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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. iy. 18a^ 



iK[iscEi.i.Ain:z:s. 



A man who is now keeping a large school.with- 

 in six miles of our office, and who has kept three 

 seasons before, at $'2C> per month, lately gave the 

 following answers to the following questions : — 



Q,. How many JVeiu England states are there ? 



Ans. Twenty-three. 



Q. Which is the largest state in the Union ? 



Ans. Philadelphia is the largest, but New York 

 does the most business. 



Q,. What part of speech is the word beit — e. g. 

 he is the best man in town .-' 



Ans. A regular neuter verb — indicative mode, 

 present tense, third person singular, and agrees 

 with he — a verb must agree with its nominative 

 case in number and person ! 

 Q. What is seven times nine ? 



Ans. Eighty-one. 



Q,. Spell benefit. Ans. Bennifit. 



Q,. Spell beneficial. Ans. Beunifecaii. 



Q. Spell Wednesday. Ans. Wendesday. 



Unpublished Letter of Di: Franklin.— The fol- 

 lowing characteristic letter of Franklin, which, we 

 belie\^, has never yet boon published, was com- 

 municated, to Mr Schwartz, of Hamburgh, by a 

 nephew of Dr. Prica, who found it among his un- 

 cle's papers. The friend who has sent it to us for 

 publication, lately received it frofti Mr Schwartz, 

 in Hamburgh. The guod town, to whose history 

 it relates, has now its steeple and bell, but, we 

 hope, not at Uic expense of the parish library : 



Passy, Mar. 18th. 1785. 

 Mr Dear Friknd— My nephew, Mr Williams, 

 will have the honour of delivering you this line. — 

 It is to request from you a list of a few good books, 

 to the value of about twenty five pounds, such as 

 are most proper to inculcate principles of sound 

 reliiiion and just government. A new town in the 

 State of Massachusetts, having done me the hon- 

 our of naming itself after mc, and proposing to 

 build a steeple to their meeting-house, if I would 

 give them a bell. I have advise'd the sparing 

 themselves the expense of a steeple at ir^^sent, 

 and that they would accept of books instea '''' « 



Q,. Spell Tuesday. Ans. Teusday 



We solemnly assure our readers, that very many ^gj| ggnse beinc preferable to sound. These are 

 of the persons who keep our common schools, ', ,]^gj.pf|jj.g intended as the commencement of a 



Fi-om the Palladium. 



The King of England has approved the 

 the Nova >Scotia Legislature, for working the| 

 mines of that Province. 



It was lately moved in the House of Assel 

 in Barbadoes to stop the pay of the troops t| 

 because public money had been used without f 

 appropriation. 



Several Factories, which have lately heel 

 fire, have been saved from destruction by ln| 

 plnstercd rooms. From some experiments, 

 a few years since in England, it appeared 

 iiigs could be made completely inr-ombustibl 

 plaster, provided it was put on so as to exclul 

 air from the wood work. 



The distance from Hallowell to Quebec i^ 

 211 miles — half in Maine and half in Canal 

 The road would, before long, be among the ! 

 travelled in America. Tlie mail might be ca 

 in two days. 



Doubts are expressed in England, whether 

 , elor's opinions on certidn subjects can b( 

 'like those of husbands and fathers. 



winter after winter, are men who are thus qualiti- jj^jg j.q^.|j-j,^[ i;i,y^yy for the use of a society of 'Bitf'le}/. — Two or more cargoes of this, 

 ed. And they are often men too, who have had i ^^^^^[1-^^^^ j.gg gp^j,;,),, fa^rmers, sucli as our coun- I now ivi<iemand for biewing, were lately imp 

 the advantages of academical instruction, and can | ^^ people generallv consist of. Besides your own I into 3ostf n from Europe, 

 show sundry certificates from clergymen and se- j ^,,Qrks, I would only mention, on the recouunenda The KenOhec Journal says, passeng 

 lectmen, that they are qualified to keep an English 1 jJQij Qj'jjjy gjgter, " Stennet's Discourses on per i.cen carried^), stage from Portland to BeU 



Maine, in a day. 



school. We have no interest, save an interest 

 common with every other citizen, in this matter. 

 [Springfield paper'.] 



Very mal-aprop. — A tradesman being arrested 

 in the West Riding Yorkshire, he sent for two of 

 his neighbors to give bail for him, who, on their 

 arrival, were accosted by the Sheriff's oflicer with 

 '■ I am glad to see you, gentlemen ; I have a writ 

 for both of you, and your coming hither has saved 

 me the trouble of seeking you." 



