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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



T%e weariiotrrness of what is commonly called a 

 Life of Pleasure. 



The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reijns ; 

 The lowring eye, the petulance, the frown, 

 And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort. 

 And mar the face of beauty, when no cause 

 For such immeasurable woe appears ; 

 These Flora banishes, and gives the fair 

 Sweet smiles and bloom, less transient than her own. 

 It is the constant revolution, stale 

 And tasteless, of the same repeated joys, 

 That palls and satiate?, and makes languid life 

 A pedlar's pack, that bows the bearer down. 

 Health suffers, and the spirits ebb ; the heart 

 Recoils from its own choice — at the full feast 

 Is famish'd — finds no music in the song. 

 No smartness in the jest, and wonders why. 

 Yet thousands still desire to journey on. 

 Though halt and weary of the path they tread. 

 The paralytic, who can hold her cards. 

 But cannot play them, borrowi a friend's hand 

 To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort 

 Her mingled suits and sequences, and sits 

 Spectatress both and spectacle, a sad 

 And silent cypher, while her proxy plays. 

 Others are dragg'd into the crowded room -. 

 Between supporters ; and, once seated, sit. 

 Through downright inability to rise, 

 Till the stout bearers lift the corpse again. 

 These speak a loud memento. Yet even these 

 Themselves love life, and cling to it ; as he 

 That overhangs a torrent, to a twig. 

 They love it, and yet loath it ; fear to die. 

 Yet scorn the purposes for which they live. 

 Then wherefore not renounce them .' No— the dread, 

 The slavish dread of solitude, that breeds 

 Reflection and rcmose, the fear of shame, 

 And their Invet'rate habit? — all forbid. 



Whom call we gay ? Tliat honor has been long 

 The boast of mere pretenders to the name. 

 The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, 

 That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, 

 Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams 

 Of day-spring overshoot his humble nest. 

 The peasant too, a witness of his song. 

 Himself a songster, is a? gay as he. 

 But save me from the gaiety of those 

 Whose head-achs nail them to a noon-day bed ; 

 And save me loo from theirs whose haggard eyes 

 Flash desperation, and betray their pangs 

 For property stripp'd off by cruel chance ; 

 From gaiety that fills the bones with pain. 

 The mouth with blasphemy, the heart with woe. 



COWPER. 



ly engaged in the ordinary dealings of the com- 

 munity. Such productions ous<ht to be encour- 

 aged, ami I cannot but indulge a hope that the 

 work will meet with a ready and extensive sale, 

 and that the author will he liberally remunerat- 

 ed for his exertions in spreading useful and nec- 

 essary information, before the people, particu- 

 larly as the price is such as to prevent scarcely 

 any person from becoming a purchaser. 



JUSTICE. 



Honey a cure for the Gravel. — A number of 

 years ago. says a correspondent, I was much af- 

 flicted with the gravel, and twice in serious 

 danger from small stones lodging in the pas- 

 sage. I met with a gentleman who had been in 

 my situation and got rid of that disorder by 

 sweetening his tea with half honey and half su- 

 gar. I adopted this remedy and found it effec- 

 tual. After being fully clear of my disease, 

 about ten years I declined taking honey, and in 

 about three months I had a violent fit of my 

 old complaint. I then renewed my practice of 

 taking hcney in my tea, and am now more 

 than three score and ten, and have not for the 

 last twenty seven years, had the smallest symp- 

 tom of the gravel. I have recommended my 

 prescription to many of my acquaintance and 

 have never known it fail. — The Corrector. 



Extraordinary Circumstance. — A Cow belong- 

 ing to Deacon N. Adams, which had been mis- 

 sing forty days, was on Wednesday last, found iii 

 a passage about three feet wide, obstructed ai 

 one end, between two barns, in the vicinity oi 

 her owner's residence. She was greatly cma 

 ciated, and although found standing was unable 

 to walk, and she died on Thursday morning. — 

 There is no doubt that this cow went into this 

 place about the time she was missed, and being 

 unable to turn herself, and not having sag.icifv 

 enough to back out, the poor animal remained 

 the whole 40 days without a morsel of food, and 

 suftering from the effects of extreme cold, snow, 

 rain, &c. This is an extreme case of suffering. 

 The fact of the cow having been in the same 

 place the whole time mentioned, is ascertained 

 by several persons, who state they had seen her 

 there at different times, without attending par- 

 ticularly to her situation. — Salem Register. 



From the Springfield Patriot. 



