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THE GENkSEE FARMER 



October 15, 1831. 



A piece of paper, containing the following lines. 

 written with a pencil, was found at some distance 

 from Mount Auburn. It would appear that the 

 writer was present during the recent Consecration 

 of the Cemetry at that place. Taking into view 

 the object of the celebration at such a spot, there 

 seems to be much appropriateness in the allusion to 

 the two gardens — that which Adam was appoint- 

 ed to " dress and keep," and that in which ' 'hrist 

 was buried. We have taken the liberty of giving 

 them a place in our paper — [Boston Transcript. 



CONSECRATION HYMN. 



•' There was a garden, and in the garden a new 

 scpuluhre." 

 What myriads throng, in proud array, 



With songs of joy, and flags unfurl'd, 

 To consecrate the glorious day, 



That gave a nation to the world. 

 We raise no shout, no trumpet sound, 



No banner to the. breeze we spread : 

 Children of clay ! bend humbly round ; 



We plant a City to the Dead. 

 For man a garden rose in bloom, 



When yon glad sun began to burn ; 

 He fell — and heard the awful doom— 



" Of dust thou art — to dust return !" 

 But He, in whose pure faith we come, 



Who in a sadder garden lay, 

 Assured us of a brighter home, 



And rose, and led the glorious way. 



His word we trust ! When life shall end, 

 Here be our long, long slumber passed : 



To the first garden's doom we bend, 

 And bless the promise of the last. 



last week at Anclover, Mass. a team of 

 one hundred and, fifty pairs of working ox- 

 en paraded the streets and marched and 

 countermarched with as much precision as 

 well disciplined troops. — Alb. Argus. 



Horticulture. — On the score of orna- 

 ment, horticulture recommends itself to all 

 persons of taste and lovers of beauty. 



"Nothing," says Dr. Lacey, in his dis- 

 course pronounced at the late exhibition of 

 the Albany Horticultural Society, ''cer- 

 tainly, contributes more to rural ornament, 

 than the tasteful disposition of trees. Ar- 

 chitecture, painting, statuary, and all the 

 fine arts, are infinitely less beautiful than 

 rich and variegated foilage, tangled and 

 luxuriant thickets, decorated lawns,and ex- 

 tensive avenues. These, in the absence 

 of artificial embellishments, will not fail to 

 be satisfactory ; but for the want of them 

 nothing can atone. A residence without 

 trees, in defiance of every other ornament, 

 presents a cheerless and barren aspect. — 

 Were the most attractive places of which 

 the world boasts, divested of their umbra- 

 geous beauty, they would instantly cease 

 to delight Instead of the enchantment 

 and witchery they now possess, they would 

 be uninteresting, if not repulsive. The 

 Battery, the Boulevards, and the classic 

 cities of Oxford and Cambridge, are vastly 

 indebted for their magnificence to the ven- 

 erable trees with which they are adorned 



Speaking of the most attractive parts of Pa- 

 ris, says a fine writer, their beauty is much 

 heightened by the detached villas and pal- 

 aces they contain, surrounded with gard- 

 ens, in wich the Ulac, the laburnum, the ac- 

 acia, and other ornamental trees, at* most 

 conspicuous." 



A Strong Team. — At the agricultura 

 Exhibition and cattle show which took place 



Tlie Royal Printing Office at Paris. — 

 According to the last inventory that has 

 been pu'uli.-hed of this establishment, it 

 contains the types of lifty-six. Ibiints of o- 

 nental characters, which comprehend all! 

 the known alphabets of the nations of A- 

 sia, ancient as well as modem. There i 

 are sixteen alphabets of dnferent Europe- 

 an nations who do not employ the Roman 

 characters, and of these latter the estab- 

 hshment possesses lorty-six complete; 

 founts of various forms and dimensions. 

 All these founts weigh at least 828,000 

 pounds ; and as an octavo page weighs a- 

 bout six pounds ten ounces, the Royal 

 Printing Office contains types sufficient to 

 compose, without distribution, 125,000 pa- 

 ges, or 7800 octavo sheets, which, at thir- 

 ty sheets per volume, would make 260 vol- 

 umes. There are in actual employment 

 one hundred and fourteen hand-pres ol 

 the old construction for all sizes of paper ; 

