Vol. t3.— No. Q4. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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produce this effect, though with some constitu- 

 tions much smaller doses will answer the purpose; 

 but should that quantity fail, each dose may be in- 

 creased to a table-spoonful ; and in some instan- 

 ces a fourth table-spoonful may safely be added 



mineralogists who were present had no doubt that I their respective aierits. If Mazeppa be worth 

 the specimens presented were accompanied and j $a,.')00, Manfred is ifirely worth $8,000. It would 

 united with anthracite coal. The coal was disscm- 1 be a curious task to ca\culate how much his lord- 

 inated through quartz, and attached to the surface | ship received for each word in Mazeppa. The 

 or portion^of shale, clay slate, in small granular j time occupied in its composition was perhaps 24 



between breakfast and dinner. When this quan- masses. One of the accompanying specimens was hours, (not all at one sitting). An industrious 



piece of argillaceous schistus containing py- 

 rites. 



tity fails to produce the desired effect on the bow 

 ols, — a circumstance which very rarely occurs, — 



it will be proper to assist the operation of the seed . •,..„, i ,v 



,-..V ^^ I. „_„.!, = , r«;i,i o^oriont ' It forcs With religiOH Bs With tt shuttlecocKjWhich 



with a little Epsom salts, or other mild apeiient, i. , . , - ^ , ., , . •„ 



. , "^ . „ „,i „„ ,i,:,,i „.,.„;„„ I is stricken from one to another, and rests with 



taken every morning-, or second or thinl morning, mu • u u i •; . i u 



■ „ -.^^tr.^A ^e th^ A-^t rinoo none. The rich apprehend it to have been 



.IS occasion may require, instead ot the nrst dose , i. ., , , ■ , • 



., ,, , i- .u „»• t„.. ,!„„„ „,. ., c^,.f designed for the poor ; and the poor, m their turn, 



ot the seed, for the space ot ten days or a tort- 1 o i- j f < > 



night, or such longer period as may be found ne- 

 cessary. 



poet, paid at this rate, would soon have six Pega- 

 suses to his barouche.->-JV. Y. Morn. Courier. 



Mrs. Sarah J. Hale the author of " North wood,' 

 is about publishing a monthly periodical, in Bos- 

 ton, to be entitled Ladies' Magazine. Much a work 

 must receive an e.xtensive patronage from the in- 

 telligent ladies of the U. States. We may antici- 

 pate in it much that will have a tendency to elevate 



I think it calculated chiefly for the rich. — An old 



..=.,..,. And if the patient be troubled with piles, ^^i;>='i"'=">" f, '"*"«' who omitted no opportunity _^_ _ 



it will be advisable to relieve the bowels occasion- '°'^<'°'"& good, discoursed with the barber who the female character, and give to our ladies an 

 ally with a small tea-spoonful of milk of sulphur, ; ^''"^^d him, on his manner of spending the sab- intellectual rather than a merely fashionable tasto. 

 and an equal quantity of magnesia mixed together ^^^ (^^ich was not quite as it should be,) nnd jj ;_ American. 



,n a littlo milk or water, taken at bed time, cither ' '^e necessity of his having more religion than he 



with or after the dose of the seed , seemed at present possessed of.— Iho barber; It appears by a statement in the last Stoning 



In Palsy, Asthma, Ague, diseases of the liver, ' Proceeding in his work of lathering, replied, "that ton (Con.) paper that the return cargoes of Seal- 

 Rheumatism, and Worms, the seed should be ' ''^ had tolerably well for a barber; as in his skins of vessels belonging to that port and which 

 taken somewhat more freely than in other cases, i =^PP''^hension, one-third of the religion necessary have been sold by auction in that place since 

 and in instances of long standing and great obsti- 1 '".^^^^^ ^ gentleman would do to save a barber." ; 1819, amounts to $310,747. 



Bishop Home. ' 



nacy, to the extent of four or five large table 

 spoonsful in the course of each day, if the bowels 

 will bear that quantity without much inconven 

 ience ; and in these as in other cases the patient 

 must have recourse to Epsom salts, or any other 

 mild aperient, or to the mixture of sulphur and 

 magnesia, if necessary. When the seed is taken 

 as a preventive by persons of consumptive and 

 delicate habits, or otherwise constitutionally sus- 

 ceptible of cold, or by others for the purpose of 

 preventing the recurrence of disease of any kind, 

 or as a remedy for costiveness or any slight attack 

 of disease, a single dose taken every day about an 

 hour before breakfast, or, which is generally to 

 be preferred, about an hour after diniipr, will very 

 frequently accomplish the proposed object, provid- 

 ed it be sufficient in quantity to keep the bowels 

 in an uniformly open and comfortable state. 



I will close these observations by remarking, 

 that a steady daily perseverance in the use of tlie 

 Mustard Seed, according to the rules above re- 

 commended, for the space of two, three, or four 

 months, and in many instances for a much short- 

 er period, will seldom fail to convince the patient 

 of the extraordinary efficacy and singular value of 

 this very safe, cheap, and simple medicine. 



