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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug. 24, 1831. 



MISCELLANY 



J'exatious. — A short time since, some gentlemen 

 were enjoying tlie diversion of couising, and having 

 lost sight of the hare, one of the parly hastily rode 

 AN AMERICAN PIGEON ROOST. up {(, ^ ^,oy^ ^y|ien the following dialogue ensued :— 



It was in a portion of the forest where the trees ; Boy, have you seen a hare running this way, follow- 



Medicnl School in Boston. 



Tlie Medical Lectures oC Haiv.inl University deliver- 

 ed in liuslon will be commenced in the Autumn, at thtj 

 usual period, viz. on the third Wednesday in October. 

 They will be continued (our months. 



Tliis extension in the term of the Lectures has been 



were of great magnitude, and where there was little ed by dogs. ^Inswer — W-w-w-w-what, doyou mean , ihouiiht necessary to afford time for such a course of Id- 

 underwood ; I rode through it upwards of forty miles, a 1-1-little b-b-brown thing .' — Yes.— Had it 1-l-long ' slruction and demonstration, as is deemed by the Faculty 

 and crossing it in difterent parts, found its average , ears? — Yes. — A 1-1-1-little white under the b-b-belly .' to be requisite, under the advantages which have'recent- 

 breadth to be rather more than three miles. My 1 — Yes.— Had it a s-s-s-short tail .' — Yes. — A-a-a-and , ly accrued to the School. 



The Legislature of Massachusetts, with an enlighten- 

 ed liberality, which docs honor to our age and country, 

 have extended the protection of law to tiie cultivation of 

 Anatomy within tins Commonwealth. The advantages 

 which will licnce result to students resorting to this 

 school will be sufficiently obvious. It will be the aim ot 

 the Professors to carry into eltect the intentions of the 

 Legislature, in such a manner as to evince at the same 

 time their respect for the rights of humanity, and their 

 interest in the promotion of the healing art. 



The opportunities for practical instruction at the Mas- 

 sachusetts General Hospital continue undiminished. 

 The course of Lectures will be — 

 On .\natomy and Surgery, by Dr Warren. 

 " Chemistry, by Dr Webster. 

 " Materia liledica, by Dr Uigelow. 

 " Obstetrics and McdicalJurisprudence,by DrChan- 



ning. , 



" Theory and Praclce of Physic and on Clinical Me- 

 dicine, by Dr .lackson. 



WALTER CHANNING, 

 Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. 

 Boston, June 15, 1831. 6t* jiilylG 



Z.i/)!rt Mineral Spring Hotel, 



Ten miles froTU Boston, Six from Salem, anil Five fiora Nahanl. 



The subscriber most respectfully begs leave to inlorm 

 his friends and the public that he continues to keep that 

 deliglilCul Summer retreat, the Lynn Mineral Spring 

 Hotel, which it will be his object lo render a genteel 

 and pleasant resort for Boarders, Parties of Pleasure, 

 transient Visitors, &c. 



Tile salubrious qualities of the waters of this celebra- 

 ted Spring — the beautiful lake, on the borders of which 

 the eslablishment is situated, abounding wilh fish of va- 

 rious descriptions, and surrounded with the most wild 

 and romantic scenery — splendid Boats for sailing or fish- 

 ing — Bathing rooms on the margin of the lake, where the 

 warm or cold bath may at any time be taken — the de- 

 Mghtful situation of the House, yivh its comfortabie and 

 well furnished apartments, with file fruit and flower Gar- 

 dens adjoining, are attractions for those in pursuit of 

 health or pleasure, raiely excelled if equalled in any 

 part of the country. 



Every exertion shall he made to merit a continuance 

 of that patronage which has been so liberallv bestowed. 



July 20. JAMES W. BARTON. 



first view of it was about a fortniglit subsequent to 1-1-1-long legs? — Yes. Was it r-r-r-running as 



the period when the pigeons first made choice of it, f-f-f-fast as it could ? — Yes it was. Boy — (calmly, 

 and I arrived there nearly tvvo hours before sunset, after a pause) No ; I have not seen it. 

 Few piireons were then to be seen, but a great num-j -— \ - ; ; 



ber of persons, willi horses and wagons, guns and I Pla^e your honor, is a thing lost when you know 

 ammunition, had already established encampments ' where it is .■'' said an Irish footman to his master.— 

 on the borders. Two farmers from the vicinity of ' To be sure not, you booby.' 'Och! thank your 

 Russelsville, distant more than one hundred miles, honor for that— the devil a harm then,' said Pat,— 

 had driven upwards of three hundred hogs, ;o be fat- ' ^r the new copper ta-kettle's at the bottom of the 



tened on the pigeons which were to be slaughtered, i well.' 



