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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MIND AND BODY. 



From the last nuvibcr of tht Ntw Monthly Magazine. 



" VEHITI irf 9PECOI.IIM." 

 Says Mind to body t'other day, 



As on my chin I plied my razor, 

 Pray tell me — does that gl9ss pourtray 



Your real phiz, or cheat the gazer ? 



That youthful face, which bloom'd as sleek 



As Hebe's, Ganymede's, Apollo's, 

 Has lost its roses, and your cheek 



Is falling into fearful billows. 



The crow's fell foot hath set its sign 

 Beside that eye which dimly twinkles ; 



And look ! what means this ugly line ? 

 Gad zooks, my friend you're getting wrinkles ! 



That form which ladies once could praise, 

 Would now inspire them with a panick ; 



Get Byron's belt, or Worcester's stays. 

 Or else you'll soon be Aldermanick. 



At sight of that dismantled top. 

 My very heart, I must confess, aches ; 



Once famous as a Brutus crop,- 



You now are balder than Lord Essex. 



Since Wayte's decease your teeth decline ; 



Finding no beautifier near 'em. 

 Time's tooth hath mumbled two of thine, 



Well may they call him — " edax rerum.''' 



Behold ! your cheeks are quite bereft 

 Of their two laughter nursing dimples, 



And pretty substitutes they've left — 



(Between ourselves) a brace of pimples I 



The fashions which you used to lead. 



So careless are you, or so thrifty, 

 You must neglect when most you need, 



A sad mistake when nearly fifty. 



Stop, stop, cries Body — let us pause 



Before you reckon more offences, 

 Since you yourself may be the cause 



Of all these dismal consequences. 



The sword you know, wears out the sheath-. 

 By steam are brazen vessels scatter'd ; 



And when volcanoes rage beneath. 

 The surface must be torn and shatter'd. 



Have not your passions, hopes and fears, 



Their ligament of clay outwearing. 

 Done infinitely more than years, 



To cause the ravage you're declaring. 



If you yourself no symptoms show 



Of age — no wrinkles of the spirit 

 If still for friends your heart can glow. 



Your purse be shared with starving merit. 



If yet to sordid sins unknown. 

 No avarice in your breast has started , 



If you had not auspicious grown, 

 Sour, garrulous, or narrow-hearted. 



You still are young, and o'er my face 

 (Howe'er its features may be shaded) 



Shall throw the sunshine of your grace j 

 And keep the moral part unfaded. 



Expression is the face's soul, 

 The head and heart's joint emanation j 



Insensible to Time's control. 

 Free from the body's devaitalion. 



If you're still twenty, I'm no more. 



Counting by years how folks have blunder'd I 

 Voltaire was young at eighty-four, 



And Fontenelle at near a hundred ; 



From the Manufacturers' and Farmers' Journal. 



JONATHAN'S VISIT TO THE STEAM-BOAT. 

 Did you ever go down to the Steam-boat ? 



By jings ! I'll knock under to that 1 

 I can't hardly tell what to make on't. 



It does beat creation all flat ! 



Why, that great copper kettle ; my patience ! 



I'd tell what it holds, if I could. 

 An' it beats all oar Nancy's relations, 



To see how they heave in the wood 4 



Then them wheels all a going and jangling. 



'Tis strange how they ever can sleep — 

 An' long iron rods, all a sprangling 



Lord sakea ! what a thrashing they keep ! 



The great wheels too, that paw up the water, 

 An' send up a hogshead, a stroke ? 



Then that big iron chi'»ihly''s a snorter ! 

 By cat owl ! how't sends out the smoke 1 



I swager ! 'twould puzzle a fellow 



To find out the head or the slam .' 

 W.hy, one o' the rooms in the cellar 



Is as long as the side of oiar barn ! 



MISCELLANY. 



ANECDOTES. 



Production of the Press. — An Irish hand-bill 

 was printed in Dublin, of which (he followinar 

 is a copy. " In the press., and will speedily be 

 pvblished. by subscription a larg-e cheese ; price, 

 to subscribers, two-pence a pound. 



N. B. This is the first Cheshire cheese ever 

 made in Ireland. 



Remedy for a Leak. — An Irishman on board a 

 pinnace, which leaked at sea, set about boring a 

 hole through the bottom, as he observed to let out 

 the Ti'citer. 



