Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

(Kr dr. Elizabeth Blackwell is lecturing with success in M anchester, England. peaches have made their appearance in Savannah. They were raised in Burke county, Ga. oO~~They are to try again to-day to elect a member of Congress in the Eastern District of Rhode Island. Agassiz has received from Brazil a butterfly that measures ten feet from the tip of one wing to the . ther. great many persons undertake tc build fortunes as Pat tried to build his chimney—they begin at the top and build down. people of Hadley, Mass., celebratetPthe two hundredth anniversary of the settlement of that town, on the Bth inst., with great eclat. r pretty girl “down South,” n young gentleman asked her “v hat made her so sweet?” “Ob,” sie replied in utter innocence, “my father is a sugar planter.” i does father call mother honey ?” a«ked a boy of his older brother. “Can’t tell ’cept it’s because she has a large comb in her head.” oi7"VVh<.t is the difference between aiu old bachelor and a pretty girl? A pretty girl steals the Hearts of others; an old bachelor steels his own. (ttrThe farmer whose pigs got so lean that thpy could crawl through the cracks in their pens, stopped their fun by tying knots' in their tails. was a smart, boy who owned up thvt he liked everything good, but a good whipping. , The same boy liked a good rainy day, i too rainy to go to school, and just about: rainy enough to go fishing. Emperor of Russia* has presented a diamond broach valued at s.'ooo to the >a ire J of Capt. Hudson, as an acknowledgment for the courtesies extended by him to some Russian officers while engaged in laying the At-! Lntic Cable. of the Minnesota papers state that Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, and; Chari Shurtz, of Wisconsin, intended to visit that State and address the people in behalf; of Republicanism during the approaching campaign. proprietor <3f the Everett House New York, has brought a suit against Piccolomini’s agent, on that he has f .iled to settle a board bill of the family, who left for E-.iropo last Saturday. The claim is $1,200. is a “girl” down at'Kankakee, in Illinos, named Jennette Byron, who claims to be a lineal descendent of Lord Byron. She is a very wicked creature, and a* last accounts, she was put into jail for better behavior. (tCT’Somo one blamed Dr. Marsh for chang- j ing his mind. “Well,” said he, “that is the difference be- \ tween a man and a jackass; the jackass can’t j change his mind, and the man can—it’s i a human privilege.” • ! ! An Irish servant observing her mistress' feed » pet family canary, asked, “how long it took thim creaters to hatch l ” “Three weeks,” was the reply. “Och! sure, that is the same ns any other fowl, except the pig!” following epitaph is said to have been written on the death of Mrs. Deborah Dent: “Here lies the body of Deborah Dent, Shs kicked up her heels and away she went.” Rem says she once had a narrow escape from being a minister’s wife, and tells how she would have acted in such a case. ‘Her mad pranks,’says Prentice,‘would have made her husband a (dissenting minister.’