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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



OCTOBER 1, 1R31. 



MISCELLANY. 



From Mrs. Hale's Magazine. 



THE SWEDISH GIRL,. 



"Previous to the dopanure of Baron de Stael from Sweden 

 he was enamoured of his second cousin, a beautillti e;irl whom 

 lie had promised to marry : but after the oH'ers received by him 

 from the Neckar family, he wrote to inform her of the peculiar 

 circumstances in which he was placed, and that his union with 

 a lady wiiom lie did not love, would be the means of raisiiijj his 

 lamily (rom poverty and obscurity, — Mis cousin, without any 

 other answer, returned him his luarriai^e promise stained witii 

 her tears, and in seven weeks she was a corpse." 



"Even to pause on such a thoushl! 

 , How could it cross his mind ? 



Vain honors, traffick'd tor anti bought 



With happiness resigned !■ 

 And love like mine cast meekly by, 



At cold ambition's call ! 

 My heart be calm 1 — why should I sigh! 



Tears, tears, why will ye fall ? 

 The .Swedish girl should scorji to stand 

 'Tween him and his adopted land. 

 For him what would I not have borne, 



\\'llat woe or poverty ! 

 And rich in love, have smiled in scorn, 



When heartless wealth rolled by. 



I would have urged him up the steep, t 



Where hangs the noltlest crown 

 Honor may gain, or virtue keep — 



An honest man's renown ! 

 Soothed him when yielding to his toils, 

 And brightened each success with smiles. 

 Yet why thus linger o'er a dream 



That my fond spirit bound. 

 But lent my soul no cheering beam 



To light the darkness round ! 

 Well, be it so :^I may not speak 



What stirs within my heart : 

 The fettered spirit soon will break 



Through all things and depart : 

 Yet 'twould be sweet again to bless 

 The object of past tenderness! 

 Ay, lake thy bride, the gifted one. 



And glory in her fame ! 

 And when, peivading in the sun, 



Her genius lights thij name. 

 Forget, amid its dazzling rays, 



How dim thine own a[)pears; 

 Nor think u[)on the heartlelt praise 



Was thine in former years. 

 When mingling love, and hope, and pride, 

 With her now coldly thrown aside. 

 Ay, wed another — wed the great I 



Gain wealth, but with it care! 

 Soon shalt thou feel the galling weight, 



-\nd mourn each glittering snare 

 That wiled thee from Ihy plighted vow, 



From first and unfeigned love j 

 Antl bade thee to a stranger bow, 



A .straJlger's bimnlii prove ! 

 Madness, that one so loved by me, 

 Should ever so degraded be ! 



II may not lie ! I cannot ask 

 Karth's happiness for one 



Who hath imposed the billerest task. 



That woman's pride has ilone. • 

 I'll curse not, though I miiy not bless 



The idol of my youth. 

 But in my inrert of happiness, 

 rilprove unfaltering irndi. 

 And, blotted thus with ti-ars. return 

 The jiledge I would, but cannot spurn !" 

 And such is woman's love ! not even pride 

 , That oft (piells passion in its fiercest tide. 

 This high souled, injured Kwedish girl could save 

 Fair spring, wave garlajids o'er her early grave. 



MoiNA. 



If we conversed less alioul tiien,aml more about 

 things, we would have lietter friends, and more sense. 



SIKGUliAR IIVSTANCE OP liOKGEVITY. 



A CERTAIN liotiaelireaker vvjis condeirined in tlie 

 early part of the last rentiiry in France, and un- 

 der pectiliar circumstaiires, to a hundred years at 

 llie i;alleys, and strange to relate, this liian rereut- 

 ly mtide his appearance in his own native province 

 at the advanced age of 1-20, ho hein<r about 20 

 yetirs of age when the sentence which condemned 

 liitu to so dreadftil a punishment was passed. It 

 may he easily conceived with what eagerness and 

 delight, he flew, as soon as emancipated from the 

 shackles whicli had enthrtilled hitn for an entire 

 centtiry, to lueathe once more the cherished air 

 of the scene of his infancy. Botirg in the depart- 

 ment of Ain was his native home ; hut time had 

 so chimged the aspect of the whole jilace, that he 

 recogitised it only by tlie old church of Bonrg, 

 which was ihe only tiling which had undergone 

 no alteration. He had triumphed over laws,«hon- 

 dage, man, titne — every thing. Not a relation 

 had he left, uot a single being could he hail as an 

 acquaintance, yet he was not without experiencing 

 the hotnage and respect the French invariably pay 

 to old age. For hitnself, he had forgotten every 

 thing connected with bis early youth, even all rec- 

 ollection of the crime for which he had suffered 

 was lost, or if at all remembered it was but as a 

 dreary vision, confoimded with a thousand other 

 dreary visions of days long gone by. * His family 

 anil connections for several generations all dead, 

 himself a living proof of the clemency of heaven, 

 and the severity of man, regretting, perhaps, the 

 very irons which had been fainiliar to hiiii, and 

 half wishing hitnself again among the wretched 

 and stiffering beings with whom his own fate had 

 been so long associated — well might he he called 

 the patriarch of burglars. A few years since this 

 e.xtranrdinary long lived man was still in being 

 and in health. 



