The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-09-15
WIT AND HUMOR.

traveller says if he were asked TO d.
scribe the first sensation of camel ride. he
WOULD say: Take a music stool, and mt il
III i earl without springs, get on the top, and
li1AI triNc the cart transyCrsely across q
P'onShed hett, and then you will form some
~ ~holioii oi the terror and uncertainty you e1-
| periehcc the first time You nmount a eamelv
OLD NIcK.-When Nick Biddle was con-
! nected with the United States Bank, there
W. was san ali OLD negro named Harry, who used to
/ b. loafInS around the premises One day. in
social mood, Biddle said to tIE darkey:
We'll, what is Your namc nv old friend ~
Harry, sir-ole Harry, sir said tho other
| touching his sleeping hat
| odd Harry said Biddle. "whv. that ia tb.
name that they give the devil, is it not ."
"Yes, SIR said the colored gentleman
sometimes ole Harry, and sometimes ole
Nick 0.o
itor OF the Buffalo Express, and the follow
ing specimens of the bottom are from his first
days work:
The boring OF the ancient and incorrigible
artesian well at st. Louis has again been
stopped, after reaching ;,cpth of 3,s43 feet.
why do they not go around and try at the
other end awhile There is wafer there
somewhere.
The king of Italy has added three dollars
and Il half Il year TO the pay of his soldiers.
Iney only got seven dollars a year before
this. But will they really DO any happier
no" 'han they were when they were poor'
lhat the Yankees not only people who
answer one question by asking another, wit.
Hess the following:
\ steamboat captain one of the lakes
Was recently feeling his way along in the
dark, when the lookout ahead cried ont.
schooner without light" 1t was a mar.
row escape and as the steamer passed fbe
schooner, the captain demanded: 'What ara
you dong with your internal schooner here
III the dark without a light ?" To his dis
may the skipper who was Frenchman. an
sws5cd, Vat &c diablc You do here Viz vonr
ole steanboat IN three s.ct of water, ch !"and
just then the steamer landed high and dry on
a sand bank. ~
whiskcy TO kill rats She swectencd i With
sugar. soaked bread in it and then left fha
bread In the cellar where the rats "mOst do
congreSate." She had been np stairs but
half an hour when she heard laughing. sino.
ing, and general hullabaloo down stairs.
She accordingly went down to see what waa
the matter. Imagine her astonishment TO
fi01 about dozen rats gloriouslv fuddled
engaged III throwing potato parings at each
otheF, ana hauling one another up to drink
\ negro undergoing his examination "a
witness, when asked if his master WA q
ehristian. replied, "No, sir; he is a member of
Congress-"
"A country paper, i'll notice of a lecture
gwen by phrenOlogist, says: Behind the
gallery IS a platform of liie-size portraits.
twenty feet high
Ihey have queer law in Delaware about
the gordlan knot of nlatrimOny 1t REQUIRES
the naughty men, before leading one of the
Delaware lambs to the sacriticial altar. to
give bonds tor good behavior.
y striking illustration of the saving thaf
the pith of lady letter is in the postscript.
was that of a young lady who had gone out
TO lndla, and writing home to her friends,
concluded with the following words:-"P. 8.
iou will see by my signature that am mar
ried.'
MEMoEY-It is good thing to have a
good memory. AT any rate we are told so by
a certain United States official, who, although
a very good collector, couldn't collect his
memory enough the other evening to recol-
lect that he had a horse and buggy in town,
and consequently walked home. About bed
time. however, his memory served him, and
he walked back and then rode home.
The Rochester On. Y.) Democrat is an out
and-out Radical paper and has never been
Democratic for at least thirty-fiye of the
thirty years of its life. If it be asked
shN IT calls itself the Democrat. the answer
iians because dat iSh his NAME"
A Western paper ''bursts into songy in the
following atroeious manner: 81 told Won
story, about Mr. BOrie, and then my story be-
gun, how his beautiful daughter saves Mr..
Reeves from the water, and now nv story's
indonc, foi Borc hasn't any daughter.
On recent trip of one of the Illinois river
jackets, light draft one, as there were only
wo feet of water i'll the channel, the passcn-
'ers were startled with the cry of "man over
'oard" /" The steamer was stopped and prep
ratl0ns made to save him, when he was
leard to eXclaim: go ahead with your
armed old steamboat I'll walk behind you.y
Canada is paying much attention to the
aising of flax and has yield this year of