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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



AUGtrST 0. 18''r. 



3§'#IS^«i'^e 



THE FARMER'S SONG. ■ 



Sweet is the breiui that toil liatli won, 



And sweet tlic sleep It brings, 

 And sweetly wlii-n the day If done 



My cheerful helpmate Finjfi; 

 How proudly round my hearth 1 see 



My Btnrdy sons draw near. 

 And O how kindly smiles on mo 



Each one that's gathered here. 



A thousand songsters welcome me 



Forth to my daily toil, 

 And flowers of many a foim and hue 



Upspringing from the soil ; 

 Fair spring with promise beckons me 



To sow the needful grain. 

 And glorious autumn, phankful, shows 



lis harvest mantled plain. 



The student in his narrow cell, 



Reads by his niidMighl lamp ; 

 I read in Nature's open b"«]<, 



Truths of immorlal stump ; 

 While monarchs trenjble on their thrones, 



And quakes the city luid, 

 1 firmly stand upon the earth, 



A basis deep and broad. 



Sweet is the bread that toil hath won, 



And sweet the sleep it brings. 

 And sweetly, wln;n the day is done, 



My chei'rful helpmate sings; 

 How proudly round the hearth 1 see 



My sturdy sons draw near. 

 And O how kindly smiles on me 



Each one that's gathered here. 



German |ia|ier, in wliieli it was stated that the 

 " liydro-nxiil of iron had lieen so successfully eni- 

 |)loyed as an antidote njrainst the poison of arse- 

 nic both in France and Germany, that several of 

 the governments of the latter coutitry had order- 

 ed all the apotliecaries to keep it constantly on 

 hand." 



Our attentioti has iieen this morninsr drawn to 

 a rase of poisoning hy arsenic, successfully treat- 

 ed with the hydratic peroxid of iron, hy Dr C.liil- 

 ton of this city, r.'ported in the United States 

 Medical and Surgical Jonniul of Septeiid)er last. 

 A young lady had taken about the fourth part of 

 a tea-spoonful of arsenic, by mistake, supposing 

 it to he calcined magnesia. The symptoms were 

 alarming, when the pliysician was called, but on 

 adiriinistering a t|uantity of the antidote, they soon 

 subsided, and the ])atient in a day or two, was 

 entirely recovered. The citistence of a remedy 

 for so deadly a poison, ought to be generally 

 known. — JV. Y. Post. 



Washington's views of War a.nd Agricul- 

 TDRE. — We find the followingsentiments in a let- 

 ter written to Arthur Young, Esq., of Great Brit- 

 ain, some years after the war ; its date is Mount 

 Vernon, Dec. 4, 178S : 



" The more I am acquainted with agricultural 

 afTairs, the better 1 am pleased with them ; inso- 

 much that 1 can no where find so great satisfac- 

 tion as in those iimocent and useful pm'suits. ]ii 

 iinlulgiiig these feelings, 1 am led to reflect how 

 much more ilelightful to an undebauched mind, 

 is the task of making improvements on the earth, 

 than all the vain glory which can be acquireci 

 ravaging it, by the most uninterrupted career of 

 comjuests. The design of this observation is on- 

 ly to show liow nuich, as a member of human so- 

 ciety, 1 feel myself obligi:d by your labors to ren^ 

 dor respectable and advantageous, an employment 

 which is more congenial to the natural disposition 

 of mankind than any other." 



In another letter written about the same time, 

 he says : 



"How pitiful in the eye of reason and religion, 

 is that false ambiiion which desolates the world 

 with lire and sword, for the pur))Ose of conquest 

 and faille, compared to the milder virtues of ma- 

 king our neighbors and our fellow-men as happy 

 as their frail conditions and ])erishable natures 

 will permit them to be." 



