Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-05-04
ali Sorts of 1trms.

SINGING At AN EVENING rARTf'--l nc Pro-
cess of singing song at an evening party
may thus be described The young lady, on
being led to the piano, first throws timid
glance round the room, ostensibly to evince
gentle confusion; in reality, 10 see who is
looking at her She then observes to the
mistress of the house, "that she is not in very
good voice, having slight cold" which she
confirms by a faint sound, something between
a sigh, smile, and single-knock cough
The hostess replies, 'Oh, but you always
sing 90 delightfully."-" The young LADY au-
,swers, tsihat she is certain she cannot TINS
evening; TO strengthen which opinion she
makes some young gentleman exceedingly
Joyous by giving him her bouquet to hold
and, drawing off her gloves in tho most ap-
sproyed s,yle, ,ucks them behind one of the
.candles,cks, together with her flimsy hand
kerchief n such a fashion, that It's deep
laced border or embroidered name may be
seen 10 the best advantage.
SOME discussion is had in the English pc
riodicals Of the question of revising the li,ur-
.py of the Church of England. The Athana-
sian creed is objected to; passage in the
ordination of ministers concerning the for
.giveness of sins by the clergy; clause IN
the baptsmal service speaking of the bap-
tized child as regenerated, and the words
-s'sure and certain hope" in the burial ser
vice.
A SLEIGH, manufactured of gut,a percha,
convertible at pleasure into boat, is to be
sent out with the English Arctic expedition
on the first Of May.
WAcER.-A bet was made at the Astor
House on Saturday, of 500 to hal, that the
-s,eamer Atlantic would go TO Liverpool in
ten DAYS from this port.-N. Y. Day Book
wv. PORTER, of Memphis, has made
self.loading rife. It has revolving wheel
perforated by forty chambers. The discharge
of one chamber loads the adjoining one
This is an improvement on Colts revolver
THE city of Cleveland has subscribed
f2oo.o00 to the Cleveland and Columbus
Railroad, and given her bonds, with coupons
annexed, having twenty years TO run
For CALIroRNIA.-Twenty individuals be-
longing to Carlisle, in this State, are about to
leave for California.
CANNInALrsM.-Accordin to the Minnesota
Pioneer, the Chippewa or Muskiego Indians,
who live in the northeastern part OF that ter
rtory, are in such destitute condition as TO
be compelled to die or eat their fellows, un-
less they get aid.
ALEXANDER RAMSEY, (Whig,) the present
Governor of Minnesota Territory, retires from
office in March, 1853. Salary S25oo per an
mum.
IT is customary with some young ladies TO
divine future events by inspecting the sedi-
nent in the bottom of a breakfast cup, and
they will actually build their hopes of getting
a husband on no better grounds than those of
tea or coffee.
QUESTION AND ANswERs.-A lady cores
ponden, asks the following question :-"Can
it be possible, as my physician says, that
dry hectic cough which | have arises from
400 large quantity of hair, which he advises
me 10 have cut %
To which Major Noah reptile. :-'Tt may
be so. superabundance of hair may i'm
pede required ventilation Of the hair; and
the perspiration of serous humors, for want Of
such discharge, may fall upon the lungs and
create the cough Cut your hair. Keep it
thin and open"
HALF GRAIN OF the iarirale Of antimony,
with two ounces of water and a drachm of
tinc,ure of opium, and an equal quantity of
nitrous ether, or cochcum are said 10 be an
effeciual cuIe of delirium ,semens, allaying
The excitement of the brain and promoting
The healthy action Of the skin and the kid
neys.
An Irish tailor, making gentlenan's coat
and vest too small, was ordered TO take them
home and lei them out. Some days after,
the gentleman was informed that his gar
menis happened 10 fit countryman of his,
and he had let them out at shilling week
A Boston gill has accepted an offer of 500
month 10 go 10 San Francisco, and act in
the capacity of book-keeper Tor a merchant
in that city. 1t is shrewdly suspected that
the arrangement will end in partnership.
In storm on the l7ih ult., lady in JEFF
fersonville, Ind, was turned heels over head,
forinearly square, before she could regain
her feet.
There has been just born at Enostown,
Iowa, female child, with perfect mark OF
the cross or cruciix on her breast. The
mark is large and distinct, extending each
side regular to the arm-pits, and down to na-
val. 1t is indeed a marvellous perfect mark
of a cfucifx. The mother is a Catholic.
Roche, the French @ronaut, recently made
an ascent at Bordeaux, when his balloon hit
chimney, upset the car and threw him into
the street, where he was picked up with one
broken arm and two broken legs.