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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BY T. O. FESSEWDEN. 



"Havingfood and raiment, let us therewith be content.'''' 

 Art thou blest with food and raiment, 

 Give God thanks for favours given ; 

 Gratitude is all the payment 



Thou can'st make indulgent Heaven. 



Clothing coarse, and scant subsistence, 



Recompense which labour brings, 

 With contentment make existence 



Happier than the life of kings.; 



Why in heaping useless treasure. 



Shorten life, and health destroy ? 

 Where's the profit or the pleasure, 



Hoarding what you ne'er enjoy ? 



Why, for Mammon's paltry proffers, 



Sell thyself to sin a slave 

 Can the wealth, which swells thy coffers, 



Buy exemption from the grave ? 



Since the thread of life is brittle 



Heed the poet's moral song, 

 " Man in this world needs but little. 



And that little needs not long." 



AVants by luxury created — 



All of artificial kind, 

 Fy indulgence never sated. 



Weaken and debase the mind. ' 



To the hardy child of nature, 



Decent clothes and frugal fare, 

 Furnish pure enjoyments greater 



Than the pamper'd monarch's share. 



Gold by avarice that's hoarded, 



Might as well be in the mine, 

 Wealth that's generously afforded, 



Can alone be counted thine. 



Then, if blest with food and raiment. 



Let thy gratitude be shewn, 

 No man's merits, as a claimant, 



Give a rij-ht to these alone. 



tieth pnrt of the surface of the body, the per- 

 spiration in 24 hours would amount to 5 pounds 

 3 ounces troy. Sanctorious says, 5-8ths of all 

 the aliment received by the mouth is carried 

 off by perspiration. Dodart says 7-8ths. Oth- 

 ers estimate it at much less, making it about two 

 pounds per day. The quantity of sweat, or 

 perspirable matter, varies according to the cli- 

 mate, season of the year, age, sex, state of 

 health, &c. 



It is by a peculiar smell which the substance 

 emitted by the skin gives to each individual, 

 that the dog can discover his master, and even 

 trace him to a distance. 



Previous to an election in Ireland, a landlord of 

 considerable fortune and interest went over to his 

 estate ; he saw one of his tenants digging pota- 

 toes, and thus addressed him : — Paddy, how do 

 you do ?" Paddj, unaccustomed to such a salu- 

 tation, looked wildly round to see from whence 

 it could come ; on perceiving his landlord, and 

 taking off his hat, he answered, "pretty well. 

 Sir, I thank you; I hope I see you well." The 

 landlord continued his conversation by asking, 



' what news have you, Paddy, in this part of 

 the world ?" — to which the tenant replied, " in 

 truth, Sir, I have none, except that 1 think we 

 shall soon have an Election, or some such sort 

 of thing." The landlord asked, " what makes 

 you think so, Paddy ?" The tenant replied, 

 " only because your honour never axes me how 

 I do, except about that time !" 



Jin old Rattlesnake.. — Last year, (says the 

 Louisiana Advertiser) a rattle snake was killed 

 on Bullard's plains, in the parish of Feliciana, 

 which had not less than one hundred and thirty- 

 seven rattles. If the generally received opin- 

 ion, that the number of rattles denotes the age 

 of this species of the serpentine race be correct 

 the snake must have been as many years old 

 as it had rattles. Tfce oldest inhabitants of 

 that section of our state have never previous- 

 ly seen one with more than forty rattles. 



fttijSccUans. 



Philadelphia Society for Promoting Ag- ; 

 riculture. 



JOHN SCOTT, Chemist, late of Edinburgh, by hii 

 Will, made in the Year 1816, bequeathed the 

 sum of $4000, in the funded 3 per cent Stock of the U. S, 

 to the Corporation of the city of Philadelphia, to the in- 

 tent " that the interest and dividend', to become receiv- 

 able thereon, should be laid out in Premiums to be disi 

 tributed among ingenious men and women, who mak« 

 useful inventions, but no such premium to exceed $20i! 

 and that therewith shall be given a Copper Medal with 

 this inscription — " To the most Deserving." — The 

 Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia, 

 hajve entrusted " the Philadelphia Society (or promot- 

 ing Agriculture," with the distribution of the aforesaid 

 premiums and medals, and a Committee of that Society 

 h^e been appointed to attend thereto. The subscribj 

 ert named as that committee, give notice that they wilj 

 receive applications for the saiBe. '], 



Certificates of the originality and utility of the in-' 

 vetitionsmust accompany the application?, which may 

 be directed " to the Committee of the Philadelphia-, 

 Society for promoting Agriculture, on Scott's legacy ,;' 

 and forwarded free of expense, through the post officei 

 A description of the inventions, must be given in 

 clear language, and correctly written, accompaniedby 

 drawings in perspective and detail, where necessary to 

 illustrate it. Where the invention is a composition of 

 matter, specimens of the ingredients and of the composi- 

 tion of matter sufficient in quantity for the purpose of 

 experiment, and to preserve in the Cabinet of the Soci- 

 ety will be expected. 