The Spider, which is generally considered a 



disgusting insect, is in fact the most ingenious 



mechanic, the wisest philosopher, and the 



most infallible prophet among the works of 



From the Northern .Sentinel. I Providence. However much this little animal 



Mn. Mills — Having just read a small book, | may be exceeded in other respects by intelli- 



which has been published by Daniel Chipman, 1 gent beings, yet in its power of prognosticating 



Esq. of Middlebury, entitled " An Essay on the i the state of the weather, it far exceeds all other 



Law of Contracts, for the pavment of Specific animals of which we have any knowledge 



Articles," I cannot refrain from expressing the Barometers and eudiometers have been con^ 



boisterous, the thread will be short and tlii 

 for obvious reasons; and if the spider is - 

 to repair the damages its slender thread mf 

 happen to sustain, you may calculate with ci- 

 tainty upon plea.sant weather for many da i, 

 If these statements are true, (and we make th<|i ' 

 not more confidently and positively than the? 

 who have attested their truth from actual obs^- 

 vation) we have a barometer provided by i- 

 ture, more to be depended on than the most - 

 genious contrivance of human skill, and towhii 

 all may have easy access. 



A Qiianrlary. — A sailor, travelling in iVf 

 England, fell in company with a man posse-- 

 a full share of Yankee curiosity — who alter ni . , 

 important questions, such as where he came frc . 

 where he was travelling, &c. observing his co - 

 panion had lost an arm, enquired, " Pray, ma 1 

 make bold as to ask how you lost your arn' 

 " I'll tell you, says the other, if you wont ilti 

 me another question." — " Well I wont, says h. ' 

 " Then 'twas bit off," says the sailor. The h - 

 est yankee was about as bad off now as he vs 

 before. He kept silence for a few minutes. It 

 at length, in an agony of impatient curiosity, t 

 too mindful of his promise to ask the quest n 

 direct, he burst forth with this ejaculation — I 

 wish I knew what bit it off." 



satisfaction I have derived from the perusal ol 

 this work. It treats on a subject which is high- 

 ly interesting to the people of this Stale, as from 

 the circumstances of our being rather agricul- 

 tural than commercial, contracts of this descrip- 

 tion are very common, and 1 might even say 

 general, among us. There is a great degree 

 both ot elegance and simplicity in the style, and 

 the questions treated upon, are discussed with 

 more than common ability. The book is cal- 

 culated to be useful, not only to lawyers and 

 magistrates but to every man who is extensivc- 



structed by men at great expense, and are 

 among tlie proudest efforts of human philoso- 

 phers; yet, like the heathen oracles, their 

 predictions are ambiguous and confused; — not 

 so the web of the Spider. It is a fact not gen- 

 erally known, though made public some years 

 ago by a French philosopher, that the web of 

 the common spider is a sure index of the state 

 of the air for twelve or fourteen days to come. 

 If the weather is to be fair and calm, the prin- 

 cipal thread will be spun to a great length ; — if 

 on the contrary the weather is to be stormy and 



LAW OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIO> 



C1IIARLES EWER, No. 51, Cornhill, Boston, u 

 ./ just published, " An Essay on the Law of Pal U 

 /'or New Inventions. By Thomas G. Fessenden, Ci 

 stllor at Law. The second edition, with large a 

 lions, corrected and improved by the author." 



This work is adapted as well to the use of the A 

 and Mechanic as of the Lawyer. The whole was c 

 fully reviewed in manuscript, and recommended 

 Smtlemen of the first legal talents in New Englani 

 I'hi- Hon. Judge 57orj/, in a letter to the author, 

 served, " 1 have no hesitation in expressing my c 

 ion that the book will be highly useful to all pers 

 wlio are engaged in obtaining patents, or in vindica 

 thi-ra in Courts of Justice. The manuscript contai 

 collection of all the cases, on the subject of Pati 

 within my knowledge ; and the principles containe 

 them are detailed with accuracy and fulness in 

 Summary at the conclusion. I know of no wor 

 comprehensive as yours on the subject ; and it ma 

 relied on as a safe guide." 



The Hon. William Prescotf, and the Hon. Di 

 Webster, after perusing the manuscript stated 1 

 opinion as follows : " This edition is a great impr 

 ment on the first, and we think it will be a valu 

 and useful book to the profession, as it contains 

 statutes, and states, we believe accurately, all, orr 

 ly all the decisions, which have been made on a br: 

 of law, daily growing more interesting and importa 



Geome 6'!(/?jinn, Esq. agentleman who has paid n 

 attention to this branch of law, has likewise fav 

 the work with a recommendation, from which tlie 

 lowing is an extract : 



" Your method of arranging all the decisions in 

 order of an analytical digest of the several requirem 

 and provisions of our statutes for granting patents, 

 the lawyer at once in possession of the judicial 

 struction of the statutes ; while your synthetic Snir 

 ry, far more extended and comprehensive than iK 

 former edition, places within reach of the mechat 

 sure means of judging whether his invention is 

 subject for a patent ; what is required of him by 

 statute In order to obtain his patent ; and what pri 

 ions are enacted for securing to himself and heirs, 

 meritorious privib ge." Feb. 



THOMAS W. SHEPARD, 



RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and thepv 

 that he executes all kinds of 



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