Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-07-01
A STRING OF ITEMS.

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A marble statue of Santa Anna has beens
ordered by the governor OF Tobasco.
The Artesian Well in Charleston is 1850 |
feet deep and they still are boring deeper.
Know NornINGs.- Ii is believed that there
are over ten thousand voters in New Orleans
who are connected with this mysterious orga-
nizalon.
AN exchange paper asks very innocently,
if il is any harm for young ladies TO sit in the
lapse of ages. Another replies that it all de-
pends Oh the kind OF ages selected. Those
from eighteen 10 twenty-five it puts down as
extra hazardous.
"Once on time" and lrishman and ne
gro were fighting, and while graspng with
each other, the Irishman exclaimed, You
black divi you, cry 'onough y III fight Till
dieW "So'l l! J" sung out the negro, ~ al.
ways does.n
AT an editorial dinner, lately given by P.
L. Barnum, at his residence, Bridgeport, Ct,
the following line concluded the bill of fare,
"For Vines and Liquors, sec merit pdgc."--
Those who looked OIL the mex page found it
blank, and, Of course, considered themselves
tsold.n
Down EAsT.-The Editor of The Maine
Farmer, June 8, talks as though he had got
out from under that six feet of snow, and ac-
tually talks about crops looking well about
Augusta. "The apple trees have blossom
ed very full" That proves that spring has
come.
RAPID VOYAGE AROUND THE WoRLD.--The
clipper ship Fearless, Capt. Manson, lei, Bos
ton with full cargo, August 80, for San
Francisco, proceeded thence for Manila and
home, and arrived off Boston Light on Satur-
day last, having completed the round voyage
in nine months and ten days.
Last week seven hundred Germans pas.
sed through Cincinnati for Oregon, and seven
hundred and thirty for Nebraska. Minnesota
is filling up with unparalleled rupidily. The
roads leading to it through Iowa and Wiscon-
sin, it is said, are literally crowded with teams
and stock belonging to immigrants.
STARTLING FAcT.-The late census shows
that a number of IIishmen in the United
States is less than one million /; and our Fed
eral, State and Municipal "Bue Books,
show that majority of the public offices
and places in the United States are filed BY
1rishmen. Is it stlango that Amercanism is
waking upa
PIMETo.-In Tabasco, Mexico, orders have
been issued to fno all persons who shall
continue 10 "iop" the pimeto trees TO prevent
them from growing high. The size of the
pimeto is in proportion TO the size of the tree
producing it, aud unlike some other crops if
The tree is clipped and kept down the fruit
Is small too.
MATT. F. WARD.-This notorious indiyd-
ual, finding the rest of the world too ho, for
him, has gone 10 the Hot Springs of Arkansas
to cool himself. The only steamer he could
find 10 carry him down the river, was the
"R. J. Ward" called after and in part owned
by his father. His health is said 10 be yer,
bad, and we do not wonder at it.
CURE roR PALpITATIoN.-A lady, about AZ
years old, says the Journal of Health, wht
has suffered severely from periodical attack
of palpitation of the heart, from The age of /:
years has found immediate and permanen
relief from the use Of soda water. Ilappear
from experiments, since made, that carboni
acid gas is the active curative agent.
81 am rich enough" says Pope to Swift
'and can afford 10 give away hundre
pounds year. would not crawl upon III
earth without doing little good. | wi
enjoy tho pleasure of what give by gvin
it alive, and seeing another enjoy il, Whe
I die" he added, "l should be ashamed I
leave enough for monument, if there wa
a wanting friend above ground.
A PRETTY LITTLE CRowD-Mr. Frederic
Kembell, from the neighboThood Of Rumnel
Harrison county, Ohio, arrived in SleubeI
vile, las, Wednesday, by railway, with h
wife and nineteen etildren-t tweuly.one
all. II ID said that he owns enough land
that State to give each Of his family one huI
dred aud sixty acres, aud retain "slicen f
himself
WATER DRISEISG -Prol, Sillman, in
recent Smithsonian lecture at Washington
gave the following sensible advice to youn
men, which all should read, aud reavmbe
and adopt
III therefore you wish lOf clear mia,
slloGg muscles, and quiet nerves, aud lon
lile and power prolonged into old age, penn
mo TO say, although | am not giyiag Isu
psranse lselsIe, avoid all drinks bat vale
anL mild iulusioas Of that iluii shuu lobaee
aRi opiam, aad sys3 hing glss that d'slvll !
the normal Stale ol tho slslsm lvly up0
sullilious fool aud mild diluieai dllnks, (
which walsf i he basls, anI ,sa val zee
nothing bsyoal ihsse lhiags except lesl an
Toe meiai regulations oi all ieuT p9sefs,
giys yos al lsag, haPpy sai assigl hgs', az
ssfrne syenlng Al lhg elgig,"