Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-02-08
A STRING OF ITEMS.

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HousEs are said to be scarce and rents high
in Lancaster.
Oven half the population of St. Louis are
foreigners.
CURSES, like chikens, generally come home
TO roost.
THERE is no peace-maker like good din
ner
PHYSICAL DIFFIcuITY.-Pu,ting a blister
on hedgehog.
DoBBs says tailors would make splendid
Dragons they charge SO.
lr is easier TO resist our bad passions al
first than after indulgence.
To reform measures, there must be
change Of men.
CONNECTICUT has 100 common schools
and 700 churches.
A POLAR WHALE, upon an average, yields
about 100 bbls. oil.
COUNTERFEIT MONEY is increasing every. |
where possibly because genuine is so
scarce.
NEW variety of French Watches that
run fifteen days after being once wound up,
are in the market
FoUR-sToRY shirt collars are all the rage,
N. B.-Ears insured at this office.
DR.. FRANKLINs father had seventeen chill
dren. He was the fifteenth.
SEASON all your communications 10 an edi-
tor with the attic salt of brevity.
He needs large income who never reads
advertisements.
THREE of Dresbach's young lions died in
Cincinnati, on Saturday night. They were
but few days old.
THE Bostonians are now supplying them
selves with ice, from Fresh Pond, ten inches
thick.
LORD MoRPETH says, in his lecture on
America, that Gin New York every body
seems 10 eat oysters all day long"
PHILADELPHIA pays over thirty per cent
of the whole amount of taxes raised in the
State of Pennsylvania.
--REAL GLORY
Springs from the silent conquest of ourselves
And without that, the conqueror is nought,
But the first slave
AN ELK, weighisg 600 pounds, and with
an,lers that measured over four feet, was re-
Gently killed in Potter county, Pa.
PERHAPs.-A London paper says that the
Pope is about TO establish an order of married
preachers, so as 10 employ married English
converts.
MIR. ISAAC HARRISON, OF Harrison township
N, j., killed % hogs at the Sand Hills, few
days ago, their average weight being SOB.
lbs, and the aggregated IA, 4,o9l lbs.
SUDDEN DEArH-A young lady named Ad.
dams dropped dead in the Sharpsburg, (Pa
Methodist church while attending divine
worship, last Sunday.
PIcEoNs.-Large focks Of wild pigeons
have been flying over Piltsburg, for the pas
two or three days. Some of the oldest inhab
i,ants say that this is sure sign of an earl.
spring.
EARTHLY CARES, wasting sorrows, thos
sharp swords that pierce the SOUL do not Kill
the wonderful germ of life, can draw nour
ishment from grief. 1t bleeds, it suffers
lives.
THOU art o God the life and light
or all this wondrous world we
Its glow by day. Its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from thee
Whereer turn, thy glores shine,
And all things bright and fair thine.
LEAD TRADE OF GALENA.-The exports {
lead from Galena for the year 1850 wer
39,7S1 900 lbs., valued at 81, ,670,S02.
THE New ORLEANS TRiGEDY.-Tt
name of the man who shot lady at ba
IN New Orleans, on the Goth ult., was Tat
and the lady'S name was Sheppard.
THE USE OF THE TELEGRAPH.-A m;
stole $40 in Pottsville and put of for PHI
adelphia The telegraph, however, W
ahead of him, and he was nabbed at the st
tion, and iorked over the amount to Il
officers. He was committed.
AN Old Almanac, among other domesi
recipes, has one to convert ''calm into
hurricane" which is as follows "HelE
good looking chambermaid cord bed, a
let your wife catch you at it,"
The Custom of singing psalms at chur
began in 1859. Sometimes at Paul's Cr
many thousand persons sang together.
For the benefit OF those who could |
read, the clerk repeated the lines th
times.
GEN. HoUsToN recently stated in pull
lecture that 3d. 900 emigrants entered
State of Texas, across the Sabine, in
course of last year, and that during the r
sent year the number would be doubled
WHEN the Inquisition was thrown o.