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Eloquence the soul, song charms thesense’
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BELLEFONTE, Marca 1822,
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+ From Poulson’s Daily Advertiser.
"TO ALBERTO THE AUTHOR
CA oF
& FILL ME THE WINE CUP—NO.”
Be pledge to me the bowl,
ri No { poison lurks below ;
Be It tears, it wrings the soul ;
It fosters every woe.
¢ Tis true the bowl can heal
The heart oppress’d with care,
But ab ! the wounds we feel
The bowl can ne’er repair
O pledge to me the bowl,
NO ! never will I sip;
Where tides of anguish roll,
Aud burn the parched lip.
The lightning’s flash—its rays
Serves but to blind our eyes ;
Serves but to le. d astray
From vyirtue’s sacred prize:
0! pledge—no more—the bowl,
Its waves I dare not seek,
For tears of anguish, stroll
In silence down my cheeks.
The bowl may grant repose |
To some~—but not to me ;
Ah no! its numerous woes
Swell through—ETERNITY !
ORVILLE.
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From the Herald
SCERING,
The winter at length has gone past,
"The spring with a welcome’s returning—
How mauy’s sustained the blast
How many is left cloth’d in mourning 2
O, come thou sweet muse to my desk,
Assist in these strains of reflection— o
My penis toe weak for the task——
My song will be leit in dejection.
Shall we pass round the bumper with glee,
Because the spring month’s now commences ?
Because the red robbins we see,
Sit thick on the trees and the fences 2
Ah ! no let us bury the bowl—
And dress us in suits of decp mourning,
For some of our friends in death’s cold
Who rest to eternity’s morning !
Come quick, pleasant May, come with speed,
The robes of thy beauty put on,
We'll walk forth to view the flocks feed
Or carelessly stray o’er the lawn.
Ifthe wintry frowns of the Lord,
His saints, (through misconduct) do bring 3
How pleasant the joy it affords,
TT’ receive His mild countenance of spring ?
F.
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A Scotchman and an Irishman were sleeping
at an inn together. The weather being rather
warm, the Scotchman put his leg out of bed.
A person seeing him in this situation, gently
fixed a spur on Sawneys heel, who drawing bis
leg into bed, so disturbed his companion, that
he exclaimed, ¢ Arrah, my dear honey, have
care, for my shoul you have fractured the skuli-
boon of my shin with those nails of yours I be-
© hiv.” The Scotchman being sound asleep, but
restless in his dreams, till scratching poor
“Teague, till his patience being quite spent, he
succeeded in rousing Sawney ; whonot a little
surprised at finding a spur on his heel loudly ex-
claimed, « the hostler has ta’en off my boots last
night, and left on the spur.”
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A duel between two gentiemen of colour,
Cesar and Pompey, lately took place, At the
first fire the bullet grazed Pompey’s chin, and
lodged in his pudding (within an inch of his
led sinners at an immense fire, ekclaimed, “-O
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cambric handkerchiefs, and a stocking, com-
pletely broke the force of the ball. At the sec
ond fire, Cesar was struck in the shin, which
cut the ball in two, without other injury to the
gentlemen of honor, The gentlemen seconds,
Quomba and Cuffee then interfered, and led
them back in trumph to Dinah, who had been
the unhappy cause of the battle.
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A little girl, the daughter of the proprietor of
a coal mine, after attentively listening to an ac-
count given her of hell by her father, who said
papa, have you interest enough with the devil
to get him to take his coals of you
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{iour, and prevented its being refactory.
it was a place where the devil perpetually road +
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honest country priest, who lodged in the inn,
got up and appeared, armed with the holy water
He
made his aspersions and the conjurations pre.
and a long broom instead of a little brush,
scribed by the Romish church; and conducted
by way of procession, the terrified, trembling
people into the chamber of the defunct, who
thinking no barm, lay quietly in bed. The
priest was instantly regarded as a samt; and
they all cried up the miracle of the holy water,
which had bound the corpse to its good behav:
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In anew raised corpse, a soldier lately ob-
served to his comrade, who was: an Irisnman,
that a corporal was to be dismissed from the
regiment. ¢ Faith and indeed,” replied the
Two English, noblemen, on their travels ar-
corpse. In the middle of the night, one of the
two not being able to sleep, and growing weary
of his bed, arose in order to amuse himself in
the kitchen, where he heard some people talk-
ing. He had ‘diverted himself for some time,
when, being willing to return from whence he
came, he again went up stairs; but instead of
entering his'own chamber, went into that of the
deceased Count, over whose head had been
thrown a cloth, The Englishman, alter having
put out his candle, laid down boldly by the de
funct ;~when creeping as close to him as possi-
ble, in order to warm himself, and finding his
bed fellow colder than he, began to mutier—
What the d—--~1 is the matter, my friend ? said
he, you are cold as ice. I'll bet any things
numb as you are, you would have been warm
enough, if you had but seen the pretty girls be-
low stairs. Come, come, you may take my
word for it,added he, and pulling him by the
have her for a guinea. While he was holdiag
this fine conversation with the dead, who (de
tached from the things of this world) did not
give himself the trouble of making a reply ; bis
chamber door was opened, which made bim
raise his head from the pillow to see wha.
