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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 2-1, 1830. 



ailSCELLANIES. 



SONG 

 Whither, ah ! whither is my lost love straying— 

 Upon what pleasant land beyond the sea .' 



Oh ! ye winds now playing, 

 Like airy spirits round my temples, free, 

 Fly and ttll him this from me. 



Tell him, sweat winds, that, in my woman's bosom, 

 My young love still retains its perfect power. 



Or like the summer blossom. 

 Still changing from the hud to the full-grown flower, 

 Grows with every passing hour. 



Say, and say gently, that since we two have parted, 

 How little joy — much sorrow I have known. 



Only not broken hearted, 

 Because I muse upon bright moments gone, 

 And think and dream of him alone. 



WAR. 



Whene'er contending nations fight 



For private pique or public right ; 



Armies are rais'd, the fleets are mann'd, 



They combat both by sea and land. 



Then, after many battles pass'd. 



Both tired of blows, make peace .it last ; 

 What is it, after all, the people get ? 

 Why — widows, orphans, taxes, wooden legs and debt. 



EPITAPH 

 On Tliomas Kemp, hanged for Sheep Stealing. 

 Here lies the body of Thomas Kemp, 

 Who lived by wool, but died by hemp ", 

 There's nothing would suffice this glutton, 

 But, with the fleece, to steal the mutton ; 

 Had he but work'd, and lived uprighter. 

 He'd ne'er been hung for a sheep-biter. 



Description of a CoU'. — At the sale of a farming stock 

 in Gloucestershire, in England, the auctioneer gave the 

 following e.xtempore description of a cow : 

 Long in her sides, bright in her eyes, 

 Short in her legs, thin in her thighs, 

 Big in her ribs, wide in her pins, 

 Full in her bosom, small in her shins, 

 -Long in her face, fine in her tail, 

 And never deficient in filling her pail. 



DR. HAMILTON. 



Doctor Robert Hamilton, a most profound, clear-head- 

 ed, and amiable man, frequently became so absorbed in 

 his own reflections as to lose llie perception of external 

 things, and almost that of his own identity and existence. 

 In public the man was a shadow. He pulled olfhis hat 

 to his own wife in the streets, and apologized for not 

 having (he pleasure of her acquaintance; went to his 

 classes in the College on the dark mornings, with one of 

 her white stockings on one leg, and one of his own black 

 ones on the other; often spent the whole lime of the 

 meeting in moving from the table the hats of the students, 

 which they as constantly returned; sometimes invited 

 Ihem to call on him and then fined them for calling; to in- 

 sult him. He would run against a cow in the road, turn 

 round, beg her pardon, ' Madam,' and hope she was not 

 hurt. At other times he would run against posts and 

 chide them for not getting out of the way; and yet his 

 conversation, at the same time, if anybody happened 

 to be with him, was perfect logic and perfect music. A 

 volume miglit be filled with anecdotesofthis amiable and 

 excellent man, all tending to prove how wide the distinc- 

 tion is between first-rate thought, and that merely animal 

 use of the organs of sense which prevents ungifted mor- 

 tals from walking into wells. — The fish market in Aber- 

 deen is near the Dee, and h s a stream passing 

 through it that falls into that river. The fish-women ex- 

 pose their wares in large baskets. The doctor one day 

 marched into the place, where he was attracted by a cu- 

 riously carved stone in a stack of chimneys. He advan- 

 ced towards it till he was interrupted by one of the bench- 

 es, from which, however, he tumbled a basket into the 

 stream, and the fish which it contained were speedily 

 borne towards iheir native element. The visage of the 

 lady was instantly in lightning and her v:'ice in thunder, 

 but the object of her wrath was deaf to the loudest .sounds, 

 and blind to the most alarming colours. She stamped, 

 gesticulated, and scolded; brouglit a crowd that filled 

 the place ; but the philosopher turned not from his eager 

 gaze, and his inward meditations on the stone. While the 

 woman's breath held good, she did not seem to heed his 

 indifference, but when that began to fail, and the vio- 

 lence of her acts moved not one muscle of the object, her 

 rage felt no bounds; she seized him by the breast, and 

 yelling in an effort of despair, ' Speak to me or Fll burst,' 

 sank down in a state of complete exhaustion, and before 

 she'had recovered, the Doctor's reverie was over and he 

 had taken his departure. 



The following toast was given by Judge Fiske, at 

 the lato celebration of the anniversary of the Charleston 

 Forensic Club : 



The Lawyer's Declaration — 

 Fee simple and a simple fee. 



And all the fees in tail. 

 Are nothing when compared to thee, 

 Thou best of fees, Fz-male. 



This reminds us of an elegant and complimentary 

 tetrastic attributed to the Doctor's illustrious poetical 

 namesake, the late R. B. Sheridan, who having on one 

 occasion, staid — not away, but too long with his fair one, 

 exclaimed at parting — 



To» long I've staid — forgive the crime, 



Like moments flew the hours ; 



How lightly falls the foot of time, 



Whene'er he treads on flowers. 



confounded — 'I expected to go before long,' said he, — 

 but I was not prepared for so abrupt a summons.' 



The Camel. — It is intended to introduce this useful 

 animal into the South of France. Should it be fourjd 

 possible to naturalize, the advantages would no doubt lie 

 great. Its patience, hardy nature, and power of endur- 

 ing fatigue, are proverbial. 



