Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-12-29
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The game of fashionable life, is to play
hearts for diamonds.
In 1899 Congress was two weeks in elect
ing Speaker
The Tyrone Era hoists the name Of Millard
Fillmore for President.
The depth of the Niagara river, under the
suspension bridge, is estimated by engineers
TO be 100 feet
A little girl observing a goose with q yoke
on, exclaimed, "why ma there is goose got
corsets on. 1t walks like sister Sally"
The project which was on foot to make
omelets out of "eeg COAL" We 'tearn has been
abandoned.
1t is good sign to see the color of health
in mans face. ....
1t is bad sign to see it all concentrated
in his nose.
Marriage resembles a pair Of shears so
Joined that they cannot be separated often
moving in opposite directions, yet always
punishing any one who comes between them.
Always laugh while you can't is cheap
medicine. Mirthfnlness is q philosophy not
well understood. 1t is the sunny side of ex-
istence.
PRFscoTT's WoRKs.--Twenty-two thou
sand five hundred volumes of Prescotts
works have been published by Phillips, Samp-
son d Co., OF Boston. This includes fourteen
thousand volumes of his Philip the Second.
MAIL CoNrRAcr AwARDED---The Post
master General has awarded the contract for
carrying the daily mail, by steamers, between
T,;, n,l n
Eastman e. Woodburn, at S329,00 per year.
HOUSE SuRoEox.-Ah, by the way, there's
Higgins case. There has been 4 slight mis-
take-it was the sound leg cut off. Visiting
surgeon-It's of no consequence, we can cure
t'other--so it comes to the same thing.
That was a keen reply of the buxom lassie
TO q little pgmy Of man who solicited
matrimonial counecton-"O, no." said the
fair lady, Il can't think of il for q moment
The fact is, John, you are u little too big to
put in cradle, and little to small to put
into bed
A DIscovERY-A Washington correspond
ent Of the New y Nork Sun says that 1t is
thought at the War Department, that GER
tain officer of one of the l. >. Exploring
/ Expeditions has discovered the Emerald
/ Region known to the Montezumas, but ut
/ terly lost since the conquest OF Cortez.
An EyoRNovs RooM. The largest reading
room in the world is now nearly completed,
in the British Museum. 1t is circular, lao
feet in diameter, and lao in height. The
tables will accommodate nearly four hundred
readers. The wrought-iron book cases will
contain lG2 900 volumes. The cost Of the
room will be about 100000.
WHAT Is A MORMON "A Mormon is a liv-
ing paradox lie says grace before acotiillon,
swears in his sermons, selects his text indit-
feren,ly from the Bible. the books of Mormon,
an almanac, or the presidents message and
is perpetually quarrclling for the sake of
pcace. His religion is 4 Joke, and he makes
the best storyteller a chief of the quorum.
He assumes dignitics, but has not the slight
est respect for them; and the effect OF his
p;ety is apparently TO put him on level with
the greatest renrobatcs Of the time. In snort
he is Latter Day Saint, or in other words,
the last one you would think Of calling saint.
The Kansas Constitution, adopted by the
"Free State Convention" was submitted to
a vote Of the people on the 18th inst. 1t
erhnits the question of slavery in Kansas to
n vote of the people of the Territory. Under
its nrganic law the boundaries oil The propo-
sed new State extend TO the Rocky Moun-
toips some seven hundred miles from the
! Nissopri river. Governor Shannon calls the
GFree Statc" movement revolutionary and
reasonable and says the laws enacted oythe
/ Legislature govern the State.N
GREEN MEMRERs.-A writer from Wash
| ington City says -
"There are some new members in the pres
apt House who would be great gdters it
! they could change natures with the chaue-
| leon, and only appear green, when sitting IN
green objects. / observed one yesterday
chalIerng with the old apple-woman in the
! CapitOl. telling her that three cents was
good gracious"-to use his elegant exclana-
ton, an lawful" price lor an apple, ana ma
| king a feeling appeal 10 her tenGer bosom TO
| sell him two small ones for three cents, as i
was all the money that he had.
PosT OFFICE SrArIsrIcs.-The entire re
ceipts of the Department from postage on
| letters, OF newspapers, &c. from lst july
] 1853 TO the 30th June 1854, sum mp six mil
lion twenty three thousand two hundred and
sixteen dollars and seven cents. The entire
receipts of the Department from the same
sources, from LIST July 1854 to 30ih Jure Go,
amount to six million three hundred sever ty-
three thousand aud iorty-four dcllars ar Z sew
lenty-six cents. The increase of rece'pts up
to the fiscal year closing on 30th Juna last,
amounted to about three hundred and liy
thousand dollars but the expenses Of traas.
portation OF the mails have proportionali! n
lcreased,