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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



.TANUARY 33, 1S33. 



MISCELLANY. 



THE PETITION. 



Unbar the door — the rain pours fast — 



The storm is liowluig wildly ! 

 Take pity ou t!ie poor outcast — 



Look on Ills miseries mildly j 

 Relieve misfortuue's lowly child — 



Give pleasure for his sorrow j 

 Oh say — (for once his day beams smiPd) 



Be thine a cheerful morrow. 



Unbar the door — chill blows the wind — 



The heath looks bleak and dreary ; 

 Be kind to him — who e'er was kind 



To wretches worn and weary ! 

 Ah ! once a brighter day was mine — 



.4nd friends to aid were pressing — 

 Friends fled with fortune ! give, and thine 



lie every earthly blessing I 



THE REPLY. 



What voice so weak and plainti\-ely 



Sues at the Woodman's door ? 

 Who braves the storm, who bows the knee, 



A suppliant sad and poor ? 

 Thy prayer's allowed, come child of wo, 



Come enter freely here ; 

 Forget thy wretched lot — forego 



The soul subduing tear. 



If thou art friendless, if no heart 



Of gr,^ndeur's dazzling form, 

 Solac'd nor baile the clouds depart, 



Nor cheer'd the gathering storm, 

 If thou a mother's cheering voice, 



A father's fostering care 

 Hast early lost — still, still rejoice, 



Life's bud defies despair ! 



Though here no tapestry is seen — 



No tailored anthems swell ; 

 Yet nature rob'd in mountain green, 



Here pleas'd delights to dwell ; 

 Too humble for the court of kings. 



Here scattering leaf and flower. 

 Content a wreath dress'd beauty brings, 



An oftering Ibr each hour. 



From the Libranj of EnUrtciining Knowledge. 

 DOGS. 



Wb cannot qtiit tlie stiltjpct of dogs witliout ad- 

 vertiog to that lamentable cifcumstauce, their oc- 

 casional madness. Tliis disease is not common 

 to dogs in, all climates ; acc-.ording to Mr. Barrow, 

 canine madness is unknown in South Afri^o. 

 Other temporary diseases are oftentimes mistaken 

 for this fearful malady ; and we, tliereforc, subjoin 

 the symptoms of hydrophobitt, as described by 

 M. M. Chaussicr and Orfila, who hSre written a 

 scientific work on this disorder : — 



" A dog at the commencement of madness is 

 sick, languishing, and more dull than usual. lie 

 seeks obscm-ity, remains in a corner, does, not 

 bark, but growls contiuutilly at strangers, and, 

 without any ajiparent cause, refuses to ent or drink. 

 His gait is unsteady-, nearly resembling that of a 

 nian almost aslee)). At the end of three or four days, 

 'le abandons his dwelling, roving continually in 

 every direction: he walks or runs as if tipsy, and 

 frequently falls. His hair is bristled up; his eyes 

 haggard, fixed, and sparkling; his head hangs 

 down; his month is open and full of frothy slaver ; 

 his tongue hangs out, and his tail between his 

 legs. He has, for the most part, btit not always, 

 a horror of water, the sight which scen<fflfeeneral- 

 ly, to redouble his sufferings; He elfieriences 



from time to time transports of fury, and endeav- 

 ors to bite every object which presents itself, 

 not even excepting his master, whom indeed he 

 begins not to recognise. Light and lively colors 

 greatly increase his rage. At the end of thirty 

 or thirty-six hours he dies in convulsions." After 

 various remedies for this terrible malady have been 

 tried in vain, it seems now agreed that cutting or 

 burning out the bitten part is the only one to be 

 relied oil. 



KEGLIGENCE. 



Inattention to small matters brings with it 

 often a succession of losses. The following nar- 

 rative by the celebrated Say, in his "Essay on 

 Political Economy," illustrates this truth in a very 

 satisfactory mannei-. "I remember," says this 

 writer, "when I was in the country, witnessing'aii 

 instance of the losses to which a household is ex- 

 posed by negligence. For want of a latch of 

 trifling value, the gate of the farm-yard which 

 opened into the fields was often open. Whoev- 

 er went out pidled the gate after him; but as there 

 was no means of shutting it, this gate was always 

 a-jai-. Many of the farm-yard animtds had been 

 on this account lost. 