A Large Pit. — A Sfcntleman in Ireland having 

 built a Iprsje house, was at a loss what to do 

 with the rubbish. His steward advised him to 

 have a pit due: lara:e enoug^h to contain it. "And 

 what" said the gentleman, smiling, " shall I do 

 with the earlh which is dug' out of the pit?" 

 The steward with great gravity, replied, '■'■Have 

 the pit large enough to hold all." 



DEFERRED ITEMS OF INTELLIGENCE. 



Pilhw Cases. — The Boston Daily Advertiser 

 says, " We have seen a specimen of pillow ca- 

 ses, woven entire without seam at the sides or 

 bottom. We understand that this mode of weav- 

 ing is the invention of a yonng woman in New 

 Hampshire, who weaves them with her own 

 hands on a common loom." 



Old Age. — There is now living in Sanford, 

 Mr. Moses Tibbets, aged ninety-nine years and 

 eight months, who attended town meetings and 

 voted for Representatives to Corigress at the 

 last trial. He still retains the use of his limbs, 

 is able to work and converse with freedom and 

 sensibility. — Old age is his reward, for temper- 

 ance and industry. — Kennebunk GazeUc, 



Goose Shooting. — A duel was fought lately > 

 the borders of the District of Columbia, b 

 tween Lieuts. Tilden and Legare, of the U. 

 navy, in which one of Tilden's legs was broke 

 and the other wounded. A cunning expedieii 

 to prevent his running away ! — Greenfield Gc 



Great Crop. — Col. John Wilson, of Deerfiel 

 raised last year a turnip, which weighed, wit 

 out the tops, upward of 13 lbs. He has al 

 raised this year, upon a little more than twenl 

 three rods of ground, eighty-four bushels ofR 

 ta Baga turnips, being at the rate of somethii 

 more than eleven hundred bushels by the acre. [ 



American Calico. — We have seen a sample 

 calico made at the new bleaching and call 

 printing establishment in this town, belong! 

 to Messrs. Crocker, Richmond & Otis. Tl 

 establishment is designed to be •n a scale ct 

 siderably extensive, and will not be in compit 

 operation short of two or three months, it 

 constructed of brick, and encloses or nearly i 

 closes, an area of several acres square ; a p 

 of one side of the building is two stories and I 

 remainder one story high. 



It has been built, and is to be carried on w»i 

 derstand, under the superintendence of j 

 Thorp, lately from a manufactory of this kiik 

 England. There are but three or four establi 

 ments for the manufacture of this article Id' 

 U. States; one at Philadelphia: one at Clieli 

 ford, and another at Charlestown, in (his sli 

 The two last we believe are not yet comp; 

 ed — Taunton Reporter. 



Fire. — At Hebron, on Tuesday last, 

 large and valuable barns, tilled with the 

 duce of the season, were destroyed by 

 They were owned by Mr. Joseph T. Bi 

 ham, and stood adjoining each other. The 

 cident was occasioned by leaving a candle bi 

 ing in one of the barns, where Mr. Burnham 

 his sons had been husking corn, very earl; 

 the morning. — Hartford Times. 



Astronomical J^otice. — There is at present 

 clear evenings, a most favorable opportuni^ 

 observing those two interesting planets of 

 solar system, Jupiter and Saturn. The laltei 

 ses at between 7 and 8 P. M. and his sitiiati* 

 a little to the south of the small cluster of « 

 in the neck of Taurus, which are called 

 Pleiades. Jupiter rises between 10 and 

 P. M. and may be seen near Gemini, at sc 

 distance to the south of the stars CastoiJ, 

 Pollux. This latter planet is easily distings 

 ed by his superior brightness and magnii 

 and a good 12 inch telescope will she* 

 distinctly that ivonderful phenomenon thfl 

 of Saturn, also the four moons and belts 

 piter. 



Shows. — The Town Council of Harrii 

 Penn. have passed an ordinance express^] 

 bidding and prohibiting, " within the borp 

 all kinds of puppet shows, jugglery, and sUI 

 hand perlnrmances. 



TKKMS OK THE FARMER. 

 0;^ Published every Saturday, at Three D^ 

 per annum, payable at the end of the year — bli 

 who pay within sixty days from the time of wh 

 will be entitled to a deduction of Fifty CsaSJ 



