Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-01-08
A STRING OF ITEMS.

fifty cigars day.
$4,000, ,ooo-expended on rail roads in
Georgia.
Sojourning in Jacksonville, Fla EA-Gov.
Marcy and his invalid son.
WIcKLLIFFE died on the 3lst Of December
1884.
IT is proof of mediocriy Of intellect 10
be addicted 10 story telling.
The life Of Christian is his walk. Chris
is his way, and heaven his home.
Congress is insuferaby stupid, All talk
and no work.
A Pathological State Convention is to be
held al Harrisburg, on The 18Th OF January.
The pork packing business in Louisville
will close next week.
THERE is said 10 be first rate sleighng in
Bristol and Walcott, Conn.
DURING the last two years, the Legislature
of Alabama has granted about forty di-
vorces.
EIGHT first class steamboats, are now
building at Pittsburgh, al cost of $4,000
each.
In country newspaper appears The lo'-
lowing passage-"A number of deaths are
usavodably postponed"
A large quantity of packed meat has
spoiled at Louisville, this season., on account
of the warm weather.
The rail road trains east Of Massachusetts
are very much delayed in consequence Of
the depth of snow.
Smoking tea is now used in Boston. 1t
is said 10 resemble in many respects fine
favored Spanish cigar.
A lady in the neighborhood of Washington
city, few day since presented her hutband
with new born boy, weighing % pounds.
WHEN winter does not set in before 'the
holidays" be sure it will be short one
The sign is almost infallible. and the reason
for it very philosophical.
THE churches, or edifces for pubic divine
worship in the United States, number thir-
ty.sx thousand, Of which the Methodist own
one third.
"YoU seem animated by this fine autumn
scene, my dear ANNIE" said lover. "No,'
sa,d she. II never shall be Anniemated till
become your wife"
THOSE who wear lace and satin before
they have ever worn thread and cotton, are
very apt to live until they regret thai they
were not brought up TO trade.
snoULDNT WONDER The papers have
discovered some grass from the "path OF rec.
t,ude , We fear that path must be sadly
overgrown with grass, it is so seldom travel,
Jed in.
Gen. PIERCE, President elect, is said &c
have renlrked that he should not remove
from the post of naval officer of Boston
Fletcher Webster the son of the late Secre
tary Of State.
THE skeletons Of cat and a rat, in excel
lent preservation, have been found in Ger
ards Hall crypt London The rat was firm
ly held in the mouth of The cat. 1t il
thought they had lain there four hundred
and eighty or five hunIIed years.
The Wisconsin Argus estimates that a
least eighty thousand barrels of apples have
been sent to that State the past season, ant
sold at an average of two dollars a barrel
Sl6o,ooo for apples, besides large qraatite.
of the fruit dried
A new umbrella, entitled the "mush
room," has just made its appearance in Par
it has no handle, and sustains itself over The
head Of the wearer. An ad justing apparatus
fastens i, 10 the hat, and when not employed
upon duty, it may be rolled up and carriet
in the pocket.
"Whence are the words Republic anC
from two Latin words, res, thing, and pub
licus, a people. Democrat is derived frou
two Greek words, demos, people, and kratus
government
FREsH fruit is never eaten by the Russian
till it has been blessed by priest. This j
sanitary measure as well as a religious Oh
servance, as it never can obtain the blessin!
till it is perfectly ripe, then it is taken 10 TN
church and blessed with great soemnity
ScoLDING.-l never knew scoldng perso
that was able to govern family. Wha
makes people scolds Because they canno
govern themselves. How then can they gov
ern others. Those who govern well are gen
orally calm. They are prompt and resolute
but steady and mild.
man got up the other night, and tool
as he supposed, card of matches, and b,
gan 10 break off one by one trying to ligl
lamp the whole card was used IN will
out accomplishing his object, when he di
covered he had used up his wife's comb
The once powerful tribes of Indian, con
posing the "Six Nations" now resident
Western New York, have dwindled dow
from emigration and other causes until, a
cording 10 the late census, but 3779 of the
remain.
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