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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 2, 1820, 



MISCELLANIES 



THE TEA-TABLE. 

 TnovGii all unknown to deck and Roman song 

 The poller Hyson, ami the <lark Souchong; 

 Though black iitr Green the warhlcd praises share 

 Of knightly Troubadour, or gay Trouvir, 

 Yet scorn not thou, as alien ijuite to numbers, 

 That fiicnd to prattle, and that foe to slumbers, 

 M'hich Kien Long, imperial poet, praised 

 So hi^b, that rent per cent ils piice was raised ; 

 Which I'ope hinxcll' would sometimes condescend 

 To place, rommo<lious, at a couplet's end ; 

 Which the sweet bard of Olney did nol spurn, 

 Wlio Ming the music of the ' hissing urn ;' 

 Let her, who lia le me write, enact the Muse, 

 Inspire my genius, and my Tea infuse : 

 ^0 shall my verse the hovering Sylphs delight. 

 And critic Gnomes relinquish half their spite. 

 Clear, warm, and (lowing as my liquid theme, 

 As sweet as sugar, and as soft as cream. 

 May it awhile engage the gentle fair. 

 Then gambol gaily in the morning air. 

 Twined in the tendrils of her nut-brown hair! 



Who has not read in chronicle or fable, 

 Of good King Ailhiir and his famous Table, 

 W'hero Kay and Tristroni talk'd by fits and starts 

 Of love and murder, broken heads and hearts ? 

 Like this the modern talk at lime of tea, 

 Of the Round Table and its chivalry. 

 Who speak, with even voice and equal zest. 

 Of hearts ensnared, and heads absurdly drest. 

 'Tistrue,a softer race the board environ. 

 Who corslets wear indeed, but not of iron ; 

 Who play — but seldom combat by the card. 

 And drink— but drink not through the helmet barr'd 



Emiuuatio.n.— ll is pstimaled that the num'uer of 

 emipruiits from Ireland, to tlic U. Slates and to Cana- 

 da, during lilt present year, will not be less than 

 50,000 persons. 



The Greenock Advertiser slates that the ship Rob- 

 ert Stewart was to leave that port for New York with 

 14(j individuals, besides children. Several of the 

 passenijers are opulent. The ship General I'lke was 

 also preparing to leave with emigrants, chiefly me- 

 chanics. Several others were preparing. The ship 

 Amulet was to leave Port Glasgosv for New York, 

 full of passengers. The ship Brunswick, is to sail 

 from London for New York, with 200 cmigranL", 

 chiefly agriculturists. Besides the above, many ves- 

 sels arc advertised for America with passengers. 

 Nearly 2000 passengers had sailed from Water- 

 ford. The rage for emigration was universal in Eng- 

 land and Ireland, and had e.vtended to Wales. 



CiNCi.N.NATi.— We do not believe there has ever 

 been a period when there was so much building go- 

 ing on in this city as at present. From careful ob- 

 servations, we may safely say that upwards of two 

 hundred buildings have been commenced the pre- 

 sent year, a large proportion of which are valuable 

 brick ones ; some of them are already finished and 

 occupied, while others are in various stages of pro- 

 gress, from the digging of the cellar to roofing in. 

 From present appearances we may fairly calculate 

 1 upon five hundred buildings, at lsa.sl, the present year. 

 The population of Cincinnati is estimated at 2f<,000 

 and rapidly increasing.— C'uicinjiafi paptr. 



