Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1858 — A Remarkable Occurrence. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Occurrence.

A gentleman of this city has for many months been affleted with an irritation of the throat or lungs, which produced a very annoying and apparently a dangerous cough. His health was sensibly affected by it, and his friends became apprehensive that he was in the incipient stages of consumption. And he had suffered one or two hemorrhages of the lungs. The sensation he experienced in his throat and lungs was very much like that caused by a hair in the trachea. The difficulty was very gradually increasing and growing more alarming. A week or ten days since he was attacked, while in bed at night, with a violent fit of coughing, which was followed with a copious hemorrhage, and as the bfood flowed from his lips he felt a solid substance of sosje kind pass them. On examining the blood thrown up a bug with six horny legs and incipient delicate wings was found in it. The head of the insect was out of proportion to its body. The former was of the size of a small pea, with eyes distinctly perceptible, while its body was only the size of a large grain of barley. The thing was alive and active, and bking put into liquid, it was, the last we heard from it, still animated. Since this occurrence, the unpleasant sensations have passed off aYid the cough has ceased, and the only trouble has been one slight hemorrhage a day or two alter expectorating' the bug. The gentleman is confident that the insect came from his lungs, from the sensation which preceded its discharge, which was as if a piece of them had been torn out. He accounts for the extraordinary occurrence by supposing that he inhaled the insect with the air when it was a mere imperceptible animalcula; that it became lodged in his lungs, where it has grown, and, as it increased, irritating the parts, and producing the unhappy effects with which he has been troubled for months, and which would have surely caused an inflammation and carried him to the grave, had not nature, by a violent effort, dislodged it. If the person had been less robust or had less powerful-organs of respiration, it is likely he would have sunken under the attacks of this hidden foe. There are cases on record where a single short horse hair inhaled into the lungs has caused an irritation, followed f?by consumption, and soon by death. If an inanimated hair in the lungs would produce such gerous consequences, the presence of a large living insect, with its powers of locomotion and an appetite to satisfy, would have inevitably caused death. —Evansville Journal.

of our Western editors, speaking of a large and fat cotemporary, remarked that if all flesh was grass, he must be a load of hay. “I suspect I am?’ said the fat man, “from the way the asses are nibbling ht me.” An Original Postponement —The fob lowingjmotion was made and carried at a recent meeting of a colored parish in Boston: “Mistur Moderater—ln consekens ob de full attendus at this meetin’, I moobe de meetin 1 next Wensday evenin’ am postponed to dis Monday ebenin’ for de chois ob directors.” An exchange paper says that the girls in some parts of Pennsylvania are so hard up for husbands that they sometimes take up with printers and lawyers.