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NF:W F,N(iLA[\h FARMER. 



Jan. 25, 1828. 



M1SCELLA]!*1E!S.. 



Juvenile Ercessis. — The excessfs of our yoiitli 

 are ijiila (iraivn on <iur old aire, payable, with in- 

 •tfre^l ;ihoiit tliirty years aftor date 



G'l ,<l M'innirs niid Go'xl Bne:li'ig. — Goori man 

 nets i>i ihe art of inakiiiff those pKi|>le easy with 

 whoMi ■ e I oiiverse ; and whoever makes llie few- 

 e-l jitrsiMis uneasy is the best bre.i In the com- 



a'ter iniii-r lu .- , -u • • -poiijis an I o:iier ani 

 lies in a hni ket, and thmkinti he had taken them 

 ill! out of the water, he chucked it over the gang- 

 way, when to his ve.'iation. he found he had thrown 

 ont with it a Talnable silver table spoon. He saw 

 it shining tliro;iu-h the clear biue ocean, and wa- 

 vering frtim side to side as it sank from his view 

 Several sharks had been olisrrved near the ship, 

 and it is known they generally dart npnn any 

 There is, hovi ever, an affected su'avily of i thing white, a piece of rag often serving' for a 

 I, a mawkish mil iness of manner, which jbait. He did not. however, observe any of them 



](».kH like hypocrisy and flattery, is more disgust- } "ear the spot at the time : — and the captain being 



inv to people of sense th m almost any breaches |a testy man. he kept the secret of the loss to him- 



of 'ieroriim, which do not indic-Ue an intLMitnm c.f self, and the matter was soon forgotten. 



CTJviri . offence'. T'le ■''hip in due time reached Jamaica, and 



"vride.ill nature, and want of .sense; are the ' ^^'f"^" '^e rircunislanre became known, the value 1 under a neu- a.pect,are not so readily recognised ; 



tl ree ..real sources of ill manne.s ; without some "^ t''*- ^P""" ^"^ dedncted from the wages of the j also in walking on a wall or a roof, in looking di- 



of these defects, no man uill behave liiu.self ill steward. The vessel lay some time at Kingston, rectly tip to a roof, or (o the stars in the zenith, 



for w-int of experience, or v\hat is called knowl- received on board a cargo of sugar, and proceed ^because then all stnndnrds disappear ; on walking 

 f the world ' '^'' "" '"''^ homeward voyage When crossing 'into a roiinil reum, where there are no perpendi- 



nearly the same spot on the aqueous Aorld where |cular lines of liglit and shade, as when the walls 



the spoon was lost, a number of sharks again land roof are covered with a spotted paper without 



showed their tail fins above the water as they cut regular arrangement of spots ; on turning round 



irt give imperceptible strokes to those ^^^^^ ,^p ship's side, or in her wake ; and a shark as in walf.ing. or on a wheel ; becaese the eye 



bres ot which the vital parts are com- ^_^^|^ y^^-^^^ ^^^-^^^^ ^^j,j^ ^ pjp^.p ^^ g.^|j ^^^^^^ was lis not then allowed to rest on the standards. 



lowered over the stern. Presently one of the 



largest of these devouring monsters, or as the When Dr. Franklin had ..pproached to the very 



under these circumstances, ti possess himself oi' 

 a purse of £"20 laid before liiin ; he of course lost 

 his money. 



The painful affection called sea sickness, has a 

 relation also to this topic. Man requiring always 

 to maintain his perpeunicularily, iiiseiisilily regu- 

 lates and ascertains that point by the fixed and 

 known position , f objects aliout hiui Hence, on 

 shipboard, wb^re the lii es of llie masts, windows, 

 furniture, &c. are constantly changing, sickness, 

 vertlijo. an I other affections of ihe same class, are 

 common to persons unaccustomed to sliips. Many 

 experience similar effects in carnages and in 

 swings, or on looking from a lofty precipice, 

 where known objects being distant, and viewed 



lleulth and Hilarity. — f'herrfc.lness is the best 

 pr(MiiiJier of health. Repining and secret murmurs 

 of tlie heart 



deli' ite fibres of whicii the vital pa 

 posel, and thus insensibly wear ont the machine 

 jy of which the human frame is constituted. 



Hard Hords. — To say what you are certain will 



sailors call them, " Sea LajM/crs," half turning onM"^P "f ''•^ life, he reasoned thus coolly with a 

 give unnecessary pain, is not only a breach in its side, took the huge bait into his pig-like but '^f'""'' ! " Death is as necessary to the constitution 



tremendous jaws, and was securely hooked, The j as sleej). we shall rise as refreshed in the morn- 

 fish was with difficullv hauled alongside and hoist- ing- The course of nature must soon put a peri- 



but in morals : and he who wantonly 

 the feelings with " words far bitterer 



th n uormHood," would wield the tomahawk and ^6 in upon deck, where it flapped about and show- 

 scalping knife if he could with impunity. pj prodigious strength and tenacity of life. When 



its struggles were ended by a blow on the head 



wi'h a mallet, one of the men proceeded to open 



it. His j.ick-kuifp soon came in contact with 



the narrator, 



.i 1 Iher Warning. — We are informed by a cor- 

 ri ^ on ent in Southborough that on the 7th ull. 

 Docl. B . of that town received a letter.^of ;'<;,„;tring"in it's'bellyrand 



will " the f(dl<nving is a copy 



'•Sir — I consign my remains to be dissected al 

 disi retion, at the Medical College. 



Cause — Tedium Vitae or a certain cure for in- 

 trmf evance has induced me eflect it. No obse- 

 quies is asked. In the pine grove near Mr 1'... 

