Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — A Forgetful Man. [ARTICLE]

A Forgetful Man.

A man endowed with an extraordinary capacity for forgetfulness, was tried some time ago, at Paris, for vagabondage. He gave his name as August Lessite, and believed he was born at Bourgnes. As he had forgotten his age, the registry of all the births in that city, from 1812 to 1822, was consulted, but only one person by the name of Lessite had been born there during that time. ‘Are you sure your name is Lessite!’asked the Judge. ‘Well, I tbou'ht it was, but may be it ain’t.’ ‘Are you confident juts were born at Bourgnes!’ •We , I always supposed I was, but I shouldn't wonder it it was somewhere else.’ ’Where does your family live at the present time!’ •I don’t know; I ‘ ave forgotten.’ ‘Can’t you remember ever seeing your father ami m nher!’ •1 can't recollect to save myself; I sometimes think I have, and then again I think I haven’t.’ ‘Wh <t trade do you follow’!’ ‘W I T either a tail >r or a cooper, and for >b b of me I can’t tell which; at any rate, ei'.n. ■- one or the other.’ he brothers Goddard, seronauts, who are well known in this countr , are in Italy with their balloons, experimenting as to the possibility of getting information of the position of the Austrian forces, lor the A’ I ’”.- from their balloons, but not as yet witi, »;,y effect. (£5~“Pooh! pooh!” said a wife to her expiring husband as he strove to utter a few parting words, “don’t stop to talk but go on with your dying.”