Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — To be Answered. [ARTICLE]

To be Answered.

A few days since, in going into rny back yard, where a fresh killed pig had just been hung up, a man who knew I was curious in such matters said, “There, now, there’s the mark as Satan made it in the herd of swine before they ran down the cliff's into the sea,’« pointing to five dark marks on the skin of the inside ot each sere leg. On my questioning him, he assi.red me he had never seen a pig without them (I have since looked at five, and they had the same,) and he said the tradition was that all swine had them ever since the casting out of the devils which destroyed the swine in the sea. My queries aFej-does this mark always existi How do anatomists account for it! —Notes and Queries. Here is a chance for Pork Packers and Doctors to distinguish themselves. Can any Pork Packer tell whether these five dark marks are found on all hogs, and if so, can any Doctor tell what peculiarity of the hogi--gish structure produce them?— State Jour. The “dark marks” do net exist, but there are on the inside of the fore legs five little holes in a row. They are not the mark of the devils that desUjoyed the swine in the sea, for we do not read of one swine escaping the choking operation. General Holt has recently decided a novel question. A husband separated from his wife, and demanded that the Deputy Postmaster should deliver her letters to him. The wile, how'ever, positively forbade this, and the Deputy applied to the Department for instruction. Mr. Holt scouted the husband’s claim as abhorrent to law and the Christian civilization of the age, and directed that the wife’s letters should be delivered only to her. Good for the Postmaster General. Union Saving. —While Southern Demo crats threaten to dissolve, Northern Democrats call meetings to preserve the Union. Both have a common object, but neither say what they mean. It is a game for the Presidency, in whicli the Union, like a ball t 4s thrown from one to the other. It is in this see-saw way, deluding honest men at the South, and alarming timid ones at the North, that Shair Democracy hopes to arrest a verdict of condemnation from the people, which they know t iey deserve, and which they fear awaits them.— Albany Eve. Jour. ture sketched upon a wall in America, exclaimed: “It is a fine painting, but it was never done in America.” “O, sir,” said a friend, “don’t you see it is on a solid Wall, and, therefore, must have been done in this country.” “Ah!” replied he, “I see that plain enough; but I only meant that the man who did it was never in America,”