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NEAV ENOLANB FARMER, 



OCTOBER 8, 1834. 



MISCELLANY 



A POETICAL. GEHI. 



The fnllowiniT lines iire from Ifie Album of llie hotel in ihc 

 vicinity of the Falls of Mnjiara : 



NIAGARA. 

 Flow on forever, in thy glorious robe 

 Of terror and ofheaiily. God hath set 

 Jlis rainhow on thy forehead, and tiic rhiud 

 Mantles around thy feel. And he doth f(ive 

 Thv voire of thunder, power to sjieak of him 

 Eternally, bidding; the lip of man 

 Keep silence, and upon thy ror ky altar ponr 

 Incense of swecl prtiise. Lvdia H. Sigourney. 



Tuesday Evening, Aii^. bih, 1831-. 



From Ihp Third Class Reader. 

 TIT FOR TAT. 



Tit for tat is a very bad word. 



As frequently people apply it ; 

 It means as I've usually heard. 



They intend to revenp-e themselves by it. 

 There is but ctie place where it's [jroper aufl pat, 

 And there I permit tliein to say " tit for tat.'' 

 Poor Dobbin, that toils with his load, 



Or gallops with master or man. 

 Don't lash him .so fast on the road, 

 You see he does all that he ran : 

 How \on^ has he scrv'd you ! do rnqollert th.nl, 

 And treat him w'illi kindness; 'lis hut "lit for tat." 

 Poor Brindle, tliat lashes her tail. 



And trudges home mornin,,^ and ni^ht, 

 ■Till Dolly appears with her pail, 

 To milk out the lli.id so white; 

 Don't kick her j^oor haunches, or bealher,and that, 

 To be kind to poor Brindle i.s but " lit for lat." 

 There's honest old Tray in Ihe yard. 



What rouraf^e and zeal has he shown ; 

 'Twould surely be cruelly hard 

 Nol to cast the poor Icllow a bone. 

 How fiercely ho barks at the robbers, and that, 

 I'm sure, then, to starve ijini, is not '■ til for tat.'* 

 Poor Puss, that runs mewino; about, 



ITcr white body sweeping the f^round ; 

 The mother abus'd and kick'd out. 

 And her innocent little ones drown'd ; 

 Whenever she catches ihe mischievous ral. 

 Be kind to poor Pussy, 'tis but " tit for tat." 

 Whatever shows kindness to us, 



With kindness we ought to repay; 

 Brindle, Donkey, Tray, Dubbin and Puss, 

 And every thing else in its way ; 

 In eases like these, it is proper and pat. 

 To make use of this maxim and say, " tit for tat." 



From Ihe New Yorf: Fanner, 

 PICKINfG GEESE ALIVE. 



Pe.nnant, an Kitglisli wiittir, s.-iys that geeso 

 »re plucked five tiiriKS in tlie year in Lincolnshire, 

 ence for the quills, nntJ (bur times for the feath- 

 ers — that he saw tlie gosliiifrs six vveelts old de- 

 prived of their feathers and tails. Many of them 

 fierishi^l under the i)|ieralioii. I'ickitii; fjcese alive 

 IS however a cruel practice ; but, (hitihtless, there 

 is one period of the year in which the feathers 

 cotne ofi" with h;ss pain than at others. Mouhray 

 holds the followinfr l.'tnguafie ; 



"A vvriti;r in tlie Mottilily Magazine, December 

 1823, remarks humnnely on the cruelty of pluck- 

 ing the living goose, proposing a remeily, which I 

 Biiould rejoice exceedingly to find practicable and 

 affective. lie remarks on the additional torture 

 eiperienced by the poor fowl, from the too fre- 

 quent unskilftilness and want of dexterity of the 

 operator — generally a woman. The skin and flesh 

 are sometiiiieB so torn as to occasion the death of 

 tUe Tictim ; and eveu when the fowls are plucked 



in the niosl careliil niaiiiief, they hise their tloli 

 anil H|ipeiite ; their eyes become dull, and they 

 liingtiish in a mo.-st pilialile stale, during a longer 

 or a shorter period. Mortality also h;is been peri- 

 odically very extensive in the thicks nf geese, from 

 sudden and itn|iritilent ex|i<jstire of tliein lo culil, 

 after being stripped, and iiiore especially dtiring 

 severe seasons and stiduiti iitniii>|ilieric. vicissi- 

 tudes. There are iiiatiy instances, in hie.ik and 

 colli situations, of hundfeds being lost in a singlr 

 night, from neglect of the iltie precattlion of com- 

 fortable shelter for as long a time as it may appear 

 to be required. Tlie remedy propnseil, on ihi- 

 above authority, is as follows : Feiithers are litii 

 of a year's growth, and in the iiioitlling season 

 lliey s[)ontaneonsly fall oft', and are supplied by a 

 fresh fleece. When, however, the geese are in 

 full feather, let the iilnmage be removed, close to 

 the skin, by sharp sci.ssors. The proiluee would 

 not be much reduced in quantity, while the quality 

 would be greatly improved, and an indemniiication 

 be ex))erienced, in the uninjured health of ihe fowl, 

 ■and the benefit obtained to the succeeding crop. 

