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NEW E N G L i^ N D FARMER, 



AUO. », 1839. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Loving Love Letter. — The following epistle 

 from a damsel in Illinois to her " lovyer" in Penn- 

 sylvania, is warm enough to mell wax. Its ten- 

 der, touching, and transporting pathos, must have so 

 affected "my sweet henry, my turkle dove," that he 

 must at once liave exclaimed, in tlie pathetic lan- 

 guage of his "dearest deary," "i must git marrud, 

 becase i've let it run on to two long alredy" ! — 

 Boston Transcript. 



"Sdspendersburgh, Aivay in the Ill-you-noise, 

 Aprile the 2th. 



1,000— eiglit hundred & 30 nine. 



My Deer Dere Henry — i imbrace this pressent 

 opporclioonity to let you knough as how i am had 

 a spell of the aigur, and i hope theas few lines may 

 find you enjawing the same Blessin. Why dont 

 you onely rite 1 sweate Line to tell your sufferin 

 Kathrun all about her pretty sweet henry. Oh my 

 sweet henry — my turkle dove — my piging — my 

 deer deare henry — how my pore sole is longing 

 for yore sweet voice — think i hear him singin yan- 

 ky Doodell as he kums from his plow now. Mary 

 inelden has got a baba ! Oh my deer henry do 

 cum out and lets git marrud. So no more at pres- 

 ent, but remain your loving 



Kathrdn an Tilden. 

 To my sweet henry. 



P. S. Part Sekkund. Jeems Baslett has razed 

 a noo house, and Sally does live so Snug — .but ahe 

 files him sumtimes when he's a little Anthony over. 

 My sweet henry let us keep house, and if you luv 

 me, i wont whip you indeed, nor i wont look at no- 

 body else, so i wont. Daddy sais as how i must 

 git marrud, becase i've let it run on too long alredy. 

 So no more at pressent. k. a. t. 



P. S. Part Thurd. 



my pen is had my ink is paill, 

 my luv to you shall nevvur iaie, 

 for henry is my own true luv, 

 my Larc, my Duck, my Turkle Duv. 

 So no more at pressent. K. A. Tilden. 



P. S. Noty Beny. Mother's ded and robert 

 has the fever. So no more at pressent from your 

 luvving , Cathrun Ax. 



To my Dere henry over the Nallyganees in the 

 Pensilveeny State." 



Cold fVaicr. — Do not drink cold water in large Excitement. — A man drinks three glasse.s, and hs' 

 draughts, while you are overheated by exercise or | is in a state of excitement. A person receives a 

 labor, this hot weather. It is an old caution, and 1 box on the ear, and he is excited. You stick your 



time honored. We repeat it because it is good, 

 as was proved yesterday, when seven cases ol 

 prostration occurred, (from drinking water, cold 

 from the pump) v/hich demaiidod medical assistance. 

 We may add another word of advice, on this sub- 

 ject. There is nothing more refreshing, when the 

 body is heated by exercise, than to immerse the 

 wrists in cold water, for two or three minutes ; 

 and if the liody be ever so much heated, this pre- 

 caution being taken, cold water may be drank with 

 impunity. — Boston Transcript. 



elbow into a fellow boarder's soup at table, and he 

 is excited. You kick a man with a sharp-toed 

 boot, and he is excited. You pull his nose and 

 spit in his face, and he is' excited. In short yoB 

 can do nothing in the world without creating an 

 excitement — save one thing ; hire a man to saw 

 wood by the day, and such an example of christian 

 patience as he will exhibit, is enough to kill old 

 folks. — Boston Herald. 



Cancer. — Mr Thomas Tyrrell, of Missouri, says 

 he has effectually cured himself of an obstinate can- 

 cer, by the free use of potash made of the ashes of 

 the red oak, boiled to the consistency of molasses, 

 and applied as a poultice, covering the whole 'with 

 a coat of tar." Two or three applications, he says, 

 will " remove all protuberances, after which it is 

 necessary to heal the wound by common salve." 

 This is a cheap and easy remedy, the efficacy of 

 which should be tested by those afflicted with the 

 disease, which has hitherto baffled all the arts of 

 medicine. — Carlisle Expositor. 



Discovery of a JVeiv Medicine.-'^ A medical prac- 

 titioner at Andover, who attends a. friendly Society 

 at Chute, Wilts, for a low- salary, gave one of the 

 members a box of pills for soHie illness with which 

 he was afflicted. By some chance or other, when 

 about to take one, he thought it felt rather hard, 

 and was tempted by curiosity to divide it in halves, 

 when he discovered, to his astonishment that his 

 pills were peas. To be fully convinced of the fact, 

 they were, after having been weighed and depriv- 

 ed of the magnesia with which they were enveloped 

 planted in the earth and are now actually groxoing. 

 This statement was made by one of the stewards 

 of the society. — Eng. paper. 



Sham Travelling. — Travelling now should no 

 longer be called travelling, — journeying transitions 

 are more like flying, — the old name carries too Iowa 

 signification with it. A Mr Hall, who returned in 

 the Great Western, had been absent from Boston 

 on\y forty days. In this lime he has visited Great 

 Britain, transacted business in several places in 

 that country, and come home in a passage of 16 

 days. This is pronounced a degree of expedition 

 without a parallel. — Salem. Observer. 



