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IN'EW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Fiom .Mrs. C'olviu's Weekly Messenger. 

 THE FOX JIKD AKT. 



BY JOHS B. C. '**«, KSa. 

 An Ant would have her picture drawn. 

 By Fox, the STu.vp.r of the lawn ; 

 Whose matchless sketches bold and rare. 

 Are all as like as they can slan. 

 This tiny aul in Reynard's hole 

 Said, ' 'niOii;,'h admir'd by cveiy .-uii!. 

 .Still I am nuek as tos=ct-lamb, 

 And would be painted as I am !' 

 Good, said the Fox, that's my affair ; 

 Pray, Ma'am, be seated in the chaii-. 

 Bhc sfjuats. Conceit began to fret, 

 (The Ant was a complete coquette.) 

 And roU'd her eyes and to?s'J her head, 

 And bit her lips to make 'era red ; 

 Forc'd many a trait from love to spite, 

 Killing to look with all its might. 

 Fox, with the pallet in his paw, 

 Took snuff, and then began to draw ; 

 Glanc'd o'er hor face ; found little in it — 

 And did her likeness in a minute. 

 Ant rose and look'd — ' Ve powers,' says she, 

 ' Is this poor little image me ? 

 ' Me ? me not bigger than your thumb ? 

 ' The daub is not like me a crumb. 

 ' No, by the powers that rule the ball, 

 ' It is at least two thirds too small !' 

 Fox, who descried her shoals and shelves 

 Replied, ' Miss .\nt, few know themselves ; 

 ' Small folks, by great conceit puffed fat, 

 ' Are not one grain more greet fur llial ." 



MF.DICINAI.. 



We are aware that medical prescription?, 

 conveyeil through the medium of a newspaper, 

 carry with them no great force of authority. — 

 It has not iinfrequently happened, liowever, that 

 they have been productive of good. The great- 

 est discoveries in philosophy liave been the re- 

 sults of reflection, operating upon casual inci- 

 dents. Valuable principles have been devel- 

 oped in the healing, as well as in other arts, by 

 fortuitous circumstances; and perhaps the fol- 

 lowing iiems, which we have selected from 

 English papers, may have the effect to rescue 

 some one of the human funily from the evil it 

 proposes to remedy. Sliould its application in a 

 single instance be salutary, the l.ibor bestowed 

 will not have been regretted. — American. 



Croup. — Dr. Keddelin, of VVeismar, has com- 

 mimicated to the Koyal Society at Gottingen, 

 the following successful treatment of Croup, af- 

 ter the usual remedies had been tried without 

 effect : — The patient was a female aged 19, who, 

 on the third day after being seized with the 

 Croup, was unable to swallow, had begun to 

 rattle in the throat, and seemed approaching 

 rapidly to dissolution. Dr. Keddelin insinuated, 

 by means of a quill, a mixture of Spanish snufl' 

 and mari'occo into her nostrils; and alter re- 

 peating this mixture a second time, it excited 

 sneezing and vomiting; this occasioned the dis- 

 charge of two long nienibi'anous cylinders from 

 the trachea, (wind-[)ipe) upon wliich the rat- 

 tling immediately ceased, and tli(> patient was 

 rescued from instantaneous suflbcation. One of 

 the tubes, when split open, measured nine 

 French lines in breadth ; they were quite white, 

 and bore a strong exten?ion v.ithout injury to 

 (heir fibrous texture. 



It is said to be a specific for the rheumatism, 

 to apply a cabbage-leaf to the part affected. — 

 Choose a perfect leaf, cut ofi' the protuberant 

 stalk on the back, and place it on the part with 

 a bandage of flannel on going to bed. It will 

 produce a local perspiration, and in two or three 

 repetitions a cure will be effected. 



A writer says, " tobacco exhausts those juices 

 so essentially necessary to further digestion ; it 

 creates thirst and nausea ; it destroys appetite ; 

 the complexion becomes cadaverous ; tinally, 

 the ehewer and smoker becomes a poor miser- 

 able extenuated atrophic walking skeleton, smok- 

 ing away his few remaining ideas, and spitting 

 up his lungs, until death releases him from all 

 his sufferings."' The truth, we believe, is, that 

 to many constitutions tobacco is hurtful — to oth- 

 ers, innocent ; and the true course is for those 

 who find it injurious, to abstain from its use. 

 That it is pernicious to young people generally 

 is past a doubt, and therefore its use by them 

 ought to be forbidden or discouraged. 



Great Establishment. — There is an extensive 

 Manufacturing Establishment at Dover, N. H. 

