Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Various Items.

OiT'lf you wish your life to end well, spend it well. men, like fast rivers, are generally the shallowest. (£5“He whose soul does not sing, need not to try to do it with his throat. (£THe is a mean philosopher who can give a reason for half of what he thinks. OC7”Be careful how you talk to a woman about bonnets, nurses, puddings, parsons, or babies. OC7”“You look as though you were beside yourself,” said a wag to a fop standing by a donkey. Virtue and happiness are true lovers, who, though parted for a while, are sure to be united at last. O^7”A Town meeting at Wareliam, Mass., recently voted—“ That all persons in the town, owning dogs, shall be muzzled!” Sentimental youth— “my dear girl, will you share my lot for life?” Practical girl—how many acres in your lot, sir?” Cts“Kossuth had at last advices, succeeded in flooding Hungary with revolutionary proclamations. (fcirMn the reportorial corps at the Kansas Constitutional Convention, is Mrs. Nichols thewjman’s rights lecturer. CtC7”Horace Greely, in one of his letters from the plains, 6ays that he is confident | that he saw a million of buffaloes one day during his trip. CtCyThe longest bit of air line railroad in j New England is seven miles—in Indiana ! seventy miles. (R(7“The Hon. Horace Mann, President of | Antioch College, died at Yellow Springs, ■ on the 3d inst. oi7~Mrs. Fantadling 6ays, “if it were not intended, that women should drive their hus- ■ bands, why are they put through the bridal | ceremony?” heard sister swear.” “What did she say?” “S ie said she was gowing to wear her darned stockings to church to-inor-row.” 04/"An inviolable fidelity, good humor and complacency of temper in a wife, outlives all the charms of a fine face, and makes the decay of it invisible. (fs”lf you wish your neighbors to notico you, buy a dog and tie him up in the cellar all night. They won’t sleep for thinking of you. a physician remark that a small biow will break the nose, u rustic exclaimed, “Well I dunno ’bout that. I’ve blowed my nose a great many times, and never broke it yet.” (£5”An exchange says, the best cure for palpitation of the heart, is to leave off kissing and hugging the girls. If this is the only remedy that can be produced, we, for one, say let ’er palpitate! matters that are effected by feeling and sentiment, the judgment of woman surpasses that of man; her more sensitive nature carries her to hights which our coarser strength cannot reach. CfO“A home without a girl is only hallblessed; it is an orchard without blossoms, a bower without a bird, a bird without a song. A house, full of sons, is like Lebanon with its cedars, but daughter is like the roses of Sharon. Cts"“l say, Sambo, does you know de key to de prosperity of de Sous.” “Key to de prosperity of de Sous? big words, Juno; guess you must hab been eatin’ massa’s dickshunary. Golly an’t larned nuff to answer dat.” “Well, child, ’tis de darkey.” A dancing master was taken up in Natchez recently for robbing a fellow-boarder. He says he commenced by cheating a printer, and then after that everything rascally seemed to come easy to him. the Constitution formed for Kansas, women are allowed, to vote in school matters. They may vote for school officers, school taxes, and everything pertaining to the organization of the common schools, equally with men. Conferring this much of the elective franchise upon females is intended as an experiment. (X7“The people about Kingston, Canada, are hunting a wild woman, who has lately been seen there. She has approached dwelling houses several times, but when any one appears she runs, and is so swift that neither man nor horse can overtake her. county, Texas, has no jail, in lieu of which, persons sentenced to confinement are fastened, to a rock in the public square, by a chain attached to the ankle, If the prisoner’s offence is light, or he has previously borne a good character, he is allowed an umbrella to protect him from the sun and rain. Thursday the 14th ult., Jack Cunningham, who was attending a mowing or reaping machine at Round Prairie, in the upper part of Edwards county, 111., got before the knives for the purpose of fixing something about the machine, when the horses started, and caught the unfortunate man, cutting both legs off entirely. He died in a very short time from loss of blood. Espich, in a letter from Pike’s Peak, says he saw Greeley when there, and has read his statement, and adds: “In regard to the richness ot the mines, the old gentleman was awfully humbugged.” Mr. E. says he has listened to the miners boast how they came it over Greeley bv “salting their sluice boxes and dirt by slipping in gold dust.”

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10. 1859.