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NEW ENGLAND* FARMER. 



MISCELLANY. 



JTLT %, 1834. 



From the Portsmouth Journal 

 TO AN EARLY ROSE. 



Say— beautiful mingling of water, and dust, 



How ? — where was thy fair form hid ? 



When the branch that now bears thee, in fondness up, 



By the wintry blast was laid. 



Wert thou there, in the bark of that widier'd thing? 

 Or down in the frozen earth ? 

 Or did part of thee lay in a wreath of snow, 

 Which could boast of a cloudlet's birth ? 



Wherever— sweet child of the elements, 



A lesson of truth thou dost bring; 



For much that seems dross to the human eye, 



May up into glory spring. 



But thou hast been nought save a simple bud, 



Through stormy, and sunny days — 



Now, thy tunic of green on thy stem is cast, 



And thou art all fragrance, and grace. 



So I— if uusear'd by the world's bright sun, 



And firm by its tempests driven ; 



Shall throw off my vestment of changing dost, 



And bloom like thee, Rose, in Heaven. 



S. 



REMARK OP SIR HUMPHREY DAVY. 



There appears nothing more accidental than the 

 sex of an infant, yet take any great city or any 

 great province, and you will find that the relation 

 of males and females is unalterable. Again, a 

 part of the pure air of the atmosphere is continu- 

 ally consumed in combustion and respiration ; liv- 

 ing vegetables emit this principle during their 

 growth ; nothing appears more accidental than the 

 proportion of vegetable to animal life on the sur- 

 face of the earth, yet they are perfectly equivalent ; 

 and the sexes, like the constitution of the atmos- 

 phere, depends upon the same unerring intelligence. 



BURYING ALIVE. 



We have been furnished by a French gentle- 

 man, with whom we happened to converse a few 

 days tjgo, on the subject to which it refers, with 

 the following facts collected from medical history. 

 They are painfully interesting, yet proper to be 

 known, in order to prevent if possible their recur- 

 rence. Premature interments may take place in 

 this country as probably as elsewhere. Physical 

 orginizatidn is nearly the same throughout the 

 whole of the human family; and we can conceive 

 of no self upbraiding more deep or bitter than 

 that which must be felt from the consciousness 



that a dear departed one had terminated life not 



by the ordinary course of mortality, but by an un- 

 necessary, premature consignment to the grave. 



-V. Y. Com. Advertiser. 



" The diseases in which a partial and momen- 

 tary suspension of lifi: most often manifests itself, 

 are asphyxia, hysterics, lethargy, hypochondria] 

 convulsions, syncope, catalepsis, excessive loss of 

 blood, tetanus, apoplexy, epilepsy, and ecstacy. 



Among many cases which ha've been recorded 

 the following are particularly striking: 



Chancellor Bacon relates that Dr. Scott, nick- 

 named the ' subtle,' was buried alive at Cologne, 

 and that recovering from his apparent death, he 

 gnawed his hands, and broke his head in his tomb. 



At Toulouse a, lady having been buried in the 

 church of the Capuchin friars with a diamond 

 ring on her finger, a servant entered the vault to 

 steal the ring ; and as the finger was swelled and 

 the ring could not come off, he began cutting the 

 finger ; but on hearing a loud shriek from the de- 

 ceased the thief fell senseless. At the time of the 



morning prayers, the monks having beard so 



groans, found the lady alive and the servant dead. 

 Thus death had his prey — there was but a change 

 of victims. 



A street porter in Paris having died at the Ho- 

 tel Dieu, was carried with the other dead into the 

 same grave. Recovering his senses towards 11 

 at night, he tore open his winding sheet, made 

 his way to his house, knocked at the door, which 

 was not opened to him without some difficulty, 

 and took possession of his lodgings. 



In 1756, a woman in Paris was thought to be 

 dead, and the body put on some straw with a ta- 

 per at the feet. Some young men who sat up 

 round the corpse, in a frolic overturned the taper 

 which set the straw on fire. The deceased whose 

 body the flames now reached, uttered a piercing 

 shriek. Timely assistance was rendered, and she 

 was so well recovered that after her resurrection 

 she became the mother of several children. 



On the 21st of November, 1763, the Abbe Pre- 

 vot, well known for his literary productions, was 

 taken with an apoplectic fit as he was travelling 

 through the forest of Chantilly. Being supposed 

 dead, he was carried to the house of the Mayor of 

 the village, and the magistrate directed a post- 

 mortem examination to be commenced. A pierc- 

 ing shriek uttered by the unfortunate man, proved 

 that he was alive. He however, soon expired un- 

 der the scalpel. 



