Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-01-27
MISCELLANY.
Editorial, Condensed and Selected.


made for half the sum"
1t is stated by those who profess to know, that |
the Reading Railroad will have cost. when com.
plctcd 5000 ,OOO or $50, 900 per mile with dou.
bic track.
4 gentleman who visited the President on
New Years day. had his pockets picked Oslo.
We must pay for luxurics.
The first bank in America was established by
the Legislature of South Carolina. in I'LL 1t
issued Els 900 in bills of trust, which were lent
out at interest
Milton at the age of twenty, had written his
finest miscellaneous pccns. including his l. Al
lcgro, pcnscroso, Comus, and the most beautiful
monodics
The Rev Mr. Sibthropr. who left the Episco-
paion Church in England to Join the Roman
Catholics. has returned ito the place from whence
he came
gentleman writing from the West saws that
he is altered SO since he left home that his oldest
creditors would not know him.
The name by which Sir Walter Scott msci TO
one of the Gruntcr
Py the recent census returns Of Ohio and Ken.
lucky it appears that there in the former
State 32I ,32S white male inhabitants and in the
latter l2l. 100.
/ 4 LWh Argu'--A child was lately born in
/ Toronto, Y. C.. with three cvrs having two half
an inch apart, on the right side of the face.
! Three thousand dollars have been raised al
( ready in New York city. by Dr. Cunningham, a
missionary of the Free Church of Scotland, who
arrived few days ago
/ 1t is stated that the Messrs ITarrcrs have dis.
posed OF their edition of ten thousand of the first
number Of the Pictorial Bible and that the dc
mand for the work is very great.
! There is society at Mobile, called the
! "Cowb .ilions," whose sole duty consists in hav-
/ ing iollfcation on New Years eve.
The small pox is raging with much severity
in many of the western Villages of Wisconsin.
\ Michigan paper estimates the emigration in
to that State, the past season. at 10000.
\ Western poet compares love To hat with
out top, oat in thunder storm
Th.rrare 81 pupils at Dickinson College, Car
Isle. Pa.
Pipe -iay'pg.-Therc are IL miles of water
pipe in Philadelphia and its suburbs.
Roses from Italy We're first planted in England
about 1923. and were consccrated as presents
from the Pope. and placed over conf,'ssionals as
symbols of secrecy about 1926 Hence the
phrase originated of under the rose, TO imply
secrecy.
There are about four thousand men engaged il
the numbering business in the State oi Maine
They are employed eight months in the year
\ writer in Silliman's Journal SAYS that ahou
ten years since, tortoise was taken in Ia, Soun,
of New London, Conn, which weighed about 7Ol
pounds Tho she'll was nearly five feet long,
The British ship 'Provincialist." which re
Gently arrived at New Orleans from Lonlond 'rry
hrougi, among other articles several tons of po
talocs. Turnips. Carrots and Onions-alSo, k"g
of lIcrrings and Salmon, and few bales of lri,l
Moss,
In l5S3, Sir Humphrey Gilbert madca voyag
To America, and pcrishcd. during a storm, in al
tempting torctnrn in the Squirrel bark OF onl
ten tons
The Cranberry is cultivated extensively i
Michigan aud North Eastern Indiana Abou
, two Thousand barrels were exported from Drtroi
last year, and large quantities sold in Cincir
= natl,
4 An lNcInE>r ~ THE Loss or the Surrnrrr