Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-03-01
A STRING OF ITEMS.

A LAUGH is worth hundred groans in any
market.
Fools have liberty 10 say what they
please.
To be fond Of great variety Of dishes, is
sure proof Of a perverted stomach.
lT is rnmored that the Crystal Palace will
be lighted with eleClric light.
IT is calculated iba, 1000 persons from
Vienna will visit the London exhibition.
The cleansing of the streets of New York,
cost 100000 last year.
EUGENE SUE is soon to be rpsrried 10
rich widow. All, the vidders
WHY are two is like hops Give it up7
Because they make beer better.
RIPE BLAcKBERRIEs were gathered at
Hastings, in England, on the 18th ul,.
THE greatest objection 10 smart children is
that when they commence having whiskers,
they leave off having brains.
THE Scotch papers are pntting in claim
for pension from the Crown for Mrs. Begg,
the surviving sister of Burns.
To prevent your oldes, boy from walking
in his sleep, all that's necessary is TO turn
away your servant girls.
You've ladies are like arrows they are all
in quiuer when the beapx come, and cant
90 off without them.
| Power, acquired BY guilty means. never
was, and never will be exercised TO promote
/ ends.
lr is calculated 100000 has been saved,
during the past year, by deaths, changes,
and removals, in the naval service.
If you wish TO get rch get married.
When was ever honey made with one bee in
the hive.
No man has ever regretted that he was
virtuous and honest in his youth, and kept
aloof from idleness.
ALWAYS be good nalured. A few drops
of oil will do more TO start the most stubborn
'HuH OH NIHCou' III 'lC hOIlus
To ascertain the weight of horse, place
your Toe under the animals foot when he is
standing still.
A CRATE MADE There is an old maid
out West so tough and wrinkled, that they
use her forehead 10 gate nutmegs on.
KEEP yonr store of smiles and your kindest
thoughts for home give the world only those
to spare.
+ THE Legislature of Illinois adjourned on
the l7ih, after passing the free bank bill over
the Governors veto.
!. A BILL has passed the Legislature Of Hi
nois, exempting homestead TO the value Of
) $1,000 from execution.
. A PERFECT mania !or dancing is said 10
. prevail at Vienna. All classes engage in the
!, waltz, old and young, anu high and low.
THE first trial by jury took place in Vienna
q few weeks since, and large crowd was
Z present 10 see how i, worked.
ACCORDING to Boerhaave, the healthiest
s children are born i'll January, February, and
March.
SERPENTs annually shed their skins, which,
remarkable as ii may at first appear extend
over their eyes.
n Or one thousand infants fed by the mothers
10 milk, not above three hundred die, but OF the
% same number reared by wet nurses five hun.
70 70 dred die
% SINCERITY does not consist in speaking
" " your mind on all occasions, but in doing il
% when silence would be censurabe, and false
70 hood inexcusable.
20 THE Springfield Republican is compliment
~ ted by the abuse of those fellows, Thompson
~ Phillips, and Quncy-men whose neck'
Is would disgrace the rope that broke them.
THE proof of pudding is in the eating
q The proof of woman is in making pud
ding
And the proof of man is being able ,'
dine without one. Punch.
it is an almighty sight meaner 10 wait 10 b.
dunned for small debt. "May be wrong,
but that's our opinion on The subject.
THE only English papers admitted int
Rome are the Times and The Morning Chron
icle, which are permitted only to the EngisI
Club
COL VIM, MooRE, CT South Carolina, ha
been very successful in his experiment
hybridzing several varieties OF Upland VIII
Sea Island cotton.
- A SCHOONER was launched in the Susque
n. hanna at Harrisburg on Tuesday last, b.
he Messrs. Till and Main. She is 10 be take
IT. down TO the Chesapeake. The same firm ar
rs rs building steamboat 10 be used al Clark
~, Ferry.