Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-12-15
All Sorts of 9tcns.

a HUMAN BoDY AND THE Hour OF Day.
Seat yourself at table. Attach a piece
OF metal (say shilling) to a thread. Hav-
ing placed your elbow on the table, hold
the thread between the points of the thumb
and forefinger; and allow the shilling to
hang in the centre Of glass tumbler; the
pulse will Immediately cause the shilling to
vibrate like pendulum, and the vibra-
tons will increase until the shilling strikes
the side of the glass and suppose the time
Of the experiment be the hour of seven, or
half past seven, the pendulum will strike
the glass seven times, and then loose its mo-
mentum and return TO the centre: if you
hold the thread sufficient length of time
the effect will be repeated; but not until
a sufficient space of time has elapsed to
convince you that the experiment is most
complete. need not add that the thread
must be held with study hand; otherwise
the vibrating motion will be counteracted.
AT whatever hour Of the day or night, the
experiment is made, the coincidence will
be the same.
A chap in England, when sentenced to
be hanged made his best bow to the Judge,
and said; "Thank your worship kindly.
l had intended to hang myself, but your
worship has saved me the expense of buy
ing rope"
South CAROLINA FoLLf.-It is reported
that the South Carolina members Congress
have said that they would just as leave see
a Wing as Democratic organization of the
House, but would prefer dsorganization.
An exchange says of gentleman recent
ly deceased, that "he died leaving his heirs
an unsulied reputation and-a m'Aion."---
Which said heirs will die by-and-by, leav-
ing, perhaps, to their heirs a sullied repu-
ation and-aOthjng. So goes the world.
Five million bushels of salt have been
manufactured in Onandaga county, N. Y,
during the present year.
PGoL1rIc.-A woman in Rochester gave
birth to three boys recently. About year
previous she also bore three boys, and the
whole six are alive and doing well.
FIRE IN PoTTsvILLE, Pa.-On Wednes-
day the stable of George M. Cumming, to-
gether with valuable horse carriage and
harness, were destroyed by fire in Pottsville.
"Overshoes and an umbrella should form
a part Of the outfit of every young lady,"
says the concluding paragraph of cata-
logue OF the students at country acade-
my.
The ribs are taken from the hogs packed
in Cincinnati, for foreign markets. They
are left in those intended for the home
market.
Mr. Foster, in England, has just pub
lshed pamphlet, on the charges, made by
MacauIy, against the character of William
Penn. ...
Nearly half foot Of snow fell at Portland,
Me-, on Monday.
SOME Of the stone masons on the Brook
lyn dry dock get s5 per day.
THE Government sent out 500, 900 in spe-
Gle 10 California in charge of Col. Wakeman,
on Saturday.
lN 1900 the population of New York city
was &C, 900, in 1916 it was 37l,oOO.
MuToy alone, is said TO have introduced
more than 600 words into the English lam
guage.
4 monster ralilesnake was recently killed
in Arkansas. 1t had 81 rat,les with but
| ton.
Look OUT.-Counterfeit Sis's on the State
Bank Of Ohio are in Circular.
Mr.. STEVENS, the English manufacturer of
the "T' rail now used on most of our rail-
roads, is in Cincinnati.
THE net proceeds of the reading of Mrs.
Fanny Kemble for six nights, in Cincinnati,
were upwards of Sl7oO.
THE editor of the Georgia Messenger re-
ceived mess Of green cucumbers and
plumbs the other day.
A Southern editor advertises for strayed
away horse, which was connected with his
office.
The Cunard steamer Canada, at Jersey
City, brought $4,000 letters,
THERE are some thirty or forty Germans
in Cincinnati who make their living by cut.
ting cabbage for sour krout.
Upwards of GO, 900 houses in London are
unsupplied with water.
Iron Ships for the British navy, are going
out of repute.
AN Establishment of the Manufacture o
Flax Goods has been started in Dayton, Ohio
A wealthy Israe;ie in this city recently re-
ceivci Chris'iar, baptism,
The next censisnments from California h
New York will in part consist of preciou'
stones,
, The recent excitement in Boston gave
! the papers of that city an unprecedentec