Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-12-31

none.--a Climate far superior to any,-such a
country, in the hands of an industrious and en-.
terprising people, would, at no distant day,
compare with the most aourishing countries of
the glotc The government will give liberal
grants oflands TO persons that will take the oath
Of allegiance to conform to the doctrines oftts
| Catholic faith,
Titles can be bought Of citizens of the coun-
try for mere trife, upon which a foreigner
can live in the enjoyment Of his own religious
! views and have the right to dispose of his land
in any manner he may deem proper.
| PorAroE Gus OR PArvr.-Take a pound IF
| potatoes, peel and boil them, pound them while
they are hot in three OF four pounds of boiling
water pass them through hair seive after.
! wards add to them two pounds of good chalk,
very fine powdered, precisely mixed with four
pounds Of water, and stir them both together
The result will be species of glue or starch,
capable of receiving every sort ofcoloring mat
ter, even of powderng charcoal, of brick or
lamb black, which may be employed as an eco
nomcal means of painting door posts; walls,
pailngs, and other parts Of buildings expoaed to
the action ofthe air.
THE Ice KINo.--Mr. Tudor, the first expor-
ter to the West Indies of that most delightful
of all luxuries--if luxury it can be called--ice,
has cut from his artificial pond at Cambridge,
blocks Of a foot in thickness and clear as crys.
tai. He has already shipped this season about
600 tons, principally to the West Indies His
pond is about II teet abave the ground, and hss
now Is inches water and ice in it,
THE EsoLIsH ABROAD The following feat
Of gourmandism is given by the Monteur Par
Isen, as fact we are very far, however,
from attaching credit to the statement:
On Sunday morning, was carried home, IN
an almost dying state, an Englishman. who had
been brcakfasting at cdte in the Paais Rovai
his bill Of fare comprising 80 dozen Of oy.
sters, boiled fowl bottle OF rum. three bot.
ties of Chablls and two Of S S,uterne. Thi.
meal no; unworthy of Milo Of Gro..ona, was ia
performance Of a wager S-ve'ial other Eng
lishmen were present, but not one O: them
| touched an oyster, nor slpryd drop of wine,
! content ng themselves with being spectators of
the performance.
MARRIAGE Us. INSANITY. Few people are
aware how much riore insanity prevsis among
bachelors anG Unmarried ladies than among the
married Of toth sexes We learn from the ex-
aminat.1n of very many reports, that Of every
| five Of all the iunstics sent 20 American Hospt.
.als three are unmarried, and only two ara
| rioJp pp1 hot altpr,St an If than a. oyyaf
81 years old. On the other hand, it is pretty
certain that IN all the community over 81 years
OF age, there are more than three tmes as many
in as out of wedock. If this be the case, then
the unmarried are more than four times as liza,
bic to become neane as married people.
Jonathan. the brother OF the inmtabe Sars
Slick gives the following description Of d
Waltz, he had the honor Of witnessing. In his
own unsophisticated way he takes the matter
very seriously. He is something of aphiloso.
pher, and never speaks without saying some.
thing to the point.
list then the music begun dgin. and one o,
them tall hai-y-lipped fellows got up with
purity little gal that didn't look more than eigh:
teen years old, and he put his white gloves on
little tighter, and then if he didn't begin TO
hug her right afore all on us-he put one arm
round her little waist jist above the bump on
her back, and then he took one OF her hands ia
hIsen, and then she looked up into his eyes and
he looked down Into hern as loving as two phss
sy cats and then they begun to make cheeses
on the floor til you couldn't have told which
was which. | never felt my blood bile so in
al my liIe it rally didn't seem decent, ana If
she had been relative of mine, would have
knocked that indecent varmint, into a cooked
hat in less than no time. Ia make him glad
to eat himself up hair and all, nasty as they
looked to have got out Of my way. Oh but I
was wrathy with the coon fora mint and then
says to myself, don't know as the chaps SO
much to blame, arter all. its the gals own faulti
, if she likes to be hugged and whirled round 50
lfore the folks the feler must be an ALFRED
f0' not 70 Ike It as much as she docs, buh
litpk- l. IF he al means 10 git married,
her bread Will b al, dough agin, arter this,
fur no ducen, honest man woulA want to mar
ry gal arter he'd seen her tousered about a.
fore hny people, by such a sho,c as that chap s.'
New BsDfoRD's L.sr-rhere Is a terrible
, battle raging Just now between the Whale and
the Pigs. TIE Nv Bedf T nstrel has
poured forth song, Of which the following ~
2 one verse;
4 We men oi he Eas, love pork an molisses--
Pu ukins. when made into ri h, auT la-sa, !