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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 28, 1827. 



fHtJSCfUtintrs. 



THE HUSIBLE COT. 

 Blesl be llie spot where cl'.eerful guesls relire, 

 To pause from loil and Iriin their evening iiie 

 Blesl that abode, where want and pain rejiair 

 And every stranger finds a ready chair ; 

 Blesl be tliose feasts with simple plenty crown'il 

 Where all the ruddy family around 

 Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail. 

 Or sigh with pity at some nionrnl'nl tale ; 

 Or press the bashful stranger to his food, 

 And learn the luxury of doiug good. 



PROBABILiTIES OF HuMAN LiFE. TllC fol- 

 lowing table of the probabililios of htiiuaii lifo has 

 been given by M.do la Malle : 



Tabic of tho probabilities of human life, calcu- 



I it into his head to jump into a corn-field ; the oth- ed." IIow many find it even so ! A man ol 

 : ers, sheep lilte, followed, ani they were all found blustering pretensions, without merit, modesty or 

 ! up to their backs in mischief — On starting them worth, who will looU and talk authoritatively, i~ 

 ' from the field, they chose to jump over a wall, on 1 generally held in greater acceptance by the world, 

 : the other side of which was a deep well. The j tlian tlie person wlio keeps pace only with liis 



first one leaped the v/all, and brought up at the i powers, and who disdains to adopt any meretri- 

 , bottom of the well ; and the remainder of the floclc , cioiis method for the purpose of attaining distinc- 

 ! followed of course, till eighkeii of them were snug- 1 tion. 



Iv stowed away in the bottom of the well. With 



mucli difficulty they were taken out; though not 



till eight of them were drowned. — Stoniiigton pa. 



lated by Domitius Ulpianus, Prime l\Iinister to L^gggm learning, and a graceful and powerful ora 

 Alexander Severus, and extracted from Emilius :tor withal, settled in one of our western villages 

 Macer — 



Mndtiess. — A commission in Lunacy was lately 



held in London to enquire into the sanity of a very 



wealthy old gentleman of high family, named Jod- 



The best talents in the world must be knov/n\drell. One of the facts alleged in proof of his ]u- 



in order to be patronized. Man is a child of op- j nacy, was, that " he would sometimes begin to 



portunity— circumstance either makes or mars l read a newspaper, and presently throw it down. 



him — but he may sometimes make circumstances. , saying it was all nonsense." 



Some years ago, a young lawyer of fine talents and 



M. de la Malle says this table was formed from | gjoj, 

 the property tables, the registers of birth, puber- 

 ty, manhood, death, age, sex, diseases, &c. which 

 were kept by the Romans with the greatest ex- 

 actness, from the time of Servius Tullius to that 

 of Justinian. Ulpianus fixes thirty years as the 

 mean duration of human life during that period. 

 It is extraordinary that the chances of life detail- 

 ed in the above table are precisely those which 



Anteddwvian — Two bodies, male and female; 



have been lately carried to England from the Ca- 



. ,, ^ , , , i- ■ . 1 ■• 11 1 nary Islands. Thev are supposed to have been 



I He took no letters ot introduction, and knew no- ! ,.,■' ,., w i ' j- i .nnn rrn • 



, , ., ■. , • • r \.\. i_- uf.- 1 Atlantidcs, and to have died 4000 years ago. Their 

 ! body. He waited in vain tor clients, his abilities I ... . .■ ■ , . . ,■ 



\ ■' . , „ ... ,. preservation is owing to their having been disem- 



woro unltnown, and, or course unappreciated. At .'^ ,, , , j ■ i ,, , , ■ , c i /-vi 



■, , , , . , , c \ ■ -I- li" . ; bowellcd, and wrapped in bulls hides. — Sal. Obs. 



length be devised a plan tor bringing himscU into' 



'notice. He took a rattan, walked over the way 



to Mr Smith's store, and without saying a word 

 , astonished the unoffending Mr S. with a terrible 

 ; flogging. A prosecution followed — our young 

 ; lawyer made a splendid speech, showed what he 

 I was, was fined five hundred dollars, and was im- 

 : mediately retained in suits of great importance. 



tie has since made a large fortune by his profcs- 

 [N. Y. Courier.] 



Mind your punctuation. — A person who was 

 advertised some time since, in a Virginia paper, 

 was described as having " a nose turned up in the 

 middle about six feet high !!!" 



Fresh Garden Seeds. 

 For sale at the office of the New England Farmer, No. S2 North 

 Market .Street, Boston . a com)ilete assortment of Garden and 

 Field Seeds, many of which are suitable for fall sowing : a^ar' 

 of the seeds are of the growth of lo27 j among which are 

 Superior WHITE PORTl'GAL 0.^'10N 

 BLACK SPANISH, or WINTER RADISH 

 I'ALL PRICKLY SPINACH, lor greens 

 HUTCH COLE, for greens— WHITE MULBERRY 

 Various sorts of CABBAGES, PARSNIPS, CARROTS, 

 LETTUCE, BEETS, &c. &c. 



Grass Seeds. 



ORCHARD GRASS, LUCERNE. HERD'S GRASS, RED 

 TOP. RED and WHITE HONEYSUCKLE CLOVER, &c 

 A/so, 2 bushels fresh Canary Seed ; genuine English Rape 

 Seed ; iJemp Seed, &:c. for birds. 



first specimen of printing on woollen clotli, in iini- 

 the registers of mortality in the city of Florence i tation of the borders of common cashmere shawls, 

 exhibit in the present day. j an establishment for the manufacture of which ar- 



ticle is going into operation in Bloomfield,N.J. The 



Saxony Sheep. 