 Flagg's 1 sli.jll bo found 



The signature we purposely omit. On examin- 

 ation, the body was indeed found in the place 

 pointed out. It appeared iii evi-'enre, that he 

 drank about a quart and half a |iint of rum at once, 

 vhich produced insensihility and apople.vy. fol- 

 lowed by death in about 24 hours; thus addiug an- 

 other victim, sacrificed at the shrine of intemper- 

 ance, and affording another warning to those who 

 are addicted to similar habits. — IVorcesler Spy. 



od to the present mode of existence. This I 

 shall submit to with less regret, as having seen 

 during a long life, a good deal of this world,! feel 

 a growing curiosity to become acquainted with 

 some other. I can with cheerful confidence resign 

 y spirit to the conduct of that great and good 



Eiiraordinani account of a Shark. — We remem- 

 ber, some years ago, while sitting on the quarter 

 deck of a We,';t Indiaman, borne rapiilly along be 

 fore the trade wind, and the captain and passen- 

 gers were amusing themselves by telling stories 



W'th earnestness, " what do you think was really I parent of mankind, who created it, and who has 

 found ?"_" Wliy the spoon of course !" exclaim U" graciously protected me from my birth to the 

 ed the listeners simultaneously. •• The spoon !" pfs®"'' hour 

 he ejoined with a smile, 'No! No!" — "What 

 then?" they hastily enquired "Why, nothinu 



Newbuiyport Herald says, that "a family of in- 



, , ., . 1 . u i!i rri. . .. -. ^'teresting children >n that town came nigh beinir 



but the entrails, to be sure !" The taciturnity of , a. , „ . , , r" ">='"o 



,. . , , suttocated a levv' nights since, ny means of a 

 snot again disturbed I ... . .. ,^ , , , .■ . , 



our waggish messmate was 



for another story during the voyage 



warmer with ignited charcoal being placed in a 

 chamber without a fire-place, where they were in 



A cow six years old belonging to Mr. Ezra j "^d. 



Wctherbee, of Harvard, was slaughtered on the ; gf^^i — ^ Mr. MackirUosh, in Scotland, has late- 

 Kith inst. weighing tight hundred and eighty-four -[y taken out a patent for a new process of makinn- 

 pounds! She had been milked during the present steel, by impregnating the iron at a higher temt 

 wmter, and on the morning she was killed, gave pejaiure than heretofore, with carbon in a gase- 

 niore than two quarts of milk. The tallow weigh- o,|g form. 



ed one hundred and twenty-three pounds. — Con- , — j^u nu n i.. .^,m„ 



cord Gazette | Lucerne Seed. 



A few hundred pounds of fresh I.urernc -iceH, hy the poun^ 

 r hundred weight, for sale al the N. E. Fanei r nfJire. 



At Maci.ii, lu Georgia, on Christmas day Jf'at 

 ermelons were exposed for sale in the market. 



The centre of gravity 

 and cracking jokes to beguile the sameness of the iinary motions are governed by the habitual neces- 

 voyage. It came at last lo the turn of a gentle- sity we find of preserving the centre of gravity 

 man, remarkable for his lOve of cigars and taci 

 turnitv ; one who enjoyed a good anecdote, hut 



Ifhile Mustard Seed. 



^ i For sale at the office of die New Enpland Farmer, the besi 



Two thirds of our ord- , English Whhe Mustard seed, fcy ibc pound or bu.shel. 



abhorred the trouble of relating it himself. He 

 was, however, so strongly importuned on this occa- 

 sion that without much reluctance, he related the 

 following interesting fact, by tits and starts, fill- 

 ing up each pause by vigorous whiffs of his favor- 

 ite weed : — 



In the year 1S20, the good ship Rambler sail- 

 ed from Greenock with goods and passengers, to- 

 wards Jamaica. She had crossed the tropic, and 

 one day. when nearly becalmed, the steward, who 

 had the care of the captain's plate, had occasion 



Siberian Par.ihy. 

 Just received al the offiee of the New Knffland Farmer, a few 

 hen a man rises from a chair, he is seen first to Ihs. Siberian Parsley Seed. This plant is perfecily hardy,. ?(an(/- 

 t ., , , !< ] * L ■ .1 * i?t "■ our severest irjn/ers : and \vouI<l probahlv ^e the best sort to 



end the body forward, so as to bring the centre ^„- ^^i,^ ^3,,^ ^ rccommenc.eH 'in the -last New England 

 I gravity over the feet or base, "nd then he lifts Farmer, as well as for cultivation in sardens. The Seed was 



1' up. If he lift too soon, that is, before the body 

 be sufficiently advanced, be falls hack again. A 

 man standing with his heels close to a perpendi-. 

 cular wall, cannot bend forward to pick up any 

 thing that lies on the ground near him, without 



ally procured from it u.^.sia, a lew years s 

 I this vicinity. 



c, by a genllc- 

 Jan, 4. 



Early Peas, Tree Onion, Poppy Seed, S,-c. 



For sale at the New F.nglsnrl Farmer office, fre^h Seed of tin 



/jarge Poppv. Farly Peas. Tree Onion. Wlet* Clover. Lime 



r?qnash. ^:c. with the greatest variely of Seeds to be found in ' 



himself falling forward, because the wall prevents -^'|-■w England. 



him from throwing part of his body backward, to ^^-^itjrr^— --^S';s?S3'^'^ss?; '=*^'" ^';="-^^-^i--jr" 



counterbalance the head and arms that must pro- lET Published every' Fnioir, at Three Dollars per annum, 

 J . , '^ pavaWc al the end of the year ; but those «lio pay wiihin si.xty 



jccl forward. A man little versed in such mat- days from the time of subscribing, are eniiiled lo a deduction of 

 ters, offered ten guineas for permission to try, Fifiij Cenis. 



