Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-10-20
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1t is stated that the cost of cleaning the
streets OF New York, this year, will reach
100000.
The Governor of Illinois has designated
the ODD Of November as Thanksgiving Day
in that State.
The penalty Of adultery among the Nor
mons is death, or marriage to the woman, so
says female correspondent Of u western pa
per.
Large sales of hogs have been made in
Kentucky at Al cents gross, equal TO 81 cts.
net in the pens.
Judge Gould, an eminent jurist of Florida,
is dead. lie served an apprenticeship TO the
printing business in New Jersey.
Somebody says wife should he like roasted
lamb--tender and nicely dressed Somebo-
dy else wickedly adds, "and without sauce =
Scene in restaurant-"Wa alter, you cal
this bread Bring me a brick--l want some
thing softer.
USELESS LoAD.-IIe who learns, and makes
no use of his learning, is a beast of burdel
with a load of books hitched to him.
An alarming sickness resembling cholera
is said to prevail in Livingston county, New
Iork, causing many deaths.
A wedding recently came off in Memphis
Tenn, which was the ninth occasion on which
the bride had been made happy in matrinony
WHAT Is FRIEND ?-Punch says a friend
is one who jumps down and puts on the drag,
when lie finds that you are going down hill
too last.
QUEEN CAROLINE asked Sir Robert Wal
pole what it would cost to enclose ST. James
Park, with view to exclude the public from
it. Madam the premier is said TO have
replied, "only a cropn.'
The St. Louis Democrat says that its Kan
sas correspondent re allirms his assertion that
Gov. Shannon said he was for slavery in
Kansas. The Democrat promises thorough
investigation Of the matter.
A MAGNIFICENT PUBLIC PARK, two miles
and one-third in length, by three-ffths of Il
mile in breadth, is talked of in New York
the cost between five and six millions of dol
lars Fine pickings for public fuuctonaries.
An Irish drummer. who now aud then in
dulged in u noggin Of right good poteen was
accosted by the reviewing general. What
makes your nose so red y please yer honor
replied Pat Il always blush when spake to
general officer"
BAKED SoUR APPLEs.-Wash well the ap-
pies; place them in pan; pour in teacup-
full Of water and one OF sugar; bake them
slowly till done. Eat them with cream and
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There has been discovered in Liberia what
is supposed TO be the most valuable bed Of
iron ore in the world Rev D. Tracy repre-
sents on chemical authority { a. y. Hayes,
OF Mass the chemical composition to be
9S.4O pure iron.
BAKED SWEET ArPLEs.-Wash we'll the
apples, place them in pan with u very little
water, that the juice may not burn, It they
are 10 be cooked in blIck oven; then put
the apples in jar, cover them close, aud
bake them five or six hours. Sweet apples
should DO baked long after they are tender.
ToNAToEs FOR WINTER CsE-L0te in the
season, take tomatoes not too ripe, cut them
into thick slices, salt them lightly in a flat
dish, sprnkling the salt over them as you cut
them Pour off the water; put them in q
jar strewing black aud Cayenne pepper
through them and few slices of onion, tive
wine-g -glassfuIls of sweet oil, q few blades oi
mace, and vinegar enough 10 cover them up
tight TO exclude the air.
LOCATION OF IIEII.--A curious sermon
was delivered Sunday or two ago at the
Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation
at Manhattanville, New York, by the Rev.
Mr.. Walworth, son Of x-Chancelor Wal.
worth, of Saratoga. The topic of his dis
course was the location aud torments OF
Hell. He undertook to demonstrate that
Hell was situated IN the inside of the earth.
commencing about twenty one miles from the
SURFACE, where granite begins TO melt lie
also affirmed that heat was the predominant
characteristic OF this abode of the damned,
and illustrated the proposition by reference
to the uniformly high temperature of every
thing which had reached US from that quarter
sf our glsbs ~" ~