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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 5, 1827, 



JHCsccUantcs. 



An Enigma, said to have been written by Mr. 

 Canning, whicli for a length of time baffled the 

 skill of all England to solve. 



" Tliero is a word of plural number, 



A foe to peace and human slumber. 



Now any word you chance to take. 



By adding S,you plural make; 



But if you add an S to this, 



How strange the metamorphosis : 



Plural, is plural then no more, 



And sweet, what bitter was before." 

 Solution — The word is cares, to which, by add- 

 ing an S, you have caress. 



From an Englisli Magazine of 1776. ' 

 ANECDOTE OF VOLTAIRE. 



This gentleman forgets all his infidelity on two 

 occasions : viz. when he is sick and when it thun- 

 ders and lightens, lie is so particularly afraid of 

 .'tormy weather, that if he happen to be writing 

 ivhen the " clouds pour down their torrents, and 

 the air thunders, and the arrows of the Almighty 

 flash abroad," he'll call out in an agony of horror, 

 for a bottle of holy water,a.ni sprinkle himself with 

 it from head to foot ; and plentifully bedew the 

 floors and wails of his apartments into tlie bargain. 

 Immediately after which precaution, he orders 



There is no to-morrow v.'hich cannot be con- 

 verted into to-day. 



He will never save himself who docs not labor 

 for his soul before the day of its destruction. 



Softness of manners does not exclude firmness 

 of character ; thus the flexible cable resists the 

 fury of the waves, and preserves from shipwreck. 



Paddy's Ride on the Railway. — The Lehigh 

 coal mines are situated on a mountain, about nine 

 miles from a river, at an elevation of near 1000 

 feet above it. A rail road has been extended from 

 the mines to the river, along the side of the moun- 

 tain, down which the coal is conveyed in cars, 

 which descend by their own weight. The veloci- 

 ty of their descent would bo almost incredible, 

 were it not for a regulating power, subject to the 

 controul of the conductor of the cars. In addition 

 to the coal cars, are others for carrying off the 

 earth and rubbish with which the coal is covered. 

 They are so constructed that, when ibey have de- 

 scended near to the foot of the mountain, where 

 the railway crosses a deep ravine, a catch on the 

 side of the rail knocks out a pin, and lets the bot- 

 tom of the car, which is hung on hinges, drop and 

 discharge the contents into the abyss fifty or six- 

 ty feet below. A short time since, three Paddies, 

 fresh from their own " swate Ireland," visited the 

 place, and, while the workmen were at dinner, de,- 

 termined on having a ride. Thev accordingly got 



Dreams. — To dream, and to remember your 

 dream, is a forerunner that you were not awake 

 nor very sound asleep, when you dreamed. To 

 tell your dreams, prognosticates that you might 

 be better employed. For a young lady to dream 

 very particularly of any certainyoung gentleman, 

 foretells that she purchased her last flat to att-act 

 his attention. To dream of happiness shows that 

 you will probably be disappointed when you 

 awake. 



Signs. — To hear a death-watch, denotes that 

 there is a little insect near you. To see strange 

 sights is a sign that there is something to cause 

 them, or that your head is disordered. To see an 

 apparition or to be bewitched, is an incontestible 

 evidence that you are lacking in common sense. 



Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. 

 The lion called the sheep to ask her if his breath 

 was unpleasant: She said aye; and he bit off her 

 head for a fool. He called the wolf and asked 

 him: he said no ; he tore hiiii in pieces for a flat- 

 terer; at last he called the fox and asked him: 

 "Truly," said the fox, "I have canght a cold and 

 cannot tell." 



mass to, be said in his qhapel ; and the masses go 



on briskly one after another, till the thunder and i '"to one of the dirt cars and let it loose from the 



lightning cease. But, no sooner is the tempest fastening. Not knowing how to regulate the ve 



hushed, than a clear sky and placid elements set- 

 tle him into a laugliing Infidel again, and resum- 

 ing his pen, he writes against Christianity with as 

 much acrimony, zeal and want of argument, as ev- 

 er. This behaviour reminds us of the old Spanish 

 proverb : 



" When tlie Devil was sick, 



The Devil a Monk would be, 

 But, when the Devil giew well, 



The devil a Monk was he." 



SPANISH PROVERBS. 



This world is a field sowed for another life. 



The most incurable disease is ignorance. 



All secrets which pass beyond two make them- 

 selves known. 



Prefer the day of to-day to" that of to-morrow. 



He who is of unknown origin is discovered by 

 his works. 



Where the heart is inclined there also will the 

 feet turn. 



Death is nearer to us than the eye-lid to the 

 eye. 



The little which suffices is better than the much 

 which disturbs us. 



The best of man's possessions is a sincere 

 friend. 



The eulogium made on the absent, serves to in- 

 cline our hearts to the present. 



The best of riches is contentment ; the worst of 

 poverty, low spirits. 



Labor for this life as if thou wert to live forev- 

 er; and for the other, as if thou wert to die to- 

 morrow. 



Desire not either the wise man or the fool for 

 thy enemy; but gtinrd thyself equally from the 

 cunning of the wire man, and the ignorance of 

 the fool. 



