Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1859 — An English “Devil.” [ARTICLE]

An English “Devil.”

A young English lad, just “come over,” .became an apprentice in a printing-office to “learn the trade.” When he learned the boxes in the case, he asked the former “devil,’’ a mischievous chap by the name of George, where the E box was. George pointed him to the L box. After having studied over the case long enough to know all the “boxes” of the alphabet, the foreman asked him to gq over them, naming each letter in box. The juvenile John did so, and got all rights except E and L. “You’ve got those two mixed up,” re-1 marked the foreman. “Well,” replied John, “hi asked that fellow (pointing to George,) where he was,and he pointed his finger to hell.” Pettit (d. d.,) Chief Justice of Kansas, seems to be at his The Wii ite Cloud Chief gives an account of a! recent visit made by’ him to the town of Hiawatha, in that Territory. His room in the hotel is described as containing the following judicial documents: “One keg of brandy, four revolvers, three flasks of whiskey, and a quantity of cigars and tobacco! When the Judge started away, he took all these articles with him in his buggy“He cursed the landlord, pouring forth the oaths as if he was doing it by rote, raving loud enough to be heard over the whole town, and giving vCnt to blasphemies horrible enough to make the hair stand on the head of a heathen!”] A Striking Contrast.—The Washington Republic cajlls attention to the fact that the terms of the preamble of Dr. Patton’s resolution offered at the Tract Society meeting, in condemnation of the African Slave trade, are precisely the same as the one off- I ered in Congress by Mr. Ethridge, two years before. The House refused to lay it on the table, by a vote of 72 to 137. The American Tract Society laid Dr. Patton’s on the table by an immense majority. The House is composed of professed politicians: the Tract Society is composed of professed Christiane. What is the difference? £ptF"The Rockville Republican says it has ' received satisfactory proof that a rattlesnake was killed in Vermillion county, 111., (near the Indiana line) which was twenty-one feet in length, weighed one hundred and sixtyfour pounds, and had one hundred and eleven rattles on its tail. (tjrA Livingston county paper tells of one man who mixed a large quantit ’ of arsenic with several bushels of corn, and strewed it over his fields, which killed the rats by thousands. The paper states that six cart loads of dead rats have been carted from the fields, and half were not then removed! said a Cross-tempered physician to a patient, “if women were admitted to a paradice, their tongues would make it a purgatory.” “And some physicians, if allowed to practice there,” replied the lady, “would soon make it a desert.” oO“The Douglas Democrats, in Vermont, apply to their Administration brethren the euphonious title of-‘Cow-boys;’’ and the latter return the compliment by designating the Douglas men as “Stump Tails.” OO"A fly was seen to light on the end of the red nose of a drunkard, and fly off as soon as he t. A companion remarked: “Ah, you burnt your toe, did you?” CcT"“Excuse me, madam, but I would like to ask why you look at me so very savagely?” “Oh, beg pardon, sir—l took you for my husband.” “Glad I ain’t.”