Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-07-30
A STRING OF ITFMS


The elective Judiciary works badly in
Louisiana.
The Crystal Palace Police, in New York,
numbers l43 persons.
EMILE GIRARDIs has sold one thousandlh
part Of his journal, La Pressc, for one thou.
sand dollars.
THK epidemic in Wilamspot,, Maryland,
carried off SO persons, 80 of whom died OF
cholera.
THERE are thirty one establishments for
the building of locomotives in the United
States.
Nor ALONE IN OUR MIsERY.-Beef and
mutton are 80 per cent. higher in London
than they were the last year.
Ar a competition of piping bnlfnches, in
Belgium, the solo prize was gained by bid
that repeated his song 7o5 times.
MARRIAGE is the best for a man in general,
and every man is a worse man in proportion
as he is unfit lor the married siate.-Johnson
Go IN, PENNIES.
The pen is mightier than the sword,
When welded by the great;
But the pennies are greater still,
Owing to their weight
HAY is sixty dollars per ton in the town OF
Columbia, Tuolumne county, California; and
boards, by competition among the saw-mills,
are reduced to $50 per thousand.
The quadroons of Cuba wear nothing for
pe,ticoa,s and cabbage leaves for hats.
cool dress, bu, no, calculated, we should
think, for a mixed audience.
I'VE JrNED THE CHuRcH,-This is what
an old topper said, the other night, as he
"brought upn against Decon Jackson's meet
ing house.
"AlIKE, and is it yourself that can be after
telling me how they make ice cream !''-
"In truth can-do they not bake them in
cowld ovens, TO be sure
PUNISHED "A man in Ginning county, N.
Y, was hired to bury the clothes OF small
pox patient, Instead CT doing so he put them
upon his back, and is now sick with the
disease.
|, is HalIeck who thus happily hits the
uNljtarian, mOney-loving nobility. 1t is not
less sltirical than il is true:
These not the romantic times,
So beautiful IN Spencer's rhymes;
Lord Staf,rd mines for coal and salt
The Duke of Norfolk deals with malt
The Douglass in red heIrimgs;
And noble name aud cultured land,
Palace and park, and vasssl band,
Are powerlcss to the notes of hand
or Rothchild or the Barings.
A New Temperance drink is described by
the San Francisco Herald, composed of "lhree
parts of root beer and two of water cruel,
thlckened with little soft squash, and strain
ed through cane bottom chair"
RAPID lNcREAsE.-The population of San
Francisco, is now $4,000. Six years ago,
the California Star announced its population
as being 23l males and 1873 females. This
increase is Unprecedented.
Rich SHovEL.-The silver shovel recent
~ used in the ceremony of breaking ground
for the Mountain Lake Water Company, al
San Francisco, was banded with gold, and
cost thousand dollars.
'sAL," cried a girl looking out Of The up
per story OF small grocery, and addressing
another girl who was trying TO enter the from,
door; "We've all been 10 camp meeting and
been converted; so when you want TO gel
milk on Sunday, you will have 10 come in
the back way"
The HEIGHT OF HIS AMBITION. - One OF
our exchanges tells of lazy genius up hi:
way, who being asked, as he lay summing
himself on the grass, what was the height o
his ambition, replied, "Io marry a rich lci
dOW that's got cough" Cute chap that.
How TO GET UP EARLY.-Place basin q
cold water by the side of your bed, whe,
you first awake in The morning, dip you
hands in the basin and wet your brow. AMI
sleep will not again seal you in its ,reacher
Gus embrace.
This is the advice given by an aged ms,
who had been in the habit OF rising early DIN
ring long life. By attending TO this adyic
you may learn 10 rise every morning a, fin
o'clock.
SACRED THoRS.-The following deepl
interesting intelligence has very recent
reached Us from Naples "The city of Bal
possesses one of the sacred thorns tba
wounded The most divine head of the Re
aeemer' and which was deposited in tb
ho'y Temple by the piety of Charles of An
l.u' ms most precious relic on Holy Fri
usy, as also happened on the same day i
1919 dropped blood in the presence of
"os' numerous population, at the head ,
whom were The grand Prior Of Bari" g.
in'. IS Ia The 18th century, with lis boasts
intelligence.