The man who contents himself to-day with that 

 which he has, will content lumscif tomorrow with 

 that which lit: may have. 



locity, away they went, Jehu like, at the rate of 

 half a mile a minute. This was fine sport till, on 

 a sudden, the bottom dropped and deposited them, 

 without any material injury, among the rubbish 

 below, from which they looked up, in unspeakable 

 consternation and dismay, at this unexpected ter- 

 mination of their ride. — Worcester Spy. 



The English Lanscuase. — The difficulty of ap- 

 plying rules to the pronunciation of our language 

 may be illustrated in two lines where the combi- 

 nation of the letters ough is pronounced in no less 

 than seven different ways, viz. as o, uf, of, up, ow, 

 00, and ock. 

 Though the tough cough and hiccough plough me throu gh, 

 O'er life's dark lough my course I still pursue. 



A traveller on the Continent, visiting the Ca- 

 thedral of , was shown by the Sacristan, 



among other marvels, a dirty opaque glass phial. 

 After eyeing it some time, the traveller said, "Do 

 you call this a relic ? Why it is empty." Emp- 

 ty!" retorted the Sacristan, indignantly, " Sir, it 

 contains some of the darkness that Moses spread 

 over the land of Egypt !" 



Eating Salads. — A lad, who had lately gone to 

 service having had salad served to dinner, every 

 day for a week, ran away ; and when asked why 

 he had left his place, he replied, "They made me 

 yeat grass i'th the summer, and I wur afraid 

 they'd mak me yeat hay i'th the winter; and 

 could not stand that, so I wur off" 



Conundrum.. — 'I'lie loiiowinf^, in.m tlie Albany 

 Microscope, is a very clever conundrum — better 

 than most pii?7!es of that description : 



" Why is fortune like P.' Because it malces an 

 ASs pass." 



15000 yards of cotton cloth arc made daily at 

 Lowell. 



Oh, my eye and Betty Martin! — Many of our 

 most popular vulgarisms have their origin in some 

 whimsical perversion of language or of fact. St. 

 Martin is one of the worthies in the Romish calen- 

 der; and a form of prayer to him begins with these 

 words, "OA, mihi beate Marline," which by some 

 desperate fellow, who was more prone to punning 

 than praying, has furnished the plebeian phrase so 

 well known in the modern circles of horse laughter. 



Great Sale of Wool. 

 On Tuesday the I6lh of October, the day preceding the 

 Brighton Fair, at 10 o'clock, at the Hall over the iSlew Market, 

 will be sold, at Public Auction, 218 bales of Saxomj Wool, con- 

 sisting of 1st and 2d Electoral — 1st and 2d Prima Secunda — 

 Tenia and Quarter. 



100 bales Spanish Wool, 



100 do. Portuguese do. 



150 do. Smyrna do. 



ALso, 50,000 lbs. High Grade and Full Blood Fleece Wool. 



\*The above Sale presents a favourable opportunity to 



growers and holders for disposing of their Wool, \^hich will be 



ready at any time on or before the 10th proximo. 



*»*Cataloguesof the whole will be ready for delivery, and 

 the Wool may be e.vamined the day previous to the sale. 



COOLIDGE, POOR & HEAD, Auc'rs. 

 Boston, Sept. 28, 1827. 



Saxony Sheep. 



On THURSDAY Oct. 18 at 10 o'clw*. 



The day succeeding the Agricultural Fair. 



At Brighton, (near Boston) the entire flock of Electoral SoMmii 



Sheep, imported in the ship Mentor, Capt. Mann, 



fi'om Hamburg, consisting of 



161 EffES and 31 R^MS. 



These Sheep were carefully selected by experienced agents 



for account of a highly respectable House in Leipsic, and will 



e found to excel any flock hitherto imported in regard to size 



and weight of fleece, while they are not inferior in any other 



particular. The large proportion of Etves, ol the finest quality, 



were not procured without much difficulty ; aud, in general, 



such measures were taken as to warrant the expectation that 



this flock will not suffer by the most rigid scrutiny of persons 



disposed to improve their stock by the introduction of pure Sax- 



omi Blood. 



"The Sheep may be examined at Brighton, at any time before 

 the sale. 



('atalogues will be ready for deli\erj' at our office 20 days 

 previous — when Samples of the Wool will be exhibited. 



The Agent pledges himself that none of the Slock will be 

 disposed of until the day of Auction, when they will all be sold 

 without reserve. COOLIDGE. POOR & HEAD. 



.Medical Lectures — Boston, time changed. 



Medical Lectures of Harvaixl College will begin the TfifiRri 

 Wed.vesdav in OtTuEKR, at the Medical College, Mason 

 street, Boston. The time ha\ing been changed from the Thikp 

 Wj!;iiSESDAY i:i Novti^nsEK, wiicn liiey formeilv began. 



WAi.Ti'.R ihanm:\(;. ' 



Ausr. r.l, 1827. 81 Doan 111' llie .Midi. <il Facullv. 



The Farmkr is published every Friduy. at $3.0(1 

 per .innum, or $2,5i) if p.iid in adrance. 



