Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-04-08
MISCELLANY.
Condensed and Selected.

The wine crop of the United States for the year
ls42, is estimated at l30,74s gallons.
A corset board is said to supper, and strengthen
the ches, ofa lady. Ifso, it may be properly term
ed the aboard Of Health"
The entire aggregate Of the wheat crop Of the
United States, the last year, l02 ?.540 bush
els, being increase Of per cent. or 10 674 $50
bushels on the year previous.
A female in London who has on income of
$4,000 per annum, was recently held TO bail under
a charge Of having stolen three pair of children's
shoes.
Some European physician has discovered that
the skin Of smoked bacon rubbed on the breas, every
nigh, and morning. cures the consumption. This
will increase the demand FOR porker.,
the depth Of two feet in one night. On the 18th
and 10Th Of April l74l, snow fell to the depth Of
three feet. In 1880, much snow fell during the
spring months, and as late as the middle of May,
snow fell to the depth Of two feet.
1856 ss3,3s6 bushels Of potatoes were raised in
the United States the past year.
An Indian squaw, out West, has lately produ.
oed four papooses at birth.
The English Commissioners in their Sani,ory
Report, observe that marriage improves the pro.
babiliiy Of life."
A Baltimore butcher was robbed Of four five dol.
lar notes, which he lef; in a cupboard. The per.
peraor Of this nefIrious deed was one of the whs-
k red and mustachioed class namely, rat.
Wesley, in the course of his itincrancy. is sup.
posed 10 have travelled about 900, 600 miles, and
to have preached about 40, 900 sermons.
A new coinage of counterfeit. Mexican and Pc
ruvian dollars are in circulation.
The Maine Senate has resolved, by vote Of G
to 6, TO tax railroads as real estate.
Flour is selling at 81 so in Cincinnati.
GrGphic-The Comet a, ST. Augustine. is de-
scribed by the editors of the News, as seen by the
naked eve to be some two feet in width, and one
hundred yards or more in length with star at on,
end Of it!
There is man named Crispin, in Hghlsn,
county, Ohio, who weighs 396 pounds /; his ssts
376, and his four boys 952 poands, making an ag
gegate of l724 pounds for the six, averaging 2s7!
pounds each.
Without frugali,y none can be rich and wit,
! it few would be poor.
Some edi,or says, member Of Congress from tn
West, sent home a Durham cow under frank III
postmaster refused to deliver the package, as tn
member forgot to saw of The horns.
1t is said that little spirits of turpentine pourc
| into holes and crevces, is an affective cure agains
crckets and cockroaches.
The provisions made by Captain Tyler, for hi
Guard, are Wise and Profit able. He has pushe
For,card to Pittsburgh
1t is easier to bring up a dozen children righ
than to reform one grown blockhead.
The Chinese los, in their late war, abou, hfee
thousand men, as many hundred pieces Of cannon
and nearly their entire navy.
The Apprentices Library in New York contain
eleven thousand three hundred and fifty four vo
! umes.
The Loudon Gazette says the helpless widow
q man, who in his lifetime published above hur
dred respectable volumes lies in gaol for debt
five pounds
BY telling trees that cover the tops and sides
mountains. says Humboldt, men in every elm
prepare at once two caamities for future generation
--wan, offuel and scarcity OF water.