 six hand-presses with different new improv- 

 ments ; five mechanical presses which 

 work the sheet on both sides at the same 

 time ; and one which works two sheets on 

 both sides, also at once : these six me- 

 chanical presses are all moved by a single 

 steam engine. A hand press is capable of 

 printing three thousand >heets on one side, 

 or two presses 3000 sheets on both sides 

 in a day ; and every mechanical press be- 

 ing able to print about 14,000 sheets daily 

 on both sides; the Royal Printing office is 

 capable of working oil' ma single day 2 78.- 

 (Kio sheets, or 556 reams of paper, which 

 is equivalent to 9266 volumes in 8vo. of 

 thirty sheets each. r l he immense means 

 thus possessed by this establishment ena- 

 bles it to keep up, ready composed, about 

 5000 forms of the impression required by 

 the different government boards, and there- 

 by secures a vast economy both of tune 

 and expense. These means of execution 

 are supported by a foundery, which in- 

 cludes the striking of matrices, the casting 

 of types, stereotyping, &c. Six furna- 

 ces provide employment for forty work- 

 men, independent of the stereotyping, the 

 perfection of which is so great as to cast 

 in a single plate the largest form. The es- 

 tablishment possesses, besides, vast ware- 

 rooms and workshops for drying, pressing, 

 ruling, folding, stitching, boarding, and 

 binding of the books and registers. The 

 consumption of paper at the Koyal Print- 

 ing Office in a single year amounts at an 

 average, to from eighty to one hundred 

 thousand reams ; or from two hundred and 

 sixty-one to three hundred and twenty-six 

 reams per day, which are printed for the 

 use of the several boards. The number 

 of workmen employed regularly is from 

 three hundred and fifty to four hundred and 

 fifty. 



Origin of Newspapers. — After the de- 

 feat of the Spanish Umada, intended by 

 Philip II. of Spain for the invasion of 

 England, great interest being excited in 

 every class, which gave rise to a very im- 

 portant invention, that of newspapers. — 

 Previous to this period, all articles of intel- 

 ligence had been circulated in manuscript, 

 and all ..ohtical remarks which the govern- 

 ment found itself interested in addressing 

 the people, had issued in the shape of pam- 

 phl its. lint the peculiar convenience at 

 such a juncture, of uniting these two ob- 

 jects, in a periodical publication, becoming 

 obvious to the ministry, there appeared 

 some time in the month of April, 158&, the 

 first number of the English Mercury, a 

 paper resembling the present English Ga- 

 zette, which must nave come out almost 

 daily, since Xo. 50, the earliest specimen 

 of the work now extant, is dated July 23d 

 of the same year. This intere>ting arti- 

 cle is preserved in the British Museum. 



A new Coffee-pot has been invented iii 

 Paris, by .which the coffee is made without 

 evaporation, the lamp extinguishes itself as 

 soon as the coffee is made,thc water comes 

 down on the coffee, of its own accord, in a 

 boiling state, which retains in the coffee 

 the whole of its aroma ; and in addition to 

 this, judging by the prints of the vessel, 

 which we have seen, it makes a very hand- 

 some ornament. 



A large Apple. — We have been shown 

 a very large Apple, which weighed 23 oun- 

 ces and measured 15 1-2 inches in circum- 

 ference The Apple appeared t. be per- 

 fectly sound, and was of the kind called 

 Po md-Sweeting. It was from the farm of 

 Mr. George T. Wager, of Brunswick, in 

 this county. — Toy Sentinel. 



Cashmere Shawls. — A lino ci shmi > 

 shawl tills a loom for a whole year. It is 

 not customary in India to wash a cashmere 

 shawl after it comes Irom the loom. 



Mental and Personal Qualifications of a 

 good Wife. — Great . and a 



prudent generosity — a lively look, a prop- 

 er spirit and a cheerful disposition. A 

 good person moderate height, but notper- 

 fectly beautiful. Young by ;dl means — 

 old by no means. A decent share of com- 

 mon sense, and a small modicum of wit — 

 but no learning — no learning (either an- 

 cient or modern). Well, but not critically 

 skilled in her own tongue. A proper knowl- 

 edge of accounts and arithmetic. Not 

 always in the parlor but sometimes in the 

 kitchen. Ready at her nce.llo, but more 

 devoted to plain work than to fine. Fon- 

 der of country dances than ipiad-ille or 

 waltzing. Decently but not affectedly si- 

 lent. 



*rjp The Governor of Gaudaloupe, has given 

 permission that 3000 barrels of Com Meal may 

 lie imported into thai Island from America, at a du- 

 ty of '2 francs per bbl., in consequence of the dam- 

 age done the crops by the August Hurries 



