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NEW ENGLAND FARMEU,. 



Feb. 27, IS'29. 



r,f T S C E L L A N I E S. 



SELECTED FOR THE HEW ENlStAKD FAKHER. 



AGRICULTURE. 



" Hail/Agriculturc ! by whose parent aid 

 The deep Ibundatious of llieso Stales are ibid j 

 The seeds of greatness by thy hand are sown, 

 These shall mature with thee and time alone." 



LAW, PHYSIC, AND POETRY, A LOT- 

 TERY. 



" What but a Lottery is the law. 

 Whose Lawyers all the Prizes draw. 

 Their clients give them many thanks, 

 For privilege lo draw the Blanks." 



" Physicians manage Lotterywise, 



Here death 's the Blank— and health the Prize; 



And 'lis a truth, which most men feel, 



There *s but few Phizes in llje wheel." 



'■' M^hat hopes can slarv'ling" poets feel, 

 When there 's no Pkizes in the wheel, 

 For should they draw the phantom fame, 

 'Tis but a Blank — an empty name." 



From Good's Book of Nature. 

 VENTRILOQUISM. 



Lewis Brabant, valet Je chambre of Francis I. 

 of France, v.as a skilful ventriloquist ; anil fell 

 desperately in love with a young, beaiiliful, and 

 very wealthy heii-ess, whose father forbade his ad- 

 dresses in consequence of the disparity of his con- 

 dition. After the decease of her father, Brabant, 

 unsubdued by the first repulse, determined to 

 make another push, and to call to his aid, if ne- 

 cessarj', the art of ventriloquism. 



He accordingly waited on the mother, and once 

 more stlbmitted his jiroposals. But faithfid to the 

 views of her deceased husband, slie gave him a 

 direct refusal. While in the act of so doing, a 

 low, hollow, sepulchral voice was heard by her- 

 self, and by all present, and which was instantly 

 recognised as the voice of the deceased, command- 

 ing the widow to give her daughter's baud to Lew- 

 is Brabant, v.-liom the spirit affirmed he now knew 

 to be a worthy and an excellent man, and much 

 wealthier than he had taken him to be when alive ; 

 adding, at the same time, that he was suffering in 

 purgatory for having ill-treated, by his refusal, so 

 exemplary a man ; and that he would not be re- 

 leased till bis widow had consented. 



All was mute astonishment ; but Brabant ap- 

 peared more astonished than the rest. He mod- 

 estly observed that whatever his merits might be, 

 he had no idea that they were worthy of being 

 commemorated by a voice from tiie grave ; but 

 nothing could give him more pleasure than to be 

 made the happy instrument of e.\tricating the old 

 gentleman from the pains of purgatory, which it 

 seemed he was suffering on his accotmt. There 

 was no doubt as to the voice ; no time was to be 

 lost ; the mother and the whole family immedi- 

 ately assented, and Lewis Brabant had the honor 

 of receiving their commands to speedily prepare 

 for the nuptials. 



To prepare for the nuptials, money was neces- 

 .sary; but Brabant was destittite of such an article. 

 He resolved to try whether the same talent which 

 had obtained for him the promise of a wife, might 

 not also obtain for him the money wanted. He 

 recollected that there lived at Lyons an old miser, 

 M. Cornu, who had accumulated immense wealth 



by usurj' and extortion, and whose conscience ap- 

 peared often uneasy in consequence of the means 

 which he had used" ; and he thought that Cornu 

 was the very character that might answer his pur- 

 pose. 



To Lyons, therefore, be went, post haste, com- 

 menced an immediate acquaintance with Cornu, 

 and on every interview took care to contrast the 

 pure happiuess enjoyed by the i;an whose con- 

 science could look back, like M. Cornu's, as he 

 was jdeased to say, on a life devoted to acts of 

 charity and benevolence, with the horrors of the 

 wretch who had amassed heaps of wealth by in- 

 justice, and whose tormented mind only gave him 

 now a foretaste of what he was to expect here- 

 after. The miser w^s always ready to change 

 the conversation ; but Brabant pressed it upon 

 him, till finding, on one occasion, that he appear- 

 ed more agitated than ever ; and at that instant a 

 low, hollow, solemn, sepulchral mutter was heard 

 as in the former case, which was found to be the 

 voice of Cornu's father, who had been dead some 

 years, and which declared him to have passed all 

 this time in the toitures of purgatory, from which 

 he had just now learned that nothing could free 

 him but his son's paying 10,000 crowns into the 

 hands of Lewis Brabant, then with him, for the 

 purpose of redeeming Christian slaves from the 

 hands of the Turks. 



All was unutterable astonishinent ; but Lewis 

 Brabant was the most astonished of the iwo : 

 modestly declared that now for the first time in 

 his life, he was convinced of the possibility of the 

 dead holding conversation with the living : and 

 admitted that, in truth, he had been employed in 

 redeeming Christian slaves from the Turks. 



The mind of tiie old miser was distracted with 

 a thousand contending passions. He was sus- 

 picious without apparent cause ; filial dutyprompt- 

 ed him to rescue his father from the abode of mis- 

 ery : but 10,000 crowns was a large sum even 

 for such a pi^rpose. At length he adjourned till 

 the next day to meet in another place. He re- 

 quired time to examine into this mysterious affair, 

 and he wished, as he said, to give his father an 

 opportunity of trying whether he could not bar- 

 gain for a smaller sum. 



