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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 14, 1831. 



MlSCELLiANY 



The following seductive sonj; may amuse some of our 

 readers; but will be powerless, in sucb prosperous times 

 as the present. We copy il Irojn thai excellent paper, 

 the Detioit Courier, in which it has been recently re- 

 published. 



THE MICHIGAN EMIGRANTS SONG. 

 Tune—' jMhii A.nlersnii my Jo John.' 

 Come all ye Yankee Farmers 



Who'd Ilk.; to chanje your lot. 

 Who've spunk enonsh to travel 



Beyond your native spot, 

 And leave behind the village 



Where Pa' and .Ma' d > slay, 

 Cojue (oilov me and settle 

 In Michigania. 



I've hearn ot your Penobscot, 



\V.\y down in parts ol Maine, 

 Where timber grows in plenty. 



But darn the bit of grain ; 

 And I have hearn ol Quoddy, 



And your Piscataqua, 

 But these can'l hold a candle 



To Michigania. 



And you that talk of Varmount , 



Why what a place is Ihal ? 

 Be sure the gals are prilty. 



And callle very fit ; 

 But who among her mountains 



'Mid clouds and snow would slay, 

 When he could buy a Prairie 



In Michigania. 



And there's your Massachusetts, 



Once good enough, be sure ; 

 Bui now she's always laying on 



Taxation or manure ; 

 She costs you pecks of trouble, 



But de'il a peck can pay ; 

 While all is siripture measure 



la Michigania. 



Then there's vour land o' Blue Lawa, 



wnere deacons cut ihe hair. 

 For fear your locks and tenets 



Should not exactly square. 

 Where beer thai work? o' Sunday 



A penally must pay. 

 While all is Irec and easy. 



In Michigania. 



What country ever growed up 



So great iii little time. 

 Just popping from the nurs'ry 



Right into like its prime : 

 When Uncle .Sam did wean her, 



'T was but the olher day. 

 And now she 's quite a Lady, 



This Michigania. 



Upon the river Clinton. 



Just thro' the country bark. 

 You'll find in shire of Oakland 



The town of Pontiac— 

 Which springing up o' sudden, 

 J Scar'd wolves ami bears away. 

 That us'd to rove about theie ^ 



In Michigania. 



And if you follow downwards, 

 I Why Rawchister is there ; 

 And further slill Mount Clement 



Looks out upon St Clair ; 

 Besides some other places 



Within Macombia, 

 That promise population 



To Michigania. 



Or if you 'd rather go to 



A place called IVashtenaw, 

 You 'II find upon the Huroii 



Sich lands ye never saw ; 

 Where ships come to Ann-Uarhor 



Right through La Plaisance bay. 

 And touch at Ypsilanty 



In Michigania, 



Ol- ifyoii keep a going 



A ireal deal fuither on, 

 1 guess you 'II reach St Josey*s,- 



Where everybody *s gone ; 

 Where everylliing, like Jack's bean. 



Grows nionstions f.ist, tliey say. 

 And befits the rest all hollow 



Of Michigania. 



Then come, ye Yankee farmers. 



Who've mettle hearts like me. 

 And elbow-grease in plenty. 



To bow the forest tree ; 

 Come lake a ' Quartei- Seclion,* 



And I 'II be bound you 'II say. 

 This country lake* the rag off. 



This Michigania. 



H O U S [•: KEEPING. 



The true ncononiy of lioiiiieki-eiiiii!; i?, sim|)ly 

 the aft nf gathering up all the fragirients, so that 

 I nothing he lost. I intan fraginenl.s of (imc, as well 

 as mnterials. Nutl.iiig shmilil be thrown away so 

 long as it is possible to make any use of ir, how- 

 ever trifling it may lie; and whatever be the size 

 of a family, every mernher should be employed 

 either in earning' or saving money. 



If you have n greater ()uantity of cheeses in the 

 house than is likely to he soon used, cover them 

 carefully with paper, fastened with flo'T ptisle so 

 as to exclude the air. In this way they may be 

 kept free from insects for years. They should be 

 kept in a dry coed place, 



Iiisti^ad of covering up your glasses and pictures 

 with muslin, cover the frames only with cheap 

 yellow cambric, neatly put on, and as near the 

 color of the gill as voii can procure it. This looks 

 better, loaves the glasses open for use, and the 

 pirlures for ornament, anil is an cfTectual harrier 

 to dust as well as flies. It can easily he re-col- 

 ored with saffron tea, when it is faded. 



