the Doctor did not live in our day, as he would have found
in the excitement which has recently prevailed here in
relation to the Mill Dam, Theatre, &c., new proofs of the
correctness of his hypothesis.

"In Salem and its neighborhood _Enthusiasm_ and other
_nervous disorders_ seem to be _endemial_. _Hypochondriack_,
_hysterick_, and other _maniack_ disorders prevail there,
and Ipswich adjoining, to this day."

_Salem Register,_ 1826.

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Beer and cider "Federal liquors."

PHILADELPHIA, July 23 [1788].

A correspondent wishes that a monument could be erected in
UNION GREEN, with the following inscription:--

IN HONOUR OF
AMERICAN BEER AND CYDER.

It is hereby recorded, for the information of strangers and
posterity, that 17000 people assembled on this Green, on
the 4th of July, 1788, to celebrate the establishment of the
Constitution of the United States, and that they separated
at an early hour, without intoxication or a single quarrel.
They drank nothing but Beer and Cyder. Learn, reader, to
prize those invaluable _federal_ liquors, and to consider
them as the companions of those virtues which can alone
render our country free and respectable.

Learn likewise to despise
SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, as _antifederal_;

and to consider them as the companions of all those vices
which are calculated to dishonour and enslave our country.

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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 lass