The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-08-11
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A f0UOSylVdOldu IuIUuL UleW utT
out while trying to eat a torpedo.
Kerosene oil is said to be an effective
antidote to the poison of the bee sting.
It lis said that under the new system of ex-
tracing alcohol from garbage, paIatable
article of beer may be obtained from old
boots.
The Hotel Pelham in Boston. weighing
5 900 tons, and having walls nearly a hun
dred feet high, is to be moved by iron roll
lers distance of fourteen feet.
A gentleman in New York city has inven
ted q rat trap which kills the animal in
stantly. throws its body in the air, and sets
itself for another victim
Three Saratoga bellies have married vis
tors to the springs within three successive
weeks.
One, two or three long curls are worn
hanging from beneath the chignon, either
at the left side or arranged underneath.
Frizzes above the forhead giving the low
square outline, just now considered the ne
plus ultra Of style. are indispensable.
In North Carolina any person who hunts
with gun or dogs, on Sunday, is liable to a
fine Of $50.
A company has been organized for the
purpose of getting up Il Worlds Exposition
of Manufactures. etc, in Washington, a
year hence.
Bishop Duggan, of Chicago, is pronounced
hopelessly insane.
For the colored schools in Washington
$6l .532 were expended during the year end
ing June 3Oth.
Longstreet, the rebel General now Sur
veyor of the Port of New Orleans, has nomi-
mated another negro as subordinate in his
Office.
Judge Dent, the Conservative Republican
candidate for Governor of Mississippi, pro-
fesses to have assurances that President
Grant favors him.
Brick Pomeroy has entered the field as
q lab0rer in the cause of temperance, and
deals blows that must tell.
Great Britain has 1850 miles of railway,
costing 2.5l0 600. 900 against 1900 miles
in this country, costing only Sl.o7O,00O,-
600.
A vulgar and shoddy lady is detected i'm
mediately at the watering places by appear
ing at breakfast in silk dress and dia-
monds.
Tho mystery of morning hats worn at
watering place breakfasts is said to be the
concealment of 'crimps'' not yet ready to
be seen of men.
Isaac Pereire has presented to Alexandra
Dumas. Seniof. splendid burying vault
in the Pere LaChalse Cemetry.
The court dress of Paraguay is red satin,
and the ladies wear enormous gold combs,
but they all go barefoot.
A few dark.eyed Cuban demoiSeIes, who
would faiu start a fair at Long Branch,
find little encouragement.
Among the sensible things carried to the
seashore just now are large white pongee
umbrellas. almost as large as a tent, with
scalloped edges bound with black.
There are $s.ls5 .65a 30 deposited in the
Five Cent Savings Bank of Boston. The
deposits in four days. recently, amounted to
$142, ,46l. and the total amount deposited
| within year was $3,324.575.
Bergh, of the Society for the Prevention
| New York, and that he has saved the lives
of 6,O0O dogs. There are $4,000 in the
treasury.
| Eye Kim Orr, a Chinaman, who was in
attendance at the Memphis Convention. has
engaged to work a sugar plantation near
DOnaldsonville. La. next season with his
own countrymen as laborers.
GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, has the largest
and most successful laboratory in fhe
| United States, and one that received the
first prize at the Paris Exposition.
The estimated cost and value of public
buildings, improvements and real estate be-
longing to the Government in Washington
City. is something over fifty million dollars.
New Orleans, since the war. has built
fully 6,OOO houses, and is adding ten iper
cent. year to her population.
A stenographic school of twenty -four
pupils, representing various nationalties,
has been established at Rome. for the pur.
pose of reporting the proceedings of the
Ecumenicel Council.
The value of moustacbe is fixed by a
young gentleman of Logansport, who has
sued barber for spelling his moustache in
trying to color it, and laid his damages at
$50.
At Keokuk, ON the 2lst, Collector Bel
KNAPP seized about fifty boxes tobacco bear
ing counterfeit stamps. The stamps were
photograph limitations of the genuine, and
represented in value about sc to the box.
A boy who heard the quotation. "A little
learning is a dangerous thing" wished to
stop going to school because he was afraid
he should not live long enough to get past
the dangerous point.
The celebrated Talleyrand papers will
not be published at all. They contain moth
, ing but what is already generally known
Few publishers, after perusing them. woul,
be willing to give anything for them.
The Michigan Central Railroad Company
} Lave q great project in view-the construc
ton of tunnel under the Detroit river, 81
us to make unbroken railway connection be
tween Cnlcago ana Bo ston.
The sale oflager in Boston has been gen
, orally resumed, the State Constabulary hav-
. ing evidently received instructions to h,
lenient in regard to it. Grog-shops arr
closely watched and seized.
A lady of Pittsfeld. Massachusetts, ha,
made seven thousand vests, which kept he
: employed nearly twenty-five years, ant
J this too without the aid of sewing machine
for she gave up the business about ten year.
, ago. before sewing machines came into gen
eral use.
The excavation of the Indian mounds il
Cornplanter township, Venango county. Pa.
; has resulted in some startling developments
The mummified body of an Igdian princes:
has been discovered, and was on exhibition
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