Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-03-11
A STRING OF ITEMS.


ling face.
A bout eight tons Of game are a, Detroit,
bound 10 Buiialoe.
There is all establishment in Boston that
manufactures SO 600 grain bags per week
Mr.. Macaulay once observed, that prize
sheep were only fit FOR candles. and prize es-
says TO light them,
To drive rats out Of your house-let The
basement 10 a new band practising on wind
instruments.
Dr. SrowELL, Of England, has undertaken
10 prove that the "forbidden fruit" Of Eden
was The tobacco plant.
1t is. estimated the production OF the silver
mines for 1854 will reach S25, 600, 900 This
is said 10 be an increase over last year.
completed distance Of 90 miles, and will
be opened for business early in the spring.
A Lovely Fair One recently wrote the fol
lowing postscript 10 her backward lover:
"My heart to you is given,
o, do give yours TO me;
Wen lock them up together,
And throw away the key"
IN the year 1so0 there were four hundred
and thirteen Quaker meeting houses in Eng
land. There are but three hundred and sew.
enteen.
The ladies of New Orleans are using para.
soils 10 project them from the suns rays
Our ladies are using umbrellas and pretty
substantial overshoes Quite contrast.
Charles Fenno Hoffman, the American au-
thor, is now an inmate of the Pennsylvania
State Lunatic Asylum, near Harrisburg. He
is ,ncurably insane.
The reward for information where Ed
ward Slevin, who mysteriously disappeared
from LouisviIl, can be found, has been in
creased 10 $1,000.
1t is asserted in French publication that
the Empress Josephne's mantua- makers bill
ior the first ten months of 1906 amounted 10
l75, 5,ss7l.-f7, 900 odd-35 900!
man in California, under sentence Of
death by hanging, asked the Sheriff the
evening previous to his execulion-m say,
Sheriff, wha, hour is that little affair of mine
10 come of ?"
TOTAL Loss "A Yankee has invented a
machine for extracting The lies from quack
advertisements. Some of them are never seen
after entering the machine, as only the truth
comes out.
A THING MEYER SEEN.--A man does not
grieve 50 much over the loss Of his hair he
will even dispense with the services of a
wig; but you never saw woman appear in
society with bald head.
According 10 the Almanac makers, on the
2Sh of May next there will be an ex,raordi
nary eclipse of the sun-such as none but the
Oldest inhabitants have witnessed. 1t vii
be similar 10 the great eclipse of 1900.
An English paper states that Mr. Mitchell
the London Manager, has concluded an Ell
gagement with the late Jenny Lind, 10 ap
pear in concerts for six months during III,
approaching season.
The Boston Post says "Thcre are ihirieel
thousand marriaGeable girls now in the fac
tories al Lowell. Ii is pleasant 10 know i
this world OF misery, that there are thirteen
thousand men yet 10 be made happy"
The administrators of Mr. McCloskey, G
Pittsburg, who was killed in March last by
collision, while on car of the Pennsylvani
Railroad Company, have recovered $3.50
damages from The Road
Queen Victoria, al The opening Of Parlia
ment, was aitred in splendid dress of sill
tissue, over which was a robe of crimson vel
vet, ornamented with gold lace and erm n
and she wore a brilliant tiara of pearls an,
diamonds.
THE DYING MAIDEN.
How beautiful is this, by Ebenezer Eli
OFT, the famous Corn Law Rhymer of Shef
field the man who Iabored with his hands
moi ashamed TO earn his bread by honest in
dus'Ty, while in his hours of rest he founc
amusement IN the composition of some of tn,
most vigorous aud original poetry our Ian
gu0ge can bOasi.l
God release our dying sister!
neant'ous blight hath sadly kls.'d her:
Nh'thsr than the wild, white roses
Famine in her face discloses
Mute submission, patience holy
Passing fair! but passing slowly.
raoagh'" she said, "you know I'm diving f.,
,s " As' near' green trees are signing;
not Of them hath pain besel, her,
IN the city, where we lef her,
p'"s, she said, 'a hedgeAids l,s.ou,r
Love shall lay it her boslm.
iht ffenehman is model in coolne,
""d philosophy. Run away with hi, w,l
s"u ne loses no lime in making love 10 n
VI" pIeAy gil he meets. n he lose. q,
S"s' y, s. Instead OF taking to pru,.ic acid, hem
w'aei Jokes aud the opera.