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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



»ixsci:iii.A»rxx:s. 



From Blackwood'' s Magazine. 



LINES SUGGESTED BY THE SIGHT OF SOME 

 LATE AUTUMNAL FLOWERS. 



These few pale autumn flower?, 

 How beautiful they are ! 



Than. all that went before, 



Than all the Summer store. 

 How lovelier far ! 



And why ? They are the last ! 

 The last! the last! the last! 



! by that little word 



How many thoughts are stirred ; 

 That sister of the past ! 



Pale flowers ! pale perishinj; flowers '■ 



Ye're types of precious things; 

 Types of those better moments 

 That flit lilce life's enjoyments. 



On rapid, rapid wings. 



Last hours with parting dear ones, 



(That time the fastest spends,) 

 Last tears in silence shed, 

 Last words half uttered, 



Last looks of dying friends. 



Who but would fain compress 



A life into a day, 

 The last day spent with one 

 Who ere the morning's sun. 



Must leave us, and for aye ? 



Oh ! precious, precious moments I 

 Pale flowers ! ye're types of those 



The saddest, sweetest, dearesi. 



Because like those, the nearest 

 To an eternal close. 



Pale flowers ! pale perishing flowers, 

 I woo your gentle breath — 



1 leave the summer rose 

 For younger blithsome brows ; 



Tell me of change and death. 



Mr Jefferson. — It appear? that Mr Browerc, 

 who lately took a bust of Mr .lefTerson, came 

 very near .«iinocating the venerable ex-presi- 

 dent. The plaster was permitted tn get so hard 

 that it had to be broken with a hammer, and 

 a chissel, and separated from parts of liio neck 

 with a knife. Mr B. attempted to take the 

 ■whole of the head at once, instead ef pursuing 

 the usual course of taking the face at one ope- 

 ration, and the rest of the head at another. Mr 

 Jefiferson said, " he once had liis arm broken 

 and his wrist put out of joint at the same mo- 

 ment, and the pain of setting the one and put- 

 ting the other in place, was far less than what 

 this operation occasioned." 



Four Planets in the same Sin;n. — It is worthy 

 of notice, that on Friday the 7lh ult. no less than 

 four planets, viz. .Tiipifer, Mars, Venus and Mer- 

 ■f.nry, were all in the same sign, and the three 

 lirst not many degrees apart. They all rose 

 about three o'clock in the morning following 

 each other in a train ; presenting to the view a 

 beautiful and sublime sight. Who uould sup- 

 pose on viewing these orbs, which sparkle like 

 burning drops of light that they are worlds like 

 our own, travelling through the vast abyss with 

 a velocity scarcely credible, and yet with a reg- 

 ularity and exactness far surpassing any works 

 of art; apparently close together, and yet mil- 

 lions of miles asunder ; seemingly moving back- 

 wards and forwards, and yet travelling constant- 

 ly onward round the great fountain of light and 

 heat, nourished by his warmth and chained by 

 fais influence ! 



Cut what surpasses all, is the discovery that 

 the mutual attraction of these numerous bodies ; 

 which seems to mar their harmony and tend to! 

 their destruction, is on the contrary, part of the ' 

 amazing machinery which gives stability and, 

 permanency to the solar system. Weil may we 

 exclaim with. Thomson — 



" Was every faltering tongue of man, 

 Almighty Father I silent in thy praise. 

 Thy works themselves would raise a general voice, 

 Ev'n in the depth; of solitary woods. 

 By human foot untrod, proclaim thy power. 

 And to the choir celestial thee resound, 

 Til' eternal cause, support, and end of all 1" 



A late National Intelligencer contains the 

 translation of a French Manuscript, which was 

 found on board a pirafiral vessel, raptured six- 

 teen years ago by an officer of the Navy at New- 

 Orleans. This document contains the descrip- 

 tion of an inland pa-sage, from the Gulph of 

 Mexico, to the .■VtUintic, through the I-lhmus of 

 Florida. It is somewhat singular that this pas- 

 sage should be known to the pirates 16 years 

 ago, and be not known to Geographers now. 



A''antuchcl. — The Island of Nantucket, the 

 seat of the whale ii^hery, is 1.5 miles long, and 

 contains about 50 square miles. The soil is 



rjght and fandy, but on some parts rich and pro- 

 .■ductive; particularly in hay. The inhabitants 

 are principally of the denomination of Friends, 

 and they hold the land in common — all their 

 cows i"ee<! together in one herd, and all their 

 sheep in one pasture. The men are generally 

 robust, enterprising 'camen : extensively engag- 

 ed in the whale fishery, and are as skilful and 

 ■ adventurous as any in the world. — The popula- 

 ilion in 1820, was 7.260 — A ship recently car- 

 ' ried into this port .3000 barrels of spermaceti 

 i oil, valued at gCO.OOO. 



