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NEW ExN GLAND FARMER. 



JULY 16, 1R34. 



MISCELLANY. 



From the London Court Jla^aziiK. 

 OI YE HOURS. 



SUMMER SONG, BY MRS. HEHANS. 



O ! ye hours, yc sunny hours ! 



Floaiinghghllyby. 

 Are ye come with birds and llowers, 



Odours, aad blue sky .' 

 Yes, we come again, we come, 



Through the wood paths free. 

 Bringing many a wanderer home, 



With the bird and bee. 

 O 1 ye hours, ye sunny hours, 



Are ye wafting song? 

 Doth wild music strain in showers 



All the groves among 1 

 Yes, the nighlini^ale is there, 



While the starlight reigns. 

 Making young leaves and sweet air, 



Tremble with her strains. 



O ! ye hours, ye sunny hours ! 



In your silence flow, 

 Ye are mighty powers ! 



Bring nic bliss or woe ! 



Ask not this ! — oh ! ask not this ! 



Yield our hearts awfHle 

 To the soft wind's balmy kiss, 



And the heaven's bright smile. 

 Throw not shades of anxious thought 



O'er the glowing flowers ! 

 We are come with sunshine fraught, 



Question not the hours. 



uliicl) we liLtif so riiucli. That ])eriiiciotis tiling 

 the corset, cuts short more years of human life, in 

 this cotjntry, than " war, pestilence famine," ami 

 rum coiribiiied. — LoivcH Journal. 



STANZAS. 



BY BET. W. 0. PljAliODT. 



1 LOVE the memory of that hour 



When first in youth I found thee. 

 For infant beauty genlly threw 



A morning freshness round thee ; 

 A single star was rising then. 



With mild and Wvcly motion, 

 And scarce the zei>hyr's gentle breath 



Went o'er the sleeping ocean. 



I love the memory of that hour — 

 It wakes a pensive feeling, 



As when within the winding shell 

 The playful winds are stealing ; 



II tells my heart of those bright years 

 Ere hope went down in sorrow. 



When all the joys of yesterday, 



Were painted on to-morrow. 

 Where art thou now 1 Thy once loved flowers 



Their yellow leaves are twining, 

 And bright and beautiful again 



That single star is shining ; 

 Bui where art thou ? The bended grass 



A dewy stone discloses, 

 And love's bright footsteps print the ground 



Where all our peace reposes. 



Farewell 1 my tears are not for thee 



'Twere weakness to deplore thee. 

 Or vainly mourn thine absence here 



While angels half adore thee j 

 Thy days were few and (juickly told j 



Thy short and mournful story 

 Hath ended like the morning star 



That melts in deeper glory, 



ANTI-IiACING SOCIETY. 



In the rage existing at the present day for 

 formiog Societies for the suppression of moral and 

 physical evils, it seems strange to nie that nn An- 

 ii Tight Lacing Sorkti/ has not been thought of. 

 The evils of tight lacing arc of far greater magni- 

 tude, than those arising from iulemperance of 



DAIVGER OP GIVING OPIATES TO CHILDREN. 



It is remarkable, when we consider with what 

 unguarded rashness medicines containing npitini 

 are given by motliers and nurses to yomig chil- 

 that fatal accidents do not more frequently occur. 

 One instance, indeed, in which death resulted 

 from an over dose given by mistake, took place in 

 this city not long since. But from the very con- 

 siderable quantities of paregoric which are fre- 

 (luently administered, we should be inclined to in- 

 fer tliat the instances in which narcotistn has fol- 

 lowed from a very small quantity, were either not 

 known or not stitficiently appreciated. We have 

 before us some remarks which bear directly on 

 this point, and containing facts which ougiit to he 

 generally known. They were originally publisheil 

 in a popular English periodical, entitled " Tlie 

 Doctor." 



A grain and a half of Dover's powder, which 

 contains hardly 1-6 of a grain of opimn, or even 

 one grain of this powder, has sometimes caused 

 extreme anxiety for the safely of childreu of eight 

 months old. 



