Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-03-08

second day he was stone dead.
Editor.-Did he run much when you let
him go Large field
John.-Ah didn't he run d! Only ten
acre lot, thought the fellow never would get
enough. What an elegant racer he would
have made.
Edltor.-Day was warm and night cold!
John.-Yes, but what Of that ?
Editor.-Oh only you whitfield towards !
you.
John How so
Editor.-Simple John l.! This you call
'luck, while it's rank stupidity. Your colt
was in high condition-had not been eXerc-
sed A prudent man would have put him
into a small yard, until he had become some-
what quieted. Old Gripe would not have
left him out over cold night, after he had
been exercising so severely in hot SUM-
The colt was victim 10 your own ,hought-
lessness. He killed himself running. Lucky
John
JoLr,-How could tell he would hurt
himself by being turned out. Never had
one die before, and have done just the same
thing times enoagh before.
Editor-That's ii. We come back to
where we started. lt's the observance OF
these ,rihes, nothing more that makes men
lucky or unlucky. Whittle from you, my
good fellow, always whllle from you, and Il
fig for luck.
John-WeI, there is one kind Of luck |
know you delight in, and that's ready.
Edhor.-And pray what's that !
John.-Pot-luck, io-be-sure.
Eduor.-Good, | am with you.
ALOvE-LETTER AS Is A LoyE-LETTER.
The following is copied verbatim from an
etfusion handed us by friend the other day
for publication. We never remember TO have
seen in print more pathetic manifestation
of the tender passion, and give it below for
the convenience of candidates for matrimo-
NAL responsibility.
Northumberland County Shemokintown !
| Jan the 18Th 1851
Dear Madam take this Solom opportunity
10 in Form you lew Lines that am well
at Present and do think with all my assur-
ance that this few lines will finde you in good
health and love and Gratitude and Thanks
that you have injoyed much Pleasur sinsc
We have left one another and your Hounour-
able Lover and motives addresses 10 adOred
object is Materially increased of this Beuty-
full Circumstance should Heaven grant that
blessing and Prove my grateful attachment
TO your love and your attachment will Bring
love TO love.
Deares Madam think this is all at Presens
hope this will Please you write 10 me al
sune as Possible with all your mind and your
Efactonate lover Don't for git and believe
Your Sincere Friend --
Direc, to Northumberland County Shemo.
kin Post ohes your letter.
) LycOm,ng Gazette.
THE CRYSTAL PALAcE,-A very beautiful
, lithograph of the Crystal Palace, now being
5 erected in Hyde Park: London, has been re.
, ceived from England, by w. B. Zieber. The
palace, according 10 the brief description
S which the print gives, covers 81 acres, j:
, lS4S feet long, 40S wide and &c feet high
/. Its cubic contents is 3o,o0o,o00 feet Ii il
: supported by $3.50 iron columns, contains 30:
4 miles of sash bars, 100000 superficial feet o
q glass, and will cost f79, 500. Few person
y on reading the figures can imagine the extra
= ordinary size ofthis building A comparison
s with something the size Of which they are ia
; millar wllh is necessary 10 enable them Il
: get anything like an idea of il. independence
II Square probably contains about four acres
. The Crystal Palace would therefore cove
about five times that space. From Thirt
e Street, half way up between Seventh an'
Eighth, is about 1900 ieet, and from Chesnu
to iwo-,hirds down 10 Walnut, is about 40
= feet, consequently the Crystal Palace woul
: cover as much space as is included With
! that distance The largest building we ca
= boast would be a mere chid's play-hous
- compared TO snch a structure. There wi
:" be no curiosity exhibited during he fair fror
+" any part of the world, which will be NOR
interesting than the building itself IN whic
- il is held, There never was such a sirnctur
erected before probably since The world ha
y existed -Ph,lad Ledger.
THE GRAIN Worm, or weevil, began il
is course of destruction in Vermont, about tn
id year 1898, and il progresses in the cours
III il takes from ten to fifteen miles year.
IS has not reached Western New York TO an
or extent; but the destroyer is on its marcl
- = and desolation will follow its tracks in tn
:. great wheat growing region,
IL, FIFTy-six YEARS AGO man was execute
lie in France for robbery of the Lyons ma
g. and murder OF passenger. His innocenc
he was subsequently, made manifest, and n
n port to the National Assembly recommend
il. a proclamation of his innocence, and III
ok restoration OF the forfeited property to h
family.