* * * * * In these "awfully fine" times, the following lines ought to be interesting:-- ......POETRY...... _From the Lady's Miscellany._ YANKEE PHRASES. AS sound as a nut o'er the plain, I of late whistled chuck full of glee, A stranger to sorrow and pain, As happy as happy could be. As plump as a partridge I grew, My heart being lighter than cork; My slumbers were calmer than dew, My body was fatter than pork. Thus happy, I hop'd I should pass Slick as grease down the current of time; But pleasures are brittle as glass, Although as a fiddle they're fine. Jemima, the pride of the vale, Like a top nimbly danc'd o'er the plains; With envy the lasses were pale, With wonder stood gazing the swains. She smil'd like a basket of chips, As tall as a may-pole her size-- As sweet as molasses her lips-- As bright as a button her eyes. Admiring, I gaz'd on her charm, My peace that would trouble so soon, And thought not of danger nor harm, Any more than the man in the moon. But now to my sorrow I find Her heart is as hard as a brick, To my passion forever unkind, Though of love I am full as a tick. I sought her affection to win, In hope of obtaining relief; Till I like a hatchet grew thin, And she, like a haddock, grew deaf. I late was as fat as a doe, And playful and spry as a cat; But now I am as dull as a hoe, And as lean and as weak as a rat. Unless the unpitying fates With passion as ardent will cram her, As certain as death or as rates, I soon shall be dead as a hammer. _Salem Gazette,_ April 5, 1811. * * * * * Gentlemen and children have sometimes been considered bugbears. Boarders Wanted. TWO or Three Ladies can be accommodated with Board, on reasonable terms, in a small family, 18 miles from town, where there are neither Gentlemen or Children; a Stage passes the house twice a week, and the Middlesex Canal Boat near it every other day. Inquire at the Centinel Counting Room. _Columbian Centinel,_ July 25, 1812. * * * * * _LIBERAL DONATIONS_ Of the Legislature of _New-York_ to the University of that State: 1,500l. for the Library; 200l. for chemical apparatus; 1,200l. for a wall round the College; 5,000l. for erecting a Hall, and additional wing to the College; 750l. for five years annually, for the salaries of additional Professors.--_Blush! Citizens of Massachusetts, for your Legislators--who have so frequently denied relief to your University!!!_ _Columbian Centinel,_ May 5, 1792.