Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1879 — The Effect of the First Sewing Machine in India. [ARTICLE]

The Effect of the First Sewing Machine in India.

In tho days when the sewing machine was in its earliest infancy, a lady residing in India imported one, and for a long time kept its mysterious working hid from tho ken of her native tailor. Ihis functionary was the very slowest of his proverbial slow “ caste,” and wasted no end of time drawling over hem and stitch. One day his mistress came to him arm-laden with yards upon yards of some dress fabric. “ Dirzie,” says she, “ how long will it take you to run those breadths together?” “ Tree day, Missis,” replies Dirzie. “Missis, please, plenty too much work,” “Three days! Nonsense! Three hours, you mean. You are a very lazy man and I’ll cut your pay. Give me the stuff; I’ll do it myself.” Then the lady retires to her boudoir, from the inmost penetralia of which a Sharp and continuous click and whirr reach the tailor’s ears. He can’t make out what the sound is, and he is much too lazy to speculate on it. He continues to “chew betel,” and yawninglv to ply needle and thread. After an hour or two “Missis” comes back, and throwing at Mr. Dirzie’s feet the raw material now fashioned into a comp)feted skirt, says: “There! See! You wanted three days, you sleepy fellowy/io finish this, and I have done it already.” Astonished, Dirzie turns over the drapery, examines the seams, scrutinizes the stitch, and satisfies himself that all is proper and according to tailors’ rule. He is confounded. It passes his understanding. There Uoa the work done, and no mistake. But how? Po springs up from the mat on which ne has been squatting; he kicks over the little brass vessel whioh holds his drinking water; he scaftifrS Jfight and Jstt thread, needles, thimble; he stops bof to put on his sandals or to adjust loosened turban and waisteloth. Scared and bewildered, ho runs for very life into the bazaar, shouting as he goes along: “Shitan! sUijaff! [The eyil one! the ovH one!] He ddf tailor business that Mem's house. I listen! I hear! He cry ‘ Claek, 1 cleSk, clefik!’ Two hour time hd neßey stop cry. Den! Plenty too nfuen 'tyuo dia iworfi | telj. Ebery bit trne. All work done finish! 1 not go back dat bungalow.” And he never did.— Chambers' Journal. There is a large number of acres of wild pasturage in the State of Maryland, aua yet that State has only about 151,200 sheep. The reason given why more sheep are not kept is, that seven per cent, of the sheep are annually killed by dogs. The entire South ’, has less than 7,000,000 sheepy-and- of these 500,000 are said to be destroyed by dogs. Yet the South has summer ?asturage and winter keep for from 0,000,000 to 100,000,000 if rightly managed. v