The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1870-06-01
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The prime-cvil forest was situated in tie
Garden of Eden.
"Scramblng hair is the latest fashion It
has long been n cOncOmitant of b0artlinc-
house hash.
Bismark has recovered from his jaundicc,
but Is still too weak to work.
Anna Dickinson's reported quarrel with
her intended is styled Il private rehearsal of
Breakers Ahead"
A Cincinnati lady is not discouraged Iy
the loss of eight husbands, but Is going to Try
it again.
The Queen OF Prussia has Il religious novel
i'll press.
Koopmanschap is in Galveston, taking
orders for coolies.
JEFF. Davis is said to be writing novel To
be published in England. Its scene is laid III
the Mexican war, and it will not touch recent
politics.
The death of Iheo. Clay, son of Hon. Henry
Clay. who for nearly 30 years has been an in
mate of the Lexington lunatic asylum, is an
nounced.
Paraguay has fifty women for each man
Why not move Utah down there.
A Michigan couple have just re-inarrie,i,
after Il divorce OF four hours standing
Gen. Lees health was much improved i,v
MS southern trip. He is now at Lower Bran
don, on the James river.
Foxes throwing out small fragments in
their excavations have led to the discovery of
| anthracite i'll Iowa.
MaXimilians QuarterInastcr once a veal
my French merchant, is selling soda fer Il
living i'll Galveston.
An intelligent German, on his first visit to
an american church, had a contribution box
with hole III the top presented to him. ana
whispered to the collector: Il don't got mine
bapers, und can't vote"
The King of Siam is seventeen years old,
and is simply known as Somdetch Prg-Po-
| ramendz- ha-Chu-alon-korn. He has 10
other name.
A Kentucky lady was attacked on her way
to market by huge gray eagle, and was able
| to vanquish him only after severe fight i'll
which she was badly torn by his talons.
The freedwomen of Virginia are charged
with killing their newborn children
with as little ceremony as they do surplus
kittens.
At Mentone, in the Mediterranean, no i'll
vidiOus social distinctions exist among the
poor. Men and women alike dig the ground
for thirty cents Il day.
Miss Whately has a school of fifty Egyp-
tian girls at Cairo, and with the aid of two
Syrian helpers carries on large amount of
othe. mission work. She pays her own ex-
penscs.
Mrs. Barney Williams has $300o0 worth of
diamonds.
A Danbury wife recently cured her hus-
band of singing ''Shoo Fly when she was
lecturing him for being out late nights, by
letting her shoe fly at his head with such
force as to give him the headache for week.
The latest novelties in the way of engage
ment rings are sapphires set with diamonds,
one sapphire in the center, and a large dia-
mOnd on either side. They make very beau
tiful and becoming rings.
\ lady said to her sister, Il wonder, my
dear, you have never made match; l think
you want the birthstone"
To which she replied, ''No not the brim-
stone, only the spark"
There is man in Peoria, who has spent the
| which he is trying to give perpetual motion.
| He dresses in rags and is half starved.
There is nothing new under the sun. A
Bengalesse arch;eologist has discovered that
the cLignon, zone third larger than the head,'
was in vogue in the East hundreds of years
ago. We travel in a circle.
A practical man died not long ago in De II.
vOnshire, England. Almost with his la. \
breath he enjOined upon his wife and daugi 10
daughter to have the funeral procession leN
the house at an early hour, that they p-
get back in time to milk the cows. fs,