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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



From the True American. 



TO A NEW-ENGLAND POET. 

 Though skilled in latin and in Jicfk, 

 And earninp: fifty cents a week, 

 Such knowledg;c, and the income, too, 

 iihould tench ynn better what to do ; 



The meanest drudges, ke]>t in pay, 



Can pocket fifty cents a day. 



Why stay in such a taslelrss lanil. 

 Where AM, must on a level staiul, 

 (Excepting- people, at Iheir eaic. 

 Who choosu the level where they please :) 



See Irvi.vc gone to Britain's court 



To people of another sort. 



He will return, with wealth and fame. 



While Yankees hardly know your name. 



Lo ! he has ki.-srd a Monarch's hand ! 



Before a Pri.vce I see him stand. 

 And with the glittering nobles mix, 

 (Forgetting limes of seventy-six,) 

 While you with terror meet the frown 

 OS Bank Directors of the town. 



The home-made nobles of our times, 

 Who hate the bard, and spurn his rhymes. 



Why pause T — like Irving, haste away. 



To England your addresses pay ; 



And England will reward you well, 



When }'ou some pompous story tell 

 Of British feats, and British arms, 

 The maids of honor, and their charms. 



Dear Bard, I pray you, take the hint. 

 In England what you write and print, 

 Republished here in shop, or stall, 

 \Vill perfectly enchant us all : 

 It will assume a different face, 

 And post your name at every place. 

 From splendid domes of first degree 

 Where ladies meet, to sip their tea ; 

 From marble halls, were lawyers plead, 

 Or Congress-men talk loud, indeed. 

 To huts, were evening clubs appear, 

 And 'squires resort — to guzzle beer. 



SELECTED toR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



The desire of being' thought wise is often a 

 hindrance to being so ; nnd a man often remains 

 ignorant of matters of importance to his wel- 

 fare, merely bpcansc he is more anxious to let 

 the world see what knowledge he has than to 

 acquire thai which he has need oi". 



Those men wlio know mostj arc the most 

 anxious to know more, because in consequence 

 of being the best able to set a proper estimate 

 on the advantages of knowledge, they value it 

 the most highly. But ignorant people think 

 they have nothing to learn, because they have 

 learnt nothing ; and remain contented in igno- 

 rance because they are not sensible of their want 

 of knowledge. Some rays trom the lamp of 

 knowledge are requisite, in order to make men- 

 tal darkness visible to those who are enveloped 

 in it. 



No man ever did a premeditated injury to 

 another without doing a greater to himself. 



Dr. Franklin observed, " The eyes of other 

 people arc the eyes that ruin us. If all but my- 

 self were blind, I should want neither fine 

 clothes, fuic bouses, nor line furniture."' 



The poorer a man is, the more necessity there 

 is for his being honest. A rich knave may, per- 

 haps, prosper for a while in worldly affairs, but 

 a poor knave will soon have as little credit as 

 cash, and not only suffer but deserve all the evils 

 which poverty can inflict. 



The recoil of a blow unjustly aimed, is gen- 

 erally more powerful than its direct impulse. 



He who lives without economy or prudence 

 in his youth, may commonly expect to live with- 

 out comfort in the decline of life. 



Many persons are too subtle and suspicious for 

 their own interest and enjoyment. They put 

 some sinister construction ou every look, and 

 find out Something amiss in every smile. Act- 

 ing in disguise themselves they mistake all out- 

 ward shows and appearances tor hypocricy in 

 others. But, perhaps, no people see less of the 

 truth and reality of things than such retiners up- 

 on incidents. 



Extract of a letter from one of the Editors of the New 

 Vork Statesman, now in Washington. 



Patent Office. — SoEhe days since, a member 

 of the House of Representatives, to whom I am 

 under many obligations for his politeness in 

 pointing out objects worthy of attention, and in 

 imparting intbrmation which a long residence 

 at the seat of government has enabled him to 

 collect, accotiipanied me to the Patent Oflice. 

