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NKW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 11, 1828. 



MISCELLANIES. 



/■Vom the legendary. 

 THE EXILE AT REST. 



tV THE ItEV. JOt!N PIEr.fONT. 



His falchion flasliod alonj Ihe Nile ; 



His Iiosls he led ihrongli Alpine s 



O'er Moscow's lower, thai Ijlazed the ' 



His ragle flag unrolled — and froze. 



.•hi!-. 



Here sleeps he now, alone ! — not one 

 Of all Ihe Kings whose crowns he gave, 



Bends o'er his dust ;— nor wife nor son 

 Has evur seen or sought his grave. 



Behind lliis sra girt rock, the star 



Tlial led him on from crown to crown 



Has sunk j — and nations from atar 

 Gazed as it faded and went down. 



Higii is hi^ couch ; tlie ocean flood 

 Far, far below, by storms is curled j 



As round him heaved. wl((le high he stood, 

 A stormy and unstable world. 



Alone he sleeps ! the mountain cloud. 



Thai Night hangs round him, and the brealli 

 Of morning scatters, is the shroud 



That wraps the conqueror's clay in death. 



Tause here ! — The far off world at last 



Breathes tree ; the hand that shook its throne'; 



And to the earth its mitres cast. 

 Lies powerless now beneath these stones. 



Hark '. comes there, from the Pyramids, 

 And from Siberian wastes of snow, 



And Europe's hrlls, a voice that bids 



The world he awed to mourn him ? No : 



The only, the perpetual dirge 



That's heard here, is the sea bii*d's cry — 

 '/he mournful murmur of the surge — 



The cloud's deep voice — the wind's loud sigh. 



Ghost Story. — The S])ringfield Republican states 

 that the people in the neighborhood of Mount 

 Tom, in West Springfield, have been troubled on 

 account of a babbling ghost, which some work- 

 ! men pretended to have seen in the night. One 

 I man stiid that he had not only seen the ghost, but 

 j conversed with it, (although it had no head,) and 

 that the headless form informed him that he was 

 : the ghost of Timothy Felt, who was murdered a- 

 ! bout three years ago. The people turned out to 

 j find the bones of Timothy Felt, but did not dis- 

 j cover them. 



I It is strange tliat any portion of the community 

 should be so stupidly ignorant as to credit for a 

 moment any stories about ghosts, witches, and 

 hobgoblins. When will such delusions cease .' — 

 Hampshire Gazette. 



Loading Hay in. Chili. — A writer in the Chris- 

 tian Spectator, who has spent several years in Chi- 

 li, (or Chile) remarks that almost all substances 

 from tlie eartl) and sea, are transported on the 

 back of mules in that country. Hay is wiiolly 

 brought to market in that way. A man mounts 

 his mule and stands erect, while a second throws 

 him up bundles of long green hay, which he pla- 

 ces roimd liim as our hay-makers load a cart. — 

 When the nude is so laden that nothing but his 

 long ears and tlie owner's head are visible, he is 

 brought to the city, where the rider sells to one 

 and another until his load is gone. 



Long sticks of timber are brought to market on 

 mule-back, one on each side of the animal. They 

 are crossed and lashed two together on the saddle; 

 the lower ends drag on the ground behind, and 

 sweep the whole street. 



Difference of Constitution. — Substances that arc- 

 poisonous to one tribe of animals are medicinal to 

 a second, and even highly nutritive to a third. — 

 Thus, swine are poisoned by pepper seeds, which 

 to man are a -serviceable and grateful spice ; while 

 henbane roots, which destroy mankind, prove a 

 wholesome diet to switie. In like manner, aloes, 

 wliicii to our kind is -a useful medicine, is a rank 

 venom to dogs and foxes ; and the horse, whicli 

 is poisoned by the water hemlock, and corrosive 

 sublimate, will take a dram of arsenic daily, and 

 improve thereby both in his coat and condition. 

 JV. Y. Farmer. 



Marine fans — In the betl of the Red Sea, and 

 on some parts of the coast of America, there grows 

 a very curious marine plant, which is flat, and 

 spreads very much like a peacock's feather. Its 

 color, in general is tawny, but some are found of 

 a very fine olive. It is formed of innumerable ligne- 

 ous fibres, interwoven together, and is as supple 

 and as tough as whalebone. They are sometimes 

 found eighteen inches long in the Red Sea ; and 

 are eagerly sought by the women of America for 

 fans. In some instances these plants are found 

 of a very beautiful red, or variegated, when of 

 course their value is greatly increased. 



Indelible ink, for marking on linen cloth, &c. 

 is made by dissolving one drachm of lunar caustic 

 and half an ounce of gum arabic in half a pint of 

 pure rain water. Previous to using it the cloth 

 to be marked should be wet with a preparatory 

 liquor made by dissolving one drachm of salt of 

 tartar in half a gill of rain water, and thoroughly 

 dried and ironed. — American Adv. 



Fog. — A London fog is a sad thing, as every in- 

 iiabitaiH of London knows full well; dingy, dusky, 

 dirty, damp — an atmosphere black as .smoke, and 

 wet as steam, that v.'raps around you like a blan- 



kf;t ; -ft cloud reaching from earth to heaven; a '^ ' ■i""-^-""" ----••■•v"j ..^ ".^"-.", ... .^^^.^^c 

 ' , , ' ,?, , , .' novel ol the Pirates, lo.ses all its point : and m a 



Palpable obscure, which not only turns day into „ ^ .... ■. ,, , u c .u .i 



1 : , ' . • , , , , future edition, It would be well for the author to 



niglit, but threatens to extinguish the lamps and 



lanterns, v^'ith which the jioor street-wanderers 



."Strive to illumine their dqrkness dimming and pal- 



The editor of the Reading Journal says that he 

 iias tried the experiment of pouring boiling water 

 upon the roots of a Peach tree, the leaves of which 

 had become sear and dry, and the limbs in a rap- 

 id slate of decay — " in one week it begun to re- 

 vive, and in three weeks it was covered with a 

 new foUage, and new vigorous shoots are putting 

 out, in all directions." 



