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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From the National Gazette. 



The celebrated Ventriloquist, Mr. Alesan.lre, lately 

 paid a visit to Sir Walter Scott, near Edinburgli, 

 and having chanced to mention to his host that he 

 kept an Album or Scrap-Book, Sir Walter slept ai^ide 

 and almost immediately returned to him with the 

 following characteristic lines. 



TO MOKS. ALEXANDRE. 



Of yore, in Old England, it was not thought good, 



To carry two visages under one hood : 



What should folks say to you, who have faces such 



plenty, 

 That from under one hood you last night shew'd us 



twenty ! 

 Stand forth, arch deceiver .' and tell us, in truth, 

 Are you handsome or ugly, in age or in youth ? 

 Man, woman, or child ? or a dog, or a monse ? 

 Are you, at once, each live thing in the house ? 

 Each live thing, did I ask ? each dead implement too ! 

 A work shop in your person— saw, chizel and screw. 

 Above all, are you one individual ? I know 

 You must be, at the least, Alexandre and Co. 

 But I think you're a troop — an assemblage — a mob — 

 And that I, as the Sheriff, must take up the job ; 

 And, instead of rehearsing your wonders in verse. 

 Must read you the Riot Act, and bid you disperse. 

 WALTER SCOTT. 

 Abbolsford, April 23. 



EPIGRAM. 

 Jiane to her spouse could not bestow 



One tear of sorrow when he died — 

 His life had made so many flow, 



That all the briny fount was dried. 



iittCiSccUans. 



A professional gentleman, who has lately writ- 

 ten a treatise entitled the Jlrt of rre!,erving the 

 Swht^ relates the following fact, in order to show 

 :he danger attending compression of the eyes : 



« I was called in some years ago to the case 



of a strong man, who had always enjoyed most 

 excellent sight until a short time previous, when 

 he had become totally blind from the following 

 incident. One day he hai'pened to be engaged 

 with a party of friends, when some person enter- 

 ed the room wilhont his noticing it, who rani be filled with pii 

 familiarly to cover his eyes with his two hands 



desiring him to guess who it was that blinded i vantages of being sound from top to toe 

 iiim. Either unable or perhaps not choosing to 

 guess the person's name, he cudeavored to dis- 

 engage himself from his hands ; but the stronger 



effort he made for that purpose, the more forci- gentlemen were setting togetlM^r in a public 

 biy did the other press his hands upon his eyes, I house,_ the doctor began to reproach the Attor- 

 and this so Ion ■ •• .... r, .u .■,_ „.. „ .-♦„.,„„„ .. „ 



the unfortun 



his eyes, found himself totally blind although i •'' 



tice, &.C. The lady, on hearing this, was high- 

 ly pleased, and thought that the poor faithful 

 domestic of the honest farmer ought to be re- 

 warded for the good tidings he brought : she 

 aceordingly gave him five shillings, and desired 

 him to inform his master that she would not fail 

 of calling on him the next day. She was punc- 

 tual ; but — need we add the sequel? she nei- 

 ther saw the honest farmer nor her watch. 



\^Eng. paper. 



We have often wondered how it is possible 

 for a physician, who sees in the human frame 

 so many wonderful marks, not only of design, 

 but of wisdom, power, and goodness, and who 

 is so often reminded of the transitory nature of 

 earthly existence, can help being deeply im- 

 pressed with a sense of religious obligation. — 

 The ingenious arrangement and exact balance 

 of the various muscles, — the inscrutable opera- 

 tions which are constantly going on in the 

 stomach and alimentary canal, — the heart and 

 arteries impelling the vital fluid to every part 

 of the body, and the veins accompanying the 

 arteries to receive the refluent blood, and con- 

 vey it back to the heart, — the brain deriving 

 nervous power from the blood thrown to it by 

 the heart, and the heart continuing its motion 

 by the nervous influence which it derives from 

 the brain, — all proclaim, in a language no infi- 

 del can resist, the existence and wisdom of the 

 great designer. — Surely, it seems to us, "• an 

 undevout anatomist is mad." 



Boston Medical Intelligencer. 



I have sulTered by sore feet, occasioned by 

 hard gravelly walks, and by a foot fever in the 

 summer, k British oflicer told me to adopt the 



prntticc of (lioeo ivho have to undergo long 



marches, viz. to soap the inside of my stockings. 

 1 have done so, and experienced a delightful 

 coolness and ease. Let us learn to communi- 

 cate, and benefit each other : to this no sectari- 

 an ever can object. — Men of all persuasions 

 sometimes walk, and are exposed to sore feet. 

 Ex pede llercidem is an old adage ; how impor- 

 tant then is iny subject. Your columns must 

 business at the close of 

 the session, or I would expatiate uiion the ad- 



somewhat a tone of contempt — " There goes 

 Cooper the play actor." '^ Hold your tongue," 

 says the other, at the same time jogging him 

 with his elbow, " youdonH know what you may 

 come to yet ."' 



