Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-04-18
RfsEYNTsES.
Strawberries in Charleston.


of wi ne for sale
The Appletons have offered Dickens S25,.
OO0 for his next novel.
Mr.. Parton receives $500 per article from
the Atlantic Monthly.
A Boston paper says that all the blue
birds about there are white.
G. A. Sala thinks that the finest looking
women IN Europe are Americans.
Nallandigham is about to become the
editor-in-chief of the Dayton Ledger
The laws of Iowa are printed in several
languages, including Swedish.
Flotow, the composer of Martha" has a
new opera called "zilda," which is just
ready to come out
Philadelphia has eighty thousand public
school children.
Dan Drew objects to being thought TO be
relative of Andrew.
When is iron the most ironcal asks Fun.
When it is railing, to be sure.
European physicians have decided that
IN many cases consumption is contagious.
| 46 persons dipped in twenty minutes ia
the boast ofa man who is called the "cham.
pion baptizer."
| London had blue horse. Philsdelpbia
has magenta donkey. The former died
and the latter was dyed.
Female cooks are coming into fashion
again in Paris. Baron Rothschild was the
! first to make the innovation.
10000 Germans are engaged to come over
| from Bremen to Baltimore this year, and
from thence be distributed South.
| Andrew Johnson's house in Tennessee is
being thoroughly renovated. The White
House is to be, too, at least such is our de-
| sire"
Not single Jew lives in Newport, yet
there is synagogue there with an income
of $4,000 per annum.
The Chinese are said to fight all Gay and
! then to go home with ono man frightened
| to death and no other casualties.
II. Clay Dean is said to be the one man
in America who has not the slightest idea
of what is meant BY personal cleanliness.
| Bierstadt is engaged on some very large
| pictures at his studio in Rome. ~ Mrs. Bier
stadt is said to be the most beautiful wo-
man in Rome.
A Little Lay.-Bachelor at Breakfast
Dear me, Susan, that's very small egg !
Susan-Ies, sir, it is-but it was only laid
this morning, sir.-Juda.
Miss Abigail Coleman, maiden lady of
cightyive years, residing in Preston, Ct,
has her third sett of teeth, which have Just
come out and are very fine.
Mrs. Chapman Coleman, noted as an
excellent Translator of German books, is
going to write a biography of her father,
the late John j. Crittenden.
| Milan, Missouri, was scared recently by
/ lDNf Ilnr al Il,
coffin done in white, right in the centre
! The cloud stood over Milan for some time
Two thousand dollars was the price paid
for copy of Audueons works in New York
recently.
I In the Government stores at jefferson.
vile Qnd) are $52 200, 900 worth of Gov
ernment property.
| Prince Salm Salm is in Brussels for the
purpose of delivering Maximilian's last
message to Carlotta.
$4,000 bushcsl of grain were dropped in
to three feet of water in cellar in grain
house, in Peoria, recently, by the yielding of
the floor on which it was stored.
Matches are made in Boston At least
we judge that good many of them are, as
a certain manufacturer in that city paid
100000 for one cent stamps last year.
| Mrs. Wade is very much admired as g
woman of elegance and sense. She has
been compared to Mrs. Washington and Mrs.
Madison, who were, by far the most elegant
women who ever presided at the White
! House.
The following little gem is from the sign
| board of a German inn:
'In questa casa troverete,
| Toutes les choses que vous souhaitez,
Brod and tleish, Vein roth and weiss
| Well air d beds and all thats nice"
More railroad bills have been passed by
the Legislature at the present session than
during any winter for some years.
| The mountains in the neighborhood of
! Chattanooga, Tenn, were never known TO
contain as many deer as they do now.
The Jews of the United States are dis
cussing the propriety of holding services on
| Sunday instead of Saturday.
| There are more than 100 manufacturers
along the Schuylkil river, between the falls
| and Norristown Dam, (Which is about ten
miles.) These employ 10000 workmen and
produce annually some $24 100000 worth
| of goods.
Mr.. Forrest has been 40 years on the stage {;
great part of that time he was the
acknowledged monach of it, so that no
blame can attach TO him for failing now.
He is 67 years old and is racked with rheu-
matism. A correspondent of the Cincinnati
| Gazette says "there is but little left of him
but his reading, and that is as perfect as
ever"
A man who plays 1G drums with 4S drum
sticks, all at the same time, is exhibiting
his skill in Berlin, Prussia.
The statement is startling one, but it
ia said to be true, that San Francisco with
a hundred and twenty thousand Inhabitants,
pays more money into the internal revenue
of the United States than New York city
with it's eight hundred thousand.
SOMEBODY, speaking of the hurrying pro-
pensities of the Yankees, says :-"If big
mortar could be constructed, which would
throw an immense bombshell, containing
fifteen passengers, from st. Louis to Boston,
in five minutes, with an absolute certainty
that fourteen would be killed by the ex-
plosion, tickets for seats by the Express
Bomb-shell Line would at once be at pre-
MUM, each passenger being anxious for the
chance to prove himself the lucky fifteenth" !"
| A WAC saws that once, on a tourney. he