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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BY THE REV. G. CROLY. 

 What is death ? 'Tis to be free ? 



No more to love, or hope or fear — 

 To join the great equality : 



All alike are humbled there ! 

 The mighty grave 

 M'raps lord and slave : "! 

 Nor pride nor poverty dare come 

 Within that refuge house, the tomb : 



Spirit with the drooping wing. 



And the ever-iveeping eye, 

 Thou of all earth's kings art king ! 

 Empires at thy footstool lie 1 

 Beneath thee strew'd. 

 Their multitude 

 Sink like waves upon the shore ! 

 Storms shall never rouse them more '. 



What's the grandeur of the earth 



To the grandeur round thy throne ? 

 Riches, glory, beauty, birth. 



To thy kingdom all have gone. 

 Before thee stand 

 The wond'rousband ; 

 Bftrds, heroes, sages, side by side. 

 Who darken'd nations when they died ! 



Earth has hosts ; but thou canst show 



Many a million for her one, 

 Through thy gates the mortal flow. 

 Has for countless ye.ars roll'd on : 

 Back from the tomb 

 No step has come ; 

 There fix'd, till the last thunder's sound 

 Shall bid thy prisoners be unbound I 



TRANSLATION OF A FRENCH EPITAPH. 



A glutton renown'd 



Lies under this ground, 

 Who forever to eating was prone ; 



Before his last breath. 



He'd e'en have eat Death, 

 But of him he found nothing but bone. 



MISCELLANY. 



ANECDOTES. 

 A Ghost. — A foolish fellow went to the parson 

 of the parish, and making up a very long face, 

 told him he had seen a ghost, as he was passing 

 by a grave yard, moving along against the side 

 of the wall. " In what shape did it appear ?-' 

 " In the shape of an ass." "• Go home and hold 

 your tongue about ii," said the pastor, "you are 

 a very timid man,a«d have been frightened by 

 your own shadow." 



The Undertaker. — An tindertaker was observ- 

 ed to shed tears at the interment of a quack. A 

 friend asked him the cause of it. " Why" said 

 he, " you see I have just buried one 6f my best 

 friends." - 



A Grave DiggeT''s Bill. — A grave digger, who 

 had buried a Mr. Dtitlon, sent the following 

 bill to his widow : — " To making a Button-hole, 



Remedy for Short Blankets. — An Irishman who 

 was sent on board ot a ship, and who believed 

 in ghosts, inquired of his messmates if the ship 

 was haunted. " As full of ghosts as a church- 

 yard," replied they, "they are ten thousand 



strong every night." This so terrified Pat, that 

 whenever he turned into his hammock, he pull- 

 ed his blanket over his head and face, so that 

 from his knees downwards he was always nak- 

 ed and cold. "That there purser's a terrible 

 rogue ! he serves out blankets that don't fit a 

 man ; they are too long at top, and too 

 short at bottom, for they cover my head and 

 ears, and my feet are always perishing with 

 cold. I have cut several pieces off the top and 

 sewed on the bottom, but it don't make it a bit 

 longer." 



Some tradesmen the other evening, at a club 

 in Westminster, were discussing the political 

 topics of the day, and among other subjects touch- 

 ed upon the Holy Allies. " They are a blessed 

 trio," said one of them, " and 1 esteem them so 

 highly, that were they to come 'over here. I 

 would most willingly work for them for nothing." 

 " Indeed !" said one of the company. " What 

 trade arc you my good friend ?" — " A ropemak- 

 «)■," replied the other. — Portsmouth Journal. 



When Dr. Limmerman was at the court of 

 Berlin, Frederic II, asked him one day in con- 

 versation, if he could ascertain how many he 

 had kilted in the course of his practice. " That 

 is an arduous task," replied the doctor, " but 

 I think I may venture to say, not half so many 

 as your majesty." 



There are half a million of scholars at the 

 public schools throughout the U. S. ; and more 

 than three thousand students at the colleges 

 which confer degrees. 



There are about ten thousand physicians and 

 upwards of ten thousand lawyers. 



There are about nine thousand places of wor- 

 ship, and five thousand clergymen. 