JAMES MEASE, 

 REUBEN HAINES 

 ROBERTS VAUX, 

 ROBERT HARE, 

 WM. H. KEATING, 

 ADAM ECKFELDT, 

 July 10. Committee. 



Pores of the Hitman Body. — By applying n 

 good microscope to the skin of the human body 

 a multitude of small pores will be seen, througli 

 which perspiration is continually issuing. li 

 is calculated that there is a million of these 

 pores in every square inch, and 2,016,000,000 

 in the whole body of a middling sized personi 

 The body exposed in the rays of a burning sun, 

 appears through a microscope to be surrounded 

 with a cloud of steam. Let any person hold the 

 tip of the linger at the distance of 12Ui part ol 

 an inch from a looking glass, and tjie surface 

 of the glass will soon be dimmed by the raatteii 

 issuing from the finger. i 



Many experiments have been made to ascer-l 

 tain the quantity of perspirable matter which 

 is emitted from the skin. It is slated in the 

 JV. E. Encyclopaidia, that Mr. Gordon put his 

 hand into a glass vessel closed at the wrist, and 

 by keeping it there about an hour, he collected 

 30 grains of liquid which had issued through 

 :he pores of the skin. On repeating the exper- 

 iment in the evening he collected 12 grains. — 

 The mean of these, 21 grains, taking 21 grains 

 per hour, and supposing the hand to be one slx- 



A monument, of Parian marble, has been erected in 

 the church of Newtonwards, (Ireland,) to the me- 

 mory of the late Lord Castlereagh, bearing on it the 

 following inscription : 



Sacred to the Memory of 



Robert, Second Marquis of Londonderry ; 



He was born A. D. 1769, 



And having filled many ofthe highest stations in 



public life, 



Succeeded lo the paternal honors and estate in 



April, A. D. 1821. 



He died at North Cray, in Kent, August 12th, 



1822. 



His remains were interred in Westminster Abb«j. 



History will record the success and splendor of 



his public career, during a period of 



difficulty unexampled in the 



annals of Europe. 



This Tablet commemorates his private worth and 



the virtues of his personal character. 



Foremost among the statesmen of fhe age, 



He was not less distinguished by the faitliful discbarge 



of all the duties of social life. 



As a son, a brother, a husband, and a friend. 



His memory will ever be cherished with aflection- 



ate veneration 

 j By those who find their only consolation, for his 

 loss, in the recollection of his virtues. 



This tribute 



To the best of brothers and of friends, 



is offered by 



Charles William Vane, 



Third Marquis of Londonderry. 



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NEW ENGLAND MUSEUM. 



76, COURT STREET, BOSTOJV, 



ONTAINING much more numerous Collections 



and grpatpr vari.-(y of entertainments than any 



oilier F.atablishment in America, continues steadily to 



increase, and is open for the reception of visiters 



EVERY DAY AND EVENING. 



It will be constantly in the best possible condition, 



and every exertion made to render the visits of its patr 



rons agreeable. 



This Establishment now contains FIVE former Mu- 

 seums united in ONE, together with very great nnd 

 numerous additions (the whole receipts being faithfully 

 laid out to increase it.) 



JUST ADDED, 

 The celebrated Race Horse Eclipse, 

 A beautiful Cosmoramic View of London, 

 A large and beautiful live Rattlesnake, 

 The Arabian Bottle, made of the stomach of a 

 Camel — holds about a barrel — used to carry water 

 across the desert. 



The Invalid's Chair — very ingenious — invented 



by Professor Peck. 

 A very large and elegant Sword Fish, upwardi 



of 14 feet long, with a sword 4 1-2 feet long. 



{^:j= The Museum is well lighted, and a Band of 

 Music performs every evening. Admittance 25 cents. 



Junt 5. 



MR. GROVE'S Essay en Slietp, in a pamphlet fortu 

 for sale at this Office. 



July 10. 



FOR sa 

 prices 

 June 12. 



TO PRINTERS. 

 ale at this Office BALL SKINS, at the usuai 



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