Curran's ruling passion was his joke. In his 

 last illness, his physician observing, in the morn- 

 ing, that beseemed to cough with more difficul- 

 ty, he answered, ' That is rather surprising, us 

 I have been practising allniglit.'' 



GROSEILLE WINE, 



PUT up expressly for families, in kegs of 6 gallocs 

 each, and delivered at any part of the city at 

 $5, '25 per keg. Also in cases ofl dozen bottles, for 

 sale by the subscriber. 



This genuine and excellent article is made by Dr. 

 Benjauun Dyer, of Providence, who cultivates in one 

 field forty-five acres of Currant Buehes ; and it is the 

 opinion of men of siedical science that the Wine made 

 of the Fruit of the Currant is equal, in all respects, 

 when old, to the best imported Wines. It is in flavor 

 much like the old Constantia, and were it as dear, and 

 not knoum to be of home manufacture, no family in the 

 habit of keeping Wine would be without it. It has, in 

 several instances, passed off at parties as foreign Wine 

 of the most delicious character ; it exhilirates wilhout 

 producing intoxication, and its effects are peculiarly 

 beneficial to costive habits. — As a Summer Beverage 

 it is not surpassed by any other. 



E. COPELAND, Jr. Ao. 65, Broad-street. 



June 26. ' 



[JVat. Journal. 

 The Jitlornei) and Physician. — As two of these 



ng, and with such deadly eflect, that: ney with the numbec of strange words which 

 ate man when permitted, to open (lie law indulges in, viz. — " Habeas Corpus," 



^_,, jnd himself totally blind although i" fieri facias," fee. &c. and amongst others, ask- 



there"'was no apparent hurt done to the organ." i ed what was meant by the words " Docking an 

 -— — - 'entail." — " Why, doctor," replied the attorney. 



Ingenious Imposition.— A lady lost a gold watch, |" it is doing what you will not do with your pa- 

 near Smilhfi^ld, a short time ago, which she ad- j lients— it is suffering a recovery.''' 



verlised, offering five guineas reward for its re- 

 storation. A fellow, in the garb of a country- 



A very ignorant nobleman observing one day, 



man, called at the lady's house, and said that !iil dinner, a person eminent for his philosophical 

 his master, who was a resp€ctable farmer re- 1 talents, int«=nt on choosing the delicacies of the 

 siding in Essex, had found the watch, and that | table, said to him— " What ! do philosophers 

 he would be at the Ram Inn, Smithfield, on the love dainties?"—" Why not?" replied the 



SAXONY SHEEP. 



On THURSDAY, \bth of July next, at 3 o^cldck, P. 

 M. at tke Pvnch Bowl Tartrn, near Bosloiiy 



WILL be sold at Auction, an entire flock of SAX- 

 ONY SHEEP, consisting of 46 Rams, 25 Ewes, 

 and 4 Lambs, just arrived per Velocity from Br'.men. 



These sheep were selected with great care, by a per- 

 son fully qualified for the purpose, from among eighl 

 or ten thousand of I'oo finest sheep in Saxony, and are 

 presumed to be decidedly superior to any sheep whicl 

 lia^e heretofore been imported. I'he comparative va 

 lue of Saxony Wool above the Spanish is well known 

 the small quantities which have reached this country 

 have beenfagerly bought up by the manufacturers c 

 fine cloths, but the duty imposed by the new tariff, will 

 soon prevent further imporlations. 



Purchasers are assured that none of the sheep will bi 

 disposed of on any terms, before the above date ; tbey 

 may be examined any time previous to the day of sale 

 at Mr. Perry's, about a quarter of mile from the Punch 

 Bowl Tavern in Erookline, on the road leading to Cam- 

 bridge. 



Catalogues will be immediately prepared and ready 

 for delivery. Conditions liberal and made known at 

 the sale. 



COOLIDGE, POOR & HEAD, Aticrrs. 



June ] 9. 



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PATENT STEEL SPRING HAY FORK.'-;. 

 UST received and for sale at the Agricultural Esta- 



blishment, No. 20, IWerchants' Row, a large supply 

 of (Joodwin's highly approved Patent Steel Spring /i(A| 

 and Manure FORKS. Also, a few dozen very super* 

 or Rakes, Cam's cast sicel Scythes, Dudley's warranty 

 ed steel back do., Bisbee's cast steel polished Shovels 

 — together with a great variety of other agriculturrf 

 implements. June 12. 



TO PRINTERS. 

 ^OR sale at this Office BALL SKINS, at the usu 



following day, when she might receive her 

 Watch. Hi? master, he added, would not lake 

 the reward oftereil, as he was in good circum- 

 stances, and of such strict honest principles, 

 thnt it would be repugnant to his leelings for do- 

 ing what he considered to be only an act of jus- 



scholar, "Do you think, my lord, that the good 

 things of this world were made only for 

 blocldieads. ?" ^^^^ , 



Cooper relates the following anecdote. — Pas- 

 sing one day along Broadway, ]\'ew-York, he 

 overheard a little negro s.iy to a companion in 



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