The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-06-24 00:00:00, page 4

I HE French year is divided into
four quarters each containing three
month#. To each month are allotted thir
ty days, and they are distributed into de
cades. The five remaining days are to be
considered as Supernumerary,& are dedica
ted to national fiftivals. The days of each
decade are denominated from their nume
rical order, prcmtdi, duodi, tridi, quartedi,
qumidi,fatidi, feptidi. oßodt, nonodi, deca
di Ot these the; UR it considered the day
for wapsio n..
" The little boy and all ?''
All tight and well ; and how do you.
Good Mr. What-dy'e call ?
The dinnerleft comes, and down they fit,
Were e'er inch hungry folk ?
There's little talking, and left wit,.
It is no time to fcke.
One wipes his nose upon hit sleeve,.
One spits upon the floor,
Yet, not to giveeffence or grieve.
Hold up the cloth before.
The punch goes round, and they are dull
And luu ptih Ibll its ever
Like barrels with their bellies full,.
They only weigh the heavier.
At length the busy time begins,
Gome, neighbors, we mult wag—
The money chinks, down drop their chins,
Each lugging out his bag.
One talks of mildew and of ftoft,.
May kill afound divine.
Then let the boobies flay at home,
'Twould cost him, I dare fiy,
Leis trouble taking twice the fura
Without the clowns that pay.
[0 As the French date all their accounts
according to the newfile thty have adopted,
ice prefame the pairans of ibe Informer
«witl he gratified as quell as mftrudied by the
insertion of thefollowing explanation of their
Calendar.]
And one of dorms of nail,
And one of pigs that he had left
By maggots at ths tail.
Qoth one " A rarer man than you
tn pulpit none Ihall hear ;
But yet, methinks, to tell you true,
You.fell it plaguy dear."
Oh ! why are farmers macgfo coarse,
Or clergy made. Io fine !.
A kick that Scarce would move a h)rfc
poet^corner. $
g& BOTHHWmXtaB *fy
The YEARLY DISTRESS, or TYTH-
Each bumkin of the clan,
Instead of paving what he owes,
Will cheat him if he can.
So in they come, each makes his leg.
And flings his head before,
And looks as if he came to beg,
And not to quit a score.
And how does miss and madam da.
Are both alike diftrefs'd.
Now all unwelcome, at his gates
The clumsy (wains alight.
With rueful faces and ba!d pates—
He trembles at the fight.
And well he may for well he knows.
Three quarters of the year,
Bat ch I it cuts him like a scythe
When tyihing time draws near.
He that is full of frights and fears,
As one at point to die.
And long before the day appears
He heaves up many a sigh.
For then the farmers come jog, jog,
Along the miry road,
Each heart as heavy as a log,
To make their payment good.
In soothe, the fonow of such days
Is not to be exprefs'd,
When he that takes and he that pays
(Lome ponder well, for 'th no jest,
'io laugh it would be wrong,
The troubles ofa worthy pricit,
The burthen of my song.
This Priest be merry is and blithe
VERSES addrtf dto an English Country
Clergyman, complaining oj the D:fa.
greeablenefs of thADay annual!,, appoint
ed for receiving the Dues at the PA rso-
HAGE
,ROM THE ANALYTICAL REVIEW.
B, the AUTHOR of JOHN GILPIN.
FRENCH CALENDER.
ING TIME.
The year commences with the amity
nal quarter ; of which the firft month
has received the appellation of vindemiai
re, from vindemia, vintage.—This month
begins on the zed day of September, the
day on which the republic was established,
lin the year 1792, from which the French
have begun a new sera; so that our Sep
tember zed, '92, is by them called the
firft day of the firft year of the Republic.
rendemiaire, or the vintage month ends on
the aid of Odober. Brunaire, or the
fog month, begins on the sad of Octo
ber, and ends the zoth of Novem
ber. Fnmaire, or the rime month be
gins on the 21st of November,and ends on
the 20th of December.
The Winter quarter begins with the
month niwos, or snowy month, on the 21st
of December.—Ths month ends on the
iq:h of January ; and on the 20th begins
vtmos, or the windy month, which ends
on th 18th of February. Pluvois, or the
rainy month begins on the j^.h of Febru
ary, and ends on the 20th of March.
The spring quarter begins on the 21st
of March, with the month germinal, or the
germinating month, which ends on the
19th of April. Floreal, or the blossoming
month, bogins on the 20th of April,, and
ends on the 19th of May. Prereral, or
the haymaking month, begins on the 20th
of May, and ends on the 18th of June.
Tae iummer quarter commences with
the month mfEdor, or the month of har
velt,which begins on the 19th of June,and
ends on the 18th of July. Fervidor. or
the month of fervidly, begins on the 19th
of July, and ends on the 17th of August
And on the rich of August, begins/ruzh
dor, or the month of fruits, whichends on
the 16. h of September.
