Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-08-20
A STRING OF ITFMS'
NIGHT AND DAY.


HEStr,ncs will meet" the poets say,
And da kness is absorbed l'y light,
But now the young and smiling Day
Is swalsDwed up by endless Knight"
An association of coored people has been
formed ia Western Pennsylvania, 10 emigrale
10 Liberia in November next
THE ST. Louis Councils have resolved to
subscribe S5Oo,oOO in each of the North
Missouri and Iron Mountain Railroads.
MIR. VIM McCasn killed in one day las, |
week. on the farm of VIM. Bull near Wise !
burg, Baltimore county, foriy-seven snakes.
Rev. A. Hewitt, late of Milton, Pa, has
become pastor Of the Baptist Church IN
Whitewater, Walworlh county, Wisconsin.
Two men were conversing about the III
humor of their wives "Ah !" said one, with
a sorrowful expression, "mine is Tartar !"
"Well," replied the other, "mine is worse
than all lhat-mine is the Cream OF Tartar :"
Charles n. Mason, Esq, Secretary Of the
new Washington Territory, and John S.
Clendeunn, District Attorney of the same,
sailed from New York on Friday in the
steamship Georgia.
A Spanish needle worked handkerchief,
the handiwork of lady Of ST. Augustine,
Fla, drew the highest prize in the Worlds
Fair at London, Of any article OF the kind
exhibited their.
BUTTER should always be churned in
room or apartment, the temperature OF which
is between thirty and sixty degrees. AT
sixty degrees, butter is obtained in the great
est quantity.
NAILS GROWING IN THE FLEsH.-A late
writer of the Ohio Cultivator gives the fol-
lowing remedy
ecu, notch in the middle of the nail ev-
cry lime the nail is pared. The disposition
to close the notch draws the nail from the
sides Il cured mine after | had suffered
weeks with its festerings."
A mathematician being asked by stout
fellow, 'lf . pigs weigh 90 pounds, how
much will large hog weigh ?' he replied,
'Jump into the scales aud will tell you
Immediately.
A MAN NINE FEET HIGH.---A giant, nearly
nine fee, in height, is shortly expected 10 ar
rive in Madrid. He is a native of Lachar in
the province of Grenada, and is only twenty
three years of age. He eats as much as five
men, walks with extreme rapidity, and has
l. IL l.~. L,,I
dead. His object in visiting Madrid. is 10
demand the hand of female of great beau
iy, who keeps coffee house. He is descri-
bed as so great coward, that he will allow
child 10 Ill treat him.
A SINGULAR CAsE.-The Exeter News Let.
ter states, that a gentleman residing in that
town, owns a COW which he dare not lei out
10 pasture OF into the street, such is her ma
licious disposition and perfec, hatred of the
human species and especially of women and
children. The owner Of the COW also has a
cat upon his premises, and although the gen.
tlest treatment and all the Establishments OF
the dairy have been profered it, no person
has been able TO lay hands upon il or even 10
lure it into the house. Strange as il may
seem, these two wild animals have the best
understanding between themselves, and ap-
pear TO be perfectly happy in each others
company. While few persons dare approach
the head of the COW, The cat sleeps in her
manger, or upon the cows back, eating with
the COW from one pail, and receiving the
kindesf treatment (rono ber
ANIMALCULEs IN WHARF.-THE idea enter.
tanned by most persons, that all water,
whether found in springs, wells, brooks
ponds or cslerns, or even that fresh rain wa.
ter is filled with living creatures, is, as far
as the microscope enables US to ascertain,
without foundation. Water is a compound
OF two gasses-hydrogen and oxygen-and
the existence of animaeuies in il is altogelh-
er dependant on certain causes, principally
Oh its contact with vegetable matter thus,
if yon take bowl OF water, and place a
handful of hay or other vegetable matter in
II, in few days the top will be covered
with scum, which, by putting small guam
ii'y under the Microscope, will be tonnd TO
be mass of animalcues, but sill only of the
lower order, most of them being the monads
The smallest of this class being so minute
thai $4,000, 900 can swim about in one drop.
DEEP WELL.-The deepest artesian well
in America is now in progress at The sugar
reinery works of Belcher & Brother, al 81.
Louis, where il has reached the extraordinary
depth OF 1850 feet, far below the level OF
great portion of the bottom OF the Mexican
Gulf. The boring is 10 be continued until
good waller is reached, which is expected TO
b. a, The depth of about 1000 feet and this
W. he the deepest well in the world. The
work thus far has cost $40, 900, and the only
result has been streams Of sali and sulphur
water. The hole, which is 81 inches in di
ameer, Is bored with an aueur driven by a
steam engine, The instrument penetrating
Nlul iop' feet daily The rods measure 81!
IN lens'h, aud are put together with
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