Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-06-26
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The president Of the Council, Marshall Soult
never throws open bis doors-t would cost mo.
nry. A more avaricous old lsraeliie does not
Exist in France; nor is he at all scrupulous as
TO how he fills his purse. His Spanish gallery
of painting, fer instance were the spoils Of his
Peninsular campaigns, which he was in honor
h nnd TO have deposited in the Louvre. but pre-.
terrcd keeping. occasionally dsposing OF come
gem for vast sum. Not a fortnight since he
thus sold the Pdraiytic, by MnrIllo. for eighty
ihou.an1 dollars and was very indignant at some
.I the pxpere FOR saying that the money should
90 into the army chest. According TO bis &C.
count, every picture was purchased-snd the
Ir,nssctioa to which he became the proprietor
of The Paralytic Gas related BY him after diane.
10 friend) is curious piece Of picture dealing
"'People rcproach me for having stolen
pictures in Spain, but bosght them sir--bo't
ihcm' Indeed !'e esid the listener, with an in.
credible elevation Of the eye brows. Yes, /
b ught them, sir |! returned Suult. 'There, for
Instance, is my Murillo, the famous farolytic
it cost me two monks' Two monks /! eja.
cuated the listener. Yes, two monks--t~o
as tine, fat, sleek, oily men Of God as you ever
laid eyes on But two monks for picture
exclaimed the astonished lsterner. Yes, I
gave two monks for that picture, sir" said
Soult and it was in this way that the bargain
was made :-.Oake some more Of the Burgundy.)
One evening after having been rather hard
i'll -, s,l 1 ,~a1. .t,,l AL
| and great number of my men had taken up
our quarters in a convent We made the lazy
monks give US good supper, and plenty good
wine, aud then we went to bed.-Next morn
ing, when the men were mustered, it was re.
ported that some twenty or thrifty of my grena.
dicrs had been foWnd with the;. ,hspats cnt--
the good monks had just severed :heir windpipes
as they slept, and sure enough the poor fellows
were as dead ns slaughtered sheep, Well,
immediately had all the monks drawn up, and
said to them: You internal vagabonds, cant
afford to lose my grcnaders in this way, and TO
convince you Of the fact mean to hang every
one of you" Such wall Of despair I never
heard, followed by piteous supplications iot par
don. Ater frightening them well, consent.
ted so far 10 pardon them as only to hang the
same number of them as they had killed OF oar
men it was twenty odd, and they were to
draw lots. The doomed lot were soon set one
side, the ropes knotted around their necks, and
my men were Just about stringing them up,
when two Of their victims declared themselves
70 be the abbot and his assistant. Sorry can't
oblige you gentlemen. but really (6ll your
glass; must hang you Mercy oh save us"-
Cant do it gentleman. you really must swing
with the rest = Listen said the nbbot. I'VE have
bid away Murio's Pnrnlytic-tako it asa ran.
som and let us go thought this fair enough
bargain. le, of the two dgnitaries and up went
the rest--,lrus giving the two monks for the
Murillo. And yet people will say that don't
bug my Spanish gallery"
Corn Cons -Premiun, for Corn.-R. L..
Colt, Esq of Paterson, N. j., stated, in letter
TO the American Institute, that in accordance
with the request of Mr.. Skinner, he had caused
q heaped bushel of the ears Of Jersey white corn
To be carefully shelled-the produce being half
a busl,el and six quarts of shel,ed corn and a
heaped half bushel of cobs. the latter weighing
lbs Now, if we raise 500 million bushels of
corn, the cobs will weigh 81 million of TOMS
Certainly we ought to have these questions fair.
" and honestly tested-,oheiher the cob con.
tains any nutritire po,oer, and il so, hoU much
and next do the ashes Of the COD contain pot
ashes, and il 30, how much, and how are We to
get the benefit Of il Shall the cob be burned
or ground with the corn and fed to cattle, and
thus get the potashes in the shape OF manure
This is supposing there is no nutriment in the
cob, but that MIR. c. does not believe e--for &C
we'll persuaded of the value o! the cob is he, that
he is building mill to grind corn ard cob to
getber. And so well satisfied is he, also, tha,
we do not properly appreciate the value Of In
dian corn, that he authorizes the American 10
siitute 10 offer Premium of 800 for the bes
Analysis OF the Nu,rtive Qualities of Indlar
Corn--the blade, the stalk. the husk, the cob
as also the component parts Of the ashes Of each
CHEAP PAlNT-An Ontario farmer gives tn,
following recipe tor cheap paint. lie say
he has tried it on brick, and prefers it to OF
paint, and says It will last longer on rous
siding OF wood than oil paint will on plain cid
ing OF boards, Take one bushel of unslacke
lime, and slack ii with cold water; when slack
ed, add fifty pounds of Spanish whiting, seven
teen pounds salt. and thirteen pounds sugs'