 Ltibor also would be saved in dressing, since the 

 quilly portion of the feathers, when forcibly de- 

 titched front the skin, is generally in such a state, 

 as, after all, to require the employment of scissors. 

 ."Vfter this operation shall h.tve been performed, the 

 down from the breast may be removed by the 

 saute means. 



The time has arrived, I trust, fin- successfiil ex- 

 ertions in the cause of compttssion towttrils tortur- 

 ed and helpless animals; and I presnnte to make 

 a serious call on the clergy and leading aristocra- 

 cy of the districts implicated, for the exercise o( 

 their inflnenee in this case, granliiig the reform to 

 be practicable." 



KOTHING DESTROYED. 



The researches of chemists have sliown that 

 what the vulgar call corrtt|)tion, &c. is nothing 

 hut a change of arrangement of the same ingre- 

 ilient elements, the disposition of the same ma- 

 terials into other fiirnts, without the loss or de- 

 struction of a single atom ; and thus any dotibts 

 of the permanence of natural laws are discoun- 

 tenanced, tind the whole weight thrown into the 

 opposite scale. One of the obvious cases of ap- 

 parent destruction is when any thing is ground 

 to dust, and scattered to the witiils. But it is one 

 thing to grind a fabric to pewder, and another to 

 annihilate its materials; scattereil as they may he, 

 they must fall elsewhere, and continue, if only as 

 iiigredienis of the soil, to fierform their hninblo 

 but usefiil part in the economy of nature. The 

 destruction produced by fire is more striking; in 

 many cases, as in the bnrning of a piece of char- 

 coal or a taper, there is no smoke, nothing visibly 

 dissipated and carried away ; the hurning body 

 wastes and disappears, while nothing seems to be 

 produced but warmth and light, which we are not 

 in the habit of cnusideriug as substances, atui when 

 till has disappeared, except perhaps some trifling 

 ashes, we n.itnrally enough suppose it is gone, lost, 

 destroyed. But when the question is examined 

 more exactly, we detect in the invisible stream of 

 heated air, which ascends from the glowing coal 

 or burning wax, the whole ponderable matter, only 

 united in a new combination with the air, and dis- 

 solved in it. Yet, so far from being thereby de- 

 stroyed, it is only become agtiln what it was be- 

 fore it existed in the form of charcoal or wax, an 

 active agent in the business of the world, and a 



mtiln siipport of vegelitble anil animal life, and is 

 still susceptible of running again the same rounii, 

 as eircmiistances may determine ; so that for aught 

 we can see to the cnnirary, the same identical aloiii 

 tnay be concealed fiir thotisani's of centuries in a 

 Ihnesloiie rock ; may at length he quarried, set free 

 in the limekiln, mix with the air, be ahsorbeil from 

 it by plants, and in succession become a part of 

 the frames of myriads of living beings, till some 

 concitrretice of events consignes it once more to a 

 long repose, which, however, ito way unfits it from 

 a:;aiu lestiming its former activity. — Iltrschell's 

 Disrtis.sioji on the sliuty of .^Aitural Phitusophij. 



EXTRAORDIKARY PIIE1V03IENA. 



YES'tEtiPAr evening, Mr. John Piirker,-.Mr. John 

 Rogers, "ir. .'\rchiiiald Scolt, and several other gen- 

 tlemen being at the 'J'liree Mile House, observed 

 sotnelhing in the air, which they at first took to be 

 mist or fog, but as the evening was very cletir, 

 they were inducerl to take inore notice of it, and 

 by holding the liands above the eyes so as to ex- 

 clude tlie rays of the sun, they could distinctly 

 see bodies of insects, appareiirly of ti red or crim- 

 son color. They we're in sheets, wilh trains af\er 

 them, resembling that of a comet, each sheet of 

 these insects appetired by itself, and they were 

 moving in a direction from West to East, ahoiii 25 

 or 30 fi'et from the earth, and at least 20 yards in 

 vviilth, following each other in floiks like pigeons: 

 they observed the passage of those insects for more 

 tlitin 20 minutes, the sun at the lime heing more 

 than one hour high. — Halifax J^ova Scotian. 



THE CHOLERA 



— I.N Nova Scotia is subsiding. It is said to hav< 

 lirokeii out in Sweden. At Salina, N. Y. one of the 

 ineti employed in the salt works had a viident at- 

 laik ; at bis earnest request he was covered front 

 his feet to his chin with salt frimi the pans as hot a^ 

 it could be borne ; the result wtis a speedy perspi- 

 ration, and H qiiii k and regular pulse, and in a few 

 lionrs he was tilmost free from the disease. 



IIeai.tI! consists u iih 'I'eiop. ■ranee alone — Pope. 



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'i'HK fashion of (/ombs having nnder'.;one considerable mod-j 

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 Worn being much smaller tlian tlio.se loinierly. imluces the sub 

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