Chili O.nions. — J. P. Donaldson, Esq. just ar 



T(iA.vsi'i.ANTi.NO. — Anexperiment of a novel and 

 e.xtraordinary description was undertaken at Derby' 

 last week, in the transplantation of a tree of largi 

 dimensions, the Weeping Ash, which has so lond 

 been the admiration of the public. This bcautifiS 

 tree has been removed williout sustaining any daro^ 

 aire, to the picturesque domains of Chatsworth, wlier 

 h^s Grace the Duke of Devonshire lias selected 

 most appropriate situation for it in the north front 

 his princely mansion. On wresting up tlie tree will 

 the well-adapted and powerful machine applied fd 

 the purpose, it is calculated that the rcsistanci 

 of about fourteen tons of soil, in which its widely 

 spreading roots were embedded, was to be ra 

 moved. The weight of llie tree in the state Id whic 

 it was conveyed, a distance of twenlyeight miles, I 

 its present situation, is understood to be from seT« 

 to eight tons. One of the roots drawn up had ei( 

 tended itself more tban twenlyeight feet from 

 bole of the tree. 



Anaconda. — There is in Peace's Muscam, 

 Anaconda, about fourteen feet lung, and a 

 Constrictor eleven or twelve. The former is sai 

 by a New York paper to be particularly lame, 

 fawns upon its masti-r. .\ rabbit was lately given to 

 the Boa, which he at first disregarded, but afterward* 

 he seized by a sudden movement upon the nose of 

 his prey, threw several coils about him with incredi- 

 ble agility and fairly squeezed him to death. The 

 mann'cr of eating was by ' pushing his mouth ^ 

 throat gradually over his prey, much in the s^ 

 manner that a shoe is pushed upon a child's foot. 



I.NSOLVENTS IS England.— During last year, 1 

 persons took the benefit of the Insolvent Act Th- , 



„, , ,, ,, rived from Huasco, Chili, has prcscntod to the Editor 



-^'''''^■'""^'•^'''^- of the American Farmer, an Onion, which he brought 



I from Chili, measuring sixteen inches m circumfe- j^j^g amounted to £11,000,000, and the dividend* 



Lines attached to a trough of water placed tor the i ^gnce, and weighing twcnlytwo ounces and a quar- 1 jj amounted on an average to fourpence farthing . 



commodation of travellers, in tlie State of N&w | ^^j. j^ i^^j begun to decay, and had lost without ^ [^ ^jj^ p^y^j 



doubt an inch in measurement, and three or four 

 ounces in weight. Mr D. had other onions in a state 

 of perfect preservation. What is most remarkable 

 is the fact of those onions liaving been preserved 

 during so long a voyage. The onions are evidently 

 of the Portugal kind, and are very mild. Mr Don- 

 aldson inforn>s us that they preserved water-melons, 

 taken on board at Huasco.till the/ arrived at the lat- 

 itude of Charleston, when llie last one was cut and 

 proved to be excellent. 



accommodation 

 York : 



Come, traveller, slake thy parching thirst. 



And drive away dull care ; 



Thou need'st not broach thy little purse, 



For I am free as air ! 



My source is on the mountain side. 



My course is to the sea ; 



Then drink till Ihou art satisfied. 



Yea, drink, for I am/rce.' 



Lacing.— There are several prevailing errors in 

 the mode of adapting clothes to the figure of the 



Large Strawberries.— The Fruit Committee of 



body, particularly among feniaos. Clothes should Pennsylvania Horticultural Society have award- 



be so made as to allow the full exercise of all its ^^ ^^^ p/cmium of a Silver Medal to Mr Daniel 

 motions. The neglect of this precaution is pro- j^|,(;rs„er2er, for the production of the largest and 



duclive of more mischief than is generally believed 



Kochersperger, for the p 



finest strawberries exhibited for the inspection of the 



The misery and sulfering arising from it begin while ^ -^ ^^ season. These strawberries, says Poul- 



wc are yet in the cradle. Wlicn tlicy have escaped 

 from the nurses' hand?, boys are left to nature. Girls 



son's Advertiser, were of the Bourbon species, 

 CO of the largest fill a quart, and measuring four 



have, for a whi.e, the same chance as boys, in a .^^^^^^ round, less one-sixteenth of an inch. [Our 

 freedom from bandages of all kinds ; but, as they f ■„ j ^^ Hague-ston of Charlestown has excelled 