Os the five days that follow the [6th
if September the firft is dedicated to the
festival of the virtues ; the second, to that
of genius ; the third, to that of labor;
the fourth, to that of opinion; and the
fifth to that of recompenses. The inter
calary 'day, which happens every four
years, is to be called the fans-culottide. It
oil! follow the five supernumerary days,
&n it all the citizens are to renew their
oath of fealty to the Republic,
The French having commenced their
aeri with the year 1792, their leap year
will coincide with our>, at Icaft until the
year 1800 ; but, as the intercalary da
will follow the five supernumerary days, ft
as to answer our Zift of September, the
days above specified as the fiift and last of
every month, from the last ofpluvois, in
(c'ufively, which will then fall on the i^.h
of March, to the end of their year, mull
be set back one day.
The aftronomieal division of the day,
is into ten hours, each of which is subdi
vided into 100 minutes, and each minute
into 100 seconds. Thus each of their
hours will equal two hours and twenty
four minutes in our calculation ;. their
minute will he nearly one and a hlaf cf
ours ; and their second will be somewhat
less than ours.
Can play upon it. Shakespeare.
I HAVE long observed, with a degree
of pain, the ardent caresses, which
the world lavishes upon this fame misbe
gotten child. Rumour. When Rumour
whifperi, that an honest mtn is caught in
knavery, not a parishdeacon, but will fop.
Frontbe Farmer's Weekly Majseum
The SAUN FERER, No. VI.
OPEN jour ears, for which of you wil
flop,
The vent of hearing, when loud Ru
meyr speaks.
I from the orient to the drooping weft,
Making the wind my po t ihorfe,.ftill un
told
The ads commenced on this ball of
earth.
Upon my tongue continual danders ride,
The which in every language 1 pro
nounce.
Stuffing the ears of men withfalfe report.
I (peak of peace while covert enmity,
Under the Imile of fafety, wounds the
world fc
And who but Rumour, who but only I
Make fearful mullers and prepared de
fence,
While the big year, swollen with some
other grief,
Is thought with child by the grim tyrant
war,
And no such matter ; Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies,, conjec
tures,
And of so easy and so plain a flop.
That the kill difeordant, wavering mul
titude.
INFORMS the Public, that he has
just received, and now opening for file
a frefh assortment of
Congress, like the conspirators of Can
far are all " honorable men." M^nficur
Genet, who combined the lying and
quarrelsome Norman with the braggart of
, Britannia, told Congrefs.a tale to tarnish
.he fame of Groat-Britain. Am.es ant
Dexter, and a few more of our northern
nembers, who have not so much of the
mad & fiery spirit of democracy as Virgi
nian Giles, were incredulous and laugh
jed. But the "old whig" members ia(
up business, as become them, on the thef
and like the great boys of Boston, bellowed
,Ca Ira, and would fain drag those, wh
were moderate and silent, to liberty pole
& the lanterne. But MaDdison "is an
iron table man ;" foare they all. But it a
good to have a pluck at the crown of Eng
land. It is good to have Toulon retaken
two months before the time, it is a ly<
to injure the Londoners, those cursed Lon
loners, who are guilty of the crime of—
loving a good king ; —and it plcafes th>
Jacobins of France and America. Jacobins
love to calumniate organized government,
and indulgent governors ; to clog th
wheels of one,fc to cut off the heads of the
other.
Which will be fold on as low terms as at
any Itore whatever, for CASH, BUTTER,
or approved CREDIT. —He likewise car
ries on the
Six months credit will be given to those
who wish for any article in the Blackjmitb.
ing or Tin Ware line.—The person who
makes the Tin Ware, is an experienced
Workman, and one of the best in the Coun
try, as his workwill Shew,
N. B. All persons having accounts open,
are requested to call for an immediate Settlement
Keene, June 17th, 1,941
— CASHor BOOKS, given for
RAGS, at this OFFICE,.
14nd that he's gone home to kif her,"
why it will turn the giddy brain of half
the girls in town,who willgW/M/ar^ ' u g~
geft that Sam was obliged to have her. If
a lover of sentiment, seeking that goodly
pearl, goes to a tea table he must lit and
repeat a text from his Bible, " Ye Ihall
feck me but ye Ihall not find me." The
ladies voluble enough in general, each
clacking deity knows, cannot do any thing,
except feel the thicktefs of a silk, or flare
ata ruddy ribband ; nor so any thing,ex
cept that "it rains, it blows, it hails, it
faows," until a topic of ditraßion is dart
ed. Then you have heard of mag
pies, gentle reader. The bird is not a
native of America, but its rivals are equal
ly noisy, filly and befeathered.—Then wit
is measured by the depth cf the wound it
inflids; then laughter rises to a key, un
known in the gamut of Chesterfield.
