Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-03-01

| of rain falling upon the Atlantic Octun'-
The Atlantic includes an area oi ~ mliilons
of square miles. Suppose an inch oil ram 10
fall npon only one.ffth of this vast expanse.
ut would weigh" says our author, "lhree
hundred and sixty thousand millions OF IONS;
and the salt which, as water, it held ID solu-
ton in the sea- and which, when that wafer
was taken up as vapor, was left behind to dis
turb equilibrium. weighed sixteen millions
more tons, or nearly twice as much as all tne
ships in the world could carry at u cargo each
1t might fall in day; but occupy what time
it might in falling, this rain is calculated 10
exert SO much which is ipconceyably
great-in disturbing the equilibrium oil the
ocean. If all the water discharged by the
Mississippi river during the year were taken
up in one mighty measure, and cast into tho
ocean at one effort, it would not make great
er disturbance in the equilibrium Of the sea
than would the fall OF rain supposed & no
yet. so gentle are The operations vt nature,
that movements SO vast are unperceived."
METEOROLOGICAL OBsERvATroNs.--An ar
rangement has been entered into between
Professor Henry of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion. and Judge Mason, L. S. Commissioner
of Patents, by which the system Of meteoro-
logical observations. heretofore conducted by
the Institution. will he hereafter executed
under the direction Of the Patent Ohice, In
pursuance Of this change, the Commissioner
has issued a circular, directing attention to
to the severe storm Of snow, hail. and rain.
which extended itself over large portion OF
the Union, from the 4th to the 9th Of last
month, and asking for information in regard
TO it.
Wanted, to 60 TO Kansas Immediately,
middle-aged, unmarried man, to offciate as
the fighting editor of q political newspaper.
He must be seven feet high in his stocking
feet. be composed OF nothing hut muscle, bone
and sinew, have sledgchammer fists, and 8
head that will withstand any quantity Of
punching. either with whiskey or boulder
stones. Must also be proficient in tie use Of
bowie-knives. revolvers and scientific eye
gouging. viii be required to receive vsi-
tors daily at the sanctum door, and represent
the editor in all cases except in receiving
money Salary doctors bills free fer one
year, and the Office Q! Judge each succeeding
one.
REMEDY roR TooTHACHE.--ChdmJcr Jour
nal aludes to n process described by Or. Ro-
berts before the Royal Scottish Society Of
Arts. for cauterising the dental terye, and
stodpivg teeth without pain, by means Of
wire applied to the patients tooth perfectly
cold, and afterwards instantaneously heated
to the required extent by a smoll electric bat
terry.
A. present for Cronstadt is being con-
structed at the I.owmoor Iron Works, Eng
land. 1t is u shell, nine feet five inches in
circumference. and thirty-sx in diameter.
Its weight is over ton 1t costs EOS un-
filled, and the mortar which is 10 discharge
snch a shell weighs thirty-fve tons. This
shell is intended TO lombard Cronstadt, and
: it is expected that bomhardment well sus-
tanned with such a weight Of metal, will
crumble the walls Of the defence like powder.
STRETCHING THREE LEGs.-Mrs. Nichola,
late of the Brattleboro, Vermont Democrat.
! says that "the drinks" are now called "leg-
strechers" in that State. She says it is an
everyday occurrence for some passengers in
the stage coaches, while the latter are wait
ing at the hotels for the mails, TO say-"I
guess | will get cut and stretch my legs"
which always ends in their having q drink
somewhere in the hotel. She adds that it is
; perfectly astonishing with what unchecked
ease ard frequency legs are now stretched in
Vermont.
TEMPTING ENovGu-The ladies of Gala
tin. Missouri, are already using the privileges
, allowed the fair sex during leap year. A Gal
, latin paper has the following announcement:
Lo3t-We are requested by two young ladies
of this town to state that each of them lost,
a few days ago. cuff pin AVID piece or black
velvet for which the finder will be literally
rewarded if soodookng aud comes well re
, commended. Two finders would be prefer
4 red, and they young men.
In the Lunatic Asylum at Columbus O.,
: is air of insane lovers Occasionally they
= seem TO recover their reason, and are permit
, to hold interviews with one another. In one
of these the poor girl begged her lover 10
! marry her but he replied with melancholy
real enough to bring tears from the listeners
, -"You know that we cannot be married,
Eller, we are unfit for that happiness poor,
unfortunate creatures that We are
A country Dditor says he received the fol-
lowing "stop my paper -
"Dear Sir IL have looked carefully over
A your paper for six months, for the death Of
some individual was acquainted with but
not single soul ] care any thing about has
dropped off, you will please have my namc
. erased"
f BAD nArr TO catch wife Poverty and
: red nose. Good bait-Brass watch. q few
t coppers TO rattle in lieu of dollar and good
$ suit Of clothes the bill for the latter being
4 unreceipted.
; 1RAlN AND L IoCR tNEtFlPTS.---t ne rtcelDls
b of Canadian grain at Oswego, \. Y for
n 1855, were 9,459l72 bushels against $685.
: 423 for the previous year, The receipts OF
Canadian -four in 1888, were 224 ,643 barrels,
against l67 267 barrels in 1854.
n The failure Of Barnum the humbug is an
s nounced as probable if not absolute.
SELF F-DESIAL-There never did and never
= will exist, anything permanently noble and
. . excellent in a character which is a stranger
:, to the exercise of resolute selEdenial.
I GRAIN CRor or ILIINois.-The Chicago
a Press estimates the grain crop of Illinois for
i 1885 as follows :-ls0,000000 bushels OF
wheat and 100000 bushels of oats, barley
. and rye.
b Take a wife, Tom, said Richard Brinesley
I Sheridan to his wild son Tom, the father Of
Mrs. Norton, take wife and reform"
with all my heart" replied Tom, limo,
Gently, 'whose wife shall take.
II is singular fact that nine out Of every
ten men sN.ndled at mock auction stores are
gentiegen who never took newspaper.
; The eyes Of o pretty woman are the inter