Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1859 — Problem. [ARTICLE]

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A young gentleman had been paying his addresses to a young lady and requested of the father his d. ughter’s hand in marriage,' received the following .problem, with the promise of consent, provided the question was correctly answered: ‘ On going to the orchard you will pass through three gates. Gathering a certain number of apples, you will leave half of what you got and half an apple over, at the first gate; and half of what you have left and half an apple over at the second gate; and half of what is remaining, and half an apple over, at the third gate; and bring one to me, which must be all you have—not cutting orin ary way injuring tlfe apples, but keeping them whole. How many apples did he gather!” Drowned ix a Swill Tlb.—A little son’ of Mr. Joseph Thompson, of Morris township, Washington county, met with a horrible death, the other day. Mr. T. had been to the funeral of a child in Greene county, which was burned to death, and while relating the circumstance to his wife on his return, his little son left the house. He was sought for a tew minuses later, and found lying in the swill tub, with his life extinct, the tub was sunk in the ground, so that its edge was on a level.with the surface,and the child, in endeavoring to raise some slop from it for the pigs, lost his ballance and fell in,’ with the result stated.—Steubenville Herald.

(gs”ln England and on the Continent, subscript’on books have been .opened for the purchase of a million of muskets for the use of the Italians in the impending struggle for political freedom under the lead of Garibaldi. Aid in this manner is lookd for in the United States, and we see that a Committee will soon be appointed and an official appeal made to the public to assist yvith material aid in the National subscription for arms with which to fight the battles of Italian liberty. Ax Old Boy.—-One of the takers of the census in Cincinnati, .jn his perambulations through the city recently, went into a domicil, yvliere he. found a ladv, who said she yvas one hundred and three years old. On being asked whether she had any children about the house, she replied that she had but one boy, yvho was at yvork in the other room, and was eighty-one years of age. Brown County Republican says that it lias information of gold diggings in that county- which pay Bi 2 50 to -So per day. Two or three returned Californians have been working them,and are making,preparations to enlarge their operations next spring. The diggings are near Spearsville. A great extent of territory in that region shotvs signs of gold,but not-in sufficient quantities to excite much interest.

Virginia finds a new alarm in the discovery of an apple grown in one of its back counties, which bears a strong resemblance to the head of John Brown.— Ex. It may allay this excitement a little to state that a pumpkin has been found in Indiana to which the head of Governor Wise is said to bear a singular resemblance.—• Stale Journal. Queer Case of Somnambulism.—A young' lady named Milburn, residing near Aurora, Indiana, dreamed that two men entered the house to kill her aunt; whereupon she rose and ran half a mile from the house, without stopping to dress. She then came Ipack, got into bed, abd appeared to be entirely unconscious of her exploit. Singular Death.—A few days ago, John McDermott, of Joliet, 111., who had been much debilitated by illness, was leaning against a picket-fence in the town, when he slipped, and his neck was caught between two of the pickets, s where lie 1 strangled to death, being to weak to extricate himself. “There, John, that's twice you’ve come home without the lard..” “La, mother, it was so greasy that it slipped my mind.” (L7“Sorrow comes soon enough without' despondency ; it does a man no good to cam around a lightning rod to attrack trouble. A Tennessee paper says- “The inauguration of thfc Governor was celebrated by the firing of >din lx yuns every lia'i" hour.' (Lo“Patriek gave his testimony in the riot case; “Be jabers, th.*: first man 1 saw coni'ng at me '< a- t"'o brick