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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 5, Issue 280, 10 May 1862, Page 3

A FoETtrira PfiOM a Sheep.— ln 1805, Mr. Bidwell, a law-student in Stockbridge, Mass., told a poor lad that if he would catch and turn out his horse, he might have it to ride home to keep till Thanksgiving. The boy accepted the offer, and the day before Thanksgiving, as he was mounted on the horse ready to start for home, Mr. Bid well handed him a silver dollar — the first dollar he ever had. Instead of spending it for personal gratification, he bought a sheep with it. From that sheep he had, in 1832, a flock of 1054 sheep, which he sold for 2500 dols. This money he invested in up-town lots in New York city, purchasing ten lots for 252d015. each, which he sold in two years for 12,500d01a. This was the beginning of the fortune of Nathan Jackson, Esq., distinguished for his generous and munificent donations at various times to Williams College, Massachusetts. Ease fob Man. — By the year two thousand (says an American paper) it is probable that manual labour will have utterly ceased under the sun, and the occupation of the adjective 'hardfisted * will have gone for ever. They have now in New Hampshire a potato digging machine, which, drawn by horses down the rows, digs the potatoes, -separates them, from the dirt, and loads them up into the cart, while the farmer walks alongside whistling ' Hail Columbia !' with his hands in his pockets. . At Quebec ten : privates of the 16th Eegiment, who fell asleep; whilst drunk on* the glacis of the