If my child was to be a shoe-black till liis'lite, I 

 wotilil give him a classical education. 



If young ladies now-a-days did not become wo- 

 men at thirteen, men would have better »vi\es. 



]f yon would not he everlastingly (ium\i:d— pay 

 ihe printer! — Southern Plnnter. 



DEPTH OF THE OCEAN. 



The depth of the ocean is a point which has 

 puzzled alike philosophers and practical men, and 

 is after ail left in a wide field of conjecture. The 

 most probable gtiide is analogy, and tlte wisest meit, 

 judging by this criterion, have prestimed that the 

 tiepth of the sea may be measured by the height 

 of mountains, the higliest of which are between 

 20,000 and .30,000 feet. The greatest depth that 

 has been tried to he measured, is thtit found in 

 the Northern ocean by Lord iMtilgrave. 



He heaved out a very heavy soimding ler.d, and 

 gave out along with it a ctible rope of the length 

 of 46S0 feet without finding bottom. 



BLASTING ROCKS. 



As many lives are yearly lost by the imtinielv 

 explosiim of the powder used for blasting rocks, 

 htimiinity prompts me to give a process as we 

 lip.-ird it described a few days since, by a person 

 who had been injured in a mine where many ac- 

 cidents of the kind had ha[ipened whicli led them 

 to try other methods of charging the rocks than 

 those commonly practised, and which he said end- 

 ed in the discovery of a safe itnil expeditiotis man- 

 ner of blastitig. As these accidents had uniformly 

 happened, in what he denominated the " tainpling" 

 or the driving down the brick and other substance 

 in fillitig aliove the powder, lltey for an experi- 

 ment stibstiltited plaster of Paris, which had been 

 heated, as for preparing cement, which they mixed 

 with wtiler in the sttme niitmier, and poured the 

 cement into the hole upon the powder, having 

 first ititrodticed the i|iiill or fuze ; the cement iiu- 

 meiliatily set or hardeueil when the blast was 

 ready lor firing. He saiil that he never knew a 

 blast mtitiaged in this way to fail of doing well, 

 and never knew an accident to hap|ien ; that it 

 was ipiicker done anil was more economical in 

 every res|iect. If this should prove correct it 

 shouhl he generally introduced. 



ERROR OP TRAVELLERS. 



0.\E great error of travelleis is the belief that 

 while they are undergoing fatigue, they require 

 more food than at any other time. Noihing can 

 be more ftttal than this common mistake ; the 

 feverishness which attends fatigue deprives the 

 stomach of its tone, digestion is then a hibor which 

 it is unequal to perform ; the individual feels 

 exhausted, and forces himself, " to support his 

 strength," to eat what he loaths to look on. 1 

 have seen the bad effects of this vulgar error very 

 frequently, and heard iujtulicious people press the 

 weary to whet their appetites with spirits, when a 

 few hours' repose would have restored the system, 

 and given a new tone to the stomach. — Ma. Trav. 



PASHIOiVABLE SHELL CODIBS, 



Sign of the Goldni Co'uth, 243 Washlntrtcn street, Boston. 



The fashion ofC.'ombs having undergone considerable mod- 

 ification ilurlng the last eighteen miniihs, and the combs now 

 worn being much smaller tlian those formerly, iiuluces tlie sub- 

 scriber to suggest to the ladies that ihry can have their combs 

 retluced to conform to the present style, (.'omlis th.nt ate now 

 lost to the owner, in consetiuenee ot their hugenkss can oe 

 aliercd into one or more combs with wrought or plain tops at 

 the option of the owner, at a motlerate charge. 



They liave on hand and are constantly manufacturing th« 

 most fashionable combs. Ladies in want olcombs, will please 

 call belore purchasing. 



Jewelry antl Fancy Goods at reduced prices for cash. Alio 

 W'arranted Silver Siiectacles to su;t aiiv age for Js^.CO. 

 JOHN PONS, 



net 1 ri.T'.RRIONT C. HINE. 



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IP, AND HIS PROGENY. 



If every body would just mind his own busi- 

 ness, iheie would be nmre business done. 



If voti want to get rich, work hard and spend 

 little." 



If the mistress would scold less she would ha\e 

 less reason for scolding. 



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