The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1833-06-29
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JONATHAN's VISIT TO A PRINTING
OFFICE.
Did you ever 60 up to the Printers,
And see all them devils to work!
I cossnotchet il beats all to fiinters
Mother fuss when we kill all our pork.
Them fellers they stand right up straight,
And pick little pieces oflead;
Stuck in cubby holes thicker, I'll bate,
Than seeds in our big parsnip bed
Then they keep such ducking and bobbing,
I'll be darn ID! like aunt Peggy's old drake
When he's gobbling up corn, or robin
That stands on one leg on stake
How a plague can they find all the letters,
Is more tLan my gumption can tell;
They call them workman fype-setters,
And an old shoe, they said that was hell"
Then they've got too cast iron press,
It beats fathers for cider and cheese;
'Tis tarnation hard work should guess,
And it gives q confounded tight squeeze.
There's humping great roller swow
They keep pashng-the Lord knows for what
And the paper 'twould cover our NOW,
Such whopping great sheet have they got.
How they fill it all up is the wonder,
Where the darn do they find SO much news,
Asthick as pea blossoms iu SUMNER
What nation ofink they do use
By GALL l don't see how they pay
For 80 many heaps ofwhte paper,
They tell d me they used every day;
Good Lord-it would ruin Squire Taber
I'd no notion, yum, twas such tarnel
Hard work to print papers and books;
I'll 90 right down and scribe for the Jarnel
And 20 home and tell all thefolks.
*The old shoe kept as a receptacle for brsken
types. The devil, no doubt, imposed upon the
simplicity of Jonathan ",
F,Rsr SfEEcH OF ORAToR O'BoTHxa-
,sM. in tho Dublin Debating Club, on
the question, {" whether poverty or inches
tend most to the exalta alton Of the human
character"
"I shall proceed, Mr.. President to CON
pare riches to poverty in such way, s'
you will see there is no comparison at all
The man possessed of luxury, Mr.. Pres
ident cannot eat q single NAL unless mes
surrounded all around with the luxurian'
and cxtactic productions of both atmos-
pheres. 1t is not the rich cheney cup,
which he SO languishinly raises to his nau'
seated palate, are they rot, l repeat SIR,
brought from the deserts Of Arabia
Is not the fragrant and chromat'c ia
brought from the undiscovered regions OF
Chill, which there is there the highes'
mountain in the world Is not the dash
ing sofa, on which he declines his m'agre
and emancipated form, made of the ma
hogany of Hispaniola from the shores oi
Hindostan, and the cedars Of Lebanon
from Mount Parnassus, ornamented with
the richest and most municipal oriental
silks from the East Indies abroad
The man possessed of poverty, Mr..
President, declines his expectations on
high pinnacle OF bliss. Happiness MIR.
President is like a crow, seated on the
summit of distant mountain, which the
eager sportsman yainly endeavors, to no
purpose to ensnare it. He looks at the
crow, Mr. President and the crow looks
at him, but the moment he endeavors 70
approach it, he banishes away like the
schismatic taints ot the rainbow, which It
was the astonishing and immortal Newton,
that first envoloped and deplored the cause
oft.
Sometimes seated beneath the shady
shadow of an outrageous tree, he calls a.
bout him his wife and the rest Of his chill
dren, he points out to them tho dark and
tremendous lightning, the bear, the boar,
the awful metres and roll-a-Borealls, and
many other bright consternations and fix
ed stars which perpetually devolve upon
the axle-tree of the creolean armament a.
bove.
Here he instils into their youthful
minds, useful lessons to guard their Juven-
lie youth from vice and Immortality, and
extorts them TO perspire to endless iaci'i-
V."
It is melancholy truth that thcro was
et this place yesterday storm OF snow'--
The snow fscS~pidly for several minutes,
and the cold is so severe to this time that
a large fire is necessary for comfort in the
house. The Green mountains west from
here, were white with snow through the day
yesterday. The clouds and wind have as
vet prevented frost to injure vegetation,
though the severe cold must necessarily
check lie growth.