They accordingly met the next daj^, and agree- 

 able to Cornu, on an open common in the vicinity 

 of Lyons, where there was neither a house, nor a 

 wall, nor a tree, nor a bush, that could conceal a 

 confederate. No sooner, however, had they met 

 than the old miser's ears were again assailed with 

 the same hideous and sepulchral cries, iipraiding 

 him for having suffered his fatlicr to remain fur 

 24 hours longer in the torments of purgatory ; de- 

 nouncing that, unless the ileiiiand of the 10,000 

 crowns was instantly complied with, the sum 

 would be doubled ; and tliat the miser himself 

 would be condemned to the same doleful regions, 

 and to an increased degree of torture. Cormi 

 moved a few paces forward, but was assailed with 

 still louder shrieks: he advanced again, and now 

 instead of bearing his father's voice alone, he was 

 assailed witli the dreadful outcry of the whole 

 Cornu family for the last two or three generations, 

 all suifering in purgatory, and all included ia the 

 general contract of 10,000 crowns ; all beseech- 

 ing him to have mercy on them, and to have 

 mercy on himself. Cornu cotild not resist the 

 threats and outcries of so many, instantly ptiid the 

 10,000 crowns into the hands of Lewis Brabant, 

 and felt some pleasure that by postponing the pay- 



ment for one day, he had at least been able to 

 rescue the whole family of Cornus for the same 

 sum of money, as was at first demanded for his 

 father alone. The dextrous ventriloquist having 

 received the money, returned to Paris, intirried his 

 intended bride, and told the whole story to his 

 sovereign and the court, much to their entertain- 

 ment. 



repartee. 



When Madam ileinel drew the fashionable 

 worlil to the Opera some years since, by the avow- 

 ed superiority cf her graceful attractions, the then 

 Earl of Harrington, of amorous noloriely, on the 

 morning of her benefit, enclosed her a bank note 

 of 500 pounds, which the herohie sent back with 

 the following reply. 



" My Lord — 1 could not hesitate a moment in 

 returning the bill you did me the honor of enclos- 

 ing me. If your Lordship meant it as a reward 

 for my 2)ublic performance, it is injinitcly too much 

 — if it is intended as a prelude to any private re- 

 hcarsi'l, it is in my opuiion, as far too little." 



Y'^ours, &e., 



Heinel." 



Pressed Cidinanj Herbs. 

 For sale at the New England Farmer Seed Store, No. .5^, 

 Norlli Market street, Culinary Herl>s, dried, jiressed, and neatly 

 packetl. in parcels, at the following prices : — Sweet Marjoram, 

 50 CIS — J^imimor Savory, -5 cts — Thyme, 33 els — Sage. 17 cts 

 — Celerv, {In bottles for soups, &c,) 25 els — Balm, 33 cts — 

 Rose Flowers. gl,0O. epif 



1'avern to he Leased. 



To be leased, that excellent stand for country custom, the 

 Tavi^rn on the Mill Uaiu or Western Avenue, now occupied by 

 rd.ijiir floratio G. Buttrick. It is believed that an active and 

 enterpribiiig man might acquire a fortune by hiring it. Terms, 

 live years lease, with good security — rent IXJO dollars. If not 

 leased Liefore the ~d day of JMarcli next, it w\]\ be let at public 

 auction on that day. at 12 o'clock, M. on tiie premises. 



Inquire of JOHN LOWELL, Common Street, Boston. 



F^b no. 2i 



Farmer f I anted. 



A faithful man is wanted to take charge of a small place in 

 Roxbury, comprising a garden, orchard, A:c. 



JtT It must be expressly understood that no ardent spirits 

 will be allowed on the place. Persons \\ ho are unvvrlJing to ac- 

 cede to this, need not make application to the New England 

 Farmer Seed Store, 52 Norlli .Market St. Boston. 



Assorted Seeds for Families. 

 For sale at the New England Farmer Seed .Store small boxe:> 

 of assorted Seeds lor Kitchen Gardens. Each box cojitains a 

 package? of the following Seeds : 



Early Washington Peas 



Dwarf Blue Imperial Peas 



Late Marrowfat Peas 



Early Rlohawk Dwarf siring 

 Boans 



China Dwarf siring and shell 

 Beans ■ 



Lima, or Saba Pole Beans 



Long Blood Beet 



Early Turnip-rooted Beet 



Early York Cabbage 



Large late Drumhead Cabbage 



Cape Savoy Cab 



Bed Dutch Cabbage (for pick- 

 ting) 



Early Horn Carrot 



Long Orange Carrot 



White Solicl Celery 



Curled Cress 



Early Cucumber 



Early Silesia Lettuce 



Long Dutch Parsnip 



Large Cabbage Lettuce 



Long Green 'Pnrkey Cucunibei" 



Pino-apple Melon 



Long, or Round V\'alermelon 



Nastuilium 



Large White Onion 



Large Red Onion 



Curled Parsley 



Flat Squash Pepper 



Rarly Scarlet, Short-top Radish 



White Turnip Radish 



.Salsaly 



Early Bush .Squash 



Farly White Dutch Turnip 



White Flat Turnip 



Yellow Stone Turnip 



Winter Crook-neck Squash. 



POT HERB SEEDS. 



Thyme — Sage — Marjorum. 



The above list, it will be seen, comprises all the common ve- 

 getables, besides several new varieties of recent introduction, 

 and uncommon excellence. Every kind is warranted of the 

 very first quality, as to freshness and purity. Each box contains 

 directions for the management of the diilerent sorts. Price §3 

 per box. 



Published every Friday, at §3 per annum, payable at the 

 end of the year — but those who pay within sixly d.nys from the 

 lime of subscribing, are entitled to a deduction of fifty cents. 



Printed for J. B. Russell, by I. R. Butts A: Co.— by whom 

 all (lescriplious of Printing can'be executed to meet the wishes 

 of customers. Orders lor printing received by J. B. Russell, 

 at ihe Agricultural Warehouse, No. 52 North Market Street 



