Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-02-22
The theologian.'

Tor the pious man,
'Weil preacher of peace, and bold
huntress-'
'Love equalizes everything said Louise,
with winning irankness 'and do you
think cannot be gentlcp
'What is impossible for you 2
20! | can be as soft as little lamb,' con-
tinued the beauty, 'whcn it gives ham plea
sure. But let me 90 on with my story
Our father insists, by all the saints, that he
will hear nothing Of these tender relations.
We, all three sisters, pray to the dear 1od
fervently every day, that the temporal cir
cumslances of our lovers may be improved,
SO that they may come forward and claim
our hands. For their sakes, we have driven
away many wooer from W. When
any strange gentleman appears, we sisters
instantly form an alliance and If one plot
does not succeed, we try second and
third. Confess YOURSELF would you, had
you been diSengaged, would you have
taken one Of us for wife, after we had
shown ourselves TO you as we did yester-
day @
'The DEVILS grandmother sooner,' ex-
claimed frankly; 'one's life would at least
be safer with her.
very much Obliged said Louise, with
a bow; "a proof of the success of our plans
had now to describe my lady-love TO
my new friend, and how | stood in the
same plight with the daughters of the Coun-
Sellor,-as my uncle had no suspicion of
my love for Wlhelmina.
| While we were chatting thus confden-
TALLY, a blooming head was seen at the
door, which seemed 10 be not little sur
prised at our intimacy.
Come in, Emilien cried Louise, laugh
ing. Peace is concluded: our supposed
enemy is engaged we have nothing to
fear from him.
Dietlenbach entered, and likewise mani
tested a gentleness Of which | could not
have dreamed the barbarous dentist capa-
ble.. And soon Oxen made her appearance.
They expressed the greatest sorrow for the
tricks they had played me. They declar-
ed, at the same time, that if they had not
discovered that l was engaged, they had
made all their preparations to render
the day more intolerable than the preced-
ing. thanked Heaven | had got TO be on
such good terms with them. We made a
league of friendship. | could not desire
more amable friends. AT the same time
had to promise 10 remain several days al
W.
To show myself worthy of their friend
ship, and in order to heap Goals of fire on
their heads, | undertook the office of inter-
cesSor with their father, and resolved moi
to leave W until the Counsellor hac
given his consent to the betrothal of hi
three daughters to their respective lovers
In this good work eventually succeed
ed /; and within a fortnight alter | let
W, the three ladies were formal !,
atiianced 10 the objects OF their choice. Ii
return for all this happiness, the Counsel
lor undertook to get my uncle to consen
to my marriage with Wilhelmina, and wa
successful.
have seldom heard my worthy uncl
laugh so heartily, as when I related my ad
ventures at W. TO bring our story t
close. Although brought no BRIDE iror
W, and although ] married the poo
widows daughter, my uncle, nevertheless
took me into partnership.
As to the loss of my grinder, the gentle
: men who We're the happy husbands OF th
three beauties, never failed TO express thei
sympathy for me; but Diefenbach, the or
orator, always insisted that I deserved I
lose tooth, for appearing 10 WOO one c
the sisters when my heart was no longe
} my own,-and my good Wilhelmina a
ways agreed with her.
We have all been living now, for som
years, in the most friendly relations, and i
constant intercourse. The descendants {
our four married couples amount now
five little gentlemen, and seven young !;
j dies. Hence bloom new loves and ne
romances. 1t is the way of the world.
q A PARTISAN INVENTOR thinks he has
i last discovered the long-Sought desideratur
a machine for setting type. He has bee
at work upon it sor fifteen years, and ha
ing completed it, has entered it for exhib
q tlon at the Worlds Fair. 1t comprises bot
a distributor and setting stick, is afforded
{ low price, and will set ten thousand en-
: an hour. 1t is said not to interfere wit
Il the regular appointments of printing G
flee, and requires no new characters.
In THE 10TH CHAPTER of Cd Chronicle
l. may be found the following severe allusic
to professional falling, which, very inco
rectly, is supposed to have an existence
the present time:
a "Hs disease was exceedingly great, Y
d in his disease he sought not the Lord, b
$ the physicians. And Asa sLErT WITH
Fathers"
! LINES taken from the margin of hyr
4" book al Christ Church:
look in vnin--he does not come
n. Dear, dear what shall do
= cannot listen l ought
Unless he listens too
lie might have come as well az not
What plaques these fellows are
ID pll bet he's fast asleep at home,
n Or smoking cigar.
n The farmers in the Miami Valley, Oh