 The capital is j5f''J0,000 ; a great part of the 

 shares, we believe, are owned in this city 

 (Boston.) The proprietors have a Cotton Man- 

 ufactory, which carries 2500 spindles, employs 

 36 looms, I'iO hands, and at which 10,000 yards 

 of siieeting and shirting are manufactured and 

 bleached per week. During the last season, 

 the company erected a building of 80 by 54 

 feet, 4 stories, embracing a rolling and slitting 

 mill, nail factory and machine. The basement 

 and second stories are devoted to the rolling and 

 slitting mill — the construction of the rolling mill 

 is on a new principle, having but one water 

 wheel placed at the side of the platform. The 

 third story is used as the nail factory, and from 

 6 to 700 tons of iron per year, are cut into nails 

 in this factory. The 4th story is occupied as a 

 machine shop, in which 40 hands are employed, 

 in making the various kinds of machinery for a 

 new cotton manufactory, now erecting on the 

 same falls, wliich is to be 154 by 43 I'eet, and 

 will carry 4O0O spindles, and employ from 150 

 to 200 hands, and probably produce 20,000 

 yards of cloth per week. — This, with other 

 improvements going on at Dover, will prove 

 of lasting advantage to the town, "which is des- 

 tined to become the Manclivster of New-Hamp- 

 shire." — Gazette. 



Baltimore Alamifactnries. — The Federal Re- 

 publican says, there are 13 cotton mills in that 

 vicinit}', which drive at least 32,080 spindles — 



2 woollen mills — 1 copper rolling mill, which 

 is the only one of note in the United States — 



3 extensive rolling-mills, which manufacture 

 annually at least 1500 tons of iron into rods, 

 hoops, bolt and sheet iron — besides at least 30 

 of the best and most improved merchant-mills 

 ivithin the limits and environs of the city, that 

 manufacture about 300,000 barrels of flour an- 

 nually. 



working the pumps with less fatigue than is usu- 

 al. This is a highly important discovery, and 

 cannot fail to induce every ship owner to avail 

 himself of the plan for the use of his ship. In- 

 surance oflices would find it to be their intere'^f, 

 and would do an act of humanity, were tliev to 

 insist, as one of the conditions to insurance, 

 that this highly improved plan .should be adop- 

 ted by every ship over which they might ha\e 

 any control. It is understood that Lieut. Voor- 

 hecs intends to present his invention to the dil- 

 ferent foreign governments through the medium 

 of their Ambassadors at Washington. 



From the Xew York American. 

 A method of working pumps, by means of a 

 capstan, has lately been invented by P. T. \'oor- 

 hecs, first Lieut, of the U. S. ship Washington. 

 The machinery is simple, not expensive, and 

 so constructed as to admit the common wav of 



Piety communicates a divine lustre to the fe- 

 male mind — wit and beauty, like the flower of 

 the field, may flourish for a season ; but let it 

 be remembered, that like the fragrant blossoms 

 that bloom in the air, these gifts are frail and 

 fading. Age will nip the bloom of beauty; 

 sickness and sorrow will stop the current of wif 

 and humor ; and in that gloomy time which is 

 appointed for all, piety will support the droop. 

 ing soul, like a refreshing dew upon the parch- 

 ed earth. — 



1 am an admirer of simplicity ; hut I nevei 

 feel a greater impulse to pay homage at ifi 

 shrine, than \vhen it sheds its soft lustre on th( 

 female sex. I am pleased when I behold wo 

 man in such lights and shades of soul, tempo 

 and disposition, as nature has originally forniei 

 her in. Were I to select a fair 



" For solid comfort and connubial love," 

 it should be her, who, reared in seclusion, wa 

 the genuine child of simplicity — whose spotles 

 mind has never received an unfavorable imprei- 

 sion from the follies of a fashionable world. 



Sorrow and calamity are the surest test c 

 religious principle ; and religious principle rise 

 to moral sublimity when it teaches the sufferi! 

 individual to breathe its glorious sjiirit throng 

 its own hallowed medium. 



Intellectual talents are the noblest gift of th 

 .\lmighty, but they involve their possessor i 

 high and solemn responsibility. Prostituted g( 

 nius is the nearest resemblance of the spirit ( 

 evil. It looks like Satan clothed in the garb ■ 

 an angel of light. 



The virtues, like the vices, are so fond i 

 one another that they are seldom or ever foun 

 separate; and if a virtue or two be sometinif 

 found crowded in amongst many vices, they ar 

 only like sprigs of geranium set without ro> 

 in a garden, which, belore they hav^ time i 

 take root, are thrown down by the first showf / 

 or gust of wind, and wither away directly. i 



Lost money may be found again ; but a los 

 character is seldom recovered. 



Sir Nicholas Bacon, a judge in (he time ( 

 Queen Elizabeth, was once, while on the bencl 

 importuned by a criminal to spare his life o 

 account of his kindred. " How so ?" asked tb 

 .Judge. " Because my name is Hog and youi 

 is Bacon, and hog and bacon are so near a-ki 

 that they cannot be separated." " Aye," sai 

 the Judge, ''but you and 1 cannot be kindre 

 except you be hanged ; for hog is not baco 

 until it is well hanged." — Bacon^s Essays. 



