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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



DECEMBER 18, J833; 



MISCELLANY 



From the Amaranth. 

 BURNING LETTERS. 



BY MISS H. F. GOt'LU. 



Fire, my hand is on llie key, 



Aii'l llie cabinet must ope ! 

 I sliall now consign to thee 



Things of grief — of joy anil hope. 

 Treasured secrets of the heart 



To thy care I hence entrust, 

 Not a word must thou impart, 



I3ut reduce them ill to dast ! 



This — in childhood's rosy morn, 



h was gaily filled and sent, 

 Childhood is forever gone ! 



Here! devouring element. 

 This was friendship's cherished pledge — 



Friendship look a colder form ; 

 Creeping on its gilded edge. 



May the blaze be live and warm ! 



These — the letter and the token 



Never more must meet my view : 

 When the faith has once been broken. 



Let the memory perish too ! 

 Here comes up the blotted leaf, 



Blister'd o'er by many a tear! 

 Hence ! thou waking shade of grief fj 



Go, forever disappear ! 



This was pen'd while purest joy 



Warm'd the breast and lit the eye r 

 Fate that peace did soon destroy; 



And its transcript, so must I! 

 This must go ! for, on the seal, 



When I saw the solemn yew, 

 Keener was the pang than steel — 



'Twas a heart-string snapt in two \ 



This — 'tis his who seem'd to be 



High as Heaven, and true as light j, 

 But the visor rose : and he — 



Spare, O mercy ! spare the sight 

 Of the face that frown'd beneath — 



While I take it, hand and name> 

 And entwine it with a wreath 



Of the purifying flame ! 



These — .the hand is in the grave, 

 And the soul is in the skies, 



Whence they came ! — 'lis pain .to save- 

 Cold remains of sundered ties! 



Go, together till, and burn, 

 Once the treasures of my heart !' 



Still, my breast shall be an urn 

 To preserve your belter pan ! 



From the People's Magazine. 

 TOOTHACHE. 



The toothache is rendered more distressing, if 

 not more acute, by there being no commiseration 

 for the wretchedness it occasions. The belief in 

 this, and a keen recollection of bodily and mental 

 sufferings, have produced the following little nar- 

 rative : 



Some years ago, a tremendous tooth, with three 

 enormous prongs, confined me to my room, and 

 irritated me to a state but little short of distraction. 

 With my head tied up in a bandanna handkerchief, 

 both hands on my afflicted jaw, I sat swaying my 

 body to and fro, as if endeavoring to calm a frac- 

 tious infant ; at other times I stamped about like a 

 lunatic, or plunged on my bed like a frog swim- 

 ming. Being at length reduced to a state of ex- 

 haustion, I was anxious to retreat from all inter- 



course with the world ; yet knock after knock at 

 the door continued, as if only to increase my al- 

 ready excessive nervous irritability. Many of the 

 persons I had no desire to see, but some were 

 those interwoven with my professional pursuits, 

 and I was compelled to be at home. I hud to ac- 

 count for my disconsolate appearance — to describe 

 my tormenting pangs, till I was weary of speaking 

 upon the subject. — To all my fervid description, I 

 received the cold remark, ami the chilling advice, 

 that it was only the toothache, and that I had bet- 

 ter have it extracted. All this time, the salivary 

 glands were pouring their fluids into my mouth, 

 the gastric juices were wasting their powers, and 

 I was in a paroxysm of excruciating anguish. It 

 was astonishing how persons could calmly behold 

 such a complication of miseries. Nothing could 

 be eaten ; slops became offensive ; the sight of a 

 spoon frightful ; and a basin revoking as a per- 

 petual blister. Even the air could not be taken ! 

 — it was too much for the petulance of my capri- 

 cious tooth. On it raged, as if torments were its 

 delight. In all my reading, I never met with any 

 author but Burns who had a proper idea of the 

 toothache. He wished his enemies to have it for 

 a twelve-month. Oh dear ! he must be more or 

 less than man who could endure this. He must 

 despair and perish. 



How true is it, that out of evil often some good 

 will spring ; for while 1 was enduring this thumb- 

 screw on my gums — this gout in my jaw — this 

 rack of nerves, this destroyer of brains — amid 

 this desolation I acquired much useful information 

 respecting the toothache. One friend informed 

 me that half the suffering was occasioned by a 

 nervous irritability ; for, if I went to a dentist with 

 a determination to have the tooth extracted, the 

 moment I entered the door the tooth would cease 

 to give me pain. — He had proved it more than 

 once. 



