Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-11-24

Dsnmsrk is menaced with extinctio

Denmsrk Is menaced with extinction
Prussia is intriguing with Greek veligion-
ists.
The latest PAris erinoline is In The shape
OF coat tail.
The health of Baron James de Rothchild
is very critical.
Salt and coal have been discovered IN
Colorado.
The French have three hundred ways for
cooking eggs.
The Democratic "College"--a "corner
grocery"
There are eleven thousand school districts
in New York State.
"Come here, Tommy do you know your
C's2" "Ycs, zur, l know bee sees"
The Mormon church is over 30 years old.
1t was organized with six members.
Mrs. General Grants grandfather was the
first licensed preacher west of the Ohio.
The Legislature of South Carolina will
assemble on Monday the 26th instant.
The editor of the Louisville Democrat
would rather die at Chicago than live there.
A Mobile paper says that the South will
be more prosperous five years hence than it
ever was.
Within the city of DesMoincs, Iowa,
there is single cOrn6eld comprising one
hundred and sixty acres.
Make farmers of your boys, and you will
see them honest, independent and respecta-
BILE members of society,
Whatever we may think of woman's right
to vote and legislate, there can be no dis
pute to her right to bear arms.
| Tho unrk of voetnr;pu tba notbo1rol
church of Notre Dame, Paris, is almost fin.
isbed. 1t has occupied 20 years.
Jefferson Davis expresses great gratifca-
| tiOn at the recent action of the Government
in removing all surveillance over him.
| A fact not generally known-that there
is more lager beer made in the principal
cities of the United States than in all Eu-
rope.
The Cincinnati Mining Company are now
taking out about a ton per day Of argentifer-
ous galena from the mines near that city,
yielding in silver and lead about eighty three
per cent, the proportion of the former
varying from eighty to four hundred ounces
| to the ton
The men in Bavaria are great smokers.
| They lay lighted cigar beside their plates
at the breakfast table and take Il puff De-
tween mouthfuls.
1t is demonstrated that the use of soft in.
stead Of hard water in London will save its
people $3,375, 900 yearly on the three arti-
cles of soap, tea and coffee.
| At Atlanta, Ca, there is "Widows' and
Orphans Manufacturing Compapy"-they
don't make widows and orphans, bu. SIM
ply furnish them with employment.
Up to the present time some thirty or
forty distilleries have been seized in Brook
lyn, and the offenders arrested for violating
the revenue law.
A married lady in Detroit sold her rag
bag .on Tuesday for one dollar, and after
wards remembered that she had deposited
the sum of $l90 in it for safe keeping.
A woman in Wheeling cut the throat of
her new born babe the other day. 1t is be-
coming absolutely dangerous, in many parts
of the country, for children to have parents.
A Western paper says that the grass
hoppers have destroyed everything in the
Deer Lodge Valley except the "grass wi
dows." But, then, the grass widows" are
not green.
The question of annexation TO the United
States is being warmly discussed and advo-
Gated in Victoria, Vancouver's Island. 1t is
said the colonies evince much discomfort
at the manner in which they are treated by
the home government
An Australian colonst has harnessed up
q Kangaroo and put him to labor-turning
machinery with half horse power. If he
gets lazy, pin stuck in him makes him
jump up.
A boxed up turtle recently lived seven
months in Charleston saloon, without food
or water, but at the emo of that time dis.
posed of large quantity of bread as if he
had good appetite.
A bust of Richard Golden has just been
set up in the rooms of the Philadelphia
Union League. 1t was present from Mr.
McHenry, who visited this country with Sir
Morton Peto.
The woman who was lately buried alive
at Quincy. Illinois. and rescued IN time to
save her life, says she knew all that took
place during her trance state, but was una.
BILE to speak or move limb.
The Paris physicians report many serious
cases of disease caused 10y steady work with
sewing machines, and in Other cities the at
teniion OF physicians has been called to the
unheathness of this employment.
A foreign speculator has plan to charter
the Great Eastern to ferry passengers from
New York to Brest. during the French Elk.
position. As she can carry $500 passengers
at each trip, the fare can ae made low.
A revivalist in Dillinghampton N. Y, en-
countered II large sized African. and asked
him, My good man have you found the
Lord Z" To which Sambo replied IN a sur,
prised manner "Golly, is de Lord lostl"
The accident insurance companies in the
country, thirteen in all, held convention
ut Hartford on Thursday and Friday, at
which various matters of Importance, rela.
tive to their business, were discussed.
A man short distance out from the city
says no one need tell him that advertising
won't cause big rush, for he ADVERTISED ten
bushels of grapes for sale and the next
morning there wasn't one leit-the boys
stole 'em all.
1t appears from recent experiments con.
Quoted by the London Pneumatic Company,
that one hundred and twenty tons of goods
can be sent through their eighteen miles OF
tubes every hour, at a cost less than Id a
ton per mile.
An Iowa man living in Manchester re-
Gently attempted to murder his whole fami,
| ly. He succeeded in woupding his wife,
one child and his mother-i2'law after which
he committed suicide. Cause, jealousy.
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