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NEW ENGLAND FARiMER. 



Sept. 11, 1829. 



Ml SCELLANIES. 



MY LAST CIGAR. 



The miglilv 'riitU^s, and Babylon ihe Grcal, 

 Impirinl Home, iii lurn, liavo bowed to fate— 

 So iliis gnM world, and,cach " particular mar," 

 ftluM allburnoui, like you, my last Cigar, 

 A puT, a tmiisieiil 6rc, dial ends in smoke. 

 Arc all llial'sgivcuto man— lliat bitter joke ! — 

 Youth, Hope, and Love, three whin's of passing zcsl— 

 Then t-omc the asbcs, and the long, long rest. 



New MoHthly Magazine. 



iiui^'liljui'iii!,' lafiiier inruniiecl iiii that lie had rai«J I ri-inarkable fact. It has been ascertained by I 

 a ton uii 11 toils of " now ground," sandy loam,' millers at Rochester, that seventeen kernels of 1 

 hilLt about eit;hi feet apart, with a peck of cotn- ; wheat of liie present season, produce as mti 

 post manure in each. — Some of the largest were ; fine flotir, as twenty-seven kernels of the last c; 



a (Viot ill dininetcr — and he sold the lot, at from 6 ' diil. V. 1'. paptr. 



to 50 cents each — obtaining over 20 dollurs for — — 



tho nliolc. — Boston Pal. The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser says t 



water of an excellent quality has been oblaii 





GOOD BKCINMNG. 



The Legislature of Dil.iwaro has wholly abol- 

 ished militia training's ami reviews in that State. 

 We hail tliLs act as the first iiioveinent towards a 

 most important national ri-form ; we mean the 

 abolition of our pnacnt mililin system : n system, 

 which docs more to interrupt the regular course 

 of industry, to burden and impoverish the commii- 

 nity, to introduce intemperance, idleness, prolani- 

 ty, extravagance, and every species of vice, than 

 all the other absurd institutions entailed on us by 

 the inexpcrieuce of antitpiity. — Con. {Joitrant. 



Some of the Pennsylvania pa[)ers arc discuss- 

 ing the expediency of abolishing the militia laws 

 in that state. It is said that the expenses annu- 

 ally incurred in Pennsylvania to support the pre- 

 sent militia farce, amount to three millions of 

 dollars. 



London — The author of o recent and able -,„ ,|,at ^'wy by boring fifty feet to the rock 

 Treatise on the Police and Crimes of London yo,,,. hundred feet through the solid rock bilow 

 states, that there arc probably seventy thousand surface. The water rises eighteen feet ab 

 persons in that metropolis who regularly live by ; d,,. ^urf^ce of the ruck, and within thirty fee 

 theft and fraud. " Most of these," he adds. " have 1 (i,c leyej of the street. SUch is the supply i 

 parainoui^J, and their offspring, as a matter of thirty gallons a minute have Wen raised b; 

 course, follow the example of their parents, and |ia,nl pump throughout the day without any a] 

 recruit the general mass of mendicancy, jiroslitu- 1 ^cnt diminution of the supply. Those who oi 

 tioii and crime." The annual amount of depreda- j gionally visit New York, as well as those who re 

 tions committed on property exceeds two millions there, will know how to appreciate the gurrcs 



this experiment in boring for water. — Har{ 



Mirror. 



Ohio Wool. — The Canal boat Pioneer arrived 

 yesterday from Massilon, brought a cargo of wool, 

 shipped by I. Brown & Co. and consigned to A. 

 & A. Lawrence, Boston, Mass. We believe It 

 was taken from a flock of 4,500 sheep, kept near 

 Ma.9silon. 



Wheat is selling in this village at 50 cents per 

 bushel, and in the back towns at 37 1-2 cents. 

 Laborers upon the line of the canal receive from 

 13 to 16 dollars per month, and few to be had. — 

 Cleveland, Ohio paper, 'lug. 20. 



Buni/an and the Quaker.— Bunyan had a native 

 turn for wit and reimrtec, which appears in the 

 fiillowing story. Towards the close of his im- 

 prisonment, a Quaker called upon him, i)robalily 

 hoping to make a convert of the aullior of the 

 Pilgrim. He thus addressed him : — " Friend 

 John, I am come to thee with a message from the 

 Lord ; and after having searched for tlice in all 

 the prisons in England, I have found thee at last." 

 " If the Lord had sent thee," returned lUiiiyan 

 sarcasticaHy, "you need not have taken so much 

 l>ains to find me out ; for the Lord knows 1 have 

 been a prisoner in Bedford jail these twelve years 



past." 



