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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



i«(fscellautfs. 



The following; beautiful Hymn, written for the occasion, 

 by the Rev. Mr Pierfost, of Boston, was sung at 

 the Dedication of the Independent Congregational 

 Church in Salem, on the 7th instAnt. 



O Thou ! to whom, in ancient timo, 

 The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung:, 

 Whom kings adored in songs sublime, 

 And prophets praised with glowing tdngiie. 



Not now, on Zion's height alone. 

 Thy favoured worshipper may dwell, 

 Nor where, at sultry noon, the Son 

 Sat, weary, by the Patriarch's well. 



From every place below the skies, 

 The grateful song, the fervent prayer — 

 The incense of the heart — may rise 

 To Heaven, and find acceptance there. 



In this, Thy house, whose doors we now. 

 For social worship first unfold. 

 To Thee, the suppliant throng shall bow, 

 While circling years on years are rolled. 



To Thee", shall Age, with snowy hair, 

 And Strength and Beauty, bend the knee, 

 And Childhood lisp, with reverent air, 

 Its praises and its prayers to Thee. 



O Thou to whom, in ancient time, 

 The lyre of prophet bards was strung. 

 To Thee, at last, in every clime 

 Shall temples rise, and prr.ise be sung. 



When neighbours dwell togeliier in peace, 

 visit in friendship, converse for usefii! improve- 

 ment, or harmless amusement, take part in 

 each other's prosperity and adversity, concur 

 in the government of their families, are candid 

 to excuse and careful to conceal each other's 

 trivial or accidental failings ; studious to reform 

 real and dangerous faults ; when nil abide in 

 their calling, and quietly perform their own bu- 

 siness, and meddle not with the temporal con- 

 cerns of others, a blessing will attend their de- 

 signs. Their intercourse will be easy, pleasing 

 and virtuous: and a foundhtion will be laid for 

 the happiness of succeeding generations. But 

 if each is bound up within himself, and looks 

 with unfeeling indiflerence on all around him, 

 or beholds hisinferiour with contempt, and his 

 superiour with envy; — if every meeting is filled 

 with impertinent and angry controversy, and 

 every visit employed in tattling and backbiting ; 

 —if neighbour defames neighbour, and each 

 watches for advantage against the other; — if 

 an acquaintance receives you with feigned 

 smiles of pleasure and friendly greetings, but 

 debases your character when your back is turn- 

 ed ; — if every brother will endeavour to sup- 

 plant, and every neighbour will walk in slan- 

 ders, one had better tlee to the solitary moun- 

 tains, and dwell ajone in the earth. 



The Death Watch. — Among ilie poptilir super- 

 stitions which the illumination of modern times 

 has not been able to obliterate, the dread of 

 the Death Watch may be considered as one of 

 the most predominant, and still continues to dis-l 

 turb the habitations of rural iranquiHty wiiii ' 



absurd apprehensions. It is chiefly in the ad- 

 vanced stage of spring that this little animal 

 commences its sounds, which is no other than 

 the call or signal by which the male and female 

 are led to each other, and which may be con- 

 sidered as analogous to the call of birds ; — 

 though not owing to the voice of the insect, 

 but to its beating on any hard substance with 

 the shield or fore part of its head, llie pre- 

 vailing number of distinct strokes which it 

 beats is from seven to nine or eleven, which ve- 

 ry circumstance may still add in some degree 

 to the ominous character which it bears among 

 the vulgar. These sounds or beats are given 

 in pretty quick succession, are repeated at un- 

 certain intervals, and in old houses, where the 

 insects are numerous, may be heard at almost 

 every hour of the day — especially if the weath- 

 er be warm. The insect is of a colour so 

 nearly resembling that of decayed wood, that it 

 may for a cnngiderable lime elude the search 

 of the inquirer. It is about a quarter of an 

 inch in length, and is moderately thick in pro- 

 portion ; and the wing shells arc marked with 

 numerous irregular variegations, of a lighter or 

 grayer colour than the ground colour. 



Japanese Prayers. — In Japan it is believed 

 (hat the mountains are temples where their de- 

 ities dwell — and it is deemed impious to pass 

 one of them ivithout offering towards its sum- 

 mit a prayer to the supposed divinity which in- 

 habits it. To obviate, however, the delay and 

 troulde which this would occasion on a journey, 

 they have posts erected opposite each mountain, 

 on which is a plate containing the prayer en- 

 graved in it, and which the traveller turns 

 round whenever he passes it, thus satisfying his 

 conscience. How many christians make their 

 prayers to consist in a formal ceremony even 

 as absurd as this ; and such have surely no bet- 

 ter reason to expect an answer, than the poor 

 Japanese who^thus worships, without light to di- 

 rect him to a purer, richer fountain of salva- 

 tion. — Trenton Emporium. 



