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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FEBRUARY 20, 1833. 



MISCELLANY. 



SBTOWING. 



BY MISS GOULD. 



It snows ! it snows ! from out the sky, 

 The feathered flakes, liovv fast they fly, 

 Like little birds that Jon'l know why, 

 They're on the chase from place to place, 

 While neither caii another trace. 

 It snows ! it snows ! a merry play 

 Is o'er us on tliis heavy day. 



Like dancers in an airy hall 

 That hasn't room to hold them all. 

 While some keep up, and others fall, 

 The atoms shift, then thick ajid swifl. 

 They drive along to form the drift, 

 That, weaving up, so dazzling white, 

 is like a rising w^all of light. 



But now the wind comes whistling loud. 



To snatch and waft it as a cloud, 



Or giant phantom in a shroud ; 



It spreads — it curls — it glides and whirls ; 



At length a mighty wing unfurls ; 



And then, away! but where, none knows. 



Or ever will.— It snows '. it snows ! 



To-morrow will the storm be done, 



Then, out will come the golden sun; 



And we shall see upon the run. 



Before his beams, in sparkling streams, 



What, now, a cur.tain o'er him seems. 



And thus with life, it ever goes — 



'Tis shade and shine. — It snows ! it snows ! 



The following patriotic and beautiful Ode was composed 

 for the celebration of the 4th of July, 1832, by llie Uni9n Party 

 in Charleston, and sung on that occasion. 



Air — *' Scotts who hae «ji' Waltace bUdP 

 HiiL, our Country's natal morn ! 

 Hail, our spreading kindred born! 

 Hail, our banner not yet lorn, 



Waving o'er the free ! 

 While this day, in festal llirong. 

 Millions swell the patriot song. 

 Shall we not thy notes prolong, 

 Hallow'd Jubilee ? 



Who would sever Freedom's shrine ? 

 W'ho would draw the invidiotts line ? 

 Though by birth one spot be mine ? 



Dear is all the rest ; 

 Dear to me the South's fair land, ■ 

 Dear, the central," Mountain band. 

 Dear, New England's rocky strand, 



Dear, the prairied West. 



fey our altars, pure and free, 

 By our Law's deep-rooted tree, 

 By the past's dread memory. 



By our WASHINGTON; 

 By our common parent tongue, 

 As our hopes, bright, buoyant, young, 

 By the tie of country strong, 



We will stm be one. 



Father ! have ye bled in vain ? 

 Ages ! must ye droop again ? 

 MAKER! shall wo rashly slain 



Blessings sent by THEE ? 

 No ! receive our solemn vow, 

 While before thy throne we bow. 

 Ever to maintain as now, 



"UNION— LIBERTY." 



A WOMAN ui' loituiie being tised to the handliii; 

 of money spends it judiciously ; but a woman who 

 gets the conunand of money for the first time upon 

 her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that 

 she throws it away with great profusion Johnson^ 



nvVAHIABLE IJTVENTION. 



We, on Saturday last, witnessed the practical 

 effects of a contrivance by which a pair of horses, 

 at the option of the driver and in an instant are 

 disengaged from a carriage. It is so contrived 

 that nothing is taken from the carriage — not even 

 the swingle trees : but the traces are sepai-ated 

 from all these, and the horses go free, leaving the 

 entire carriage and its fi.vtures, tongue and all,as if 

 they had not been attached to it. 



In all other inventions of this sort to save hu- 

 man life, either the fore wheels were disengaged 

 from the axletree, or the swingletrces from the 

 crossbars — but in the first, the fall of the carriage 

 would precipitate all in out: and in the la.st the 

 horses carrying after them the swingle trees wei-e 

 not only cut, but alarmed, and forever ruined as to 

 all purposes of coach horses in future. 



This discovery is free from all these evils, and 

 presents to our view one of the safest, simplest, 

 and most admirable plans that has ever been hit 

 upon, and we doubt not that every owner of a car^ 

 riage, whether private or public, will avail himself 

 of the right to use this great and certain method 

 of .saving human life. 



The carriage used and the harness were taken 

 as they were found, without the entire preparation 

 which the plan embraces. Yet it worked without 

 a single impediment, to the surprise aud admiration 

 iif liundieds. We have never seen a more useful 

 invention. — Paulson's Adv. 



HEIGHT OP DIFFERENT GIANTS. 



Byr.nf,, tlie Iri.sh giant, who lately died in Lon- 

 don, measured eight feet two inches, j 



Cornelius Hagarth, who died in the year 1760, 

 measured seven feet eight inches. 



Edwtird Malone, another Irishman, was seven 

 feet seven inches, and was nearly equal in stature 

 and size to Daniel Cardaniis, the Swedish giant. 



The celebrated Dr. Cheselden, the famous 

 analomist, speaks of a skeleton, discovered in a 

 Roman camp, near St. Albans, and near to an 

 urn inscribed Marcus Antoninus, which he judged 

 to have been eight feet four inches. 



Goliah, of Gatli, the champion of the Philistines, 

 (who was.'ilain by David,) measured six cubits and 

 a span, which, according to Bishop Cumberland, 

 is eleven feet English. 



Maxiininius, the Emperor, was nine feet high : 

 and in the reign of Augustus, lliere were said to be 

 many others as tall. 



A MOUSER. 



Some years since a large black snake accidentally 

 found its way into the cellar of a gentleman of our 

 acquaintance, in Northtmiberland county, where it 

 has ever since remained much to the annoyance 

 of the rats and mice in the neighborhood, who 

 can never venture on the premises, except when 

 his snakeship has retired to winter quarters. It 

 has become domesticated, and is quite a favorite 

 with the family. — Liverpool (Pa.) Mercury. 



NO PRIEKD TO CELIBACY. 



" If you are for pleasure — Marry ! 



If you prize rosy health — Marry ! 



And even [{money be your object — Marry." 



"A GOOD WIFE is ' Heaven's last best gift to 

 man ;' his ans;el and minister of graces innumera- 

 ble ; his Sal Polychresium or gem of many virtues ; 

 his Pandora, or casket of jewels ; lier presence 

 forms his best company ; her voice, his sweetest 



usii ; her smiles, his brightest day ; her kiss, 

 the guardian of his innocence ; her arms, the pale 

 of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of 

 life; her industry, his surest wealth; her 

 economy, his safest steward ; her lips, his faith ful- 

 est coimsellors ; her 5oso?ft, the softest pillow of 

 of his cares ; and her prayers the ablest, the ad- 

 vocates of Heaven's blessings on his head!" 



Jeremy Taylor. 



Dissembled holiness is iloulile iiiiipiity. 



Disputations have truth in the middle, and party 

 at both ends. 



Those who bequeath unjo themselves a pomp- 

 ous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform 

 the world something that had much better been 

 concealed, viz.: that their vanity has survived 

 themselves. 



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 the whole work of a smalt farm of '20 acres, with a good Garden. Jt 



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 mendiiiions as to sobriety, honesty, and having e.\perience in 1 



tlie most improved system of Agriculture. A member of the 

 Tcmpcrajice Society, and a pious character, will be preferred. 

 Apply at diis office. feb lA 



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