I. T." 



Early Vegetation Mens. A. Fafmentier has at 



his Horticultural Garden, Brooklyn, beautiful as- 

 paragus, whicli he intends to serve up at the din- 

 ner to be given to-morrow at the Masonic Hall, in 

 honor of St. John's Day. This is a vegetable ex- 

 tremely rare at this season of the year,and perhaps 

 the first time it was over seen so early at New 

 York — JV. Y. Enquirer, Dec. 27. 



I To preserve frozen Potatoes. — When potatoes 



The editor oftheStonington( Conn.) Telegraph are frozen, soak them for 3 hours in cold water, 

 has undertaken to persuade his readers to use ' before cooking them. If they are frozen very 

 Lehigh and Schuylkill coal, in their shops, par- hard dissolve a quarter of an ounce of saltpetre to 

 lours, &c. not only as being cheaper than wood, ' gvery peck, and add it to the water. Frozen po- 

 but that the demand which necessarily exists for tatoss will yield more flour for starch than fresh 

 wood, may be hereafter supplied. It is a fact, that o^es. That flour with as much wheat-flour, some 

 the prodigal axes of our fathers, and their capa- tjmtor, sugar, yeast, and currants, will make ex- 

 cious and all devouring fire-places, have left us cellent 'tea bread,' which will keep a month. 

 little to boast of in the forest way, and our friends , Hartford Times. 



at the eastward will find their future prospects! 



brightened, and their present situation rendered From Uuc English I'apers. 



comfortable, by a free use of anthracite, which, — 



by a very simple and exceedingly cheap contriv- 1 We understand that the Chinese Tallow Tree, 

 ance, may be burned in a common tin plate stove, °'' S^i^um Fecoidea of Linna;us, has been introduc- 

 with as much convenience for culinary purposes, ! "d into the Mauritius, and cultivated with the 



as hickory or white oak U. S. Gazette. \ greatest success. Two hundred barrels are daily 



■ . — . — _ j expected as a sample, and the quality is said to be 



Value of Poetry. — Poetry is a most unprofttablo equal to any melted from the fat of animals. The 

 drug, at least in the American market. Lord By- quantity may be produced to any extent ; and we 

 ron did not find it so, however, as will be seen by believe, is likely to supersede the trade with St. 



the following statement : 



Sums paid to Lord Byron, by the bookseller, 



Petersburg, for that article altogether. 

 It appears by an authentic estimate made recent 



The Pennsylvania Legislature have instructed 

 their Delegation in Congress to use their influence 

 in favour of or. increase of duties on woollen and 

 fine cotton goods, htimp, iron, glass, paper, and 

 spirits. &'\i eight voted against the instructions. 



AnihraciU Coal from Poughheepsie We have 



been informfi.' 'says the New York Journal of 

 CoraiDCTre) tl^ii a: the last meeting of the Lyceum 

 of Natural Histi.ry, Professor Barnos presented 

 some gpf-^im^'ji^' of anthracite coal, said to have 

 been obtame! in the slate rock near Pough&eepsie. 

 ■Profeasor Torrey, Major DslafieJd, and othe.r 



urray, as the price of the manuscripts of his i„ ;„ f „„j„„ ,i,„j „ r .l civ .u j 



wrvrka— '^ '" London, that no fewer than fifteen thousand 



boys, between the ages of eight and fifteen, live 

 by theft, in that capital. 



The Countess of Morton has presented to the 

 Royal Society a variety of models, formerly the 

 property of Smeaton the engineer, together v/ith 



several drawings and plans of the Eddystone. 



Among the other curiosities accompanying this 

 donation, is the mass of lead which was taken 

 from the stomach of the poor man who swallowed 

 it in a fluid state, during the conflagration of the 

 wooden structure which preceded Smeaton's far 

 famed light-house. This man lived for some time 

 but died in consequence of the accident in Exeter 

 Infirmary, when the production of the lead con- 

 vinced his medical attendants that his story waa 

 correct, of which they were till then sceptical. 

 Caledonian Mercury. 



works — 



Cbilde Harold, Cantos 1 and 2, $3,000 ] 



3d. 7,.'560 } $20,560 



4th 

 The Giaour, - - . 

 Bride of Abydos, 

 Corsair, ... 



Lara, - - _ - 



Siege of Corinth, 

 Parisina, - . - 



Tiie Lament of Tasso, 

 Manfred, ... 



Beppo, - . - 



Don Juan, Cantos 1 and 2, 

 " " " 3 and 4, 



Doge of Venice, 



Sarandapalus, Cain & the Foscari,5,.300 

 Mazeppa, - - - 2,500 



Prisoner of Chillon, - - 2,500 



Miscellaneous Pieces, - 2,160 



10,000 j 

 2,500 

 2,500 

 2,500 

 3,300 

 2,500 

 2,500 

 1,500 

 1,500 

 2,500 

 7..3G0 ) 

 7,300 

 5,300 J 



14,600 



Another Gigantic Hydrangta. — We lately men- 

 tioned that a gigantic hydrangea was growing in 



$74,220jthe Earl of Roslin's garden at Dysart House 



This is a pretty little fortune to make by poe- which measured 40 feet in circumfereace, and on 

 try, and a very great incitement to seribbling — (which there were 605 flowers. A gentlemaa b*- 

 The estimated value of the poems appears to; longing to this city was in South Vales on, th^ 

 have been deter^nined without any refeieiwe to j 8th instant, and in the garden at Anjwtb. Castl^^ 



