The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-05-26
Items of Interest.
Latest style-L..bel suits.

Public lands in South Carolina are sold
to actual settlers on five years credit.
The annual expenses of the police force
IN st. Louis is $4,000
y debate on tho constitutional consul
taticn with physician.
Spectaclcs were invented by an Italian
in 1899.
st. Joseph is il danser.of being left an
inland city by change in the channel of
the Missouri.
Montgomery, Ala. has large stoueware
manufacturing company.
Tho ChRaSc ,.adc wooden hams Ak
hundred years ago. Talk about Yankee
cunning and wooden nutmess after that,
Virginia whcot crops are generally PROM
Using.
Fhe velocpcde fever is said TO be rap
IDLY on the decline at the North
The boston Post says: Cuba is about
as large as Ohio. convenient size to annex
A movement is now on foot which looks
to the transfer in body to this country of
all the unemployed cotton operatives in
Lancashire, England.
Next August the entire imperial family
OF France will celebrate the one -hundredth
anniversary of the birth of the great Napo-
| leon in Corsica.
| A contemporary thinks that just now
there is good deal of "peacockery" in
dress.
As there are no officers in Vicksburs,
Miss, authorized to solemnize the rites
of matrimony, persons inclined that way
| have to cross into Louisiana.
| Dickens says that the farmers estate
which pays best for cultivation, is that
within the ring fence of his skull.
| What Spain wants of the Asglo Saxon
nations-England to give it n loan, America
to let it alone.-[ Boston Post.
There are cotton mills enough now in the
South TO work up 100000 pounds of
cotton annually.
At Leesburg, n. e., negro school
teacher got drunk and whipped his whole
school->ixty little negroes.
The water of the ocean contains silver,
copper, and other metals. .. .--
Among the novelties of the day may be
mentioned the National Dress Reform Con-
vention that assembled st Washington.
Animal instinct is wonderful power.
1t leads the bee to make honey. But in
the West Indies the bee is too lazy to make
honey.
East Tennessee is active in the immigra-
ton movement. West Tennessee isn't.
-.ain-.. o t,u..ury -y.. I
teachers and lilo scholars.
| There are now 10000 regular attendants
Oh worship, who contribute $4,000 year
in the Friendly Islands.
| Liquor dealers who sell over and under
FIVE gallons are TO be taxed as retailers and
wholesalers.
| In the map of tho earth made by the
Hindoos, America is a principal town in
Africa, which is a small island.
1t is said that two-thirds of the iuiabi
tants of Africa are bald.
The Nicksburg Herald says that two ne
groes went before the Mayor of Brookha-
ven, Mass, the other day, and gravely in
guired If Adam and Eve were both white
men.
Scientific men say that the timo of the
diurnal revolution of the earth is gradually
being shortened, on account Of the shrink
ing of the earth by cooling in the interior.
A minister in Canton, Ohio, calculates
that $4,000 worth of tobacco is annually
puffed and spit away in that town.
| The first coinage was IN the DAYS of
Abraham. when he paid Ephram a certain
amount Of silver coins for a certain field
A paper in Texas says that more rain has
fallen in the last six months than in the
preceding three years. Tho streets of
San Antonio have not been dry since last
October.
The Swedish university of Upsalo is one
of the largest in the world. 1t has at the
present time l,2l6 students, thirty ordina-
ry, and two extraordinary professors,
; twenty ushers, thirty-seven private tutors,
and four drill-masters.
The Young ladies of New York are now
adopting the role of .'sweet simplicity
and appear at balls and parties in short
muslin dresses. without ornaments of any
: kind.
The Augusta (Ga.,) Con>titutionaIist
: says:
Carpet bagger Wells, who claims to be
Governor of Virginia, has turned the Capt.
tol Square at Richmond into pasture. He
has been offered free milk and butter to
refrain, but without avail. Rebels mus. be
..cowed."
The Chinese tolerate every religion in
theory, and practice none. In Pekin one
may attend service in as many different
forms as any city in the world.
The nutmeg tree is indigenous to Cali
fornia. There is not, it is believed, q very
largo number of the trees. but nutmegs
were gathered and sold in Placer county
many years ago.
The railroad fare from Chicago to San
Francisco is S2l0. and to Sacramento S2O3,
with a prospect of reduction Mt an early
day.
80 is great >implcton who imaajnes
I { he chief power of wealth is to supply
wants. In ninety -nnc cases out of hun
drod IL creates more wants than it supplies.
1t is said that Prince Louis dc Bourbon,
now III New York city, has been brought
forward as candidate for the Spanish
throne. he Prince is cousin of the cx-
king OF Naples and nephew If the emperor
Of Brazil.
The revenue of the Atlantic cable is now
Ss3'5Ooin cun per day. Every reduction of
the tariff 80 far has largely Increased the
receipts and plofits.
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