[Dec. 2, 



flu<'ncc, and only a few feet distant^ will not be 

 in the slightest manner affected. Fruits, also, 

 when exposed to the moonshine, have been 

 known to rijien much more readily than those 

 which have not; and plants, shut out from the 

 sun's rays, and from light, and consequently 

 bleached, have been ob?erved to assume their 

 natural appearance ifexjiosed to the rays ofa 

 full moon. In South .\merica, trees cut at the 

 full moon split almost immediately, a* if torn 

 asunder by some great external force. All the=e 

 are remarkable and well estaldished facts, but 

 have never, as yet, been accounted for. 



J\Uchaiiic''s J\laga::inc. 



Casl-iron pillars for store fronts are getting 

 into use in place of those of granite. Tliey 

 possess the advantage of not breaking by iieat 

 or water. 



.\ Philosophical Sociefy is about lo be formed in the 

 colony of Demerara, for the purpo.= e of collecting and 

 forwarding to F.urope the best information relatiieto 

 tlir natural productions of that climate and soil, of 

 vh rh little was said to be known among the scientific 

 men in Enjland. 



FRUIT TREES, .fcc^ 



AMF.S BLOODGOOD & CO. have for 



sale at their nursery, at Flushing, en 



Lou:;; island^ near New York, 



fruit and Forest Trees,Flowering Shrubs .t I'lantls of 

 the most approved sorts. 



Thf prnprleiors of Wiis Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engrafting o( all Iheir l-'iuil 2'reis, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 Treis they order will prove genuine. 



<)i dcrn left with .Mr ZKr.F.nf.r. OoK, jr. No. 44 State 

 Street, Ijoston, will tie transmitted to us. and receiv- 

 our prompt and particular attention. Catalogues will 

 be delirered, and any information imparted respecting 

 the condition, k,c. &c. that may be required, on appli- 

 caton to him. Sept. 30" 



Yorkshire Wit. — A Yorkshire boy went into 

 'a public house, where a gentleman was eating 

 [eggs. The boy looked extremely hard at him 

 ] for some time, and then said, •' Will you l)e good 

 ! enotigh to give me a little salt,sir? " Aye, cor- 

 I tainly, boy ; but why do you want salt?" " Per- 

 haps, sir," says he, " you'll ask me to eat an 

 egg presently, and I .•^honld like to he ready.'" 

 ] " What country are you lVoin,my lad ?" " York- 

 shire, sir." " I thought so — there take an egg."' 

 '■ I thank you, sir," said the boy. " Well," ad- 

 ded the gentleman, " they are all gieat horse 

 stealers in your country. are they not ?" " Yes," 

 rejoined the hoy, " my father (though an hon- 

 j est man) would mind no more stealing a horse 

 than 1 would drinking your glass of ale. Your 

 health, sir," said he, and drank it up. " That 

 will do," says the gentleman, "I sec you're 

 Yorkshire." 



'OOR SALE— a 



Rctort-k cockney, walking one morning in the 

 country, observed a femajp staBdjiig at (he door 



' of a decent farm-house. Thinking to show his 

 wit, he incjuired, if the pigs were fed ? to which 



i she answered, "You know best whether you have 



I eat your breakfast." 



Moonshine — If an animal, fresh killed, be ex- 

 posed to the full effulgence of the m(/On, it will, 

 i in a few hours, become a mass of corru()tion ; 

 ' whilst another animal, not exposed to such in- 



Farm ?ituatrd in tiie pleasant and 

 flourishing vill ge of Dixmont, through which tlie 

 mail stage passes twice a week from Augu.'-ta lu Ban- 

 gor, and is only I'rcin 16 to -20 niih-s distant to four ports 

 on the Penobscot river. It has a convenient farm-house, 

 I '■2 large barns, sbetp folds, sheds, and out houses all in 

 ■good repair; will summer and winter 100 sheep and 

 j from 15 to 20 head of neat cattle ; w lib a good set of 

 t farming tools of tlie most approved kinds, which may be 

 I had with the premises if required. — For fuWlier } ;^rtic- 

 | ulars, inquire of BENJ .\.M1N l)Ur.M\.\. on the prcmi- 

 ■ ses. 7t. Dixmont (.Me.) Oct. 13, 1820. 



E PARSONS i: CO. City Furniture warehouse, 

 • Union Street, near the Union Stone, keep con- 

 stantly on hand for sale, a general assortment of furni- 

 ture, chairs, looking glasses, feathers of all kinds, fire 

 sets, brushes, bellows, &c. &c. 



BRF.MF.N GEF.SE — Ten Geese of this superior breed 

 raised this season by the subscriber, are offered 

 for sale on fair terms. They are not surpassed for beau- 

 ty and size by any in the country. Purchasers will 

 please apply at No. 2 Rowc's whart. JOH.N PERRY. 

 Boston, A\n: 17, 1825. 



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