Remarkable effects of electricity. — A man was re 

 cently killed by lightning inKeene, N. H. while at 

 work on the roof of a house. — The sun was shin- 

 ing bright at the time, and the sky was clear, with 

 the exception of a heavy cloud lying at a distance 

 in the south west. 



Another most singular occurrence happened be- 

 tween Charlestown and Walpole. The chains con- 

 necting the leading horses of the stage with the 

 pole, were broken by a flash of lightning, and the 

 horses were detached from the stage — no one in- 

 jured ; indeed the horses escaped without injury. 



Economy Buy a penny's worth of dried ap- 

 ples in the morning, and eat one-half of them for 

 breakfast; — at 11 o'clock take a fine drink of wa- 

 ter, which will cause the apples in the stomach to 

 swell and answer for a lunch. At 2 o'clock, eat 

 the remaining half for dinner, and at any hour you 

 may desire supper, take another drink of water, and 

 you will accomplish the purpose as you did for a 

 lunch. You will thus have four meals a day, cost- 

 ing but one cent for the whole, which we eonsidei 

 the quintescence of economy. — JV. Y. Sun. 



A gentleman died lately in Bradford, Eng. who 

 bequeathed five hundred pounds sterling to his 

 widow, on the condition that she should marry 

 again within six months after his decease. She 

 is said to be handsome in person, and of an amia- 

 ble disposition — and it is thought she will have no 

 difficulty in finding a person who will be willing to 

 assist her in fulfilling the condition of her husband's 

 will. 



.fl handsome Compliment. — Among the regular 

 toasts drank at the celebration of the Fourth, at 

 Ithaca, N. Y. we find the toUowing very pretty 

 compliment to the ladies : "-Woman: there's a pur- 

 ple half to the grape, a mellow half to the peach, 

 a sunny half to the globe and a ' bttttr half to man.'" 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Those who are desirous oi" cultivating this delicious fruit 

 are respectfully informed that the subscriber has succeeded, 

 after a number of years ci-perimenling upon the Slrmcberry 

 not only in obtaining new uaridtes, but in ascertaining tfat 

 best method of cultivation. . 



Specimens of the fruiis grown in his Garden have been 

 exhibited at the MassachusetU Horticulturul Society Roomi 

 ihe./'ourpa.'^i years, and are also too well known in }<^ant'ui 

 Hall Market to need a particular notice here. 



He has for sale at his Garden in Brighton, Mass., the 

 following cis-ht vaHclies of Plants. They are of superioi 

 stock and quality, all warranted to be truly named and free 

 from tlie mixlures often found in those otfcred for sale pro- 

 miscuously. 



Those who are in want of Strawberry Plants, are respect- 

 fully inviled, and they will find it iiileresting, to call at tlif 

 Garden and see the manner of cultivation. The method ol 

 cultivation, and any information desired will be cheerfullj 

 given. 



The subscriber would state that from many years persona- 

 experience, he is satisfied that plantations of these vine* 

 made the last of July or early in August, by careful a»( 

 constant attention will produce nearly or quite as much frur 

 the season followinsras those plantations made in theSprini 

 will produce the second year. 



Warren's Seedling Mclhven.—k new and valuable kind 

 A free bearer, fruit very large and juicy; fruit measurins 

 four and a half inches have been exhibited the present sea 



Melhven Cas(/e.— Fruit extremely large, high flavored 

 and showy. Specimens of this kind have been exhibited ai 

 the Horticultural Rooms for two years past, measuring fiv( 

 and a half inches in circumference. 



Bath Scarlcl.—FTaii large, full bearer, and beautiful scar- 

 let. 



Early Virginia. — This is considered the earliest (ruii— a 

 free bearer, hardy, and very early ; decidedly a fine kindfoi 

 market. 



Royal Scarlet — Fruit long oval shaped and juicy. 



Hautbois — Fruit smaller hut very numerous. 



English Wood. — Fruit well known. 



Monthly. — Fruit is gatliered from the vines from June It 

 October, and in good quaniity and fine quality. 



gj* Orders left at the Garden, or directed to the subscri 

 ber, Brighton, Mass , or left at Messrs J. Breck & Co'i 

 Agricultural Warehouse, lloston, will he carefully anfl 

 promptly attended to, and all Plants will be carefully pack 

 ed and forwarded agreeably to directions. 



JAMES L. L. F. 'WARREN. 



Nonantum Vale, Brighton, Mass. July 17. isSw 



What is the use of one's being dissatisfied with 

 his or her earthly lot ? When the voyage of life 



is ended, it will make no difference whether we ^ ^p,^„jij OIeanderTNe'^inm*v^?fegatum) five or six fee) 

 have enjoyed the accommodation of the cabin, or i high. One of the finest we have ever seen. For particulan 

 been compelled to submit to the humble fare of th3 '"qu'i-e of C. H. B. BRECK, or JOSEPH BRELK & CO, 



steerage. 



The great designs that have been digested and 

 matured, and the great literary works that have 

 been begun and finished in prisons, fully prove, 

 that Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains 

 that can fetter the mind. 



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