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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



APRlt 23, 1R34. 



M ISCKLLANY. 



Front Ike Buffalo Emporium. 

 A CONTRAST. 



Avva' wilh your lasses pincli'd op in the middle, 

 Drawn rearward their shoulders, and cramp'd every rib : 

 With elieeks like the lilly that faints in the valley, 

 Ashamed of the labors their grandmothers did. 



But give me a fine buxom lassie o' nature, 

 As round as a melon, as plump as a seal ; 

 WliiM' ( lit rks are as red as a sun-burnt potato, 

 Whose fingers can ply both the rake and the wheel. 



Our grandmothers surely had died broken-hearted, 

 Could they had of the future a glance ol the eye, 

 To see how their impious daughters had parted 

 With stout linsey-woolsey, exotics to buy. 



And hung up their distaffs, and burnt up their treddles, 

 And sang to their lupdogs their best lullaby j 

 Politely dissevering their peas in the middle, 

 Instead of devouring a whole pumpkin pie. 



Och ! we dwindle away every strange generation ! 

 Our wives are a' sickly, I 've told you the why, 

 There will not be a man in the whole ol" the nation 

 In fifty years more lli it is bigger than I ! 



I'll tell you my height, 'tis just three feet eleven, 

 Ian haunted with hypo, spadmodies and spleen, 

 A poor sickly dwarf inheriting evil, 

 Because that my mother in fashion has been. 



1 had the tall Alps been the place of my model, 

 My mother a Moor without sweet-cake or plum. 



1 then might have sprouted lik-* Alick Mc Donald, 

 And look'd down with pride upon little Tom Thumb. 



' WITHHOLDING MORE THAN IS MEET.' 



The benevoleut Matthew Carey states the fol- 

 lowing fact : 



" The ladies will I hope pardon me for an ob- 

 servation which applies to some of them, but I 

 hope to only a few. I have known a lady to ex- 

 pend a hundred dollars on a party ; pay thirty or 

 forty dollars for a bonnet, and fifty for a shawl ; 

 and yet make a hard bargain with a seamstress or 

 washerwoman, who had to work at her needle or 

 at the washing tub, thirteen or fourteen hours a 

 day, to make a bare livelihood for herself and a nu- 

 merous family of small children. This is a sore 

 oppression under the sun, and ought to be es- 

 chewed by every honorable mind. 



" Let it be reformed altogether." 



Philadelphia, June 18, 1833. 



ADVANTAGES AND PLEASURES OF OBSER- 

 VATION. 



The observations made during a single voyage 

 across the Atlantic, by a single observer, M. Hum- 

 boldt on the aspect of the Antarctic regions of the 

 heavens — the peculiar azure of the African sky — 

 the luminous meteors of the atmosphere — the tides 

 — the currents, and the different colors of the 

 ocean, and other phenomena which happened to 

 present themselves to his view — are of more value 

 lo the scientific world, than the observations of 

 ten thousands of other beings, who for a series of 

 years have traversed the same regions. Yet these 

 possessed on an average, the same sentient organs, 

 the same intellectual powers, though somewhat 

 differently modified and directed, the same natu- 

 ral capacities fur observation as this distinguished 

 philosopher which required only an impulse to be 

 given in a certain direction, in order to accomplish 

 the same ends. 



And was Humboldt more burdened and perplex- 



ed, or diil he feel less comfortable and happy, 

 than his ignorant and grovelling associates in the 

 ship that wafted them across the ocean ? No. 

 lb- li-lt emotions of delight and intellectual enjoy- 

 ments, to which they were utter stangers. While 

 they wire lolling on their hammocks, or loitering 

 upon deck, viewing every object with a " brute 

 unconscious gaze," and finding no enjoyment but 

 in a glass of grog, — a train of interesting reflec- 

 tions having relation to the past, the present, and 

 the future, passed through the mind of the philos- 

 opher. He felt those exquisite emotions which 

 arise from a perception of the beautiful and the 

 sublime ; he looked forward to the advancement 

 of natural science as the result of his observations, 

 and beheld a display of the wisdom and grandeur 

 of the Almighty, in the diversified scenes through 

 which he passed. Such observations and mental 

 employments as those to which 1 allude, so far 

 from distracting the mind and unfitting it for the 

 performance of official duties, would tend to pre- 

 vent that languor and ennui, which result from 

 mental inactivity, and would afford a source of in- 

 tellectual enjoyment amid the uniformity of scene 

 which is frequently presented in the midst of the 

 ocean. — Dick's Improvement of Society. 



EXPERIMENT. 



A beautiful exemplification of the principles 

 adopted by the lamented Sir H. Davy, for the 

 preservation ol copper on ships' bottoms was ob- 

 servable when the water was let out of the dock, 

 on Thursday last, in which the Boyne was placed. 

