The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1871-04-05
PARAGRAPHS.

One county in California has 10000 mu,-
berry trees.
A Hartfort firm makes 5000 yards car
pet daily.
Philadelphia has two hundred and five car
pet manufactures.
In five years the foreign fruit trade of
New York has doubled.
Large quantities of indigo are now being
brought into American ports.
There are four watch factories in Illinois,
and fifth is building.
Boston makes about Is 900 pairs of shoe
buckles and rosettes weekly.
Thirty-fve whale ships are laid up at
New Bedford with nothing to do.
Bermuda, pe.At.-<-are selling iu New
iork at about seven dollars peck.
The production of lead from the Missouri
mines in 1870 was II, 1921 pounds.
In California an acre Of vines eight years
OLD will produce five tons grapes annually
Indigestion and industry are two things
seldom found united.
The less wit a man has, the less he is con-
scieus of his deficiency.
paper mill has commenced operations
Ut winchester, virginia
Quicksilver has been discovered in Noxu.
bee county. Mississippi.
West Point, Mississippi, is to have bank
with capital of $4,000.
The value of the peanut crop of the
Southern States is estimated at S2. $50 600
The production of rubber boots and shoes
in New England of late has been about Is,
900 pairs per day.
Boston dealers in ready made clothing
paid out last year about $4,000. 900 for la
Dor in Maine and New Hampshire.
The cotton factory at Wesson, Mississippi.
has been bought by John L. Hardie Il Co..
of New Orleans for SIl2,OOO.
Rome. Georgia has organized Hollow
ware and Stove Manufacturing COMPANY.
with paid up capital of $4,000.
1t is believed that over SI5, 900 900 worth
of old material is annually worked over in
New England.
In the town of Lee. Massachusetts. there
are twenty-four paper mills, owned by
twelve companies,
H. E. Cotton. writes to the Scientific
american that $4,000 bushels of peanut.
are sold annually in the city of New York.
Ladies who marry for love should remem-
ber that the union of angels with women
has been forbidden since the flood.
In Chicago the omnibus driver makssa
Inference of one cent in the fare between
tat and lean people.
Three million dollars worth of iron /.
yearly mined in Morris county, New Jer-
sey.
There are in San Francisco 1000 persons
engaged in making cigars. OF these. 100
are Americans, and 1900 Chinese.
Three thousand Bsltimorians make boots
md shoes for the wholesale trade, and last
year they tnrned out $4.OOO. 900 worth.
There we're one hundred aud sixty.two
livorces granted in Rhode Island last ye.r,
'r one divorce to every fourteen marriages
"a. "a go'a mine in Goochland country. Vir.
3 ND y'eids seventy-se dollars per ton
u rock worked.
Married people should study each Others
raH ra, points. as skaters look out for the
IT, narts rs, OF the ice in order to keep off
Unless she attracts ,.-
,eavy bodies, like husbands, social system.
INTO space. :" keep
The German co operative building asso-
,iation of Alexandria, Virginia, has been
N operation for three years. and is in a
1ery prosperous condition,
A young lady Of Troy. New York. in
title less than four years earned. with
sewing machine. f23OS in stitching 639,65
collars.
One firm in Boston receives over $780,
100 worth of paper stock per month from
he South. New Orleans being the chief
,oint of collection.
Truman Parsons and wife. of Sunderland.
Vermont. celebrated their golden wedding.
he other day, on the same farm upon which
hey settled fifty years ago.
The districts of California now in cultiva-
lion are able to produce 10000. 900 bushels
Of wheat over and above what is needed for
home consump. ion.
There is sold annually. from region
within ten miles of Lyons. New York, $780,
400 worth of peppermint oil. large pro-
portion of which is consumed in England
and on the continent of Europe.
The last word" is the most dangerous of
internal machines. Husband and wife
should no more strive to get it than they
would struggle to get possession of light
ed bombshell.
The manufacture Of reaping aud moving
machines has attained such large proper
tions as to make it one of general interest.
The annual production is now estimated at
about l25 600 machines.
The making of hair cloth at Central Falls,
Rhode Island. is curious operation. The
hair of horses tails is used, and is impor-
ted from Asia and South America mostly
from the latter country.
Il feel a severe pain" said noble pa
iient to Mr.. Abernethy, when l move my
right arm so. " Then" replied Mr.. A.,
why does your lOrdshiP move it so! -
Red mountain. in Alabama, is from thirty
to fifty miles long and three miles base, has
a coal and marble base and iron top. aud
contains iron enough to build all the rail
roads in the country.
The Hot Springs in Arkansas are 1860
feet above the sea level. making climate
for salubrity. They are fifty
SIX in number, varying in temperature from
ninety three to I35 degrees.
Commodore Mathew F. Maury believes
that few rows of sunflowers. planted be-
tween the Observatory at Washington and
the Potomac marshes saved the inmates of
the observatory from intermittent fevers.
"Thers are some things which will never
be hurt by falling" growled sn old man in
market the other morning. Whats them!.'
inquired a marketman. "Prices," said the
old man, "they are SO awful slow in falling
that they'll never get smashed"
In Howard county. Missouri. there is a
avcamOre tree thirty -eipht and n half feet