24 



NEW ENGLAND lARMEH. 



August 11, 182(1. 



XaiSC£I.I.ANIES. 



The following very feeling Dirge on the death 

 of Adams and Jefferson, copied from the Connect- 

 icut Mirror, is from the pen of Mr Brainard. It 

 was written impromptu, under these cireumsttsices: 

 A young lady was at her piano, playing " Roslin 

 Castle," to a small circle, when the news of Mr 

 Jefferson's death arrived. Mr Brainard immedi- 

 ately wrote the following lines to that tunc, which 

 the lady sung and played. They do equol credit 

 to his poetical taste and to his heart : 

 Toll not the bell, and muffle not 

 The drum, nor fire the funeral shot ; 

 Nor half-way hoist our banner now — 

 Nor weed the arm, nor cloud the brow — 

 But high to Heaven be raised the eye, 

 And lofty be the rapturous sigh ; 

 And still the cannon, drum, and bell, 

 Nor let the flag of sorrow tell. 



Now low are laid their honour'd forms. 

 But from the clods, and dust, and worms, 

 Their spirits wake, and breathing, rise 

 Above the Sun's own glorious skies. 

 And happy be their airy track — 

 We may not, would not, call them back ; — 

 For Patriots' hands may clasp with theirs, 

 And Angel harps may hymn their prayers. 



A writer in tht iNew York Statesman, says—and 1 and pour on it several spoonfuls of good vinegai 

 ^ "'^"•*'' 'If the linen contain lime, the acid will excite com 



siderable effervesence, accompanied with a sligb 

 noise. Otherwise, no effect is produced. 



doubtless, says truly— that the present excitement 

 which exists in that city in relation to monied con- 

 cerns, " was occasioned by men who have been 

 playincr a desperate game in Bonds and fictitious 

 paper ;" making, as the swindling terra is, " heavy 

 operations" out of nothing, and shaving each oth- 

 er, until they were compelled to raise the curtain, 

 and shov themselves to the public." This reminds 

 us of an old gentleman in New England, who 

 boasted that he had two of the cutest boys in the 

 world at making speculations. "Why," said he, 

 " I'll lay you a pistareen that if they be locked up 

 in a room together, where they can see no other 

 person to trade with, they will make five dollars 

 a piece by swapping clothes with eaf h other." 

 [Nat. Journ.] 



A box of glass, labelled in large letters " this 

 side up, with care," was plac«d on board one of 

 the steam-boats on Wednesday, for New York. 

 A portly gentleman, dressed in a round-about, | tjjg article may be obtained at the apothecaries 



Important to Housekeepers. — The following r« 

 ceipt we can certify from our own experience t 

 be effectual. The cobalt, however, instead of bt 

 ing mixed up with water merely, should be put ii 

 to" weak rum and water, the odour of which a 

 tracts the flies. [Eve. Post.] 



Flies, Flies. — An ounce of pulverised Cobal m! 

 moistened with water and placed in such a situi in 

 tion that flies may have free access to it, will e 

 fectually destroy the largest numbers of them 

 a short time. 



As the water dries out it may be replenish^ 

 any number of times without destroying the fl> 

 killing properties of the cobalt. • The simple met 

 od of freeing ourselves from these troublesome i 

 sects is a valuable discovery, and the more so 



eated himself upon the box, and as the direction I {j,g \f^^ puce of about twenty-Jive cents per ounc 



had been fresh put on, when he arose, he had trans- j 



ferred a perfect impression to the seat of his un- 



John Mams^ Prophecy at 20 years of age. The 

 following is an extract of a letter written by John 

 Adams, dated at Worcester, Ms. Oct. 12, 1755. 



" Soon after the reformation, a few people came 

 over to this new world, for conscience sake. Per- 

 haps this trivial incident may transfer the great 

 seat of empire into America. It looks likely to 

 rae ; for, if we can remove Gallicks, our people, 

 according to exact computations, will, in another 

 century, become more numerous than England it- 

 self. Should this be the case, since we have, I 

 may say, all the naval stores of the nation in our 

 hands,it will be easy to get the mastery and all Eu- 

 rope will not be able to subdue us. The only way 

 to keep us from setting up for ourselves, is to dis- 

 unite us. Be not surprised that I am turned poli- 

 tician. This whole town is immersed in politics. 

 The interests of nations, and all the din of war, 

 makes the subject of every conversation. I sit and 

 hear, and afl.er having been led through a maze of 

 sage observations, I sometimes retire, and laying 

 things together, form some reflections pleasing to 

 myself. The produce of one of these reveries you 

 have read above." 



WILD CHERRY TREE. 



The poisonous qualities of this tree, are too lit- 

 tle known amongst farmers, who have met with 

 some serious losses in cattle, and have attributed 

 their sudden death to some other causes. Week 

 before last,one of Mr Joseph Ilershy's neighbours, 

 in Hempfield township, having fallen one of his 

 trees, six of his cows eat of the leaves, and died 

 in the courpe of half an hour afterwards. When it 

 is necessary to cut a tree of this kind down, the 

 branches and leaves should be burnt immediately, 

 as cattle are fond of them, and are liable to die 

 instantaneously by eating freely. 