Here and tliere the people employed in plucking Spelling.-The New York Evening Journal says, 

 and salting what had a ready beeti procured, were 1 ^^^/^ .^ a small shop not far from Grand street hi 

 seen sittiiio- in the midst ot large pi es ot these brds. ,, , ■. ,i • i r i ■ i ■ i i -.u 



„,, , r 11 1° .1 11 that city, the windows of which are garnished with 



The dunff av several inches deep,covenng the whole , ,,, . •" i c i i i . ■ .- j i . 



' ? , -^ .. 1 ,i" , ,°c little bunches of herbs, and stnno-s ot dried roots, 



extent ot the roosting pace, tike a bed of snow. — i, ■ i i i i i .l r n • ? <• j- 



cAttiii. ui uic luuo . „ f ' bearing labels like the following : 'cure for ai^pepji/ 



Many trees two feet in diameter, 1 observed, were "f a-,. ,.." c r i 



, , J a. . ,. r . <■ .1 11 — cure for scroffolis complaints — cure for fever and 



broken oft at no great distance from the ground, and ,, ■ i i , •• , v i_.r 



, L L r " I- .1 1 . 1. u . 1 1 Offer— for Hinders, and ioeoA; jmles — cure tor tn/or- 



the branches of many ot the largest and tallest had ^ ,• ■ .V it j ^ " j 



c .1 f . 1 I 1 . k . I malion in the eyes, &c. 



ffiven way, as if the forest had been swept by a tor- I rp, ■ ■ , ■' • ' , , ., ,, „ , c 



'= 1 i'^ n ■ 1. .1 . .1 I c lliisis not iiuite so bad as the orthography of a 



nado. hvcrything proved to me that the number ot , , ', ■ • .i jtt . i- h \ i 



, . , .• ■" , ?i ' . c .1 .• . lu ■ good man and his spouse in the West ot Lngland, 



birds resorting to this part ot ti" forest must be ini- " , i . i . .i • • il i a . .i 



, P y . .1 ■ 1 <• .1 ■ ; who in order to let their neighbors know that they 



raense beyont conception. As the period of the r i , ,, ,ii- , j -.u " n .i • 



. , ■^ 1 1 , ■ 1- 1 J . cured those afflicted with agues as we as the laun- 



arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to ,. , - . ° u- i i i i i 



. ".t c. f 1 1 -,1 • , dice, hung out a sign on which was inscribed 'i 



receive them. Some were furnislicd with iron pots ' " , -i- „ j i 



... 1 , ,. -.1,1 (• ; 1 . \ cures a soose una mu wife cures Ike eanders. 



containino- su phur, others with torches of pine knots, " •' ■' ° 



many with poles, and the rest with guns. The sun 

 was lost to our view, yet not a pigeon had arrived.— 

 Every thing was ready, and all eyes were gazing up 

 on the clear sky, which appeared in glimpses amidst 



A number of sailors were dining together *at a 

 boarding house in Havana, when one, an eccentric 

 Yankee, hastily arose from the table — and in a 



on llie c ear shv, w lu upueureu ii "i iijses a uiusl ., * ; ,. a ■ i ■ i ■ i t i i i ,. 



;• 1 ,1 . •'ill 1 .1 L » i- .1 1 threatening posture flourishing his knife, bawled out, 



the tal trees. Isuddenly there burst forth a general ■ iiri „ ,i.,,^- .„ „„ . .u » i i u i . k „(-o> 



.. , ,, ., ■' , ,n, 1 1 .u ' vVfio dares to say that fie don t love roast beef .■' 



cry ot 'Here they come. ihe noise which they ,, , „ , > • i ti r i i . 



■', ., , i \ , . 11 i- I 1 ' 1 dare say so,' cried an Lnglishman, w ho arose at 



made, though yet distant, reminded me ot a hard j,^^ J^^ ^i,,^ ^,. ^^^ j^^j=_ . ^^^ j^^^^_ 



gale at sea, passing through the r.ggin^T of a close- . ^^^ ' ^„^„ j^,. ^^^ ' 



reefed vessel. As the birds arrived and passed over i m tt i' 



nie, I felt a current of air that surprised me. Thou- ' ^ 



sands were soon knocked down by the pole-men. — i Sale of a Wife. — At one of tho.se disgraceful ex- 

