The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-29
From the N. Y Sunday
ODDS AND ENDS.


ODDS AND ENDS.
A gentleman was composing the music of a ron.
deau for lady to whom he paying his ad
dresses. Pray Miss d. said he what time do
you prefer % 'Oh, she replied careessly, any
time will do, but the quicker the better" The COM
pany smiled at the rejoinder, and the gentleman
took her at her word.
Poetry is the flower of literature prose is the
corn, potatoes, and meat satire is the aquafors
wit is the spice and pepper; love-letters are the
honey and sugar: letters containing remttanees
are the apple dumplings
People should not stop courting when they get
married, but on the contrary, should learn to court
the more. This laying aside the little endearments
that nursed love into being the very moment you
have sworn to live on it forever, is almost perjury
Garrick, having a green-room wrangle with Mrs.
Give, after listening to all she had to say, replied
GO have heard of tartar and birthstone, and know
the effects of boh but you are the cream OF one and
the flour of the other.'
Every state and condition of life, if attended with
virtue, is undisturbed and delightful; but when
vice is intermixed it renders even things that ap
pear splendid, sumptuous, and magnificent, dlsaste-
ful and uneasy to the possessor
In one place, Richter says g No man can either
live piotlsly or die righteousy, without wife,
very wicked old bachelor of our acquaintance says
to this: o, yes suffering and severe trials purify
and chasten the heart.
The fogs of England have been at all times the
complaint of foreigners. Gondomar, the Spanish
ambassador when some one who was going to Spain
waited on him to know if he had any commands,
replied &c Only my compliments to the sun, whom
have not seen since came to England"
At concert for the distressed poor, at Stone
bridge, at the conclusion of the song, =" There S
good time coming, man In the garb of laborer
rose in the midst of the assembly, and exclaimed,
g Mr.. Russell, you could MT fix the date, could
you.'
'.Wl you give me them pennies, now!'' said
newsboy to a little one after humping him most
severely. No, | WON'T g Then Iii give you
another pounding Pound away and be id.
Me and Doctor Franklin agrees-;Doctor Franklin
says, Take care of the pence, and the pounds will
take care of themselves.
Looking at a very fine picture, an Irishman said,
to express his admiration of it, That's an lncom-
parable, an nimitable picture; is absolutely more
like than the original"
How many fond mothers and frugal housewives
keep their pretty daughters and their preserves tor
some extra occasion-some big bug or other
till both turn sour.
Whv is the present state of society like partners
at whist and in the nine holes! Because, in the
game of life honors count nothing, and man can
only succeed by tricks.
Dobbs, the portrait painter, says that the reason
tom-cats are so musical is because they are all
fiddle strings inside
'sThis is a sweeping Catastrophe as the man
said when his wife knocked him down with
broom
Every wooden leg which supplies the loss of limb
lost in battle, is a stump-speech against all war.
Why is John Donkey like a Dutch parson! Be-
cause he s. brays for de people"
"There are two things says Mrs. Partington,
GO that should be at home every evening at dark
cows and women-especially if there are nursing
babies in the house.
An exchange paper says that any one who looks
at Horace Greeey's boots and breeches, could have
doubt that he is in favor of clay and no friend
of taylor.
Why is the first chicken of brood like the fore
mast Of vessel Because it is forward of the
main hatch.
Gutta- percha, squeezed into hollow tooth, Is
said to prevent old and pain. We have also heard
of party who has discovered certain medicinal
properties in it.
Is there any situation worse than that of law
yer's clerk Yes that ofa lawyers client.
Had you, SIR said Erskine to dilatory trades
man, have been employed to build the ark, we
should not have had the flood yet
When is bull frog not a bull-frog! When it Is
a female for then it is coWfrog
"We praise men for fighting" said caustic
writer, g and punish children for doing the same.
YET ANOTHER TELEGRAPH.-A London paper
of April 18th, contains the following notice of
newly invented Telegraph machine, which seems
to be very wonderful in its operation
We have this week specimen of writing
by the Copying Telegraph, invented by Mr.. C. +;
Blackwell, wherein words traced from the original
were legibly copied paper by an instrument that
had no connection with the one TO which the trans
mitted message wasapplied, excepting by the usual
wires from the vollaic battery. The letters traced
on the paper of pale COLOR on dark ground
formed by numerous lines drawn close together.
The communications thus traced, we understand
may be transmitted at the rate OF oOO letters OF the
alphabet per minute of ordinary writing and were
shorthand symbols employed, the rapidty OF trans
mission would be quadrupled When this means of
correspondence is in operation, instead of dropping
letter into the Postoice and waiting days for an
answer, we may apply it directly to the Copying
Telegraph. have it copied at the distant town in
minute less, and receive replyin our correspon-
dents handwriting almost as soon as the ink is dry
with which it was penned. There are various
MEANS too for preserving the secrecy of correspon
dence the most curious of which is, that the writing
may be rendered nearly invisible in all parts but
the direction until its delivery to the person for
whom it is designed.
The operations of the Copying Telegraph are not
limited to the tracing of written characters Letter
press printing may be copied with greater ra-
pldity than writing, and fac-simile copies OF the
morning papers may thus be transmitted to Liver
pool and Manchester long before the papers Mehi-
selves are delivered to their readers IN London.
The means by which these astonishing effects are
produced we are not at present permitted to state,
as the invention is not yet protected put we are
assured that the method is simple, and that the
mechanism is neither costly nor likely to get out Of
order 1t is, indeed Of the peculiar features OF
the Copying Telegraph that it cannot commit er-
rors, because the communications it transmits are
fac-smies of the original writing.
TEMPERANCE FEAsT.-A temperance feast was
held by the pupils of the native schools at Homo
lun on the 18th of November, in which the king
and chiefs participated. About 800 scholars, near
" 600 parents, and large number OF spectators
were present. