Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — Painful but Laughable. [ARTICLE]

Painful but Laughable.

I remember, one day, in making my hospital rounds, a patient just arrived presented an amputated arm, and doingso could scarcely restrain from a broad laugh; the titter was constantly on his face. “What is the matter! this does not strike me as a subject of laughter.” “It is not d ictor, but excuse me. I lost my arts in so funny a way that I still laugh when I look at it.” “What way!” “Our first sergeant, wanted shaving and got me to attend to it, as lam corporal. We went together in front of his tent; I iiad lathered him, took him by the nose, and was just about applying the raz >r, when a cannon ball came and, and that was the hist I saw of his hea l and my arm. Excuse me, doctor, for laughing so, but 1 never saw such a thing before.” This occurred during the siege of Fort Erie. Growth of Animals—Man is growing for twenty years, and lives ninety or one hundred; the came) g ows for eight years, and lives fortv; the horse for five year , and lives twenty-five; the ox for four years, and lives twenty, the lion for four years, and lives twenty; the dog for two ye ws, and lives twelve or fifteen; the cat for one and a half year-, and lives r.ine or ten; the hare for one year, and lives about eight years; the Guinea pig g ows for seven months, and lives for six or seven years. I■' a negro be named S nith, does it folio w t-r-at he should be put down in the census as i Wac’c-smith ! i (jO”‘ Jemmy, me lad, did ye’s see the fight o’ bats’t! other avening!” “Nive he on“, me honey; what kind o’ bats v -re they?” “Brickbats, ye spalpeen.”