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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



B;!Z£SCSSI<£<ANXSS. 



"THE PRINTER'S HOUR OF PEACE." 



Know ye the Printer's hour of peace 1 

 Know ye an hour more fraught with joy 



Than ever felt the maid of Greece, 

 AVhen kiss'd by Venus' am'rous boy? 



'Tls not when round the mazy case, 

 His nimble finger? kiss the types; 



Nor is it when with lengthen'd face 

 The sturdy " Devil's Tail" he gripes : 



'Tis not when news of dreadful note, 



His columns all with " minion" fill ; 

 'Tis not when brother printeis quote 



Th' effusions of his stump-worn quill: 

 'Tis not when all his work is done, 



His glimm'ring fire he hovers near, 

 And heedless of the coming DUN, 



Grows merry on a pint of beer : 



'Tis not when in Miss Fancy's glass, 

 Eong advertisements meet his eye, 



Anfl seem to whisper as tliey pass 



"We'll grace your columns by and bye :" 



Nor is it when with nuni'rous names 

 His knglhen'd roll of vellum swells, 



As if 'twere toiich'd by conj'rors wand. 

 Or grew by fairies' magic spells — 



No — Rea.''; — no, — the printer's hour, 



His hour of real sweet repose. 

 Is not when by some magic pow'r 



His list of patrons daily grows; 



But O ! 'Tis when stern winter, dread, 



Comes rob'd in snow, and rain and vapour, 



He hears in whispers soft and clear, 



" We've come to P\V you for the PAPER." 



mcricn, ant! not yet brought into this counlry, 

 which acts as a crane lor raiding wcia^ht? wilh a 

 power far beyond any before known. The learn- 

 ed Doctor said it was scarcely possible to imaof- 

 ine any machine more simple or more powerliil, 1 I 

 occupying the same .space. The small m.ichine 

 exhibited, which consisted of a wheel of 6 inches 

 diameter, ^vilh obliqne leaves (or cogs) worked 

 by a spiral grove in an axle or arbour, raised a 

 weight of oOOlb. by (he application of a force of 

 81b.; and 411). was found suOicient to balance the 

 £J001b. The inventor has applied his contrivance 

 to the construction of clocks, by which bo makes 

 clocks, wilh but .3 wheels, go 12 months without 

 winding lip. One of these cloclcs nas exhibited. 

 There were upwards of 1000 members of the 

 Insfilulion present, and llie high interest they 

 look in the proceedinfrs must be gratifying to 

 Ihe (bunders of the Inslilulion. — Lnndon Times. 



[Sept. 30, 



practise.* law at Ihe court in Martinsville. Some 

 ol ihe le:iilin(» f.jm.lino ;,. .k,, ... i .,- 



ol Ihe leading families in the county keep up 

 an eternal war, and have enlisted all the inhabi- 

 tants on one side or Ihe other. Each party have 

 heirslores, taverns physicians, lawyers, Jic. and 



ban 



huhdse.nce in Berl. — The last No. of the Eu- 

 rope.^n Mag.azine cimlains an ingenious article, 

 showing the way in which lying too lon<j in bed 

 injures the body. This is unqueslionably one 

 ol the most pernicious habits ivhich can beset 

 poor human nature. Too much bed (and above 

 seven hours is too much) debilitates both boely 

 and mind: it causes indigrstioti, nervous disor- 

 ders, low «p'r'l=, and is as hostile lo "good looks" 

 as lo slreuglh and cheerfulness. Wo bear some 

 unhappy and inveleraie slufrtrard exclaim, "Biil 

 i.ifreront constitutions require different quanti- 

 ties of resi !" No surh thing: seven hours is 

 an atnplo allowance for young or old, weak or 

 From the following account of a robbery taken ' ■'trong, and Ihe sofler sex may be a-surod, that 

 from the Gentleman's Magazine, it appears that -. '"' 'he cosmetics in the world will not improve 

 in former days thieves were as ingenious as Ihe ' Ih'eir complexion half so effectu illy as the whole- 

 present race of iiilferers : " July 26, 1776. — : some, useful, and every way valuable practice 