Barnstable H'heat.—\ quantity of good wheat 

 has been raised at Barnstable, this ycor. Form- 

 erly it was as common a jiroduclion in that county 

 as rye. Corn promises well — vegetables in gen- 

 eral are abundant, and onions super-abundant. 



Idleness. — .A.n idle person is like one that is 

 dead, unconcerned in the changes and necessities 

 of the world, and he only lives to spend his time 

 nnd cat the fruits of the earth. Like a vermin or 

 a wolf, when their time comes, idlers die and per- 

 ish, and ill the mean time do no good : — they 

 neither plough nor carry burthens : all that they 

 do is cither unprofitable or mischievous. Idleness 

 is the greatest prodigality in the world : it throws 

 away that which is invaluable in respect of its pre- 

 iient use, and irreparable when it is past, being to 

 be recovered by no power of art or nature. — Jer- 

 emy Taylor. 



A new lithographic process has been announced 

 in France, which, besides other advantages, issaid 

 to be much cheaper, and much more rapidly per- 

 formed than any other process hitherto discovered. 



h'ate.r Melons. — The present bus been a fine 

 season fur water melons in Massachusetts. A 



CONUNDRUM. 



Why are the females of the present day, like 

 the lilly in the Scriptures ? 



" Because they toil not, neither do they spin ; 

 yet Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like 

 one of these." 



Near Calcutta, in India, a Botanic Garden of 

 about 300 acres has been long established and 

 liberally endowed. 



APHORISMS. 



A man has no more right to say an uncivil 

 thing, tlian to act one — no more right to say a 

 rude thing to another, than to knock him down — 

 Johnson. 



A person who is too nice an observer of the 

 business of a crowd, like one that is too curious 

 in observing the labor of the bees, will often be 

 stung for his curiosity. — Pope. 



Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on 

 fair reputation, the corroding dew that destroys 

 the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the 

 squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established 

 before it is confirmed. — Zimmerman. 



Avoid him, who from mere curiosity asks three 

 questions running, about a thing that cannot inter- 

 est him'. — Lavalcr. 



There is no defence against reproach but ob- 

 scurity ; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, 

 as satires and invectives were an essential part of 

 a Roman triumph. — .Iddi-ion. 



Receive no satisfaction for [)remeditnted imper- 

 tinence ; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexor- 

 ably at u distance who olVcred it. — liovattr. 



Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small 

 flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. — 

 Swift. 



Productiveness of the crops. — Wo spoko tho other 

 day of tho great yield of wheat from tho fields of 

 the west. Wo arc now enabled to odd another 



Captain Basil Halt. — " What stones are tlics 

 said Capt. Hall to a pavicr who was very bus 

 laying curb stones on one of the side walks, li 

 ing to the Capitol at Washington. Tho pa 

 looked up at the inquirer, and deriving an u 

 vorable impression, as to his character, from 

 first glance at his features, deliberately detenu 

 to quiz him, instead of making a civil and satit 

 tory rejily. " What stones are these ? '* rcpc 

 Capt. Hall, impatiently. "They arc such slot 

 returned the pavier, "as we use for curb slot 

 " Where do you get this stones ? " said the ' 

 tain. " At Capt. Folsom's," was the reply. "' 

 is Capt. Folsomr" " Cajit. Fulsomisthecontn 

 for furnishing stone." " \\niere," said the Ca| 

 in utter despair, "docs Copt. Folsom get 

 stones ? " Here the fellow with a sly ' loo 

 triumph, gravely replied, " that is Capt. Fuls 

 look out, not mine." — Palladium. 



Strawberry Plants. 

 For sale at Ihe nrighton Nursery IitlO plants of the I'ii 



?le Strawberry, in fine order for iransplanling — ai >'-' 

 00—37 1-2 CIS per doz. .\lso, Wilmoi's Superb. A'; 

 berry. Ilautbois, Downion. &e. Onlers for ihe a' • i 

 HircclcdtoJ. 1!. KcssicM., Seed Store, 6i Norili M r; 

 Boston, where the plnnls will I* delivered, free ol ci,ai 

 transporlaiioa. The plants arc parked iu moss for trauj 

 lion to any part of ihe union. 



Tulip Roots. 



For sale nt the Seed Siorc coonccted with the Ne« Ei 

 Farmer, SJ North Market street, 



A Dneeollpciionofl>utrh Tulip Roots, of bright rcil.y 

 white, pink, and splendid variegated roloni, at ^1,0*) per 

 —12 l-'i els single. tf 



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J^'eic China Tea Sets, and lic;ht blue Dinntr I 



Keeeived, a great variety of iha above ', which, niih 

 plele assortment of ("rt>ckcry, China, inid (jloss \\ aie 

 fered for sale, low, at No. 4 I>ock Sipmre. 



Powder at '2s per lb. 

 m;rONT'S powder, qualiiv warranted, for 

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