A lady was accustomed to give her children, 

 when they were indisposed, a tablespoonful of a 

 mixture of which each spoonful contained 1-6 of 

 a drop of laudanum, that is a sixth of a twentieth, 

 or 1-120 of a grain of opium. One of the chil- 

 dren had taken in this manner, at different times, 

 for slight affections, nearly an ounce of the mix- 

 ture in the first six weeks of existence. The in- 

 I'ant fell sick a second time, and the mother gave 

 it a spoonful in the morning and another in the 

 evening. After three spoonfuls taken in tuenty- 

 four hours, making 1-40 of a grain of opium, the 

 .symptoms of narcotism were developed to a degree 

 which alarmed both the parents and the physician. 

 By the proper employment of stimulants and great 

 care, these symptoms by degrees yielded and the 

 child recovered. 



This shows to what extent children are suscep- 

 tible of narcotism from the use of 0])ium, and how 

 much more practitioners should be on their guard 

 when admiuistering this article to such delicate 

 subjects : it proves, moreover, that a certain state 

 of disease will bear the use of the remedy without 

 inconvenience, to an extent which a succeeding 

 attack, though apitarently similar, will not justify. 

 Although this child had borne a considerable 

 iiuanlity of the opiate without inconvenience, he 

 was unable a short time afterwards to bear one 

 much more feeble; and thus the preceding toler- 

 ance of the therapeutic agent, furnished no certain 

 indication for the actual power of resistance pos- 

 sessed by the system at the time. — Boston Medical 

 Journal. 



and not in the farinaceous |)orlion, so that ihe 

 bread made with the coarsest flour is that which 

 contains the largest proportion of the metal. M. 

 Farzeau, indefatigable in his researches, wished to 

 ascertain the quantity of copper which, in a given 

 time a man would mix with his bread. Accord- 

 ing to his calculations, a man would eat in the 

 course of fifty years, 6.09 grammes — a very small 

 quantity in truth, and which could produce no in- 

 jury. The quantity of bread daily consumed in 

 France being IS millions of kil6granunes, there 

 would be consequently 10 kilog. of copper eaten 

 diiily, or 36o0 per year. On the other hand since 

 the amount of wheat necessary to feed France for 

 a year, is nearly 7000 millions of kilog. it results 

 that this quantity of wheat takes from the soil 

 34061 kilograiimies 800 grammes of copper — an 

 enormous quantity, which equally proves the 

 abund.ance of co[)|)er in the soil, and its extreme 

 minuteness of division. — Boston Medical Journal. 



■H-HEAT IN THE ^VEST INDIES. 



Labat in his 'Natural History of the West In- 

 dies,' a valuable and curious i Id hook, says — "an 

 inhabitant of my parish in Martinique sowed some 

 wheat which was brought from France ; it came 

 very well into leaf, hut the greater ))art of the eajts 

 were empty, and the others had very few corns; 

 but those which were born in tlie country, wlien 

 sown grew wonderfully, and produced the numt 

 beautiful ears and as well filled as yon can imagine. 

 Seeds must naturalize themselves to the country, 

 and when that is done they will produce marvel- 

 lously. I made an experiment with some peas 

 that came from France ; they produc:ed very little 

 the first year, the second they produced niore, but 

 the third they jiroduced in an cxtraorilinary man- 

 ner both for number, size and goodness. Radishes, 

 parsnips, carrots, and beets come to perfection, 

 especially when you sow Creole seed — tliat is, 

 seed born in the country." These facts may be of 

 great use to those who colonize. 



COPPER IN VEGETABLES. 



Some experiments recently made by M. Farzeau 

 in France, have demonstrated the presence of this 

 metal in the vegetables used as food. These e.x- 

 pcriinenls have been made with so much accura- 

 cy as to demonstrate the actual weight of the cop- 

 per in each plant. Tlie examinations show the 

 proportion to be, a few miligrammes of copper for 

 each kilogramme of the jdant. Wheat contains 

 4.C66 milog. of copper for the kilog. — flour only 

 0.666, but the copper ia contained iu the bran 



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