Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-02-21
A GOOD BAROMETER
FOR THE AGRICULTURAL MILLION
Price FIR I'M SIS TO $40!

Price from Sd TO $40!
I manufacture Mercurial Barometers. which for
i PORTABILITY, DURABILITY and ACCURACY, l
challenge any maker in the world to excel, at
any price.
The improved plan on which my Barometers
are constructed, leaves nolhing to be desired
further, as regards Portability, Durability. and
Simplicity, anu is superior TO any other improved
Barometer. All these points have been fully
proved by the experience OF six years. The Bar
ometer has been known to science for many years
II was first used in measuring the hight OF noun
tains, their altitude being determined by the
hight of mercury in the tube. And long has It
been the faithful. insepalable companion OF the
Mariner. never failing in it's timely warning Of
the approaching storm. giving from ten to six.
ty hours for preparation to meet the tempest.
TeHCir x1 >SxaisaIss:
Extract of a letter from HENRY WARD BEEcHBR.
while visiting in the country, and published in
the New York Evangelist:
II is 5 O. clock. hundred birds
yes. five hunded-are singing as birds never sing
except in the morning. A few chimneys send up
slow wreathing column of smoke, which grows
every moment paler as the w-kindled fires be-
low burned brighter The clouds hang
low on the mountain on every side. their rag.
ged edges comb the mountain side, and look as II
they must sway the trees in their course. Yet
they move with such soft and drowsy measure
that not leaf stirs. Will there be rain to-day?
The heavens overhead look like it. The clouds
around the mountains hang low, as if there were
rain coming. But the Barometer says, No. Then
q few rounds with the scythe before breakfast Z"
10 We must make hay while the sun shines.
10 The day passes, and the night. With
another morning. and that Saturday morning,
comes up the sun without single cloud to wipe
his face upon. The air is clear and crystalline
mist Is on the river, no fleece upon the mountain;
yet the Barometer is sinking, and has been sink.
ing all night. 1t has fallen more than quarter
of an inch. and continues slowly to fall. Our
plans must be laid accordingly. We will cut the
clover which is to be cured in the cock, and pre-
pare to get in all of yesterdays moving before
two O'Clock. Not till 10 O'Clock is any change
seen. Then the suns light seems pale, and,
though not cloud is before it,. some invisible
vapor has struck through the atmosphere. By
and by clouds begin to form-loose, vast cum
brous-that slowly roll and change their unwieldy
between the darkest and leaden-gray and of the
most brilliant silver-gray. While
catching our hasty meal, affairs grew critical.
The sun Is hidden; the noon is dark. All hands
are summoned. All the girls and Ia
dies come forth to the fray. Delicate hands are
making lively work-raking up the dispersed
grass and flying with right nmble steps here and
there, bent on cheating the rain of its expected
prey; and now the long winnows are formed. The
last load of hay from the other fields has just roll
ed triumphantly into the barn. A drop
pats down on my face--anOther, and another.
Look at those baseess Mountains that tower in
the west, black as ink at the bottom. glowing
like snow at the top edge-what gigantic evolu-
tons They open. unfold, change form. flash
lightning through their space, close up their
black CULTS. and move on with irresistible, but
silent march through the heated air. Far in the
north the rain has begun to sheet down upon the
old Gray.I.ock But the sun is shining through
the shower. and changing it to golden atmos-
phere. in which the mountain lifts up its head
like a glorifed martyr amid his prosecutions
Only one look can we spare, and all of US run for
the house, and in good time. Down comes the
food, and every drop is musical. We pity the
neighbors, who. not warned by the Barometer,
are racing and chasing to save their outlying
CROP"
Dir. NJ. NJ. MARSH of Montpelier. tested my
Barometer with three Others made by different
makers, for two or three months and sends me
the following:
MONTPELIER, VT, Aug. LIST, 1860,
j. W. SMITH. Esq. In reply to your inquiry
respecting the perfection of the Barometer man.
ufactured by you can frankly state that after a
full trial of its workings am satisfied that 1t is
a perfect instrument. indicating atmospheric
changes readily, and completely answering all
that you claim for it. NJ. M. MARSH.
Full and plain directions. explaining the Bar.
ometer and embodying the suggestions of the
most experienced and scientific men in the coun.
try. in regard to its indications Of the weather,
and measuring the nights of Hills. Mountains,
&C.. accompany each instrument.
ALL ORDERS promptly attended to.
Address J. W. SMITH. Stowe, Vt.