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Miscellany 



OUR OWN FIRESIDE. 



Dear in the morn's soft blowing gale 



Is biiiMing May ; 

 Sweet in the wild-rose scented vale 



The scattered hay; 

 Dear is the early evening star. 



The lover's guide ; 

 But ilearer still, and sweeter far, 



Our own fireside. 



Dear U the linnet's lively song 



That cheers the grove ; 

 Sweet is the breeze that wafts alon<; 



The sigh of love ; 

 Dear to the sailor's heart the call 



Of land descried ; 

 But, ah ! more dear, more sweet than all, 



Our own lireside. 



DESCRIPTION OF A COW. 

 At the sale of a raniiing stoek in Gloucester- 

 shire, in England, the auctioneer gave the follow- 

 ing extempore description of a cow : 

 Long in her sides, bright in her eyes, 

 Short in her legs, thin in her thighs, 

 Big in her ribs, wide in her pins, 

 Full in her bosom, small in her shins. 

 Long in her face, fine in her tail. 

 And never deficient iu filling her pail. 



DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



Sparc not nor spend too much, be this thy care, 

 Spare but to spend, and only spend to sp.iie ; 

 Who spends too much, may want, and so complain : 

 But he spends best, who spares to fpend again. 

 Certainly if a man will keep of even liand, his 

 ordinary expenses ought to be but to the half of 

 his receipts, and if he think to wax rich, but to 

 the third part. — Bacon. 



SAGACITY OF THE ANT. 

 A gentleman of Cambridge, says Mr Bingley, 

 one day remarked an ant dragging along what, 

 with respect to its strength, might have been de- 

 nominated a piece of timber. Others were seve- 

 rally eniployed, each in its own way. Presently, 

 this little creature came to an ascent, where the 

 weight of the wood seemed for a w Idle to over- 

 power him. He did not remain long perplexed 

 with it; for, three or four others, observing his 

 dilemma, came behind and pushed it up. As soon, 

 however, as he had got it on level ground, they^ 

 left it to his care, and went to their own work. 

 The piece he was drawing happened to be con- 

 siderably thicker at one end than the other. This 

 soon threw the poor fellow into a fresh difficulty ; 

 he unluckily dragged it between two bits of wood. 

 After several fruitless efforts, finding it would not 

 "o through, ho adopted the only mode that a rea- 

 soning being, in similar circu.tistance.s, could have 

 taken ; lie came behind it, pulled it back again, 

 and turned it on its edge, when, running again to 

 the other end, it passed through without ditiiculty. 

 The saiiie gentleman, sitting one day in the gar- 

 den of his college, he was surprised by remarking 

 a single ant, busily employed in some work that 

 caused him to make many journeys, to and from 

 the same place. This gentleman traced him to 

 the entrance of the habitation of a community, 

 whence ho observed him to take the dead body of 



JNEW ENGLAND FARMER . 



nn ant in his flings, and run away with it. He car- 

 ried it to a certain distance, dropped it, and re- 

 turned for another, which, by the time of his ar- 

 rival, was brought to the same hole. 



Dr Franklin, believing that these little creatures 

 had some means of communicating their thoughts 

 or desires to one another, tried several experiments 

 with them, all of which tended to confirm bis opin- 

 ion, especially the following. He put a httle 

 earthen pot, containing some treacle, into a closet, 

 where a number of ants collected, and de\oured 

 the treacle very quickly. But, on observing this, 

 he shook them out, and tied the pot with a string 

 to a nail, which he had fiistened into the ceiling; 

 so that it hung down by the string. A single ant, 

 by chance, remained in the pot. The ant site till 

 it was satisfied ; but, when it wanted to get ofi', 

 it could not for some time find a way out. It ran 

 aliout the bottom of the pot, but in vain ; at last, 

 after many attempts, it found the way to the ceil- 

 in"-, by going along the string. After it was come 

 there, it ran to the wall, and thence to the ground. 

 It had scarcely been away half an hour, when a 

 great swarm of ants came out, got up to the ceil- 

 \ng, and crept along the string into the pot, and 

 began to eat again. This they continued to do 

 un'til the treacle was devoured ; in the meantime, 

 one swarm running down the string, and the oth- 

 er un.— Shaw's jYature Displayed. 



« ANGLING IN THE SKY." 

 The author of the Sketch Book, in his Tales of 

 the Alhambra, gives the following account of a 

 novel species of amusement, he witnessed among 

 the inhabitants of that antiquated pile of regal 

 Moorish magnificence. 



" Before concluding these remarks, I must men- 

 tion one of the amusements of the place which 

 has particularly struck me. I had rejieatedly ob- 

 served a long lean fellow perched on the top of 

 one of the towers, nianceuvring two or three fish- 

 ing rods, as though he was angling for stars. I 

 was for some time perplexed by the evolutions of 

 this aerial fisherman, and my perplexity increased 

 on observing others employed in like manner, on 

 diflerent parts of the battlements and bastions ; it 

 was not uptil I consulted Mateo Ximenes that I 

 solved the mystery. 



