Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

a graveyard in New Jersey, there is a tombstone on which is inscribed the following simple yet touching epitaph: “7/e was a good egg.” Cattle Dying of Hydrophobia.—We learn from the Galena papers that cattle are dying in that county of hydrophoba. At Council Hill fourteen had died. They are supposed to have been bitten by mad dogs. Prize Essay on Sleep.—Women require more sleep than men, and farmers loss than those engaged in any other occupation. Editors, reporters, and printers need no sleep at all. Lawyers can sleep as much as they choose, and keep out of mischief. Perfection of Counterfeiting.—The spurious bills of the Brighton (Mass.) Bank, which were put in circulation in Boston last week, the engraver himself believed to be genuine. It was only when a microscope was used that the bills were discovered to be counterfeit. They were so perfectly executed that it is said it would be impossible for any practiced eye to discover the difference without the aid of the microscope. have on exhibition at Augusta, Georgia, a two-headed girl. Her color is that of a dark mulatto, and she appears to be two girls, so far as two heads, four arms, and four legs and feet, would indicate personal indentities and yet she has but one body. The spinal column branches oft’ about the , position of the shoulder blades, and connects ■ with the necks and heads of the girl. The ! abdominal portion seems the natural formed t body of one person. I (g/“A box containing seven dead bodies was found on Wednesday, floating in Long ; Island Sound, near West Farms The bodj ies were those of two adult white males, one i negro, two females, and two children. One ! of the males had three stabs in the left breast. , One of the children had on a ruffled night I gown, marked C. M. &. M. C. The box was • ti I led with quick lime. It has since been ascertained that the box fell from a vessel engaged in trarn.-porting the dead of Potter's Field to another burial place. (ps“The rule of a road, says an exchange, is a very good test of the difference between a gentleman and a blackguard. Whenever we meet a man, whether in a chaise or With . an ox team, \t ho turns out and gives us more than half the road, we respect him as a gentleman. But whenever we meet a young man, as we occasionally do, who drives rapidly on, without turning out a hair's breadth, we pity him with all our heart, as a poor miserable fellow—however bright his buttons, however fragrant b(s cigar. Richard Cobden is said to have ! used the following language in Cincinnati: “There is a marked difference between your two parties in this country. A Democrat swaggers in as if the Government belonged to him; a Republican, on the contrary, hesitates, doobts and Viets as if a victory wore too good for him. The one utters fearlessly, the most atrocious sentiments as if they were a merit; the other apologizes for i the expression of the most striking truths, i Your Republican party lacks pluck.”