was coming in: Judge what must be his sur-
prise, when he saw a servant lighting in a join-
er who carried a coffin on his shoulder! He
thought at first he had been in a dream ; but
looking about and seeing the visage of one who
had not spoken a word, a visage overspread
with a mortal paleness, he made but one jump
from the bed into the middle of the chamber.
The joiner and maid, immediately persuaded
that it was the corpse who, being unwilling to
be shut up in the coffin, was now playing its
gambols, their legs were unable to move with
swiftness proportionable to their fear, and the
joiner, maid coffin and candlestick, rolled over
cach other, from the top of the stairs down inio}
the kitchen. Zounds, what are you all about ?
cried the landlord :-—Is the devil flying away
with the dead man? Mercy on us! cried the
riving in Paris, put up at a house in which a
German Count had lately died and then laid a!
arm-—come, zounds, stir, I’ll engege you shall{
just saw his nose coming round the corner.”
Irishman, ¢ I hope it is the corporal who is so
troublesome in our company * ¢ What is his
name 2’ replied. the other, « Why arrah, dear
honey it is corporal punishment—to be sure.”
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the information of one who actuallly experizac
ed the fact, it appears, that by a ditch dug fig
the purpose, across a field, the passage of cut=
worms from a field which bad been destroyed i:
to one uninjured, was obstructed ; and 6 hushels
of grubs were collected This would seem in-
dubitably to prove that they are migratory i 4 §
and to shew the consequences of leaving a part :
of a field unploughed in the autumn, which afe
fords harbour for grubs, which may from thenca
wander over the fall ploughed portion, Seve<
ral Farmers have escaped the, grub, by steep
ing secd corn in spirits of turpentine ; and roll oi
ing it in plaster.
Boddy ground should be rolled and well har«
rowed in the direction of the furrows ; after be= = ©
ing broken up so deeply, as to place beyond vegas
etation the sod; and by thus excluding air, and
by clean shalicw and frequent stirrios, so ad
not to disturb it, to promote its decay withou$
a capacity to grow. The dead fibres (nature's
As a pretty large number of culprits were
one day going to take their last degree at Ty-
buin, the wife of one of them passed through
the crowd and told the sheriff, she had come to
see her poor husband executed, and begged thai
he might be hanged first in the morning as she
had a great way to go home.
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"A recent Dialogue betweena N. York Beau
and an Irish Laborer.
Beau—Here you boy, hold my horse,
Irishman-—Arrah, then, is he havd to hold
Sir ?
Beau--No! Not very hard.
Irishman— Does he take two to hold him ?
Beau—No.
Irishman—Then if he takes but one, you
must hold him yourself.
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Benefit of a long Nose.
« Has O'Blarney come yet?” said one scholai
to another, as he entered the academy. No re
plied the lad, ¢ but I expect him soon, for 1
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AGRICULTURAL.
From Notices for a farmer— By Judge Peters
Plough and harrow soddy fields in’ the fall
and add Lime, barrowed in that season, if it be
within your power. In addition to other advan:
tages of this operation you will thereby escape
either wholly, or for the most part, the annoy-
ances of the Corn Grubs. In what mode the
destruction of the grubs, or the eggs of their
parent (be it a Beetle or what it may, for on
this subject there are varieties of opinion ;) is by
these operations accomplished, or their ravages
prevented, is subject of laudible curiosity, but
the fact of the purpose being achieved is all im-
portant ; and in numerous instances, imcontesta.
bly proved. That spring ploughing is general
ly inefficacious, is too frequently and fatally
known. Instances of failure to produce the ef-
maid, quite chiopfallen, it is rather the dead man)
got up in the middle of tie room, and has just
struck up a hornpipe. He has ? ctied the land
lord, taking a light—faith, we’il see that.
