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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



if^^tsceUang. 



lOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 

 STANZAS 



on the death of an unfortunate young lad;/. 



Kest thee, injured one, in peace — 

 Sorrow now no more shall vex thee, 

 Grief and pain for ever cease. 

 Mortal cares no more perplex thee. 



Rest thee, injured one, in love — 

 Bv bright angelic forms attended. 

 In those bright realms of joy above. 

 Where sorrows cease, and pain is ended. 



There, " in the bosom of thy God," 

 Eternity's long years shall find thee ; 

 And not a sigh leave thivie abode 

 Of bliss — to cares thou'st left behind thee. 



Boston, 1824. MoRTi.irER. 



BYRON'S ENIGMA. 

 The following ingenious play upon the letter h is a 

 masterpiece. It has been the rounds of the European 

 and American presses, puzzling the learned and per- 

 plexing the ingenious. A French gentleman has at 

 length discovered the key which unlocks the mystery, 

 and which, as before observed, is the letter h. 



'Twas whispered in.heaven, 'twas muttered in hell. 

 And echo caught softly the sound as it fell ; 

 On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, 

 And the depths of the ocean its presence contest ; 

 'Twas seen in the lightning and heard in the tiiunder, 

 'Twill be found in the spheres when riven asunder ; 

 It w.is given to man with his earliest breath, 

 It assists at his birth and attends him in death, 

 Presides o'er his happiness, honour, and health, 

 Is the prop of liis house, and the end of his wealth ; 

 It begins every hope, every wish it must bound, 

 And though unassuming, wilh monarchs is crowned ; 

 In the heaps of the miser 'tis ho:u"ded with care, 

 But is sure to be lost in the prodigal heir. 

 Without it the soldier and sailor may roam, 

 But woe to the wretch who expels it from home ; 

 In the whispers of conscience its voice will be found. 

 Nor e'er in the whirlwind of p:\s5ion be drowned. 

 It softens (he heart, and tliough deaf to the ear, 

 'Twill make it acutely and instantly hear. 

 But in shades let it rest like an elegant flower; 

 Oh I breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour. 



The value of partnership in poetry, or t-^i'o 

 heads better than one. — Most of our readers will 

 recollect the story of a student, who having 

 ^vritlen the following lines — 

 " The sun's meridian heat 

 IlUiniines the depths of the sea".^ — 

 went out to catch a nuw idea. While lie was 

 absent, a waggish class mate stepped into his 

 room and tilled up liis verse wilh the following 

 addition, 



'' The fishes beginning to sweat, 

 Cry blast it, how hot we shall be. 



Now we think the following anecdote will 

 pretty near come to it ; 



A genlleraan paying a visit one morning last 

 week, to a family in Hanover-square, was 

 siiown into a room, where, on a writing desk, 

 was paper, on which a lady had begun !o (rans- 

 fcrihe a song from the Opera of " Love in a 

 Village:" remarking that she had left off at 

 the end of the two following lines — 



" Id love should there meet a fond pair 

 Uututor'd by fashion or art — 



He took up a pen ami concluded the verse by 

 adding. 



If on earlh such a couple there are, 



I'll be v/hipt at tliu tail of a cart ! 



Mania-a-Poiu. — The astonishing increase of 

 Mania-a-Potu, or of Insanity from Drunkenness, 

 calls for the special attention of physicians, and 

 will perhaps demand that of the legislature. — 

 In old times a man used to get drunk and sober 

 again, and so on till the system was worn out. 

 Now, almost every confirmed whiskey dribbler 

 ends his life with this dreadful form of disease. 

 To account for this on the hypothesis that a 

 change has taken place in the constitution of 

 the human race, is unphilosophical ; and we 

 must therefore suppose the liquor that is drank, 

 to be of a more deleterious fiuality than that 

 used some twenty or thirty y^ars ago. 



Whether this is owing to a want of care in 

 selecting the materials, to some fault in the 

 process of distillation, or to a mixture ofdelet- 

 rious drugs in the liquor after it is brought to 

 markel, is a subject that calls for inquiry. 



In the bills of the Board of Health, our rea- 

 ders must have observed that every week sev- 

 eral cases of death by mania-a-potu are re- 

 ported. The cases reported are, however, be- 

 lieved to be but a part of those which occur. 

