Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-04-17
from the Boston Olive Branch. l
untsresting Facts.
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A horse will feed on 262 kinds Of grass and re.
i,c, 2l2 COW will feed on $40 kinds and re-
jec, i26.
1lsller, who collected great number Of ex. |
amples Of longevity, found more than 1000 who
hnA lived from 100 to ITO co from no to l20;
20 from 100 to 100 Is from 100 to lao;
from lao 10 lGO-end one lived to the remark.
able age Of l69 years.
IN 1875 Troy, N. Y, contained bat . dwell.
liups and 10 inhabitants Now il contain
atnut one quarter as many people as I"s,on.
The population of England. Scotland ard
Wales in 100. was 6,523,OOO. In 1850. Z.
s7OOO0. In 1900, IL l,3ld,l3s. In Enpsnd
in 1902. there were 1853 1872 houses. In Scot.
land. $4,000 houses. In Wales, lll,564
houses.
There are 100000 Roman Catholics, and 90.
600 Jews in London.
A, Berlin. the longest day has l63 hours; at
TTan,hurg, II; at Stockholm, 1s5 at ST. Peters.
burg, 10; at Tornea. 2lA at Norway the day
continues from May 81 to July q, and in
Spi,zbergen, the longest day lusts three and
hall months.
Paper is now made Of the beet. after the sac.
chsriDe matter has been extracted tor makiag
sugar.
There are nearly 10000 persons in the State
nj Illinois, upwards Of 20 years Of age who can.
not read.
In Boston there is a church To every 1000
'"hsbtants. In New Orleans there are about
10000 inhabitants to one church.
One quarter of the children born die before
they are year old. One half die before they
nre twenty.one and no. one quarter reach the
age Of fortyGve.
A canary bird eats its own bulk in a day.
The sea has been sounded to the depth of two
and half or three miles, and no bottom found.
ONLv TRr.-We translate the following
from French paper:-Phila. IT, s. Gn-ene.
They used to sny that every soldier carried
in his cartridge box a marshaI's baton.-Might
not one say in these days, that every chorls,er
carries in his windpipe for,une' Here is one
Example at least:
About thirty years ago, in little city Of ita.
ly, at Bergame, by a singular contrast, the
company at the Opera House WAS quite indiffer.
ont. while the choristers were excellent 1t
could scarcely have been otherwise since the
greater part of the choristers have since become
distinguished composers. Donixett, Cruvelli
'.eodoro Blanche, Mari, and Dolci, commenced
by singing in the choruses at Bergane. There
hat
very poor. very modest, and greatly beloved by
his comrades. In Italy the orchestra and the
chorsters are worse paid than in France, il
possible You enter boot. makers shop, the
master is the frat violin. The apprentices re.
lax themselves after day work, by playing
the clarionet the hautboy, or the tinbres, in the
evening at the theatre. One young man. in or.
der TO assist his old mother. united the functions
of chorster to the more lucrative employme Mt
OF journeyman tailor.
One day, when he had taken to Nozari's
house rair Of pan,aloons, that iGus,rious sin.
ger, after looking at him earnestly, said to him
very kindly:
1T tappesrs to me my good fellow, that l have
seen you somewhere
Quite likely. sir; you may have seen me .,
the theatre, where take part in the choruses
Have you good voice!'
Not remarkably, sir; can, with great diff.
Guilty, reach SOL
Let me see.' said Nozari, going to the piano
begin the gamut.'
Our chorister obeyed, but when he reached
sol, tie stopped short, out of breath.
Sound la--come, try
'Sir ! cannot
Sound Ia, you fool
LA, 10, Ia.
Sound ST.
My dear sir. I cannot
Sound ST. tell you, or by my soul Ill
Don't get angry, sir; III ny-ia, 81, Ia, SO
do
i told you so,' eaid Nozari, with voice o
triumph; 'and now, my good fellow, will on
Iy say one word TO you. II you will only stud!
and practice, you will become the first tenor II
Italy
Nozari was right. The poor chorister who
ogs'n his bread, had to mend breeches, pos
sesse1 now fortune Of two millions, and is cal
led Rubin.
Gen. B--n.-i don't 60 to Mexico 9
much 10 fight as negotiate.
Col. W--b--I don't know as care abou