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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[Oct. U, 



XaXS^SZ.I*AXRES. 



'iHE WIFE. 

 'Tis a wife whose smiles of gladness, 

 Falls like sunboams on thy breast, 

 Scattering all thy clouds of sadness. 

 Like the night-shades to the west ; 

 And 'tis she whose voice of plfasure 

 Comes, like miisic, o'er thy heart — 

 Comes — a sweet and soothing nieasore — 

 .Toy and quiet to impart. 

 'Tis a wife, whose arms around thee 

 Twine like ivy, to the tree — 

 Arms that when affliction found thee, 

 Clung in deeper sympathy 

 And 'tis she, whose tender bosom, 

 Like a beauteous lily bed. 

 Covered all with snow-whiie blossom, 

 Pillows thy dejected head. 

 'Tis a wife, whose heart of feeling, 

 Like a stream of freshening tiow. 

 Through the blooming meadows stealing;, 

 Pours its balm upon thy woe ; 

 And 'tis she, that rears beside thee 

 Children like the flowers of May — 

 Children who, when ill betide thee, 

 Shall be at thy hand to stay. 



77(6 choice of a jvifi'.. — The whole serivt of 

 choosing well in matrimony may he taught in 

 three word* — explore the charactrr. A violent 

 love-tit is always (he result of ignorance ; for 

 there is not a daiiafhter of Eve iha! has meril 



I Compressed Waisls.—'Knw-n-day!', it is tht> 1 

 'fashion lo look like an hnv,r-trhis'=, "f '^ lni?e in- 

 'secl, or any Ihirvo; else cut in tivo, nnd bolptpreH 

 out at head and tret. A fashion that s;raceftilly 

 shows the figure, is one thing; a fashion that j 

 .totally conceals it, may have its merits ; hut j 

 j voluntarily to accept imfied shoiihleis in lion ol ; 

 s:oofl ones, and a pinch in the rihs for a hody ' 

 like that of the Venus de Medici, is what nn 

 woman of taste should put up with who cm 

 avoid it. But as fasiiion is naturally at variance 

 with health, the more a woman sacrifices o! 

 the one, the more she loses of the other. Thick 

 leers are the least result of these little waist*.' 

 Bad lune;«, bad livers. Had complexion, death*, 

 melancholy, and worse than all. rirketly and 

 melancholy children, are two often the unde- j 

 niable conse(|nence« of the tricks that fashion \ 

 plavs with the human hody. By a perverse 

 spirit of justice, the children are revenged on' 

 the parents, and help, when they grow up, to j 

 pervert those who hare the advantaafe ofthem. — i 

 .Vea) Monthly — Art. Criticism on female beav'ij. | 



Rome. They are dull and insipid things, and 

 have only from 200 to 500 sub«critjers each. — 

 Such is the effect of the allied chief* — the roy- 

 al and the |)rieslly. — Niks'' Register. 



Origin nf nn Old Saying — An Irishman having 

 stolen four pig", was jiursued and ri.muiitled lo 

 prison. " Och !" said he, " and I hale brougiit 

 my pigs to a line market." 



Hartlip, the friend of Milton, pensioned hy 

 Cromwell for his ao'riciiUural writin?', say", that 

 old men in his days reraembered the first gar- 

 deners that came over to Surrey, Ens'and, and 

 sold turnips, carroc=. parsnips, early peas, and 

 ,,...„ . , , , , !rape, which wpre then ereat raritie", beinor itn- 



enough to juslily romantic love, though Ihous- , j r _ ii ii i r^u j i 



J " . ..•' •', ? , . . . Iported Irnm Holland. Cherries and hops were 



anas and thousands mav reasonabv inspire that i ^ . i , t i,„ , „ : ,u ■ ! ui 



- - -■ - - - ■ '^ first planted, he says, in the reign of Henry 



jVlII.; ?irtichoke= and currnnts made their ap- 

 pearance in the lime of Eli/abelh; but even at 

 the end of this latter [leriod we had cherries 

 from Flanders ; onions, saffron, and liquorice 



gentle esteem, which is infinitely better. A j 

 Woman-wor.shipper and a woman-hater both i\f- i 

 rive their mistakes from ignorance of the 

 female world; for, if the characters of women 

 were thoroughly understood, Ihey would be 

 found too good to be hated, and yet not gooil 

 enough to he idoliz'd. — Christian Spectator. 