The C'ameleon. — To the camelccn has been 

 attributed the singular faculty of changing the 

 colour of their skin, according to the substance 

 on which they are placed, and of subsisting up- 

 on air. The belief has arisen from the extra- 

 ordinary size of their lungs, which they are 

 capable of distending with air to such an enor^ 

 mnus extent, as to fill nearly their whole body 

 and render their skin somewhat transparent. — - 

 Hence they were said to feed ujion air. In this 

 state of distension and semi-transparency, the 

 skin becomes easily affected by every change 

 in the circuhnlion; and consequently a change 

 of colour is produced by the varying wants and 

 passions of the animal, which influence botli the 

 quantity of respiration and the tint of the blood. 

 [Smellic^s Philosophy of J\'atural History. 



Evaporation. — The ocean loses many millions 

 of gallons of water hourly by evaporation. The 

 Mediterancan alone is said to lose more by 

 evaporation, than it receives from the Nile, the 

 Tilior, the Rhone, the Po, and all the other 

 rivers that fall into it. This water is conveyed 

 in the form of vapours or clouds, by the winds 

 to every part of the continents — these it fer- 

 tatises in the form of rain, and afterwards sup- 

 plies the rivers which flow again into the sea. 

 This is one of those continued circulations 

 whereby <;// matter is made to subserve -oarious 

 purposes, which have been devised by the Cre- 

 ator, for the promotion of His beneficent designs. 



The bounteous sun 

 Lifib- the light clonds sublime, and spreads them thin 

 Fletcy and white, o'er all surrounding Heaven. 



The London Shopkeeper. — IVothing in the opin- 

 ion of a London shopkeeper, conduces more to- 

 wards establishing his credit, than to have his 

 shop decorated with the ensigns of royalt3', and 

 to be able to acquaint the jiublic that be enjoys 

 the [irolection of his majesty, or one of (he prin- 

 ces. Thus you may see near Leicester Square a 

 species of quack's shop very elegantly fitted up, 

 the proprietor of which styles himself " Privi- 

 leged bug-destroyer to their majesties !" On the 

 ne\v road you pass by a house with an advertise- 

 ment, inscribed in very legible characters over 

 the gate-way, announcing that a " Vender 

 of »sses' milk to their royal highnesses the 

 duke and dulchess of York, resides here !" — 

 A short time ago, a strange conceit was en- 

 tertained by a man, who manufactures wooden 

 legs with much dexteril}', nnd who has placed 

 before his shoj) in the Strand, an enormous 

 sample of his art, as a symbol of his profession, 

 which was no other than to apply for the title 

 of " Blanufac'urcr of wooden legs to his roy;x\ 

 highness the iirince of Wales !" It may easily 

 be conceived, however, that a prince who has 

 the finest legs in the world, could not compiv 

 wilii this ridiculous request. 



\_h\)rri^ner's Opinion of England. 



Dr Darwin informs us, that the reason why 

 the bosom of a beautiful female is an object of 

 such peculiar delight, arises hence : — that all 

 our first pleasurable sensations of warmth, sus- 

 tenance, and repose, are derived from this in- 

 teresting source. This theoiy had a fair run, 

 until some one happened to reply, that all who 

 were brought up by /iond, had derived their first 

 pleasurable sensations from a very different 

 source, and yet no one of all these had ever 

 been known to evince any very rapturous or 

 amatory emotions at the sight of a wooden 

 spoon ! 



FRUIT TREES, Lc. 



AMES BLOODOOOD & CO. 

 have for sale at their Nursery 

 at Flushing, on Long Island, near 

 New York, 



Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs & Plant?, 

 of the mojt approved sorts. 



j The Proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 I the inoculation and engraftinsr of «// Ihfir Frvil Trees, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 j Trees they order will prove genuine. 



Orders left with Mr Zebedee Cook, jr. No. 44 State 

 Street, Boston, will be transmitted to us, and receive 

 our prompt and particular attention. Catalogues will 

 be delivered, and any information imparted respecting 

 (he condition, kc. tc. that may be required, on appli- 

 cation to him. Pept. 4. 



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