Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1852-08-28
A STRING OF ITEMS.

beau told her she had beautiful hair.
THE finished railroads in Ohio now measure
nine hundred and eighty-sevea miles
THERE are now over Ssi 900 hogs in Ken
lucky over six months old.
THE rose has its thorns, the diamonds lis
snecks, and the best man has his lailings.
MARY, a daughter of U. S. Senator Gwin:
Of California, was buied on Tuesday at Wash
ingion.
THE Grand Sultan has two hundred and fir-
ty wives the Pope has none. Badly oil,
both of them
An express line has been started between
New York and the Australia gold diggings.
A military encampment is 10 be held at
Portsmouth, Dauphin county, Pa, commen-
cling on the 3Oth inst.
IT is thought the potato crop of Kentucky,
this season, will exceed that of any season for
many years.
THERE is boy in Massachusetts, who has
become, by repeated marriages in his family,
his own grandfather.
PLArT, the editor Of the Batestown Herald,
who was bitten short time since by an ele-
phant, is fast recovering.
TIE emigration to California by sea and
land this year will it is calculated, reach, If
not exceed, one hundred thousand persons.
We didn't have it so "al-fredn hot here,
after all. AT Madrid, on the 22d of !uly the
thermometer stood 1l3 in the shade.
a WoNDER what makes my eyes TO weak!'
said fop TO a gentleman. "Why they are
in a weak place." replied the latter.
A FRENCH Cook having sprinked little
TOO much pepper on favorite soup, hung
himself in despair!
The Potato crop this year will be an i'm.
mense one, and that even if the rot should
exist there can be no such scarcity as there
was last year.
If You make love 10 a widow who has a
daughter twenty years younger than herself
begin by declaring that you thought they
were sisters.
HARD.-A cotemporary says, "a fool and
his money are soon parted;" and a brother
kindly asks of him what he has been buy.
ing.
A Mr. Hen has just started new paper
in Iowa He says he hopes by hard scratch
ing, to make living for himself and his lit
tie chickens.
1t is estimated, from the accounts European
journals give, that there are not less than &c
$50 political prisoners in Europe. Horribl,
to think of.
a correspondent of the Transcript say
that the venerable DR.. Lyman Beecher is ''th
father Of more brains than any other man il
the United Sla,es.n
THERE are in the United States eighty-on
women holding the office of postmaster =
thirty.one of whom are in Pennsylvania
Some of these are important offices.
AT ONE TINE, in Paris, the architects wer
obliged 10 raise, TO lower, or enlarge the
doors according as the dress of the wome
varied,
MANY women are loved without KNOWN
ii, and many think they are loved when the
are not. They generally find out their mi
take after marriage. So we thought whe
we saw a man beating his wife.
Miss Nancy says that white folks are III
venting this and nventiug that, she wishC
to gracious somebody would invent SOM
thing for bringing up children, and then 81
would get married.
Mrs Nicely bought a warming pan II
other day. When she came home she four
Bridget, the servant, cooking gridle cakes
it. This is the same young lady who WI
sent TO a dry goods store for a bed comforte
and returned with one of the clerks.