 Although our morning visit was protracted at mv 

 solicitation, and the superintendents, as well 

 as my friend who had often been there before, 

 were assiduous in pointing out the articles most 

 deserving of particular notice ; yet an exam- 

 nation of an hour or two could not of course 

 enable me to take any thing beyond a hasty 

 glance at this great repository of patents and 

 models. It would require a year of close study 

 to investigate and describe the machinery here 

 deposited lor the benefit and curiosity of the 

 public. It may be denominated a temple of 

 the useful arts. In a collection of models 

 amounting to three thousand eight hundred in num- 

 ber, there is apparently every possible modifi- 

 cation of motion, by a combination in some 

 shape of every principle in mechanical philoso- 

 phy. All the great agents of nature, such as 

 tire, water, air, steam, animal strength, the 

 gravitation and elasticity of matter, aided bv 

 ihe artificial powers of the inclined plane, lever, 

 screw, wedge, and pulley, have been put in rt>- 

 quisition and applied with almost infinite varia- 

 tions, to the purposes of life. I regretted to 

 obtservc one or two abortive attempts at per- 

 petual motion, as all such attempts must be, un- 

 til the established laws of nature are changed, 

 and inertness ceases to be a property of matter. 



CURIOUS DISCOVERIES. 



When the foundations of the city of Quebec, 

 in Canada, were dug up, a petrified savage was 

 found among tiie last beds to which the work- 

 men proceeded. Although it was impossible to 

 form any judgment of the time which this man 

 had been l)uricd under the ruins, yet his quiver 

 and arrows wore in good preservation. 



In digging a lead mine in Derbyshire, in 1741, 

 a human skeleton was found among stag's horn?. 

 It is impossible to say how many ages this car- 

 case had lain there. 



In lC9o, the entire skeleton of an elephant 

 was dug up in Thuringia, in Germany ; and 



some time before the petrified skeleton of a 

 crocodile was found in the mine of that coun- 

 try. 



About the beginning of the last century, the 

 curate of Slajgarb, in the Swedish province of 

 Schonen, and several of his parishoners, digging 

 turf in a drained marshy soil, found some feet 

 below the surface of the ground, an entire cart 

 with the skeletons of the horses and carter. 

 It is presufned that there had once been a lake 

 or pond on that spot, and the carter had per- 

 ished in attempting to cross over upon the ice. 



I!y the falling down of a piece of the cliff, on 

 Walton shore, near Harwick, the skeleton o\ 

 an enormous animal was discovered, measuring 

 nearly 30 feet in length. Some of the bones 

 were nearly as large as a man's body, and six 

 or seven feet long ; the cavities which contain- 

 ed Ihe marrow, were large enough to admit the 

 introduction of a man's arm. The bones on 

 being handled broke to pieces. One of the mo- 

 lar teeth was carried to Colchester. It weighs 

 seven pounds, is of a sqiiare form, and grinding 

 surface ; it is studded with several zigzag rows 

 of Laminae, which seem to denote that it be- 

 longed to a carniverous animal. There were 

 more teeth, which were unfortunately broken, 

 one of which weighed 12 pounds. It is proba- 

 ble that the tusks will be found, by searching 

 further into the cliff, or amongst the earth 

 which has fallen down. The above skeleton 

 is supposed to belong to an animal of the same 

 species as that called the Mammoth, the remains 

 of which have been found in North America, 

 Great Tartary, &c. 



A laborer in a stone quarry in the village of 

 Pautin, near Paris, having detached a large 

 block of stone, found in the middle, a skeleton 

 of a ram petrified. Each part of the stone con- 

 tained a perfect half of the animal ; the parts 

 were very distinct. The block was dug out of 

 liic natural rock at the depth of .'50 feet from 

 the summit of the quarry. A petrifaction so 

 curious, was immediately deposited in the Mu- 

 seum of Natural Historj'. 



.1 Yankee Trick. — An eastern pedlar lately 

 desired accommodation for the night at a tavern 

 in the south part of this county ; but from the 

 prejudice frequently existing against this class, 

 our host for a long time refused. At last, he 

 consented, on condition that the pedlar .should 

 play him a Yankee trick before he left him. 

 The offer was accepted. Ou rising in the morn- 

 ing, .lonathan carefully secured the coverlet of 

 the bed, which among other articles he pressed 

 Ihe landlady to purchase. The low price of 

 the coverlet operated at once upon the latter, 

 who i^isisted that her husband should buy it, 

 adding that it would match her's exactly. Jon- 

 athan took his money, mounted his cart, and got 

 fairly under way, when our host called to him 

 that he had forgotten the Yankee trick he was 

 to play him. Oh never mind, says Jonathan, 

 you will find it out soon enough. — Winchester 

 (Ffi.) Republican. — 



Oraminaticul Error. — What offence has the un- 

 fortunate verb "/i«i)c," committed, that it should 

 be left out between the pronoun " I," and the 

 participle " done .'"' — As, tor instance, " 1 done 

 so," " We done so," &c. When inaccuracies 

 like these are found in the walls of a college, 

 and in a legislative hall, it is time to notice, in 

 order to correct them. — Chrrkston Courier 