HorBE3 asserts that the natural date 01
man is war, and I believe Horb.es. Ru
mour keeps in pay a band of mercena
ries, who encountering a draggling sol
dier of virtues phalanx, it fares more
hardly with him, than with ajacobin in the
Duke of York's army. Strange that man
cannot be quiet —Strange that our barbar
ous architecture requires the demolition of
another's edifice, on which to found ow
own. How the villagers halloo after the
post who carries in his mail a newspaper
well filled with private scandal. How
men read and laugh, and^ftugh and
read, until some galled and fufticiou^
wight finds something " thatij meant for
him." Aye there is the rub. Pan Do
ra's box is then gleaned of curses, which
are bountifully heaped on printer and au
thor too.
lit thq very church porch to hear the news,
even at the expence of the parfen's prayer.
When the vile newfmonger suggests that a
reputed virgin fuffers " the plcafing pun
ishment that w^nen bear," the lass in her
teens will fly,and°grannum on her crutch
es will hobble to Dido, the kitchen wench,
to alk how the affair stands. Should Ru
mour ling.
" The, fa, that Sam has got a wife,
GO ODS:
ENGLISH & WEST-INDIA
Frelh Goods.
BLACKSMITHING BUSINESS
as ufeal; Alfa
TIN WARE MAKING.
t/U^fah ^odter.
RAN- AWAY from tbe subscriber, on the
night of the \\tb infl. an apprentice
Boy, named 'Jonas Smith —about >B years of
age, fa feet high, ligbtijb complexion, and
Jandy coloured bait. Whoever quill take up
fad run-away and return bins to me /ball
receive one falling reward.
All perJons are cautioned against barboring
or trusting him on m, account, as I /ball not
pay any debts of bis contrasting, after tbit
date., JONATHAN EVANS.
Winchendon, May if, 1794.- -^
” LL perlons indebted to,the
Estate of Capt. Joseph
Whitcomb, late of Swanzey, de
ceased, are requested to make
immediate payment : Those who
have any demands against the
fame, are desired to exhibit
them for settlement to
MOSES JOHNSON.
Keene, June 2d, 1794.
fuft publifoed, and for sale at this Officer
CT— RAVELS to the Westward, or the
I. unknown parts of America, con
taining an account of the country to tho^
westward of the river Miffitypi', *€• &^-
WHEREAS Susannah, my
wife, has forfaken my
bed and board, this is therefore,
to forbid all persons trusting her
on my account, for I will not
pay one farthing other contrast
ing, from this date.
Superfine Chintzes, ca
licoes, Muslins, Muflinets, Nankeens,
&c. &c. Likewise a large variety of
other GOODS, all which will be fold for
CASH, or BUTTER, on as reasonable
terms as has been ever known at the
Store of the fubferiber.
OF _
Iwro/iean foodd, ' —-
Imported in the last ships from London,
among which, are an elegant lot of
£ The
QWITNERSHIP of
M o °qftrsEK & Pkectiss,
dissolved.—All per
sons who are indebted, or have any de
mands on said Company, are requeued to
fettle their accounts with
LEKI PRENTISS,
who still carries on the business of felling
ENGLISH & WEST-INDIA GOODSj
Winchendon, Ma, igtb, 1794.
— I .—
A LL persons indebted to the fubferib
her for weighing Hay, are requeued
to make payment by the firft ofrjune.
JAMES MORSE.
Keene, Ma, 12, 1794.
W^^^NTED by said MORSE,
as aa j@piintice to the wheel making bus
x^, Ina&ve lad about L£ or >6 years of
age. May 23.
Stop Thief!
■.l PI ~
TEN DOLLARS REWARD!
STOLEN from the fubferiber, on the
night of the 16th inst. a bright ba,
MARE, about five years old, 14 hand
high, hind feet white, trots all, and is very
heavy with foal—one shoe off before, when
taken.—Also, by the fame person, it is
fappofed, was taken a good saddle and
bride, from the store of Maj. Joseph Will
fon—the cloth is checked, and has three
holes' in it, eaten by mice diredly under
tlie feat.—Whoever will detect the Thief,
so that he may be brought to justice, and
return the above Mare, saddle and bridle,
(hall receive the above reward and all ne
cessary charges paid—and for the Mare,
saddle and bridle only, FIVE DOLLARS
and needffary charges.
THOMAS BAKER.
Keene, May ityb, 1794.
A.LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT
PHILEMON WHITCOMB,
Admiwfirator.
Swanzey, May 26, 1794.
PERLINA SNOW.
Chefterfcld, June 2, 1794°
Just Received,