Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

Experiments on Horses.— Some curious experiments have been made at the Veterinary School at Alfort, just outside Paris, by order of the Minister of War, to ascertain the endurance of horses, as in a besieged town, for example. It appears that a horse will live on water alone five-and-twenty days; seventeen days without eating or drinking; only five days if fed but unwatered; ten days if fed and insufficiently watered. A horse kept without water for three d-ys, drank 104 lbs. of water in three minutes. It was found, too, that a horse taken immediately after “feed” and kept in the active exercise of the “squadron school,” comcompletely digested its “feed” in three hours; an the same time in the “Conscripts' School,” its food was two-thirds digested, and if kept perfectly quiet in the stable, its digestion was scarcely commenced in three ! hours. Monet and Whisky. —As an evidence of | the readiness in which the negroes imperted in the Wanderer take to the manners and morals of civilization, it is recorded that the first words of the English language which they learned were “money” and “whisky.” It is nonsense to talk of the inferiority of the negro race after this. Nothing but their unfortunate color can prevent men, who 1 manifest such aptitude, from rising to places j o! high destinction.

OCTA man at Quebec, a collector of old iron,-was offered, a week or two sirfce, an old bomb-shell. He bought i“ and began tc break it up. It exploded, tore away the , side of the shed in which he worked, broke | fifty panes of glass in his dwelling, but only slightly injured him, and left his wife and a boy standing by, unharmed. H. Caldecott, the son of an English official at the Cape of Good Hope, and who claims to have been the fellow travel, er of Dr. Livingstone, has been arrested in Chicago for robbing a dry-goods store, in which he had been for a jweek or two employed as clerk. Henry Ward Beecher’s New Church. The Trustees of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, advertise fjr plans and estimates—with premiums of $500,, §>2so and §lO0 —for their new mammoth church. The church is to have capacity to seat 6,000 people. (KrThe yellow fever is said to have ap- '■ peared unusually early, ai d with great virulence, in Cuba. have a rose grafted on a peach tree, at Pendleton, S. C., and the tree being in full bloom, presented a beautiful appearance.