Dr. Devaux, a surgeon of St. Come hospital in 

 Paris, had a maid servant, who had three tim?s 

 been carried to burial. She did not recover her 

 senses the last time until they were lowering the 

 coffin into the grave. That woman having died 

 anew, she was kept six days, lest they should have 

 to bring her back a fourth time. 



A Mr. Rousseau of Rouen, had married a 

 young lady of fourteen, whom he left in perfect 

 health at his starting on a short journey. After a 

 few days he heart! that unless he returned imme- 

 diately he would find his wife buried. On reach- 

 ing home he found the funeral ready. In an ago- 

 ny of grief he had the coffin removed to his room 

 and unscrewed, lie placed the body upon the 

 bed, and ordered twenty-five incisions to be made 

 on it. At the twenty-sixth, probably deeper than 

 the others, the deceased exclaimed, " how severe- 

 ly you hurt me !" Medical assistance was imme- 

 diately given. The lady had afterwards twenty- 

 six children. 



The wife of Mr. Duhamel, a celebrated lawyer, 

 having been supposed dead for twenty-four hours, 

 the body was placed on a table for the purpose of 

 preparing it for burial. Her husband strongly op- 

 posed it, not believing her dead. To ascertain it, 

 and knowing she was very fond of the cymbal, 

 and the tunes which cymbal players sing, he 

 had one called. Upon hearing the instrument 

 and the voice, the deceased recovered motion and 

 speech. She survived her apparent death forty 

 years. 



Andre Vesale, first physician to Charles V. and 

 Philip II. after attending a Spanish grandee thought 

 him dead ; and having obtained leave to examine 

 the body, he had scarcely thrust the bistoury into 

 it and opened the chest, when he perceived that 

 the heart palpitated. The relatives of the deceas- 

 ed prosecuted him as guilty of murder, and the in- 

 quisitor as guilty of profaneness. Through the 

 intercession of the king he obtained to be merely 

 condemned to a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. 

 In the sitting of the Royal Academy of Medi- 



cine in 1827, M. Chantonrnelle read a paper on 

 the danger of hasty inhumations. This led to a 

 discission in which M. Desgencttes stated that 

 he had heard from M. Thouret, who had super- 

 intended the removal of the human remains of the 

 cemetery and the chamel house Des Innocens, 

 that many skeletons had been found in positions 

 showing that the individuals had moved after their 

 inhumation. M. Thouret had been so much 

 struck with this, that he had inserted in his will 

 an article relating to his own interment. 



HOUSE FOUND IN A BOG. 



At a recent meeting of the Society of Antiqua- 

 rians, Mr. Mudge commenced a description of an 

 ancient house, discovered in Drum Relin Dog, in 

 the parish of Inver, Co. of Donegal. It was form- 

 ed of rough oak logs and planks, the mortices be- 

 ing apparently more bruised than cut, as if with a 

 stone chisel and an instrument of that descrip- 

 tion was in fact found in the house. Any conjec- 

 ture, as to the age of this building must be ex- 

 tremely difficult, if not impossible. It appeared 

 to have been overwhelmed by some sudden calam- 

 ity, and probably the bog turf has grown consider- 

 ably over it, the top of the roof being about sixteen 

 feet below the level of the surface. — Dublin paper. 



To Cure a Sprained Ancle pour on frequently 

 a stream of salt water from the nose of a coffee 

 pot held up at arm's length. 



GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS. 



An excellent collection of Garden and Flower Seeds of 

 very best quality, in papers of bj cents each, constantly on hand 

 and for sale at New England Seed Store of 



GEO. C. BARRETT. 



DAMAGED BISHOPS IAWK AND MUSLINS. 



ELIAB STONE BREWER, at No. 414 Washington 

 Street, will open lor sale this day, 



1 Case wet (but not damaged) Bishops Lawn. 



1 do. do. do. Book Muslin. 



Also, 1 do. Superfine G-4 Cambric Dimolies, which *will be 

 offered by the Piece at 25 per cent, less than cost of importa- 

 tion. m 14 



STRAW CARPETING. 



ELIAB STONE BREWER, No. 411 Washington street, 

 has received a lot of 106 pieces superior straw carpeting white 

 and fancy checks, 5-4, 6-4, and 7-4 widths, which he will sell 

 by the piece or yard at very low prices. Also, Canton Straw 

 table malts. islf. a jg. 



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