When the family were trembling and getting
up to follow the master of the house, the Eng-|
lishman, who had again found his chamber,
slipped into bed quite out of breath; and his}
friend having asked him where he had been, hej
bad just been lying with a dead body—'Sblood !
a dead body !it had perhaps the plague erd]
he, jumping in his turn out of bed, and runbiag]
to the door to call for a light: The landlord,
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the gallery, no sooner saw him than they imag
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landiady, and servants, who were passing thro’
ined that he was the dead who appeared again,
and down they came much faster than they went
up, heels over head from top to bottom, with
the candlesticks rolling after them ; at this con-
fusion, joined with their shricks and clamors,
the Englishman terrified at the hideous noise
soon made for his room; and slipped into bed
flying away with us. DI’li be hanged said the,
joioer, if that dead fellow there has any more|SOme, itis found that the operation has not
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occasion for a coffin than I have ; why he has|Peen performed either well or in due time, and
fect mentioned, by fall ploughing, we have seen
adduced. On examination Into the facts of
only partially ; and in other cases either uncom-
mon grub. years, or other peculiar circums'an
ces, have occurred. The great balance of facts
1s, most assuredly, favorable to this practice
and warrants its adoption.
Itis so beneficial. in other respects, that it
ought to be followed, even without regard to its
effect on the grub. Some/acute diseases defy
common remedies, as dams and mounds, resisi |
common floods ; yet yield to extraordinary inun-
dations. Nevertheless medicine, and medical
skill, and preventives overflows, should not be
set at nought, Nor should any beneficial opera-
tion in husbandry be disregarded, because it does
not in every instance succeed.
Fall ploughing enables you to plant corn ear- |
ly ; and it is better thus to risk spring frosts ; |
which do less injury to your plants, than to the
corn fully grown. ’
Itis alledged by several highly respectable
farmers, that in holes made near the hills with a
{roity, waistcodt, a pair of pantaloons, pair of
farmer asked, * What is the moter 7” Maitep
‘that he was surc that he bad laid them right,
tered, The doctor then recommended a few
restorative) are thus retained in the soil for ap«
propriate manure. Lime, plaster marle, &c.
Ito co-operate with. The sod leit on edge, eith«
‘er dries usclessly, or vegetates, with all its
pests.
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The roller is too little used ; and mistakenly
'supposed to consolidate too much ; whereas it
crishes and seperates clods, and loosens the
soil. On clay, and heavy ground, the Spiky
‘Roller is best ; as itis on all hide bound surfaces
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—of meadow and mowing grounds particularly 3
‘but like all other operations, rolling must be
eriormed judiciously and adopted to soils and
circumstances. Few indeed, are the soils, on
which it is not highly beneficial,
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NEW INVENTION.
+ Archimedes Redheifer Fizgigg has the hone
or to announce (0 the publid, that he has in-
vented a machine of more astonishing powers
han any heretofore heard read or thought of
From the many experiments made to ascertain
its powers, he selected the following.
Having
put a living ram into the hopper, be put the
machine intooperation, and in a few minutes;
. re
tiere were ground ont from 1, a hat, S0Ftob
i: 3 8 :
DOOLS, two powder horns, four quarters of muts
on, dressed In various ways, head and plucky rl]
Ab
dressed, both phiin asd rurile fashion, 15 pounds v
sausages, 10 pounds candles, a leather apron
and other articles. ‘The machine is propelled
by perpetual motion.
Wile 323 GF 11} We
An Irishman, recommending an excellent
milch cow, declared that she would give milk :
year after year without having calves, because
it ran in the breed, as she came of a cow, that
never had a calf.
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A tar during the embargo, being forced from.
salt water, went into the coutitry and hid mme
elf to a farmer. He was unmediately set 10
ploughing with a yoke ol oxcn and an o'd mare
called Jin. The sailor being wholly unacqnaint=
ed with the managemens of the racks; sheets
and bowlines of his oid mare and oxen, in his
first attempt to put about, missed stays, aud by
turning the yoke, threw Jin and the oxen all
down in 2 heap together. Jack, frightened
with the confusion bawicd out for help. The
matter enough my conscience,” teplied the
satlor, « the larboard ox has got on the s:ar=
board side-——old Jin has got foul of the rigging
and they are all going to the devil stern force
most.”
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A Clerical Anecdote.—it 1s relaied of ap ing
cumbant in the county of York, that he had
precisely twelve written sermons, for edifica=
ion and comfort of his parishoners. which
were pretty generally delivered in orderly ré-
tation, in the course of the year. On being
remonstirated with by some of bis hearers with
all due submission, for having fireacied the
same sermon to them, and from the same texty
on the preceeding sunday, be vindicated hime
self. with his wounted simjpiicity, by declaring
but supposed his wile must have shuffled them.
Sir Charles Woger, was seized with a fever
while upon a cruize. He was blooded and blis-
bolusses and pills. « No, ng, avast there,” says
the old seaman, batter my huik, if you please,
but by Jove you shan’t board me.”
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; A FOP. :
An illiterate coxcomn bb going one day to the
Faylor’s after a pair of breeches repremanded
with his companion, without the least fear of
pointed stick inconceivable pumbers of prube
him for not | Du; ting a Fop into them, “A FOP”