Silk in Sweden. — A company for the production of 

 o..k in Sweden has been established at Stockholm. The 

 piince-royal has made them a grant of land sufficient for 

 transplanting 2,400 mulberry trees, of Irom two to lour 

 years old, which are placed at the disposal of the societj'. 



110 pigeons were lately taken from Antwerp to London, 

 and released, to see if they would find their way back. — 

 The swiftest pigeon flew to Actwerp in 5k hours ; dis- 

 tance ISt) miles. 



When Dr Sheridan called one morning on Miss M' 

 Fadan, to take his leave of her fur a few days, the young 

 lady asked, in a tone that well expressed more than the 

 words accompanied it, how long ho intended to stay 



away ? To which he immediately replied 



You ask how long I'll stay from thee : 



Suppress those rising fears : 

 If you should reckon time like me. 

 Perhaps ten thousand years. 



Bad Singing. — There was something of novelty, it is 

 true, but not less of reason, in the proceedings of a late 

 esteemed minister of New England, who at the close of 

 a very badly »ung psalm, read another to the choir, 

 saying, ' you must try again, for it is impossible to 

 preach after such singing.' 



ANECDOTE OF FRANKLIN. 

 Not long after Benjamin Franklin had commenced ed- 

 itor of a newspaper, he noticed with considerable free- 

 dom the public conduct of one or two influential persons 

 in Philadelphia This circumstance was regarded by 

 some of his patrons with disapprobation, and in<luc**d one 

 of them to convey to Franklin the opinion of his friends 

 with regard to it. The Doctor listened with patience to 

 the reproof, and begged the favor of his friend's company 

 at supper, on an evening which he named; at the same 

 time requesting that the other gentlemen who were'dis- 

 satisfied with him should attend. The Doctor received 

 his guests cordially, — his editorial conduct was canvassed, 

 and some advice given. Supper was at last announced, 

 and the guests invited to an adjoining room. The table 

 was only supplied with two puddings, and a stone pitcher 

 filled with water. All were helpoti, none could eat but 

 the Doctor. He partook freely of the pudding, and urg 

 ed his friends to do the same ; but it was out of the ques- 

 tion — they tasted and tried in vain. When their host 

 saw the difficulty was unconquerable, he rose and ad- 

 dressed them, ' My friends, any one who can subsist up- 

 on saw-dust pudding and water, as I can, needs no man's 

 patronage.' — Watson's Annals of Philadelphia. 



There has been a severe drought in the Southern and 

 Western sections of the United Slates, while we at the 

 East have been deluged with rain. 'The Southern pa- 

 pers speak with rapture of a copious rain, but say they 

 want more. 



What is Life ? — There is eloquence of thought 

 as well as of language in the following- paragraph 

 from Arnott's Elements of Physics. 



The function, by which the animal body as. 

 sunies foreign matters from around, and converts 

 them into its own subtsance, is little inviting in 

 some of its details, but taken altogether is one of 

 the most wonderful subjects which can engage the 

 human attention. It points directly to the curious 

 and yet unanswered question — What is life.' 

 The student of nature may analyze with all his 

 art those minute portions of matter called seedt 

 and ova, which he knowes to be the rudiments of 

 future creatures, and the links by which endless 

 generations of living creatures hang to existence: 

 but he cannot disentangle anj display apart their 

 mysterious life ! that something, under the influ- 

 ence of which each little germ in due time swells 

 out, to fill an invisible mould of maturity which 

 determines its forms and proportions. One such 

 substance thus becomes a beauteous rose bush; 

 another a noble oak ; a third an eagle, a fourth an 

 ele[>}iant — yea, in the same way, out of the rude 

 materials of broken seeds and roots, and leaves of 

 plants, and bits of animal flesh, is built up the hil. 

 man frame itself, whether of the'active male, com. 

 biniiig gracefulness with strength, or of the gentler 

 v\ Oman, with beauty around her as light. How 

 passing strange that such should be the origin of 

 the bright human eye, whose glance pierces as if 

 the invisible soul were shot with it — or the lipi 

 which pour forth sweetest eloquence — of the la. 

 rynx, which by vibrating, fills the surrounding air 

 with mnsic: and more wonderful than all, of thai 

 mass shut up within the bony fortress of the scull, 

 whose delicate and curious texture is the abode of 

 the soul, with its reason which contemplates, and 

 its sensibility whicli delights in these and endlesi 

 other miracles of creation. 



A sailor who had been round the world with Capt. 

 Cook, returned in safety to his native village. Of course, 

 it was supposed that he must know more than anybody 

 else ; the whole village gathered round him to a.sk ques- 

 tions. He seemed to have little to say lor himself, 'till 

 someone asked him, il the world was round ? Then with 

 a tone of authority, he exclaimed, 'As to that, I'll tell 

 you what itis; they say the world is round — but I've 



been all round it, and I'll be if it an't as flat as (his 



table'! 



At the time Mr. Peale was exhibiting his beautiful 

 picture of the Court of Death in this city, he sent thi 

 late Rev. Dr. Osgood a ticket, on which was inscribed, 

 *Admit the bearer to the Court of Death ;' the old gen- 

 tleman never having heard of the picture, was utterly 



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