[Gre6njburg(Pcnn.) paper.] 



mentionables. As he walked about the deck, 

 every one exclaimed " this side up with care." 

 We need not add that the effect was ludicrous. 

 [Philadelphia paper.] 



Major Cartwright hrought an Esquimaux woman 

 to England with him, of whom he used to relate 

 many curious particulars. Though horribly ugly 

 herself, she could hardly allow any Englishwoman 

 to be handsome, but she was more just to the men. 

 She was so struck on entering St. Paul's Cathe- 

 dral, that her knees shook under her; after a short 

 pause, she anxiously inquired. " Did man make 

 it, or was it found here?" When the gentleman 

 who had the charge of her told her that they must 

 return her to her country for want of money, she 

 asked why they did not go into the woods and kill 

 venison? and when told they would be hanged if 

 they did so, she expressed her surprise. "Hanged 

 for killing venison ! O, you fool !" [Lon. pa.] 



An Eternal separation. — An English lady re- 

 cently divorced from her beloved, came over to 

 Prance and turned Catholic, in order, she said, that 

 she might not again be in contact with her hus- 

 band, either in this world or the next. 



In the word abstemious, the five vowels of the 

 alphabet stand in their grammatical order, a e i o 

 u. The word facetious presents the same acciden- 

 tal singularity ; ani facetiously brings in the y. 



Sea-hathing. — A few ladies of the en bon point 

 cast, weighing probably from 16 to 18 stone a 

 head, lately paid a visit to a small town on the 

 east coast for the benefit of sea bathing. As they 

 descended from the vehicle which had conveyed 

 them,the village natives exhibited no small degree 

 of surprise at their round and portly figures. 'Lord 

 guide us!' involuntarily ejaculated one of the fish 



A Yankee in this city has discovered that a li 

 tie sweet oil put upon brass ornaments will pr 

 vent the injury which flies sometimes occasi' 

 them. He also has ascertained that the applicath 

 of sweet oil upon horses will prevent flies fromb 

 ing them. This is certainly u orth notice, and 

 the experiment should prove successful, it will 

 of immense importance to many of tlie unfortuna 

 quadrupeds who are now almost bitten to deatji 1 

 these villainous insects. [N. Y. Courier.] 



Book Gilding. — John Robertson, bookbinder 

 Montrose,has invented a machine for gilding boo 

 on the back. It performs its operation with giet. 

 accuracy and quickness, enabling the gilder to fi 

 ish 50 uniform volumes in the course of an houi 



Subscribers to the JVetv England Farmer are i 

 formed that they can have their volumes neatly h 

 bound and lettered at 75 cents, which i.i as cheap 

 they can be done in this city — by sending themi 

 this office. 



An eminent coach proprietor in England has of- 

 fered the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Com- 

 mittee, £20,000 per annum, for the liberty of con- 

 veying passengers between the two towns. 



Public Sale of Wool. 

 On THURSDAY, the 14th of Sept. at 9 o'clock, 

 At the east end of the Hall ever the New Market, i 

 der the regulations of the "A. E. Society." 



A large quantity of Merino, Grade and Native Flee 

 Wool which will be exempt from the State duty o 

 per centum. 



Farmers and others, who wish to avail Iheniselvei 

 this opportunity of disposing of their Wool, arc infer 

 ed that we are in readiness to receive at any time ui 

 the 9th September, at -which time our catalogue will 

 closed. 



— Also a! the same time — 

 300 bales Smvrna ) 



65 do. Saxony Electoral, ^ WOOL. 

 100 do. Spanish ) 



This Wool may be examined on and after (he 9 

 of Sept. until the day of sale. 



COOLIDGE, POOR i: HEAD, Jluct. July 2 



Market St., and French & Davenport 713 \\a=hiiig.' 

 Street, who are appointed sole agents for vending t 

 same. eptf Boston, April fS, 1826. 



PATEN T HOES.— J. & A. Fale's Patent Hot 

 ives, 'I wonder what like the healthy folk '11 be j stantly for sale by French^& Weld, 31 & 32 

 in that place — gin thae be the sick anes.' 



[Scotch pa.] 



To ascertain if Linen be bleached with Lime. 



Every body knows the injury which is done to 

 linen by blenching it with lime. It is easy to de- 

 tect linens which have been so bleached, in tlie 

 following manner: Cut off a piece of the new lin- 

 en which you wish to examine, put it into a glass, 



;3:5=Publlshed every Friday at Three Dollars per a 

 runn, jiayable at the end of the year— hut those wl 

 pay within sixty days from the time of subscribing 

 entitled to a detUiction of Fifty Cents. 



Gentlemen who pi ocure_^rt responsible subscribei 

 are entitled to a sixth volume gratis. 