Exercise. — Carl Voelker, professor of Gym- 

 nastics in London, in giving an account of the 

 exercises in his lessons observes — that after 

 sora* preliminary practice he teaches his pupils, 

 running for a length of time with celerity, it 

 the pupil follows the present rules in this ex. 

 ercise and is not detered by fatigue in the first; 

 .six lessons he will soon be able to run three! 

 English miles in from 20 to 2.5 minntrs. In the ! 

 iHxercise of leajiing, particularly with a pole.] 

 he says almost every one learns in a short time [ 

 to leap his own height, and some of my pupils i 

 have been able lo Icaji 10 or 11 feet high. 

 The horizontal leap is easily attained over a ! 

 space three times the length of the body and 

 sometimes more. 



Hint tn ymiitg men. — Colqniioun in Iii« "Police 

 of London"' remarks that he never knew an 

 apprentice who saved money during the first h 

 monlhs of his tVeedom, who did not succeed ; 

 i<nd rarely knew one who did, who at the same 

 period had run himself into debt. 



Lora. — I/aw is like a crmtre-dance ; f)eople 

 ;ire led up ami down in it till they are tired. It 



from Spain ; and hops from the Low Countries 

 f'otatop*. which were fir«t known in (he British 

 islands about the yf ar 1G8G, continued for nearly 

 a centurv to ho cultivated in gardens as a curi- 

 ous exotic, and furnished a lu>furv only for 

 tables of the richest persons in the kingdom. Ill 



i appears in a mann«rri[)t arcount of the house- 

 hold expenses nf(:i;ippn .'Vnn, wife of James I. 



'that the price of potatoes was then Is. the 



I pound. — English Paper. 



A voung man on resuming his coat which had 

 lain upon the grass, met with «ome obstruction 

 in one of the sleeves, when out glided a snake 

 four feet long. — ib. 



The Duke of Biron beard the decree for his 

 in=tanl death pronounced by the Revolutionary 

 Tribunal, in 179.'3. with unmoved tranquility. 

 On returning to prison, his pbilosopbv main- 

 tained that character of I'picurean indifference 

 which had accompanied his happier years ; he 

 ordered some ovsiers and white wine. The 

 executioner entereil as he was taking this last 

 repast. " Mv friend,"' said the Duke, " I will 

 attend voii ; but let me finish my oysters. You 

 must require strength for the hiisineso yoa have 

 to perform ; yoti shall drink a glass ol'wine 

 with me.'' He tilled a gla*s of wine for the 

 execiilioner, and another for the turnkey, and 



js like a book of surgery; there dre a great j p„p |or bim^ell: ami went to the place of ex 



many terr.ble cases in it. It is also like physic ;] pcuti.ni, where he met death with the cour.ge 



they that take the lea't of it are best ofl'. Law is,,i,,,| di-tii.-uished almost all the victims of that 



like a homely gentlewoman ; very ivell to lol- 1 jg.,,.||,| .,g,.joj 



iow — and like a scolding wife, very bad when! ^^^sb 



it follows us. Law is like a new fashion ; peo- 1 /^„^^._!, js staled that there are o.dy six 



pie are bewitched lo get into it— and it is nUo | ne„,,,.,^ers published in all Italy, vi/.. onp'eacb 



itke b.ul weather, must people nre glad when . ;a K.,.,ies, Turin, Genua, Milan, Fioretice, aiiJ 



Sbey get out ol il. 



Sale of Saxon Skecp. 



