and drew it rather tight He
then produced $1,000, and said the rest was
with another black boy but, on being again
suspended, showed where the remainder, ex-
cept $ll, was hidden. This application of the
torture must be looked into.
Samuel Keepers, an Industrious and respect
able mechanic of Connellsville, Pa, and a young
man named Smith, being engaged in shooting
at mark, one Of their guns was discharged al
the mark, the other laid across stump Of the
tree, pointing towards it. While Mr. Keepers
and Mr.. Smith were examining the shot, their