The fumes of brimstone are useful in removing 



,-.,„!..., c. •:„-., •>.. , ... — , :<•- ... l-o helil 



ill the fumes of a brimstone match, the color will 

 soon begin to change, and at length the flower will 

 become white. By the s.imo process, fruit stains 

 or iron moulds may be removed from linen or cot- 

 ton cloths, if the spot be previously moistened 

 wilh water. 



When plain tortoise shell combs are defaced, the 

 polish may be renewed by rubbing them with pul- 

 verised rotten stone and oil. The rotten stone 

 should ho sifted through inuslin. It looks better to 

 be rubbed on by the hand. The jewelers after- 

 wanls jiolish them by rubbing with dry roiig-e pow- 

 der , \nit s\Cte(\ magnesia doe^ just as well — and if 

 ihe Indies had rouge, perhaps they would, by mis- 

 lake, put it upon their cheeks, instead of their 

 combs ; and thereby spoil their complexion. 



Frugal Housewife. 



The buttons on the coat of John Hancock 

 Were of silver, and of American manufacture — 

 Ihe device, a shepherd shearing his sheep — the 

 motto, < you gain more by our lives than by our 

 deaths, ' 



In Berkshire county, lately, a gentleman ob- 

 served a very corpulent man passing, and inquir- 

 ed who it was : ' Why, that is Mr , father 



of the town.' 'Bless me,' Said the inquirer, 

 ' and he seems just ready to be delivered of anoth- 

 er town.' 



Spirit of candor. — 'Where are you going, Saw- 

 ney? ' said one Scotch journeyman baker to anoth- 

 er. ' E'en to the club, mon, to contradict a bit, 

 was the sapient reply. How much existing op- 

 position is precisely of this description. 



Simple cure for Inttmjierancc, — If a person ad- 

 dicU'il to and fond of frequent drinking of spir- 

 ituous liquors, will fur n week or two adopt a 

 mild iliet of bread (or supaunjand milk, he will 

 (inil that he has na desire for sirong drink. One 

 great cause of drinking, is animal diet and exces- 

 sive imlnlgence. Where milk, or vegetables are 

 the chief diet, there is no intemperance. What 

 an easy remedy for one of the most degrading 

 and destruciive evils of the age ! and who that has 

 been in the habit of intemperance, would not wish, 

 at any sacrifice or self denial, to save his family, 

 as well as himself, from shame and ruin. — A*. 

 Bcdf. Mercury. 



Receipt for a Cough. — ^Take of liquorice, ami- 

 moiiial wine, and paregoric, each one ounce — 

 dissolve the liquorice in a pint of warm water 

 and boil it down to a half pint ; when cold add 

 the wine and paregoric — take one table spoonful 

 iliree or four times a day. 



If the patient has paiu in the bones, relief will 

 be found by taking a pint bowl of white balsain 

 tea, on going to bed. 



The above is offered during the present influ- 

 enza, by one who has tried it himself, and knowu 

 it to be used by numbers with signal success. — 

 jV. Bedford Mercury. 



A mechanic in the north has invented a 

 machine for seminaries, which by means of steam, 

 not only warms the room, Unjlogs all the boys _ 

 ' on a graduated scale' according to their offences. 



Cobb's Treatise on Silk. 



Just published, and for sale at Ihe Agricultural W»r«- 

 house and Seed Store, No 50.1 North Market street, 



A Manual, containing information respecting the 

 Growth of the Mulberry Tree, with suitable Directions 

 lor ttio ■;uliuie of Silk — In three parts — wilh colored en- 

 gravings. By J. H. Cobb, A. ni. fublished by diree* 

 lion of His Excellency Gov. Lincoln, agreeably to a 

 Resolve of the Legislature of Massachusells. Price STJ 

 cents. Oct. 26. 



{[^ Ammunilion 



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 constantly for pale at COI'ELANU'S POWDER STORE, 

 6 ! Broad Street. 



N. B. If the quality is not found .satisfactory, il may 

 be returned, and the money will be rclvnuea Jan. 1 



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