CuRK FOR riiE Effects of AusEivic. — In yes- 

 tofday's Evening Post, we iiiudu a note from n 



LiGUTMNG. — A lemarkable case of rcsnscita- 

 tioti fro II a stroke of lightning, by the use of wa- 

 ter, fell under our ob.servalion a few years ago. — 

 About ten o'clock in the morning, in the middle 

 of July, during a steady rain, without the slight- 

 est a|)pridiension of a thuinler storm, the ligli.hing 

 descended with such tremendous effect as to 

 strike several houses at a mile's distance from 

 each other. The conctission was so great as to 

 cause the church bell to ring. Nearly opposite 

 to one of the houses which were striken and retit 

 to pieces, a young gentleman was thrown liom 

 his seat in bis stor<?, where he remained several 

 minutes before he was discovered, A friend, in 

 passing, observed him lying on his back appa- 

 rently dead. He immediately went in, removed 

 him to the counting room, stripped his breast and 

 his neck, and dashed a bucket of cold water in 

 his face. He soon showed signs of life, and was 

 taken home and put into bed, where he remained 

 senseless until five in the afternoon. It was sev- 

 eral weeks before he recovered. When it was 

 told him what had happened, he was entirely ig- 

 norant that he had been struck by lightning, and 

 stateil that he was iinconsci,)US of the shock, or 

 the slightest degree of pain. His eyes however, 

 were so severely iifTcrted, that he did not recover 



the use of them fur several months. Veif York 



Gazelle. 



Ki.EP YOUR Children Clfan. — We are now 

 in that season of the year when fi-oiii excessive 

 heat and the use of various fruits, children are 

 likely to be attacked by a disorder as painful as 

 it is dangerous. We would not advise abstinence 

 from the ustial fruits of the season, for if moder- 

 ately eaten, they contribute greatly to the [jurifi- 

 calion of the blood, and the general health of the 

 system. But in order to guard against the com- 

 plaint of the season, we would urge upon parents 

 the importance of keejiing their children perfect- 

 ly clean by frequent ablutions. The dislre.<sing 

 complaints so frequent among children during the 

 the fruit season, arise more frequently from a 

 want of cleanliness, that from an intemperate use 

 of fruit. Indeed the disorder of the bowels in hot 

 weather, among children whose whole surliice is 

 not kept clean by frequent washing and rubbing 

 will take place whether they eat fruit or not. We 

 believe we spc-ak the ojiiiiion qf our physicians. 

 — Jioilon Med. Jour. 



Reorganization of thf. Patent Office. — 

 The Commissioner of Patents has published the 

 following notice, which is deserving the attention 

 of holders of |iateiits issued before the destruction 

 of the Patent Oflice. 



Patent Office, Washington, July 13, 1837. 

 In consequence of the destruction of the re- 

 sordsof the Patent Office by fire in December last, 

 Congress provideil by la\y for recordiygall patents 

 anew; and no paper can be given in evidence 

 ti)i(i7 '.he same has been recorded again i.i this 

 ofJice. 1 he law provides for the record of all 

 patents which have been issued, whether the same 

 have or have not expired. Such record, it is be- 

 lieved, will be honorable to inventors, and highly 

 useful in tlie future management of the Patent 

 Office. Arrangements are accordingly made for 

 recording all patents anew in this office ; expec- 

 ting that persons hohling patents will promptly 

 comply with the law in this respect. It is hoped 

 none will delay transmitting patents, because the 

 invention may be deemed unimportant. A copy 

 of every patent issueil is desirable, as the best 

 imaiifi of preventing impositions. Many persons 

 have already complied with the lav\, and their 

 patents have been recorded and paid to them i 

 and all who have omitted to forward their papers, 

 are requested to send them to this office by irail, 

 without delay. In this mode, patents will be se- 

 cured from infringement, and useful inventiona 

 perpetuated. Papers forwarded will be safely 

 kept and speedily returned. Transfers or assign- 

 ments of patents are in like 'manner requiretl to 

 be recorded anew.' Publishers of newsj.apers 

 will promote the cause of science, as well as 

 oblige their customers, by publishing this notice. 

 He.nrv L. Eli-sworth, 



Commissioner of Patents. 



A Business Matter. — Call on a business mail 

 in business hours, only on business; transact your 

 business, and then go about your business, in or- 

 der to give him time to finish his business. 



The BufTalo Journal says, that the city is so 

 healthy that the doctors have nothing to do — and 

 seven of them were seen together on the pier fish- 

 ing. 



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