 From delicacy, physicians generally give the 

 disease a milder name, and thus make it difli- 

 cult to ascertain the whole extent of the mala- 

 dy, but the records of our public Institutions, 

 the Hospital and Alms House, put it beyond 

 doubt that the disease is greatly on the in- 

 crease, and while they admonish all to tem- 

 perance, call loudly on confirmed topers to be 

 careful of the quality of their potations. The 

 second or third attack of the disease, generally 

 kills.— PA i/ac/. Ga:. 



Thomas Fuller. — Thi.s celebrated character 

 from once hearing a sermon, could repeat it 

 verbatim. He undertook in going from Tem- 

 ple bar to the farther end of Cheapside to tell 

 at his return every sign as it stood in order, on 

 both sides of the way, repeating them either 

 backwards or forwards, which he performed 

 exactly. He was a learned, industrious, lively 

 V Titer, but rather too Ibnd of punning. He was 

 a very corpulent man, and once as he was rid- 

 ing with a gentleman by the name of Sparrow- 

 hawk, he could not resist (he opportunity of 

 passing a joke upon him. — " Pray what is the 

 difference," said he, " between an ou-l and a 

 Sparrozi'ha'zsik .^" The other answered this sar- 

 castic question as follows : — " An orcl h fuller 

 in the hcnd, fuller in the body, and fuller all 

 over." 



The teeth of a very talkative \n]y being 

 loose, she asked Signer Raspini, a celebrated 

 Dentist, what was the cause — he answered, it 

 did proceed from de violent shocks her lady- 

 ship did give them wid her tongue. 



A very silly young man who knew n scrap or 

 two of French, and was excessively vain of his 

 accomplishment, accosted a gentleman in the 

 street with " QucZ/e henrc est il .'" (i. e. What 

 is it o'clock 1\ The gentleman replied in Latin, 

 " A'escio.'"' (i. e. I know not.) " Bless me," 

 said the other, " I did not think it had been so 

 late." 



Musical Anecdote. — Some years ago, a gen- 

 tleman in Windsor took the place of the Organ- 

 ist, wilh a view to shew his superiority in exe- 

 cution. Among other pieces he was playing one 

 of Dr. Blow's Anthems — and just as he had finish- 

 ed the verse part and began the full chorus, the 

 organ ceased. On this he called to Dick the 

 bellows-blower, to know what was the mattpr. 

 " The matter?" says Dick, " I have played the 

 anthem below." " Aye," says the olher, " but 

 I have not played it above." " No matter," 

 quoth Dick, " you might have made more 

 haste then ; 1 know how many puffs go to one 

 of Dr. Elow'S anthems as well as you do ; 1 

 have not blown the organ so many years lor 

 nothing." — English paper. ^ 



One cold winter's night an Iionest Hibernian 

 having remained out rather late with a drink- 

 inif party, could not gain admittance to his 

 lodgings. After wandering about some time, 

 without seeing any person, and being nearly 

 frozen, he set up a loud cry of '■'■ Fire ! Fire ! 

 /•'uc .'" Many peisonssoon rushed out of their 

 houses, demanding " fF/jere .^ Where 1^'''' "By 

 St. Patrick," replied Paddy, " I cannot tell, if 

 I could, I'd quick be after getting to it, so J 

 would failh.''^ 



Sir David Dundas, when Lord Advocate for 

 Scotland, and member of the British House of 

 Commons, used to express himself in the ac- 

 cent of his country. " I say, Mr. Speaker, is 

 it not in (he poor (power) of this House" to do 

 so and so. " What, says a country gentlemen, 

 does the advocate for Scotland mean by talking 

 of the poor of this House?" "He means," 

 said Mr. F. " I suppose, thi rorty-tivn ocotch 

 members." 



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THE subscriber offers for sale in small lots to actual 

 settlers, or in larger tracts to others, the following 

 lands in the State of Pennsylvania, belonging to the 

 estate of the late Wm. Bingham, viz; ttro hundred 

 and fifty tlionsand acres in the counties of Bradiord 

 and Tioga, at from //uff dollars, to tiro dollars ^rifty 

 fcnts per acre, according to situation ; and fire hun- 

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 by important roads, and in a healthy situation. For 

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 .Iuly24. Silver Lake, Perinsylvnnia. 



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