ITH a view among other things, of relieving our- 

 selves from the trouble of privaie applications 

 and frequent examinations of our flock IV-r the accom- 

 niodati<.in of individual purchastrs, we propose lo sell 

 by .Auction, at 

 J^ORrnAMPTOjY (M.^.'^S.-) on Wednesday the ^6lh 



day i)f October next, 

 (being the dav of tlie annual Cattle ^how and Fair for 

 the counties of Hampihire, J'ranklin, and Hampden.) 



75 1-2 blooti Sa.von Bucks, coming two 



and three years old, 



,^0 1-2 do. do. Ewes, same^aofo. 

 25 .3-4 do. do. Bucks, Lamb.s. 



Not having contemplated a public sale and for thM 

 purpose taken samples of the wool of these Shpep that 

 we ran transmit tor the inspection of gentlemen at a 

 distance, we venture to g've them, as a substitute, our 

 assurance and warranty. lt>nt thty art fudy equal to the 

 Saron Shftp lattiy sold at Brishiori. 



Our original stock was purchased many years ago 

 from the tiest Spanish l^.^f^k. and with lew exceptions 

 from the Paular, Montarcoand Nesfreie, and they have 

 been kept with great rare upon (he (arm and under the 

 immediate inspection of one of the proprietors eve.T since. 

 They are without any mixture of blood with the na-< 

 tive sheep, and have been bred to as much perfection 

 as the most careful man'igement was able to accomp- 

 lish, breeding with retertuce to the fineness and uni- 

 formity ot tile flet ce. The sheep which we oifer lor 

 sale are the prrgeny of one of the two Inst Saxon 

 buck" brou^lit into the U. States, the choice of these 

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

 quent importation, and onr best eues. Our oliject in 

 sending for him was to sit a buck of equal fineness 

 with our own sheep and superior it we could, thereby 

 to obviate the necessity ot breeding tn and tn. T hs 

 cross has excerdt d our expectations and produced a 

 race of Sheep not surpassed in quality of wool, with 

 evenness of fleece and l)eauty of form, by any shet-p itx 

 the country, whether Saxon or not, that have fallen 

 under our observation. It is the Jtnenr'ss and ptrfrc* 

 l?on of the fleece that is sought, and breeding in and in 

 is unfavorable to the object. T he flock will soon be 

 at a stand if not retrograde. Nnw we are confdei.t 

 (bat we can atford to the proprietors of tlocks the ^nrne 

 adrnnlnse of a ero.rs breed in atl its btnf.ticial resvl's^ 

 which lliov ar*,- now purchasing by importations fron> 

 Saxnnv. for if the benefit offT rro.T* can be secured from 

 equattt/.finf sheep o(pure jShiinn stort<. it is of no sort 

 of consequence where the sheep couie from. T he Sa.ron 

 sheep are the .Mrrino. some of them b''( d to ^reat per- 

 fection. Nevertheless many of those which we have ex- 

 amined are inferior animals and would be rejected br 

 a cari ful bri-eder as worthless. And the high price of 

 Saxon wool is more owing to the careful selection of 

 fleeces that are sent to foret;n markets and the rejec 

 tion of the coarse locks and great attention to cleanii 

 ness, than to any other cause. 



We have no wish to discourage (he importation of 

 Sixon sheep, much le-s to injure pre?"-! ( p oprietnrs 

 for notwith-lanf'ins' (be amount paid by (hern, thevwill] 

 find their account in (he purtba^e ; till the stock pro 

 duced will be as valu.Tbie for any flock not immediate-' 

 ly of the same origin as their own. other things being) 

 equal, as the imporlid sheep that cost hundreds, | 



(VVThe sheep will be nun>berfd. and may be exH 

 amined the day before the sale. Catalogues furnish;, 

 ed and sale free. 



1. r. T!\TFS. 

 SAMIH. nr.N.SHAW- 



Kurttiamplon, M»es. Scyt. 14, 1C?5. 