 Our readers are generally aware that Sir 11. Davy 

 proposed a certain portion of cast iron to be se- 

 cured on ships' bottoms. Knowing that, in the 

 galvanic action which takes place between the wa- 

 ter, copper, and the iron, the acid of sea-water 

 has a greater affinity for iron than it has for cop- 

 per, he imagined that the iron would he destroy- 

 ed and the copper preserved. The experiment 

 fully succeeded, but the remedy was as bad as the 

 disease, for the bottoms of ships became so ex- 

 ceedingly foul that the plan was abandoned on 

 account of its being detrimental to their sailing. 

 In the case of the Koyne, most of the iron protec- 

 tors were converted into a perfectly soft substance 

 resembling plumbago, while others were literally 

 destroyed, not a vestige of them remaining. It 

 was very remarkable that the vicinity of the pro- 

 tectors (and no where else) was covered by a pro- 

 digious quantity of oysters. These were devour- 

 ed with uncommon zest by the workmen. It 

 was also worthy of remark, that whilst many oth- 

 er ships similarly protected, had a great variety 

 of marine animals on their bottoms, the speci- 

 mens on the copper of the Boyne were almost, if 

 not entirely confined to oysters. Whence this 

 difference could arise we will not attempt to say, 

 hut we are inclined to imagine that the locality of 

 the ships in this harbor must he the occasion of it. 

 Portsmouth Htrald. 



finish it. Punctuality gives weight lo character : 

 Mich a man has made an appointment,! know he 

 will keep it : and this generates punctuality in those 

 with whom he lives — for like other virtues it prop- 

 agates itself. Servants and children must be 

 punctual where the master is so. Appointments 

 become debts. I have made tin appointment with 

 you; I owe you punctuality, and I have no right 

 to throw away your time, even though I might 

 my own. 



THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE 



THAT the Season has arrived for Transplanting Fruit 

 and Ornamental Trees, Vines, &c. Those wanting an 

 excellent collection will please call al the New England Far- 

 mer Office, and have their orders, winch at one day's notice 

 will be attended lo. 



Garden, Flower, and Grass Seeds, the best collection 

 ever ottered in this market, and orders promptly attended to. 

 GEO. ('. BARRETT. 



METHOD 



— Is the very hinge of business, and there is no 

 method without punctuality. Punctuality pro- 

 motes the peace and temper of a family. The 

 calmness of mind which it produces is another 

 advantage of punctuality. A man without punc- 

 tuality is always in a hurry : he has no time to 

 speak to you, because he is going elsewhere ; and 

 When he gets there he is too late for his business, 

 or be must hurry away to another before he can 



CHEAP DAHLIAS, CHINESE Ml'L- 

 BEKRIES, &c. 



\\\M. PRINCE &. SONS, near New York, 

 having greatly increased about 350 of iheir 

 splendid varieties of Dahlias, now offer them at 

 the following very reduced prices, and they are ready to supply 

 t\ve thousand immediately. — 

 Double Dahlias, 12 distinct named varieties, comprising such 



sorts as have been most increased, tor g3. 

 Double dillo, 12 distinct varieties, comprising such sorts as 



are still more rare ami beautiful, g4.}. 

 Double dillo, 12 distinct varieties, comprising such kinds as 

 areyel more rare and remarkably beautiful, $6. 



In addition to the splendid collection which the last season 

 composed their famous acre bed, they have just received from 

 Europe, every new variety of great celebrity, and the Amateurs 

 may now have their utmost wishes gratified al reasonable prices 

 lo accoid with the times. Levick's Incomparable, scarlet pe- 

 tals tipped wilh while, now offered al $2£. 



Chinese Mulberry or Morus mullicaulis, on their own bottom, 

 and not grafted, at g25 per 100 — or $U per dozen. 



Just imported 25 bushels New Italian Rye Grass ; 50 bushels 

 Pacey's perennial do ; 1200 lbs. Finest Provence Luzerne, R0 

 bushels 1'olalo Oats, weighing 44} lbs. per bushel, and a great 

 variety ol other Seeds. 



The Chinese IVeonies now reduced to following rates — Dou- 

 ble White, or Whiltleyi gl ; Humei #1 ; Fragrans gl ; the 

 Tree Poeony gJ^ ; Papaveracea g4, and other varieties 25 per 

 cent discount. 



200 bushels Orchard Grass at g2i, and 80 bushels Tall Mea- 

 dow Oats Grass al $24, ; 150 lbs. Tripfolium incarnatum, a new 

 very early clover, at 40 cents. 



LinnEean Bolanic Garden and Nurseries. 2t ap \G 



DAMAGED BISHOPS LAWS AND MUSLINS. 

 ELIAB STONE BREWER, al No. 414 Washington 

 Street, will open for sale this day, 



1 Case wet (but not damaged) Bishops Lawn. 

 1 do. do. do. , Book Muslin. 



Also, 1 do. Superfine (3-4 Cambric Dimolies, which wall be 

 offered by the Piece al 25 per cent, less lhan cost of importa- 

 tion, m 14 



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