Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1859 — The Famous Ice Boat, [ARTICLE]

The Famous Ice Boat,

The ice boat completed, and is now on the railroad tracks at Prairie de Chien, near the Company’s tna'dbine shop. It is a funny looking structure, pay's the Leader , something of a cross between a Wabash River stern wheel boat, and an itinersnt duguerrean car. Everybody regrets that its ingenious maker, Mr. Yviard, has been unable to test the invention by a practical slide on the ice. He informed us the other day. that he should have it towed up to Lake Pepin by the first boat whether there should be any ice on the lake or not. It is so const,rtcted that it will float.— Milwaul.ee Wisconsin. With reg ard to the question “Are the planets inhabited!” he could only answer, that he did not know with certainly whether they were or not; but IP's b'e did know, that they had been enabled to examine the'planet Mars, with the aid of a telescope, with sufficient accurrcy to determine its character to be so nearly like that of the earth that the thought had occurred to him, if it were possible to transfer an inhabitant of the earth to that planet, he would scarcely discover the difference, so precisely similar was that orb to ou'r own, in its physical characteristics, its atmospheric phenomeni, and it- peperiodic change of seasons.— lhof. Mitchell., (KrThe Plow and the Press, two of the greatest “institutions” extant, are thus honored by by a sensible and gifted poet: “We sing the honor of the Plow, And honor of the Press— Two noble instruments of toil, With each a power to bless.---, The bone—the nerve of this fast age — True wealth of human kind— One tilis the ever generous earth, The other tills the mind. CKTA young exquisite was listening to a lady friend singing a s ng, in which the following lines occurr: “By that fair brow where innocence reposes, Like moonlight resting upon snow.”' Looking at him intently she divided .her words in the first line, in a manner rathe: different from the true version, thus: “By that fair brow V'h'Tria no sense raj,OSes, Liko moonlight resting upon snow.” CCr*The Buffalo Republic tells this 3 ory: “It is said that one ot the editors of tlpZ Lewiaburg Chronicle, soon after he wenFtoj the p inling business, went to see a preach*-! er’s daughter. The ne-t time he'went to meeting he was considerably astonished at hearing the minister announce his text, ‘My daughter is grietously tormented with a devil.’” * (KTThe Oiireinriaff papers publish the report of the Investigating Committee on the Gibson Breslin Treasury defalcation. It occupies tile whole of the Cincinnati Ccunmercial. From the heading, we see that Breslin, who is in Canada, has s2oo,uuo concealed. (Krwh at is fame! We observe that one »f our Eastern exchange says that Mr. 'Pen Stryke, a lsading Statesman,"iva* been elected j Senator Irom Mew Jersey. Taylor, it is said, Iras refused an otter of seven thousand dollars a year, o write exclusively for the columns of a Sunday paper of New York. Goshen Democrat says the divorce docket ot Elkhart county has enrolled upon -its pages the names of thirty-nine applicants for the severance of the silken tie.