" One day, a fine young pig got out and reached 

 the neighboring wood. .A.I1 were immediately in 

 chaSe of the animal. The gardener was the first 

 who got sight of it; and he, in jumping over a 

 ditch to stop its further passage, received a dan- 

 gerous wound, which confined him to his bed for 

 a fortnight. The cook found on her return from 

 the pursuit, that tlic linen which she had lefl at 

 the fire to dry, was burnt ; and the dairy maid 

 having left in a hurry the cow-stable without 

 fastening the animals in it, a cow in her absence 

 broke the leg of a colt which tlicy were raising in 

 the place. The tlays lost by the gardener were 

 worth twenty crowns; the liuen and colt were as 

 valuable. Here then in a few minutes, for want 

 of a fastcnitig which wotild have cost a few cents, 

 a loss of forty crowns was encotintered by persons 

 whose duty -t was to exercise the most rigid econ- 

 omy, without our taking into account the suflijr- 

 Itigs caused by the disea.se 'w the uneasiness and 

 other inconveniences in addition to the expense." 



A SEED FARMER. 



Ay honest son of Erin, who had saved money 

 enough by his industry to purchase a small farm 

 undertook to manage it himself. He accordingly 

 l)ought his seeds at a seed store, and planted them 

 all done u]) in pa))ers — just as they came from the 

 store. A bystander Avho observed him, began to 

 laugh at him, and told him he was' doing wrong. 

 "Ah, let me alone for that," said Pat, "lam making 

 it SEED garden ; did ye nevgr see seeds grow aH 

 p.-iperod and labelled jist as they sell them in the 

 ■-l'>'I' '■" 



SOMETHtlTG CERTAIKLY AEW UKDER THE 

 SUN. 



NEARLY opposite otir office there are exhibited 

 by W. C. .Paituer,^M. D., two noudiics. 



1st. A cot for invalids, which ' by. m^ns of a 

 gum elastic reservoir filled with water, beneath 

 the bed or mattrass — actually places the suffeier 

 upon a bed of water, which being displaced at 

 every movement aflbrds ease, and respite, atitl 

 change of ' position to the worn and wearied 

 frame. It seems to us a capital uiventibn. 



2d. A gutn elastic batliuig cot which folds up, 

 and is as portable as finy ordinary cot and therefore 



is easily transferable from room to room, as needed ; 

 and which with less water than is requisite in 

 ordiuai-y bathing tubs, insures .an excellent bath. 

 We commend these really usefulgimcraci* to public 

 attention. — Detroit Journal. 



Marriage Ceremoi^ Extraordinary. On Moiida\ 

 last a woiiian without arms was married at Bury ; 

 the ring being placed by the bridegroom upon one 

 of the bride's toes. [This indeed is taking a wife 

 in toe-toe "for better, for worse."] 



Longevity. Died, at Columbia Co. Geo. Capf. 

 Thomas Cobb, aged 120 years! He was a Captain 

 under Washington, and marched against the forts 

 on the Kenhawa, then in possession of the French 

 and Indians, several years before the defetit of 

 Braddoek. When 100 years of age he freqttentlv 

 rode -1 5 miles in one day ; and only 4 years agn 

 he rod,e to Augusta, 40 miles one day. 



Curiosity. The proprietor of a coffee house in 

 Paris, has ofl'ered Mademoiselle Boury, tl^e young 

 woman who is stiid to have turned aside the pis- 

 tol levelled at the King, 40,000 francs to serve as 

 bar maid for six months. 



Slcam-hoat Accident. One of the flues of tht! 

 steain boat Scotland, collapsed between Memphis 

 ami Natchez, and killed one mtni, and severely 

 scalded three others. — LoiiisvitU Herald, \7th insf. 



EAST.UAIX'S STRAA\ CUTTER. 



FORSale cheap' — ujie of ICasimau's SrHAUcuTTKHs, new 

 in November, a perfect machine and in good order, not having 

 beeji used more than a dozten times, ft « ill be sold cheap, or 

 exchanged for neat slock. Inquire of KEiV'UALL BROOKS, 

 Saddler, Rosbury Street, near the Boston line. jy 16 



MADDER SEED. 



TIlESuhscriber has Ibr sale .5U Bushels of Maddkk Seku, 

 .so called, consisting of a small portion of Top Root, with the 

 buds attached to it ; the yi(^ld is immense j it is dug once iu S 

 years, 'i'he culture sample a.ud the plant perfectly liardy. Ui- 

 reclioas will be given to ail who purchase — price from (bur to 

 six dollars per bushel. Quaniily oiseed m |ilaiil an acre, from 

 lour to live and a half bushels. Time l.>r plmriuig, fall and 

 spring. TJie subscriber is preparing eiylit acies for planting — 

 Orders enclosing the cash wilf meet wiili prompt attenliun — a 

 sample of the article may be seen in the hands of Mr. Jkssk 

 WiNSlow, iNcwlon, Upper Falls, Mass. 



, RUSSEL BRONSON. 



Jiriijrnenl, r. Oneida Co. N. Y. Jan. S, 1833. 



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A CjOOD assortment of Silver Spf.ctaci,es constanil\ 

 on hand and for sale at fair pricts by William M. AVi;sso- 

 at No.^OS. Washington Street. 4t dec I'd 



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