Another friend smiled at my deplorable situa- 

 tion, and laughed at my desire to retain in my 

 mouth such a thing, that had ceased to be a tooth ; 

 it is a mere stump, with a carious triplex fang ; 

 worse than useless; it, was positively injurious. 

 If the case were his, he should give such tenant 

 immediate notice to quit. With a pair of pincers 

 he would serve the ejectment himself, as an emp- 

 ty house was preferable to a bad tenant. 



Another friend requested me to be careful in 

 selecting an operator on my tooth, for that he went 

 to a dentist once, under anguish scarcely endura- 

 ble, to have a large double tooth like mine ex- 

 tracted. He made a round O on his mouth ; the 

 operator popped in the instrument, and u-g-h — 

 a-h — it slipped. He felt as if a loaded wagon had 

 passeil over his head. The dentist apologized, 

 saying, " It was a common occurrence ; gentle- 

 men did not mind it much because the next at- 

 tempt was always successful." 



A gentleman who had been waiting for me in 

 the parlor was now introduced, who exclaimed : 



" My ilear friend, 1 can cure you in ten minutes." 



"How? How?" inquired I: "do it in pity." 



" Instantly," said he. 



" Have you any alum ?" 



" Yes." 



" Bring it, antl some common salt." 



They were produced ; my friend pulverized 

 them, mixed them in equal quantities ; then wet a 

 small piece of cotton, causing the mixed powders 

 to adhere, and placed it in my hollow tooth. 



41 There," said he ; " if that do not cure you, I 



will forfeit my head. You may tell this in Gaih, 

 and publish it in the streets of Askelon ; the reme- 

 dy is infallible." 



It was as he predicted. On the introduction of 

 the mixed alum and salt, I experienced a sensation 

 of coldness, which gradually subsided, and with it 

 the torment of the toothache. 



ADVERSITY. 



Though foul be the lightnings, they freshen the air, 

 Though rough be the tempests, the ocean they clear, 

 The herb which is bruised sheds the sweetest perfume, 

 The glow-worm shines brightest when deepest in gloom, 

 And the stars which gleam forth on the bosom of night, 

 From the darkest of heaven, give fairest the light. 



FRUIT TREES. 



Ornamental TREES, ROSES, FLOWER- 

 ING PLANTS, &c Nursery of WILLIAM 

 KENRICK in Newton, 5£ miles from Boston, 

 by the City Mills. 



This iNursery now comprises a rare and extraordinary collec- 

 tion of fruit trees, Trees and Shrubs of Ornament, Roses, &c. 

 and covers the most of 18 acres. Of new celebrated Pears alone, 

 150 kinds, a part of which, having already been proved in our 

 climate, are specially recommended. — Of Apples 200 kinds — 

 Peaches 115 kinds — Cherries, 55 kinds — Plums, Nectarines, 

 Almonds, Apricots, Quinces, Grape Vines, Currants, Raspbe»- 

 ries, Gooseberries, Strawberries, Figs, &c. &c— selections 

 from the best varieties known — a collection in unequal propor- 

 tions of 800 varieties of fruit. 



While mulberries for silk worms — the fruit poor. Also the 



MorusMui.ticaui.is or New Chinese Mulberry, a. beauti- 

 ful fruit Iree, so superior for silk worms to all others. 



Of ROSES. A superb collection of from 300 to 400 hardy 

 and China varieties ; selections from numerous importations,, 

 and first rale sources. Horse Chesnuts as hardy as oaks — 

 Weeping Willows, Catalpas, Mountain Ash, Silver Firs, Ve- 

 netian Sumach, Altheas, Honeysuckles, Azaleas, &c. &e. — 

 in all, of Ornamental trees, and shrubs, 650 varieties. Oi 

 Herbaceous (lowering plants, a choice selection of 280 varieties, 

 including the Paeonies, Moutan and Papaveracea — and 24 other 

 kinds — and 83 splendid varieties of double Dahbas. 



Gentlemen are invited to forward their orders early — early in 

 Autumn being an excellent season for transplanting. Address to 

 WILLIAM KENRICK, Newton. Trees, &c. delivered m 

 Boston free of charge for transportation, and suitably packed, 

 and from thence when ordered duly forwarded, by land or sea.. 

 Or orders will receive the same attention if left with Geo. C. 

 Barrett, who is agent, at his seed store and New England 

 Farmer Office, Nos. 51 & 52, North Market Street, Boston. 

 Catalogues gratis on application. Jy 17 



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 by E. WIGHT, Druggist, 46 Milk st. opposite Federal st. 



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