 .imnhood, they are again put >nto ^,_.^ . ,,^^|„„ ^.:^hit 



approach to womani) 



xhibited Strawberries at the Hall of 



trammels in the lorm of stays. 1 he bad consequon- . ^^^^ Massachusetts Horticultural Society, measuring 

 ces of the pressure of stays arc nol immediately ob- , . ,^^,,,j „ ,,„,y- ,-„p/,„ ;„ circumference— and an inch 

 vious, but they are not the less certain on that ac- J^^,^ ^ ,^^j^ ig considerable in a strawberry.] 



count The girl writhes and twists to avoid the 



pinching which must necessarily attend the com- India Rubber.— This valuable product, first made 

 mcncement of wearing stays tightly lacid. The known by La Condamine, in 1730, is the juice of 

 posture ill which she finds ease is the one in which L^.g^al species of trees growing in South America. 

 she will constantly be, until, at last, she will not bo 1 1[ flu^s from the trees as a milky fluid, which soon 

 comfortable in any other, even when she is freed 

 from the preusuro ihatoriginally obliged her to adopt 

 it. In this way moot of the deformities to which 

 young people arc subject originate; and, unfortu- 

 nately, it is nol often that they arc perceived until 

 they have become considerable, and have existed 

 loo long to admit of remedy. 



Cheap Antidote. — There is not a house in the 

 country that docs not contain a remedy for poisoning, 

 if instantly administered. It is nothing more than two 

 tea-spoonfuls of made muslard, mixed in warm water. 

 It acts as an instantaneous emetic-. Moking this 

 Hiinple antidote known may be the means of saving 

 many a fellow creature from an untimely death. 



pound. 



Chinese Advertisement. ' Chang-chaou-l^ '. 



who issues this thanksgiving advertisement, liv 

 outside the south gate, in Great Tranquillity lal 

 where he has opened an incense smoking musaun 

 shop. On the evening of the 12lh inst. two of V 

 fellow workmen, in the shop, Ncsahung and At 

 emploved a stupifying drug, which by iu fumes sol 

 all the partners in a deep sleep, duiing which thi 

 robbed the shop of all the money, clothes, &.c, whr 

 they could carry away. Next morning when tl 

 partners awoke, no tr.'ice was to be found of thfl 

 two men. If any good people know w here they ai 

 and will give intormation, a thank ofi"eringin flow* 

 red paper of four dollars will be presented. If be 

 the booty and the two men be seized, and deliver 

 over at my little shop, ten dollars will be presenW 

 Decidedly I will nol eat my words. This adr 

 tisemonl is true.' 



Mr Nicholas Norris, of Baltimore county, hasj 

 his farm. Mulberry Grove, situate about two anf 

 half miles from town, on the York road,50,WK) wor 

 now engaged in spinning silk. 



Green pease were sold in London, on llie 2!Uh o: 

 April, at one guinea per quart 



hardens upon exposure to the air. Various attempts 

 have been made to transport it to Europe in iU fluid 

 state, without success. Its application to the arts 

 is various, but until recently, no advantage has been 

 taken of one of ils most remarkable properties, its 

 elasticity. Two ingenious cliemisU of Pans, Messrs 

 RattiorandGuibal, by an entirely new solvent and a 

 very delicate process, have succeeded in spinning 

 it into threads of various sizes. This is subsequently 

 woven into suspenders, garters, surgical bandages 

 for ruptures, fractured or dislocated limbs, Slc. 



In washing jewelry, or anything ornamented with 

 gold, It IS a great iuiproveiiuMit to pour a few drops 

 I of sal-volutilc into the auds prepared for that purpose. 



[if Priming rnii berifcuipdio meet the 



Order>ror priming received I'.v J- •'■ '*' 



nllural W»rchouiio No. Si Norlb Markc 



Published every Friday, nt $3 P«r •nnump 

 end olihe year— t>m ihosc who pay willnn shin 

 lime .>f subscribing, are enliilecH.. a dedacuon ..I i,.., .. . 



lljr-Nopnper «lllbeseiiilo odnlnnce wilhouipninu 

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