 The birds continued to pour in, the fires were light- 1 hibitions— the sale of a wife by her husband — which 

 ed, and a magnificent, as well as .wonderful and al- j took place in Manchester some time since, the hus- 

 most terrifying sight presented itself. The pigeons, band ofliciated as auctioneer for disposing of his 

 arriving by thousands, alighted every where, one worthless rib. ' Who'll buy a wife,' said he ;' afine 

 above anotlier, until solid masses as large as hogs- wife, a handsome wife?' 'And say a good wife,' 

 heads were formed on the branches all around. Here whispered she. ' No, no,' rejoined the husband, ' I 

 and there the perches gave way under the weight won't cheat them.' 



with a crash, and failing to tlie ground, destroyed i ;; ~~. 



hundredsofthebirdsbeneath,forcingdownthedense' ^''•2/ «umor.— An Irish post boy having driven 



groups with which every stick was loaded. It was « gentleman a long stage during torrents of rain, the I ^O cents, according to (|ua hty. 



I scene of uproar and confusion. 1 found it quite gentleman civilly said to Paddy, ' Are you not very JJeJUam. Ju'V l^'h- »«^l- 



useless to speak, or even to shout to tliose persons "et ? ' Arrah ! I don't care about being very wet, 



who were nearest to me. Even the reports of the "ut plaise y our honor, I'm very dry: 



gun were seldom heard, and I was made aware of , ^„„^ ^^ /jT^^T-' Man is in no haste to b^ venerable 



the firing only by seeing the shooters reloading. No , a, p,eseul it seems as if there were no occasion to be- 



one dare venture within the line ot devastation. 1 he come so. People die as usual, but it is not the fashion to 



hogs had been penned up in due time, the picking up grow old. Formerly, men subsided, and settled down 



of the dead and wounded being left for the ne.xl into a respectable old age at forty, as they did into a bob- 



Cocoons Wanted. 

 The Subscriber will pay cash fcr Cocoons, from 25 to 

 J. H. COBB. 



8t July 20. 



Binding. 

 Subscribers to the New England Farmer are informed 

 that they can have their volumes neatly half bound and 

 lettered, at 75 cts. per volume, by leaving them at ttie 

 Farmer office. Aug. 3. 



morning's employment. The pigeons were constantly 

 coming, and it was past midnight before I perceived 

 a decrease in the numbers of those arrived. The 

 uproar continued the whole night ; and as I was 

 an.xious to know to what distance the sound reached, 

 I sent off a man, accustomed to perambulate the for- 

 est, wlio returning two hours afterwards, informed 

 me he had heard it three miles distant from tlie spot. 

 Towards the approach of day the noi.se in soine 

 measure subsided, and long before objects were dis- 

 tinguisliable, the pigeons began to move off in a di- 

 rection quite different from that in which they had 

 arrived the evening before, and at sunrise, all that 

 were able to fly had disappeared. The bowlings of 

 the wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynx- 

 es, congars, bears, raccoons, oppossums, and pole- 

 cats, were seen sneaking off', whilst eagles and hawks 

 of different species, accompanied by a crowd of vul- 

 tures, came to supplant them, and enjoy their share 

 of the spoil, — Audubon's Ornithogical Biography. 



and a brown coat and waiscoat of a certain cut,- 



Published every Wednesday Evening, at S^ P^r annum 

 ayable at the end of die year— but those who pay within 

 xty days from the lime of eubecribing, are entitled to a de- 



The father of a family no longer pretended to pass for a ' duc'tion iiffifty cents 



gay young fellow, after he had chihiren grown up; ami ! ITJ" No paper will be sent to a distance without payment i 



women dwindled by ready and willing gradations, into ' heing made in advance 



mothers and grandmothers, transferring their ch 

 and pretensions to a blooming posterity ; but these4hings 

 are never thought of now-a-days. A matron of sixty 

 flaunts it in " La B»lle Assemblee's dresses for May!" 

 and certainly M. Stullz never inquiiesinto the grand cli- 

 macteric of his customers. Dress levels all ages as well 

 as all ranks.'— fnii7(aA-cr's Monthly .Magazine. 



Good Recruiting — A Serjeant who was recruidng in 

 Leicestershire, told his Captain he had got him an extra- 

 ordinary recruit. ' Aye !' said Ihe Captain, ' what is he ?' 

 ' A butcher. Sir,' replies the Serjeant, ' and you'll find 

 him very useful, for we have enlisted two sheep-stealers 

 in the company, before him.' 



.\ talkative barber asked his customer how he wished 

 his beard to be cut. — ' Without saying a word,' replied 

 he. 



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