Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-01-25
A STRING OF ITEMS.

PIaln uu'h'
THE population of Richmond city Va, is
27,4S3.
How is it possible TO swallow a door ?
Give ii up? Why, by boiling it of course.
Nor single death occurred a, Atkinson
N H., last year. The population is GOO.
A MIND that is conscious of its own rect-
tude, disregards the lies of common report.
No sweeter music than the singing Of a
tea-kettle.
QUEEN Victoria has designed a carpet for
the fair of 1851.
T1oGA COUNTY has population of 23,997
being an increase, in ten years, OF S43S.
Choose calling, that is adapted to your
ncina,ian and natural abilities.
Up about Rutland, VT, they have snow SIX
or eight feet deep.
A BLACK LEAD MINE has been opened in
New Hampshire.
IN leNdSj dCCOIuiuS " wv NN"SN') 49,
slave population numbers one third
A COW eats 100 lbs. of green food in eve
~ twenty-four hours and yields five quarters
or 10 pounds Of milk.
ITALY and Germany yield the principal
supply of rags to Great Britain and the Uni
ted States.
LAKE ERIE was closed to navigation on the
4th inst, and the lights have been discontin-
ued for the season.
Two CHILDREN, at Exmouth, England, were
so terrified by some boys who had mask,
that they fingered for few days and died.
THE PORE has withdrawn from the Ameri-
cans in Rome the right to worship in the Pro-
testant from within the walls of the city.
IT is said that an aunt of Jenny Lind re-
sides near Lynchburg, Va, and visited her
while she was in Richmond.
Rr. Rev. BGsHoP SoUTHGATR Oate of Con-
stantinoble,) has declined the prolier Of the
Episcopate of California.
A SPANISH pRovERB says-"A kiss with
out a moustache is an egg without salt."-
What wicked people there is in Spain.
The Bay State Mills in Lawrence turned
out 3l5,OOO shawls in the past year, and H.
600 scarfs.
THE citizens of Milwaukee have subcri-
bed over $1,000 to secure concert from Jen-
ny Lind
How pleasant il is for father TO sit al his
sons board. 1t is like the aged man recli-
ming under the oak which he has planted.
THE train of half century ago is becom-
ing fashionable It certainly adds 10 tall
lady's looks.
On Tuesday last, a small child Of Mr..
Kurfman, in Washington county, Md, was
burned to death by upseltiug a spirit lamp.
A RAILROAD from Gettysburg to York, Pa,
is being agitated at the former place. A pub
lie meeting is called.
WHY is a father thrashing his disobedient
boy like an eclipse Because it is hiding OF
the sun.
Truth needs no champion in the infinite
deep
ofeverlasting Soul her strength ahidcs
From Natures heart her mighty pulses leap,
Though Natures VEINS her strength, naying tides.
vIcroRIA's husband, Albert, is three months
Younger than herself. At the time of their
marriage, he was between 20 and 2l years ot
age.
A VAT containing 1900 worth of porter
burst, the other day, in Bremish's brewery
Cork, in Ireland, and washed away some
buildings.
Musical BEp-A German manufacturer il
constructing musical bed for the exhibition
When the occupant enters ii, "soolhing air
will be emitted"
THE number of lighthouses in the United
States is 3I5 OF these 1G are in Louisville
The number of floating lights is 40, OF whicl
3 are in Louisiana.
THE London Quarterly Review speaks c
our national ensign as 'that fast fowl, the an
nexing and squirting eagle-with one eye
Cuba and the other on Quebec"
Use OF LETTERs.-A schoolmaster wrot
10 a lady;
GLOW comes it, this delightful weather.
That L and cau't dine together -
She answered
My worthy friend, it cannot be,
L cannot come till after r
MILTON was one day asked by friend (
female education, if he did not intend to il
struct his daughter in the different language
@No sir" replied Milton, GONE tongue is sn
fcent for a woman"
WHEN the world has once got hold of Ii
it is astonishing how hard it is 10 get it out
the world. You beat it about the head, I