Typographical Misprision. — A curious error ap- 

 pears in one of the papers in giving the verdict of 

 a coroner's inquest on a glutton, who was cheked 

 fey voraciously devouring part of a goose. The 

 verdict was, died by suffocation, which was print- 

 ed stuffocation '. 



sonal Religion," which may be one book of the 

 number, if you know it and approve of it. 



With the highest esteem and resppct, I am ever, 

 mv dear friend, yours most affectionately. 



B. FRANKLIN. 



Warm Articles. — The foil.owing rhyme 

 ten quoted by Dean Swift : • A pigeon, a 

 a pia:, and a lover, should never bd cold. 



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Rev. Dr. Price. 



[U. S. Literary Gaz.] 



The following is from the Western Herald. It 

 is calculated for meridian of Steubenville, in Ohio, 

 but will serve for other places. It is full of i»trinsic 

 wisdom. 



Allegorical. — A Traveller setting out upon a 

 journey, was assailed on the road by cure, mastiffs 

 and half grown puppies which came out of their 

 kennels, to bark at him as ho pass< d along. He 

 often dismounted from his horse to drive then 

 back with stones and sticks into their places. — 

 A guinea dearly earned.— The parish clerk at This operation was repeated every day, and some- 

 Winkleigh, has a sahiry of one guinea per annum times as often as twenty times a day. The con- 

 fer winding up the church clock daily, and it has , sequence was, that more than half the traveller's 

 been calculated, that to earn this sum, he has to time was consumed in chasing these dogs and 

 travel a hundred and two miles,ascend and desend puppies. At last he was overtaken by a neig-hbor, 

 -29,000 steps, and haul up 18 tons weight 3,G00 who was going the same road, but who had set 



out a long time after him. The latter traveller 

 was very much surprised to find the other no far- 



yards. [English paper.] 



Two Oxonians, dining togetfier, one of them, ] jijgj. (,„ ]{[g journey ; and on hearing the reason, 

 noticing a spot of grease on the neckcloth of the „ Alas," said he, " is it possible that you have lost 

 other, said — " I see you are a Grecian." " Pooh,' | y^yj tjQjg q^j wasted your strength in this idle 

 said the other, "that's far-fetched." "No, indeed," j occupation ? These same animals have beset me 



said the punster, " I made it on the spot." 



Beauty. — Gentil assures us, that the women in 

 the northern parts of China employ every art to 

 diminish their eyes. For this purpose, the girls, 

 instructed by tlieir mothers, extend their eyelids 

 continually with the view of making their eyes ob- 

 long and small. These properties in the estima- 

 tion of the Chinese, when joined to a flat nose, 

 and larw*, open, pendulous ears, constitute the 

 perfection of beauty. 



Merit. — True merit, like a river, the deeper it 

 is the less noise it makes. — Marquis of Halifax: 



occupation 



all along the road but I have saved my time and 

 labor by taking no notice of their barkings ; while 

 you have lost yours in resenting insults which did 

 lyou no harm, and in chastising dogs and puppies 

 I whose manners you can never mend," 



The Liverpool Advertiser says, " it is currently 

 stated in the best informed political circles of the 

 metropolis, that the differences which have arisen 

 between this country and the United States, liavc 

 reference to more than one important point, and 

 are likely to produce a good deal of angry discus- 

 sion." 



Ornamental and Fruit Trees, Shrubs, i'»< 

 D. & C. LANURETH. 



J^urseri/, Seedsmen, and Florists, , 



PniL4DKr.PHli 



HAVE constantly on band for s.ile, a i 

 collection of Fruit Trees, Hardy Ornamental Tree 

 Shrubs. Green House Plants, Bulbous Roots, Gd 

 Seeds, &c. iic. not exceeded by any similar estal 

 meat in the United States. 



In their seieclion of FRlJlTS for' cultivation, i 

 care and .iltention has been paid, and from an inl 

 cy with the subject of many years, they believe it^ 

 judirioiislv. 



The ORNAMENTAL PLANTS, both (endeij 

 hardy, which they are now cultivating, are some i 

 most esteemed and admired of both native and 

 origin. 



1 he GARDEN SEEDS, of which a large anr 

 ral assortment is cultivated, are exclusively of 

 own rearing, for which purpose a number of aca 

 tached to the establishment are appropriated, anl 

 the moment they are planted, through all the vS 

 stages of their growth and ripening are under ihei 

 mediate care and enperintendence, consequentls 

 are enabled to assure purchasers not only of theS 

 but quality. 



Persons ordering any of the articles on their| 

 logue, m^y be assnred of having them well and ' 

 packed, and of every attention being paid to them, I 

 that Ihey will give satisfaction. 



Orders received by Messrs. PARKER & CODM.I 

 No. 9 Congress-square, near the Exchange Ctl 

 House, Hcston, of whom priced Calaloguf ? of | 



whole may be had gratis. 



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