The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-07-24

other accessory. The boqucts for ladies'
are principally formed ofthcse flowers, and
the garands and floral offerings cast upon
the stage TO popular actresses, are of the
same composition.
Speaking about hair, il may not be amiss
to say that the ladies' Of Sorrento, the birth
place Of Tasso, braid their tresses and
then arrange them In the form of wreath,
such as artists are wont to place upon the
brow oftheir favorite bard.
In Italy toward the going down of the
sun, the ladies are accustomed to repair to
the balconies Of their habitations and oc-
cupy them until the evening shades have
appeared. AT that pensive hour the bal
comics are as frames enclosing pictures
more beautiful than any in the noblest
galleries in the Italian capitals.
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Anscdote of Booth
Rntelifio My lord. 'tis I. Tho early village
cock.
Hath twice done salutation to the nom;
Your friends are up, and buckle on their armor.
RICHARD III.
A good story iB told of this gifted but
eccentric tragedian in the N. Y. Spirit OF
the Times. Hc had concluded brilliant
and successful engagement at one of the
Western theatres, and was up for his ben
eft, in his character of Richard. Being
highly gratifed at the reception which had
greeted him, and anticipating crowning
triumph on that night, he mprudently sat
over his wine until he became considerably
fuddlel. II occurred to his somewhat be-
widercd mind, that his presence was need
ed in another part OF the city. and seizing
his hat, which contained building material
of no insignificant amount, he hurried to
:lie theatre, and had barely time to dress,
when the call bell summoned him to the
stage.
He was incontinently drunk, but being
to tho manor born, and perfectly familiar
with every word and syllable OF his part,
his violent gesticulation and monstrous
rantiDg, was applaudcd TO the very echo,
by the uhsuspccting audience Ms his con-
ception and reading of the play.
The play had proceeded to the fifth act.
and matters were in this condition---al
pleasure and interes. before the curtain,
all dread and alarm behind it, when at q
signal, back sided the front scene, and
discovered Richard in his tent, taking that
troubled sleep which was to be his last on
earth. fit was o'bc his last sleep, il syan
evident that shunch- back tyrant inland.
I'd il should be ashund one, for the ghosts
Of murdered EdWafls Henry Esla q
Hastings, and Queen Anne, passed ii,
succession, nonring upon his gniit-iadeaed
soul their damnirg curses, without his ,giigs
ing the slightest symptoms oil being dis4
turbed. And when the ghost of butchercd
Buckingham had added his last curse and
passed on. instead of rising from his couch
in bewidered terror, and exclaiming as he
should have dome
Give me another honc.-binh up my wounds
Have mercy Jcsu!-Soft: did but DREAM &c.
King Richard, to the surprise of the audi
encc and dsmay of the manager, still slept
sonndly on, when enter Ratcliff, cxclaim-
ing
RCt.-'AIy lord
X. Rich.--.Who's there,' (springing
from his couch and rushing on him with his
sworI.)
Rat.-'Ratcliff, my lord. It's I, the early
village cock twhcn, becoming alarmed,
he forgot his part, and repeated, 'tis I, the
early village cock and s,opped)
X. Rieh-'Why the h--ll don't you
crow then!'
A yell like the roar Of young earth
quake went up from the pit, that will live
in the memory Of the oldes, inhabitan,;
the manager tainted, the lights went out,
the curtain fell.