On THURSDAY Oct. 18 at 10 o'clock, 



„ . , ,,, ^ The day succeeding the Agricultural Fair. 



Printed J} oollens.. — \\ e saw on Saturaay tlio At Brighton, (near Boston) the entire flock of Electoral Baxcn 



^7I.'cp, imported iu the ship Mentor, Capt. Maim, 

 from Hamburg, consisting of 

 161 EfVES and 21 R.iMS. 

 Thsse Sheep were carcliilly selected by experienced agent- 

 - o - o -I ' - for accoimt of a highly respectable House in Lcipsic, and will 



A child of four years old knows right from I piece we saw wtis a common shred or rather coarse 1 ''«''''»''!* '"''•"'■'»">' ''°f'\'''''^^^^^ 



,, •' „ ., ? , , 1 V. t • , ■ 1 , , , . and weight of fleece, while they are not inferior many other 



wrong as well as a person ot forty ; and the boy fabric, upon which an experiment had merely been ! particular. The large proportion of Ewes, of the finest quality. 

 who lies at four years old, will lie when he is ' made of the colours. They were as bright and | "ere not procured without much difticulty ; and, in genenil. 



1 -. ; . _..,..«„* tu- .1 „. u i 1. i u 1 ..- I 1 1 J ■ such measures were taken as to warrant the expectation that 



grown up ; and it is to prevent this, that he ought handsome, however, as any we have observed m j i,,j, |,„^b „.|,, „„, s^fl-^ by the most rigid scrutiny of person.s 



to be reasoned or punished out of his fault when this important article. The gentleman v,ho show- ! disposed to improve their stock by the introduction of ;««■« Sax- 



a child. ed us the sample, it may be worth while to state, i "'"'-,, '!?u' u ■ i . t> • i . • . r 



., , ,. , "^ ' •' .•!•.-<." 01,111..-,, 'f he Sheep may be examined at Brighton, at any time before 



saiQ ho did not want any protecting duties. ; the sale. 



.V. Y. Com. Advertiser. \ Catalogues will be ready for delivery at our ofiice20 days 



' * previous — when Samples of the Wool will be exliibiled. 



The .\gent pledges himself that none of the Slock will b^ 



A young Counsel who was rather given to brow 

 heating, had a favorite mode of mistyfying a wit- 

 ness by saying, " well, sir, I shall only ask you | .3 g-co(i Cro/i.-^M. American Thayer, of Buck 

 one question, and I do not care which way you j field, Maine, has this season, on one acre of land 

 answer it." Mr Brougham, who was on the same j land, lying in this town, grown four and a quar- 



circuit, accosted his friend one morning — " welf, I ter tons of hay ! Paris jMc. pa. 



Jones, 1 have but one question to ask you, and I : 



do not care which way yoa answer it. How do A. Barber, who was in the habit of stunning his 

 you do to-day ?" customers' ears by the rapidity of his tongue, ask- 



— — I ed an individual one day, how he wished his 



mid Oa««.— Henry Lord Flankland having been j beard to be cut. " Without say utj a single word," 

 brought into tae House of Commons at a very I replied he. 



early age, a grave Senator objected to his youth, ■ 



remarking, that " ho did not look as if he had ' Three Irishmen wished to divide four dollars 

 sown his wild oats." His Lordship replied with equally between them. After puzzling their brains 

 reat quickness, "Then I come to the properest \ for a long time, one of them exclaimed, '• By Saint 



disposed of until the day ■ 

 w ilhoul reseri 



Auction, when thev will all be sold 

 COOLIDGE, POOR & HEAD. 



Fowl Meadow Grass. 

 Received diis day, at the olliceof the New England Farmer 

 one cask of Fowl .^leadow Grass Seed — fro.-h antJ genuine,^ 

 ~ WAiNTED — As an apprentice to the PrinUug Business, an 

 active lad, of about It years of nf:^e. of ^ood edtication and habits. 

 and well recommended ; to such an one encouragement will be 

 given. No others need ap]:)ly, 



I NOTICE, — Taken up and impounded in the town pound ef 

 ' NewtOH, a roan-coloured horse — die owner unknown. The own- 

 I er is requested to call, pay charges, and lake liim a\vav. 

 I Ncwton.Sept. 14, 1327, .lO.SKPii WlilTii. JVId'Drirer . 

 \ Medical Lectures — Boston. 'riMK chanced. 

 Rledica! LccUires of Harvard College will begin the THirtr^ 



Wkdnksuay in Octobkk, at the Ulcdical College, M: 

 . - . „ street, Bcston, The time having iicenchaKgrd from the Thiki 



place, where there are so many old geese to pick ' Patrick, I have hit it : — here's two for vou t-vo I Wed.nesday in Novkmbkk. w.hen thev lormerly began, 



- 'I WALTER en ANMNG, 



-,31,1827, 81 Dean ofihe -Medical Faculty. 



them up.' 



and two for me too.' 



HABITS OF SHEEP. I 



Of their readiness to follow each other, even in ! 

 the most imminent danger, wo have a striking evi- 1 

 dence in the case of a flock belonging to a farm- 1 

 er in this tov,-n. The other day one of them took 



" You haven't ;jrcs!«n;jh'on enough to succeed." 

 said a very calculating C\cTgym&n once to a young 



man, just entering into business for himself, 



" Modesty is a commendable thing; but it will 

 never fill your pocket, or cause you to be resjiect- 



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