Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-07-02
A STRING OF ITEMS

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Allegheny County Prison contains seventy |
FIVE inmates.
TRoN churches are now made in England
and sent out TO Australia.
Ir is said that $3.50, 900 worth of slrawber-
ties will be sold in New York this season,
FORTUNE frequently favors those whom
she afterwards destroys.
The farmers in the vicinity of Louisville,
commenced cutting their wheat on Friday
last
A Boston publishing house has 'got up"
Quaker hymn book, having heard that no
work of the kind was in existence.
LAST week the City Council Of Louisville
subscribed S1,ooo,ooO 10 the stock of The
Louisville and East Tennessee railroad.
GRANT THoRBuRN, better known as 'Lourie
Todd" has just been married again, at the
age of SO years.
Two German editors at New Orleans
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said to have been mortay wounded.
BEATING THE ERRICssoN.-A A Yankee has
the force of circumstances.
Ar Fort Smith, Ark, they have an idiot
boy, 2l years old, who instantly answers The
mos, difficult questions in figures.
ONE pound Of Cotton, which formerly could
only be spun into thread of los yards long,
can now, by the application of steam, pro-
duce thread of 1877 miles in length.
The following inscription was copied from
a tombstone in New Orleans; Sam Wight
an Irishman, gentleman, and honest man
shot by Sam oke."
The Newport Mercury, still published,
was first issued by Ben Franklin's brother
james, on the 18th of June, ninety-fve years
ago. Oh sheet twelve and half by sixteen
inches.
A square Of finely perforated zinc, placed
instead of glass in one Of the panes OF a win
dow, is cheap and excellent mode of venti-
laing room.
AMIN BEY.-Lieut w. D. Porter, T. S. N,
contradcts the report that Amin Bey, who
visited this country year or two since, as
agent Of the Turkish Sultan, was an imposter
"A very superior marble has lately been
discovered in the south of Somerset county,
d. h. oc h.,
nellsvlle Railroad.
A DEALER in ready-made linen in New
York adyeriises his shirts and chemiset,es
under the melliauous appelation of "male
and female envelopes"
SwEARING.-- not accusom Yourself TO
swearing. There are words enough in the
English language sufficiently expressive of
all our passions.
REMEMBER, ye who ridicule young man
for his parsimony, and stigmatize him as
"smal," that by-and-by he can afford 10 be
generous when you have nothing TO give.
SOME genius has announced il as his be-
lief that there will be such facilities for
travelling "bimeby," that you can 60 any
where for nothing and come back again.
AN alligator, twelve feet three inches long,
was recently taken alive, after a severe
struggle, near Welaka, Florida. He will be
brought to the Crystal Palace Fair.
New WREAr.-The first sample OF new
wheat appeared on Change in New York on
the Gath ult. 1t is earlier by several day,
than at any previous season. The parce
consisted Of sixty bags Of Georgia.
The soil OF Siberia, al The close of the
summer, is found still frozen for ifly-six in
ches beneath the surface, and The dead tina
have lain in their cofiins for one hundred
and fifty years. have been taken up un
changed in the least
PUzzLER Baron Smith spent Two Who'll,
days and nights in considering an answer Il
the conundrum-''Why is an egg underdone
like an egg overdonel" He would suffer NJ
one to tell him, and at last hit upon the so
lu,isn-because both are hardly done.
The human voice has been heard across
the Straits of Gibraltar, distance of more
than 10 miles. This only happens in pecu
ar states of the weather. The sound oi {
Ty band has been heard at distance
Nss on clear frosty morning.
says, in his Diary, Gin talking
Syll mentioned a man VIII,
him almost nothing
always dine will
'eh to last m,
o. Nme tribe
p, &C
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