Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1858 — The Turnip. [ARTICLE]

The Turnip.

Speaking of turnips, among those sent out by the Patent Office, Ashcroft’s Swede and River’s Swedish Stubble Turnip have proved the best. They will do to plant about the middle of July and later, the harvest coming on in November. The Ashcroft’s is a purple, ranging from four to five inches in thickness, as smooth as if turned in a lathe, sweet and good-flavored for the The River’s grows sonie larger, is not quite as smooth, and is lighter colored. It will be seen that they admit of sowing about u month later than the common Rutabagas. They can come on as a second crop a.ter early potatoes, early cabbages and peaa. The advantages are threefold: to the land, in the first place—as a marketable article, to that large class of farmers living near cities and towns, especially—and as an esculent and food for stock-

courage to cut the most agreeable acquaintance you have, when you are convinced he lacks principle. A friend should bear with his infirmities, but net with his Acer

bless the President! He has stood up with all the elevation of a noble nature in a position made reputable by the purity of his previous character, and like John the Baptist in the wilderness, is warning the Southern sinners to floe the wrath to come.— Ex. . r<m . There is a between the two. John the Baptist was c|ojlhed with the hair of a camel and James Buchanan with the hair of an ass. John was in the wilderness and Buchanan “in the woods.” John’s head was cut off, Buchanan’s ought to be.— Brandon {Miss.') Republican.

frty*A Yankee who had just coms from K Florence, being asked what he had seen and admired, and whether he was not in rapture with the Venus de Medici, replied: “Well, to tell tha truth, I don’t cara about those stone gala.”

“Does smoking offend you’" asked an American landlord of his newly arrived boarder. “Not at all, sir.” “I am very glad to hear it, as our chimnsy is given to that practice.”

An Astounding Rumor.—The Washington States says that it. is currently rumorejLin the streets and in public places that two hundred thousand dollars have been subscribed to carry Lecompton through the House.

is extremely disagreeable to me, madam,” said an ill-natured old fellow, “tp tell you unpleasant truths.” “I have no doubt, sir, that it is extremely disagreeable to you to tell truths of any sort.”

chief secrets of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex one, and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few are let on long leasee.

fi'*r-Without sorrow, life would be no better than a dream; grief is a reality, and though bitter as wormwood, mor’ala love it, for it makes them feel, themselves, and know the value of each other.

pooh,” said a wife to her expiring husband, as he strove to utter a few parting words,“don’t atop to talk, but go on with your dying."

run about and tell acquaintances that you have been unfortunate. People do not like unfortunate folks for their acquaintances.

all sorrow from life and you take away all true wealth, and depth, and tenderness. Sorrow"!* the furnace that melts selfish hearts together in love.

saying “that there is more pleasure in giving than receiving,” is supposed to apply chiefly to kicks, medicines, and advice.

Whatsoever a man soweth. that shall be also reap. Then what a bountiful harvest of old clothes and breeches the tailor will reap one of these days.

oerA man observing in a price current that “lard is quoted heavy,” wishes to know how much it weighs to the pound.

who is master of the fittest moment to crush his enemy and magnanimously neglects it, is born to be a conquerer.

young poet out West, in describing Heaven, says, “It is a world of bliss, fenced in with girls.”

What are the chief ends of manl” asked a school-teacher of his pupils. “Head and feet,” was the reply.

fc*yHorses being unable to vomit, ar* sometimes driven almost mad by the seasickness, when taken on sea voyages.

prevent your hair coming out, never let your wife catch your kissing the servant girl.

is sometimes more the result oi envy than a settled conviction of propriety.

The young ladies down East complain that gentlemen are so poor that they can’t even pay their addresses.

An editor out in lotfa says that they don’t brag of their babies, but they are n most'uncommon sure crop.

only way to be thought to be anything fa to h* It,