» It seems the pure and airy situation of this for- 

 tress bus rendered it, like the castle of 3Iacbeth, 

 a prolific breeding place for swallows and marlets, 

 who sport about its towers in myriads, with the 

 holiday glee of urchins just let loose from school. 

 To entrap these birds iu their giddy circlings, with 

 hooks baited with flies, is one of the favorite 

 amusements of the ragged 'sons of the Alham- 

 bra,' w ho with the good for nothing ingenuity of 

 arrant idlers, have thus invented the art of angling 

 iu the sky." 



August 8, 1832. 



en seen on Sundays was not visible, and old men 

 and maidens, young men and children, thronged 

 to their houses of worship to fall down before 

 their Maker and Preserver with reverence and 

 godiy fear. — Salem Ohs. 



Drovght. — The Cincinnati Gazette of the 21st 

 July, states that a distressing drought had prevail- 

 ed through the Western part of Ohio, for several 

 weeks previous — that the pastures were parched 

 up, and the prospect of corn and other summer 

 ciojis except oats, is very unpromising. The wheat 

 is of the very first quality, and has been saved in 

 the very best order. 



.J Conclusion. — Some half dozen "green hands" 

 who had shipped on board a merchant vessel, be- 

 ing dilatory in making their appearance on deck 

 I hi a storm, at the call of "all hands!" the mate 

 went to the hatch-way and hailed them, asked in 

 tlic rant phrase often used on such occasions : 

 " Below there ! have you concluded ?" 

 " Yes, sir, we've concluded to let the sail blow 

 atvaif and pay for it!" 



.'luything in reason. — Go up and hand the 

 royal, said an ofKcer on ship board to a boy, who 

 bad never before " swam the salt pond." It was 

 in the night. Sir ? answered the lad inquiringly. 

 The otliccr repeated the order. Anything in rea- 

 son. Captain, anything in reason, said the boy, 

 but as to climbing them rope ladders such a dark 

 niirlit as this, I shan't do it! 



Cloth Strainers. 



FOR sale at the Agricultural Warehouse, Nos. 51 and 

 52 North Market Street, Milk and Cheese Strainers ;— 

 likewise, Gaulfs patent Churn, the most approved churn 

 ID use ; Leavilt'3 improved Cheese Press; Curd Mdls for 

 preparing curd, a very useful little impleuient for the pur- 

 pose intended. 



liCad Pipe and Sheet Lead. 

 LE.AD PIPE and Sheet Lead of all sizes and dimea- 

 sions, constantly for sale at No. 110 Stale street, by 



ALBERT FEARira. &. CO. 



Cradles. 



FOR sale at the Agriciilluial Warehouse, No. 50| 

 North Market Street, a lew very excellent Grain Cradles. 

 July 11. J. K. NEWELL. 



Printing Presses for Sale. 



FOR sale at this office, one Smith's Imperial Press, 

 one do. Medium, and one Ramage. 



:\",ttional Fast in England.— The London Rec- 

 ord gives an interesting account of the observance 

 of the National Fast in England held on account 

 of the presence of the Cholera iu that country, 

 .^t Colchester, the day was observed with a so- 

 lemnity which far exceeded anything of the kind 

 within memory of the oldest inhabitants. All bu- 

 siness was suspended, and the'streets were far stil- 

 ler than is usual on Sabbaths. The churches and 

 chapels were thronged by apparently devout wor- 

 shippers in most places, and a strict Sabbath was 

 kept. The display and strolling which is too oft- 



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 payable at the end of the year— but those \vho pay within 

 sixty days from the time of subscribing, are entitled to a 

 deduction of fifty cents. 



dj" No paper will be sent to a distance without payment 

 being made in advance. 



Printed for J. B. Russell, by I. R. Butts — by whom 

 all descriptions ofPrintin!; can be esecuteO to meet the 

 yvishfs of customers. Orders for Printing received by J. B. 

 P JBSELL, at the Agricultural Warehouse, No. 62. North 

 Market Street. 



AGENTS. 



;Veti> York — G. Thorkukn &. Sons, G7 Liberty-street. 

 Albam)—Via. Tuokp.ukn, 3^17 Market-street. 

 Philadelphia — D. & C. L,\ndbeth, S3 Chestnut-street. 

 Baltimore — G. B. Smith, Editor of the American Farmer. 

 Cincinnati — S. C. Paukhcrst, 23 Lower Market-street, 

 Flushing. N. Y. Wm. Piu.vce& Sons, Prpp.Lin.Bot.Garden 

 Middlefiirij, 17. — Wight Chapman. 

 Hartford — Goodwin & Co. Booksellers. 

 Springfield, ;1/s. — E. Edwards. 

 IVewlniriiport. — EnENEZER Stedman, Bookseller. 

 PortsmmUh. N. H —3- W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 Portland, JJ/f. — Samuel Colman, Bookseller. 

 Aiimsta. jl/t— Wm. Makn. 

 Halifax. N. S. — P. J. Holland, Esq. 

 ilonlreal, L. C. — Henkt Hillock. 