 The following audacious robbery was commilled j o' early rising; a jiraclice against which not a 

 at an apothecary's in Princess-street. A fellow i '''"^le objeclmn can be urged, and which costs 

 went in at a private door, which happened to I ^>bsolufely nothing — unless indeed thai is an ob- 

 lie left open, walked up one pair of stairs, pack- jPc'ion. 



ed the bed, maltress and all Ihe bedding, andj 



furniture of the bed, and c;imr softly down slairs! Mo'lcis of Fruits. — The difficulty experienced 

 with it. By some accident his foot slipped in by the most skilful horlicullural wriler«, even 

 the passage as he was going off, and (he load when assisted by the pencils of alib artists, sat- 

 fcll from his head. This noi-e brought out the isfictorily to describe and represent the various 

 apothecary. "Hey diy, friend,' said" he, 'what'"fl<' almost infinite kinds of fruits that ornament 

 arc vou doing there?" 'Sir,' replied the man 'be garden and r.ujiply the table with one of its 

 without the least hesilalion, '1 have brought mosi awpoeahle luxuries, has suggested lo Messrs. 

 liomo Ihe bedding you purcliased to-day at ihe f'zzit;alli and Dega'pari, of Milan, lo under- 

 auclion !' was the- answer — -was at no auction, lake a work >vbich they call "Pomona, in relief;'' 

 nor have 1 pi)rcba»nj any bod.' 'I'm sure,' re- 1 'bat is lo say a culleclion of models of all the 

 plied the fellow,' inv master told mo it WRS at j fruils cultivated in Europo, so period that it is 

 an apothecary's; (hough perhaps he might say i impo»-ible, uidiout touching them, not lo mis- 

 it was near an apnibecary's. I'm sorrv tor the j '-'ke Ihcrn for Ihe natuial fruits. The smaller 

 mistake. Sir, and 1 hope you will be so good as j fruils are modelled in vrax ; the larger in |ilas- 



to help tne up with my load ag.iin that 1 may 

 cany it lo Ihe right pl.icc.' The iipolhocary 

 very civilly did as be was desired, and the man 

 marched off with iiis prize; but lo ! when the 

 apothecary a.ml his wife wiihdreiv to bed at nigiil, 

 all that prescnlcd ilself lo their view was n ro- 

 ped four-post bedstead, aoil ibe parly robbpd 



ter, wilh a coat of wax. Some, such as srrapes 

 gooseberries, &c. are blo\»n in glass. This cul- 

 leclion is already considerably advanced, and 

 vvili coni[)reliend above 500 descriptions of fruit. 



A qnetr toz^n in Virginia. — A letter from Ihe 

 "Upper Country,"' published in Ihe ivichmond 

 discovered that he had literally ussisleJ ia thej^'amily Visilor. slates ibat i\larlinsville, Ihe 

 robbing ol hiitiselt". , ; comity town of Henry County, contains .\ court- 



T' -iij ■ -! bouse, an off^ce, a few other bou«es. and some 



Mcchnnichs'' Institutions. — Yesterday erening uidividual inhabitants, "but there is not a sin- 

 Dr. Hirkheck delivered the first leclure at ihe'gle woman upon the premises!" Th<! writer 

 New Theatre of Ihe [nslitiitiou, in Soulbamptou says, "you may depeurl I shall not stay here 

 bud.liiigs on (he general principles of niecb;niical long, for 1 have no fellowslil[> for tnv species, 

 science. Th<? principle feature of the lecture r'^''ere there are no women" Henry C'lOFity is 

 was Ihe iJescription of a machine invented by a i owned in part by the descend'nts of Mie lelebra- 

 waSclvtnakei of ihe name of iJycr, in iJoslon, .i-'led patriot, Patrick ilenry, and one of hia sons 



have no more dealings with encb other (bai 

 ihe ancie;il Jews and Samaritans. — Haiiip. Gai. 



Sale of Saxon Sheep. 



