Lewisburg chronicle, and the West Branch farmer. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1849-1849, 1849-09-05

General Taylor" said he, wa
President 10 ls49, wasn't hel Yes, b.
was, and we've had any quantity since
! We're a republic now, and the un'tec
States extend from the Arctic Ocean it
Terra del Fuego, and comprises, in short
all America. England's republic, ard
Yankee is their President. There was
but one kingdom in the world SIX days
ago, but the Transatlantic telegraph was
then out of order. We have n. heard tor
most a week from ,'orher side, and-here
see tha, flying car up there, see it! LIS
going to San Francisco, the largest city
in America, or United States. all the same.
There, is out Of sight but the Great
Aerial Electric Navigation Company are
building a car that will beat .hat-i!'s
manufacturing in that machine shop yon
der" said he as he pointed to a building
fourteen sloreys and half high.
There's generally" continued ne,
universal peace on earth. and the lust DIS
patches from the moon said that the rcvolu
ton had been brought 10 close, and that
bIoodshed had ceased to stain that paraiise,
and while We speak OF it. there's fellow
from the moon, who cave down on hy-
ing car yesterday. but their air 's :" dlf'e-
ren, from ours he can. stay long, aud
he pointed 10 most perfect li'le man.
about three feet high. "Bu, we'll 60 up
to the moon by the next car and stroll
about day or two, and look = here !
hal recourse to he camphor b,lie)-and
look about town. Yes, We Wilhelm,
there's some angles ihere-some gals, and
they think everything Of US Yankees.
Hurrah there's the California. the last
steamer from Liverpool. She started day
before yesterday. She made Of iron, cutia
percha, and durus. Durus is a meta
recently discovered in Greenland, and small
quantities are found in Pa'ag,na--i meta
which wont bend, break or receive any I'M
preston, except when the greatest degree
Of heat possible to be o5,ained,is applied 10
i. She ran through an iceoerg on her
las, trip. but did not stop, and you can''
break her TO pieces or sink her, no. you
can't. She's six hundred feet long, and
twenty five broad is covered with gui,a
porcha, m1de transparent all ever, ami
rms under water half the time, in Storm.
There's the evening train Of flying cars
for New Orleans pretty good load; the
electric train carries more though this
veal her. More competition on this route
than any other in America, excep, the
New York and Rio Janeiro evening lines
they run for four dunes. See that build
ing there! AT one end they drive in a
flock Of sheep, and this door is mutton
market, and the olher is ready made
clothing slore. There's a printing Office
in this building, and there's u machine in
IT which will make spelling bo"G out OF
shirt in seven minutes bu, they'll have
TO give it up, as there's one in the very
next house which will make spelling book
from cotton batting in six minutes! Fact,
sir -
l applied camphor to my temples and
nose.
"l tell YOU the truth but the crack in
veu,ion of the day is gumbuegum gas
Goes ahead of chlorolorm, altogether.
Why, last night my brother in New Or
leans was smashed to a pulp by the falling
Of a stone weighing twelve tons, but we
Immediately applied the extract Of cold
wafer, and gumbuggum, and when left
at two o'clock, he was C omtortably well.
We dom, die at all now, If we can manage
to get hold Of the extract Of water and gum
buggun gas before heat leaves the body.
Il all warmth has leh the body, life has
left it +: but il not, life is perfectly safe.
Now tea is ready ; come let Us 81, lea,
and then we'll have ride"
AT thoughts of supper | avoke, mud We
had just got to New Haven. What slow.
good for nothing cars and steamboats, we
have-cau'i 90 bu, mile a minute: We
are behind the times.