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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FEBRUARY fi, 1833. 



MISCELLANY. 



WINTER. 



BY T. G. FESSENDEN. 



Rough Winter over earlh and sky 



Is rudely domineering, 

 And warring winds their pinions ply 



Through frozen realms careering. 



Tall trees, which skirt the wilderness, 



To rapt imagination, ■ 

 Seem giant-sentinels, which guard 



The koine of desolation. 



Terrific storms rush on as if 



The Prince of Air impell'd them. 

 Musquilo-nets and ladies' fans 



Are therefore used but seldom. 



Officious and obtrusive imps 



Of Frost are omnipresent : 

 And here and there and evcr^^vhere 



Officiously malfeasant. 



A boundless screen of silver sheen. 



Their magical machinery 

 Has thrown you see, o'er shrub and tree, 



To burnish rural scenery. 



AXECDOTE OP BENJAMIN PRAIVKMN. 



Not long after Bciijaiiiiii Franklin bad com- 

 menced editor of a newspaper, he noticed witli 

 considerable freedom the public conduct of one or 

 two influential persons in Philadelphia. This 

 circumstance was regarded by some of his |)atrons 

 with dispprobation, and induced one of them to 

 convey to Franklin the opinion of his friends with 

 regard to it. The Doctor listened with patience 

 to the reproof, on an evening which he named ; 

 at the same time requesting that the other gentle- 

 men who were dissatisfied with hijn should attend. 

 The Doctor received his guests coiMlially — his edi- 

 torial conduct was canvassed, and some advii;e given. 

 Supper was at last announced, and the guests in- 

 vited to an adjoining room. The table was only 

 supplied with two puddings, and a stone pitcher 

 filled with water. All were helped, none could 

 eat but the Doctor. He partook freely of the 

 pudding, and urged his friends to do the same ; 

 but it was out of the question — they tasted and 

 tried in vain. When their host saw the difficulty 

 was unconquerable, he rose and addressed" them. 

 " My friends, any one who can subsist on saw- 

 dust pudding and Avater, as I can, neids no man's 

 patronage." — Wheaton's Annals of Philadelphia. 



HYPOCHONDRIA CURED. 



The wife of a respectable farmer having suf- 

 fered much from this disease, fancied that she 

 should die, ijnd often assembled her friends about 

 her to witness her closing scene. After repeated 

 false alarms they becatne convinced that she labor- 

 ed under a disease of the mind, and advised her 

 husband to favor her belief about dying. Not 

 long afterwards she was attacked with her old dis- 

 ease, and posted off a boy to the cornfield for her 

 husbanil to come and see her die. The husband 

 hastened to her bedside, wliere he found her ap- 

 parently in the last stage of life. She informed 

 him that in one hour her soul would whig its way 

 to the mansions above, and before her death she 

 wisheil to know what he would do with the chil- 

 dren when her care of them should be at an end. 

 A thought str\ick him to try the power of vexation ; 

 he told her his thouglits had been very an.xiously 

 employed on the subject ; but at length he came to 



a resolution, for the sake of the dear innocents 

 which he trusted would set her mind at rest on 

 their account ; in short, he had resolved, as soon 

 after her death as decency would permit, to marry 

 Molly Brown, (an old maid to wliom she had a 

 peculiar dislike.) This was too much — the good 

 mother instantly jumped up and declared Molly 

 Brown should never be a stepiuother for her chil- 

 dren. A complete cure took place, and the image 

 of Molly Brown never ftiils to check the least 

 symptoms of relapse. 



CURIOSITIES. 