About four thousand and four hundred patents 

 have been taken out for new and useful inven- 

 tions, discoveries and improvements in the arts 



Between two and three millions of dollars 

 worth of books are annually published in thel^. 

 Slates. 



A thousand newspapers are published. — 

 There are more than one hundred steam-bonfs, 

 comprising more than fourteen thousand tons, 

 navigating the Mississippi. 



The vessels of the U. S. by sea, perform 

 their voyages on an average in one third less 

 than the English. 



There are five thousand post offices, and 

 eighty thousand miles of post roads, and twelve 

 thousand miles of turnpike roads. 



There are three thousand legislators. — There 

 are two hundred printed volumes of law reports. 



Domestic Invention. — We were favored, a few 

 days since with the inspection of an invention 

 for fastening window blinds both when they are 

 open a>id when they are shut. It will super- 

 sede the hasps, usually attached to blinds, and 

 the awkward looking iron cross now used to 

 keep them open. It is a very simple piece of 

 workmanship, being merely an iron three inch- 

 es in length attached to the bottom of the blind, 

 having in a hook at each end somewhat resem- 

 bling the catch to a common iron thumb-latch, 

 and a short iron hook driven into the house to 

 receive the catch and hold the blind open, and 

 another in the bottom of the window frame to 



hold it shut. The iron on the blind is kej 

 its place by a spiral wire spring which mal 

 catch the hook and fasten the blind when th 

 open or shut, without our taking the troiib 

 reach out and make it fast with the hand. 

 great advantage of this invention is, that it 

 relieve us from the dismal groans of our 

 dow blinds, when the winds blow and st 

 rage around us. For it fastens the blind 

 fectly tight, so that it can neither blow oH 

 hinges nor make any noise by its motions. 



Mr. Thompson Bacon, of Bedford, the at 

 of this invention, intends to apply to Conj 

 during the present session for a patent, and 

 then offer these fasteners for sale. The [ 

 will be on\y forty cents for each window, am 

 strength of the machine is such that it wil 

 as long as a house. We think this much 

 ferable to any thing else of the kind we 

 seen, and hope soon to find it in common i 

 [^Concord Gaza 



A strange Animal — A few weeks since a! 

 and ferocious animal of the Cat kind, wask 

 by some hunters in Loudoun Co. Va. Itsi 

 was a reddish brown, and its ears and the 

 of its tail very black. It measured from 

 nose to the end of its tail 6 feet 9 inches ; wei} 

 95 pounds, and was 31 inches in height 

 head resembled a cat's and was nine inches* 

 the forehead. 



"In regard to the manner of taking this vas 

 of the forest, (says the editor of tiie Ilaq 

 ferry Free Press) we have heard several i 

 tals. The one most to be depended on iff 

 lieve is this ; that the animal having iieei 

 covered by Mr. Donaldson's hounds, Mr, ! 

 aldson, approached the spot where it wat. 

 found that it advanced towards him in a b( 

 way. He retreated and summoned to his^ 

 tance a party of neighbors, who it seemed, 

 assembled for the purpose of having a fbxc 

 Among them was Mr. Christian Miller, wht 

 a large bull dog, which was set upon the 

 mal, and seized it by the throat; it imm«l 

 ly turned upon its adversary, and catchiii{ 

 by the nose, would soon have dispatched 

 had not a negro man of Mr. Miller's, se 

 the danger of his favorite, afid heedless 01 

 own peril, rushed forward to his releif. 

 gave the animal a well aimed blow on them 

 which deprived it of life, and thus avertri 

 dangers which threatened more than oneol 

 party.'" — Ponlt. Adv. 



Nearly thirty thousand men are at preseiitl 

 ployed on the great Canal from the Teid 

 Amsterdam. The marshy earth whieii 

 found towards the bottom of the Canal) ij 

 ken out with bag-nets, and fills more ■ 

 thousand boats each day. The Canal wlBN 

 ieei in depth, so that the largest East and! 

 Indiaman, may pass direct to Amsterdam < 

 out unloading part ot their cargoes at'th 

 el. The Canal will be more than 60 i 

 miles long, and will cost, without inclod 

 great flood gates, more than 90 millien goiUft 



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