Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-08-03
From the Irish of Billy o,Rouks.

BACHELORS HALL.
Bachelors Hall! what queer looking place ltis,
kape me from such Nil the days OF my life;
Sure but think what burning disgrace is,
Never at all to be getting wife.
See the old bachelor, gloomy and sad enough,
Placing his tay kettle over the fire;
Soon II tilts over-St. Patrick he's mad enough,
Qf he were presenD to fight with the Squire.
Now like hog In morter bed wallowng,
awkward enough see him knading the dough,
Tro,h If the bread he could eat without swallowing
How 1t would tickle his palate you know.
His dishclolh is missing, the pigs are devournglt;
In the pursuit he has battered his shin;
plate wanted washing, grimalkin is securing ii,
Thunder and turf what pickle he's In!
Pots, dishes and pans, such crazy commodities,
Ashes and pratieskins cover the floor;
His cupboard's a storeIouse of comical oddities,
Things that had never been neghbors before.
His meal being DER, the tables len standing so,
Dishes, take care Of yourselves if you can
But hunger returns, then he's fuming and ettng SO,
Och let him alone for the haste of man
Late in the night he goes to bed shiverin',
Niver bit 10 The bed made at all;
lie creeps like tenapin under the kiverin'--
Bad luck to the picture of Bachelors Hall!
Use OF GEOLOGY TO FARMERS .-On
of the most obvious sources of udvantag,
to the farmer, from an acquaintance wit
the distribution of mineral masses, is the ia
cillty with which, in many instances, the in
furious effects of small springs coming t
the surface may be ohviated. The theor
of the earth's internal drainage is so simpl
that every man of common sense would b.
able to drain his lands upon sure principles
or else to know precisely why It cannot b.
drained, if he were to become so much of
geologist as to know what rocks existed
under his land, at what depth, and in wha
position. Springs never issue from strait
fed masses, except from reservoirs some
how produced in jointed rocks, and at tn,
level of the overflow of these subteranear
cavities. Faults in the strata very fire.
quently limit there reservoirs, and deter
mine the points Of effiux ofthe water. LIE
those faults be ascertained, or the edge O
the pointed rock be found, and the cure o.
the evil is almost immediate. But some ge
illogical information is needed there; anc
landed proprietors, who think it less troub
lesome to employ an agent than direct such
simple operation, may at least profit by the
hint, and choose an agent who know,
something of the rock he has to drain. An
other thing, probable of Importance to ag.
ricultursts, is the discovery of substances
at small depths, which, if brought to the
surface. would enrich, by suitable mixture
the soil Of their fields. This is very strong
ly insisted on by Sir II. Davy in his essays
and considering how easy thing it is for ,
landowner to ascertain positively the seriel
of strata IN his estate, it Is somewhat mar
yellous that so few cases can be quoted, ex
ccpt that of Sir John Johnson, Bart, o
uackness, near Scarborough, in which thi
easy work has been performed. Finally
in experiments for the introduction of nev
systems and modes Of management, with re
spect to cattle and crops, it will be OF grea
consequence to take notice of the qualitie
of the soil, substrata and water, for thes
undoubtedly exercise real and perhaps de
csive influence over he result.