If this is the case, the joke cracked upon Mr. 

 Triptoleinus Yellowly's young orchard, in Scott's 



to give that matter a new turn. 



To make molasses beer. — Take five pounds of 



It is estunated that there are 60,000,000 gal- 

 Ions of lamp oil used every year in the United 



States. 



Turnip Seed, Sfc. 

 Just received at the New England Farmer Seed IJitore, No. 

 52 North Market Street, Hoston, an extensive as.sortment of 

 Turnip Seeds, some of which are the growth of the present 

 season— the finest sorts either for family use or slock. The 

 most improved sorts for the former are the While Sloue, While 

 Dutch, Yellow Stone. Yellow Malla. The Ve/low Stone is 

 one of uncommon excellence and keeps well. Of the sorts for 

 6eld culture, the White Norfolk, White Globe, ami Yitlow Ab- 

 erdeen or Buttock nre preferable. The Yellow Aberdeen is 

 most approved among the farmers of Eiiglaud and Scotland, as 

 il grows to a large size, is very sweet and nutritious, and keeps 

 till June. Also, Yellow Rula Baffa, or Russian Turuip, of the 

 best description. The above seeds were saved in Europe ex- 

 pressly fo' us. aud the utmost dependence may be placed upon 



jliS the ineffectual fires, until the volimie of gas molasses half a pint of yeast and a spoonful of ' "'^''^ f^""''""l"'''''y A variety of Long and Turnip Radish- 



nt a shop door cuts no better figure than a hedge p.^^ered ginger-put these into a vessel, r^.d\f,^;!t!X^^.:^^J^ 



glow-v.'orm — and a dutchess s flambeau would pour on two gallons of scalding hot «q/i! water the genuine Girkin Cucumber, or West India pickling one of 



v.- il its glories to a will-o'-the-wisp. The very ,,.,ke the whole till a fermentation is produced- j ">«i^.«"-LPS!^Tbs. fresh common white flat Enghsh Turnip 



noises ot the street come stilled and smothered then add of the same kind of water suflicient to i Seed, a part of it the growth of 1328 :— to dealers and purchas- 



tlirough that .sufilicating medium,— din is at a fill up vour half barrel. If the cask be greater or l«"-s by the quaniity. it will be put at a low rate. 



♦ I „ .,,.,, Ic. c:i/>..nnrl nnA tUa .T-Lnlo nnnti .1 . i • , i ■ A SO, genurue J owl Mcadow Grass, from Vermoiit — Orchard 



pause— the town is silenced, and the whole popu- smaller than this, the component parts must be in *= - . _. ^ . - 



I (lion bipsd and quadruped, sympathise with the p,o])ortion. Let the liquor ferment about twelve 

 dead and chilling weight of the out-of-door worid. : hours— then bottle it, with a raisin or two in each 

 firigs and cats just look up from their slumbers — j hottle.— Partner's Assistant. 



turn round, and go to sleep again ; the little birds | . 



open tlicir pretty eyes — stare about them — won- 1 Large tree. — The largest tree in the world is 



Seeds for Ihe IVeM Indies. 

 Merchants, masters of vessels and others trading to the West 

 Indies, can be furnished with boxes of Seeds, assorted, suitable 

 ,,,.,......,...,,. ..V.J .., .. ... ......... ...- I •""•&■• -•■-- '■■•' — B-"- .•-- — — - •■--"" ■■, for that market, at from ;?4 lo JfS per box.— Each box contains 



dor that the night is so long, and settle themselves said to be the Adansoma digitaia, which is lomid upwards of sixty difTereut kinds of seeds, vegetable aud orna- 



Grass, Lucerne. &c. — Hemp. While Mustard, Flax Seed, &c. 



At this place is kept the best supply of seeds, native and i 

 ported, that art and mdustry can procure. July .j 



afresh on their porches. Silks lo.se their gloss — 

 cravats their .stiffness — hackney coachmen their 

 4vuy ; young ladies fall out of curl, and mammas 

 out of temper — masters scold — servants grumble, 

 and the whole city, from Hyde Park corner to 



jpwaros 01 sixty < 

 The trunk is mental, in quantities suBicient for a common kitchen garden. — 

 Likewise the greatest variety of seeds to be found in New Eng- 

 land, by the pound or bushel, all warranted pure, aud of the 



branches of great size, which spread out drooping growth of 1827. 



at the extremities, and form a mass of verdure 1.50 



in Senegal, Egypt, and Abyssinia. 



from 20 to 30 feet in diameter, and divides into ^'''PT* 



Bremen Gtcse 

 feet in diameter, and 70 feet in height. The wood ! For sale, 10 pair fine Bremen Gees( 

 Wapping, looks sleepy and cross, like a fine gen- is light and soft, and the negroes sometimes hoi- EnglantI Farmer Seed Store. 

 tlcman rousi-d before his time, and forced to get up 1 low out chambers in the trunk, and deposit their — — ^-^^— ^-~^— "~ 



Apply at Ihe New 

 July 4. 



by candle-light. Of all detestable things, a Lon- dead within them, where they become mummies, j r (i^ ,itar—tia 

 don fog is the most detestable. — fcon. .Mnn. Mag. \ perfectly dry and well preserved — Ham. Gaz. I „fs,asmiing, « 



Pttblished every Friday . ett $3 per domum, payahle at the end 

 those who pay within si.%ty days frtnn the time 

 ere eiitittcd to a dtiuciim »/ fifty rents. 