It is very surprising, that two of the greatest 

 natural curiosities in the world, are within the 

 United States, and yet scarcely known lo the best 

 geographers and nattu'alists.' The one is a beautiful 

 water fall, in Franklin county, Georgia; the other 

 a stupendous precipice m Pendleton district. South 

 Carolina ; they are both faintly mentioned in the 

 late edition of Morse's geography ; but not as they 

 merit. The Tuccoa falls is much higher than 

 the falls of Niagara. The column of water is pro- 

 pelled beautifully over a perpendicular rock, and 

 when the stream is full, it passes down without 

 being broken. All the prismatic effect, seen at 

 Niagara, illustrates the sjiray of Tuccoa. The 

 Table mountain in Pendleton district. South Caro- 

 lina, is an awful precipice of 900 feet. Many per- 

 sons reside within five, seven, or ten miles of this 

 grand spectacle, who have never had curiosity or 

 taste enough to visit it. It is now, however, occa- 

 ionally visited by curious travellers, and some- 

 times men of science.-Very few persons who have 

 once cast a glimpse in the almost boundless abyss, 

 can again exercise sufiicieut fortitude to approach 

 the margin of the chasm. Almost every one in 

 looking over, involuntarily falls to the groiuid 

 senseless, nerveless and helpless; and would inev- 

 itably be precipitated and dashed to atoms, were 

 it not for measures of caution and security, that 

 ave always been deemed indispensable to a safe 

 indulgence of the curiosity of the visiter or specta- 

 tor. Every one, on proceeding to the spot whence 

 it is usual to gaze over the wonderful deep, has in 

 his imagination, a limitation, graduated by a ref- 

 lifence to instances with which his eye has been 

 familiar. Btit in a moment, eternity as it were, is 

 presented to his astounded senses; and he is in- 

 stantly overwhelmed. His system is no longer 

 subject to his volition or his reason, and he falls 

 like a mass of mere matter. He then r(^vives,aud 

 in a wild delirium surveys a scene which, for a 

 while, he is unable to define by description or 

 imitation. 



Tl>c Ruling Passion. A lady, who had been 

 "cheapening" a ^ of an ounce of sewing silk at 

 one of our stores, called shortly after at the Po.st 

 Office for an advertised letter. The clerk after 

 examining the files reported three with her ad- 

 dress, the i)0stage of which was 18 cents. The 

 lady surprised at finding more than one, and un- 

 willing to take them without one effbrt to " beat 

 lown," earnestly inijuired of the clerk, "how low 

 he would put them if she took the three out." — 

 Boston Transcript. 



A FATHER was Saying, 

 To his son disobeying. 

 No father e'er had so wicked a son ; 

 " Yes, yes," says the lad, 

 " I remember good dad. 

 My grandfather — he had just such a one." 



Di-yden and his ff'ife. His marriage, which 

 was far from a happy one, brought Diydcn high 

 connexions, without making him any real friends. 

 His wife the daughter of the Earl of Berkshire, was 

 luore than suspected of irregularities in lier youth, 

 and though she brought no further dishonor upon' 

 the poet, her ine(|nality of temper was suclr as to 

 imbittcrmany of his days: — "The alliance between 

 a dependant poet and the daughter of an earl was 

 too unequal to hold out much reasonable prospect 

 of happiness, after the first bloom of affection and 

 desire had passed away. Tlie lady was violent 

 and capricious in her temper, and weak in tmder- 

 standing: she brought but little fortune to compen- 

 sate for her deficiencies in the qualities expected 

 in a wife. Dislike was aggravated by jjo^crty. 

 She did not share in the general admiration of her 

 husband's genius, nor lighten the toils by which it 

 was supported. She seems to have possessed nei- 

 ther sweetness of disposition, generosity of mind, 

 nor attraction of person. A man of genius, of all 

 others, can hope for happiness only when uuitedto 

 a woman of sense. What can be expected from 

 narrowness of understanding, prejudices of views, 

 and sullenness of tenqier, but conflicts, alienation 

 and misery ! Dryden never lost an opportunity 

 of venting such bitter sarcasms against the matri- 

 monial state as too plainly bore evidence to his do- 

 mestic misery. Indeed he never wanted a sub- 

 ject for satire, when marriage was to be derided, 

 or the clergy ridiculed. 



Jl Predicament. Slaves escaping from one 

 State into another are now reclaimable by their 

 master, whenever found within the Union. Slaves, 

 however, from a foreign country are not so treated. 

 Of course South Carolina, if she S(!paratc from the 

 rnicin, is in a fair way to lose all her slaves; in 

 olher words, more llum one-half her popidatiou. — 

 Ponl.iiin. 



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 of a l''ann 10 miles from Boston, containnig an orchard of 

 'ioO 10 300 trees, iSic. The owner wishes lo ol.lain a man who 

 is well acquaiuied with the best mclhod of the cultivation of 

 I'Vuil IVees, and in all other respects is master of his business 

 as a farmer, one who would do the same Un- his employer as 

 lor himself, he must be a true temperate man who abstains en- 

 tirely trom the use of ardent spirit ; lo such a man a fair com- 

 pensation will be offered either in wn^es by the year, or to lei 

 the l''ami on shares. 



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