ITH a view among other things, of relieving our- 

 selves from the trouble of pr.vate applications 

 and frequent examinations of onr flock for the accom- 

 modation of individual purchasers, we propose to sell 

 by Aiiciion, at 



jyORriLiJ\IPTOjV(M./lSS.) on TJ'ednesday the 26th 



dnt/§f October next, 

 (being the day of the annual Cattle .'^how and Fair for 

 the counties of Hampshire, Fia:ikliu, and Hampden,) 



73 1-2 blood Saxon Bucks, coming t\v© 



aud three years old, 



50 1-2 do. do. Ewes, same age. 

 25 3-4 do. do. Bucks, Lambs. 



Not having contemplated a public sale and for that 

 purpose taken samples of the wool of these Shpep that 

 we can transmit for the inspection of gentlemen at a 

 distance, we venture to give them, as a substitute, our 

 a'puranre and warranty, llial Ihrj/ are fudy equal to the 

 Sn.Ton Sheep lateli/ siild lit Brighton. 



Our original stock was purchased many years ago 

 from the best Spanish flock, and with few exceptions 

 Irom the Paular, Montarcoand Negrefe, and they have 

 !m en kept with great care upon the farm and under the 

 immediate inspection of one of Ihe proprietors ever since. 

 They are without any mixture of blood with the na- 

 tive sheep, and have been bred lo as much perfection 

 as the most car.ful management was able to accomp- 

 lish, breeding with reference to the fineness and uni- 

 formity of the fleece. The sheep which we offer for 

 sale are the progeny of one of (he two first Saxon 

 Inicks brought into the U. States, the choice of these 

 tiucks and the best that we have seen of any subse- 

 quent importation, and our best eives. Our object in 

 sending for bim was to get h buck of equal fineness 

 with our own sht ep and superior if we could, thereby 

 lo obv iate the necessi!y of breeding in and in. The 

 cross has exceeded our expectations and produced a 

 race of Sbecp not surpassed in qnalily of wool, with 

 evcnnes? of fleece and bi.auly of form, bv any sheep ia 

 the country, whether Sax m or not, that have fallen 

 under our ob-ervalion. It is the fineness and perfec- 

 tion of the fleece that is sought, and breeding in and in 

 is unfavorable to the ohjict. The flock will soon be 

 at a stand if not retrograde. Now we are confident 

 that we can afford lo the proprietors of flocks /7ie same 

 adranfaije of n rrnss breed in all its hemficinl results, 

 which they are now purchasing by importations from 

 Saxonv. for if the benefit ofrr fro.?.? ran i>e secured from 

 ei]unlUi fine sheep of pure Mir inn stock, it is of no 'ort 

 of consequence where the sheep come from. The Sa.ron 

 sheep are the •■'Merino. si*jne of them bred to great per- 

 fection. Nevertheless many of those which we hare ex- 

 amined are inferior unimals and would be rejectc'd by 

 a careful breeder a* worthless. And the l.igh price of 

 Saxon wool is more owing to the careful selection of 

 ileecp* that are sent to foreign marki-ts and Ihe rejec- 

 tion of the coarse lorks and great attention to cleanli- 

 ness, than lo any other cause. 



yVe have no wish to dl'^cnurage the importation of 

 Saxon shepji, much less to injure present proprietors ; 

 for not -withstanding the amount paid hy them, they will 

 find tluir account in the purchase ; till the stock pro- 

 dueed will he as vahiabb- for anv flork not immediate- 

 ly of (he same origin as (heir own. other things being 

 equal, as the imr'orted sWt-e)> th:if cost hundreds. 



()-V"The shtep will be ounilierevl. anrl maybe ex- 

 amined the (}.\v l)efore the sale. Ctitalognes furnish- 

 ed and sale free. , 

 I. C. BATF..S. 

 SAMUEL HFNPHAW. 



N..rlbamrfon, ATass. ?epl. 14. 1(12.5. 



Thr r MIVIFK i< published every Fri.lay, ly Jons D. 

 RussKLL, at S^.GU per annum, in advance. 



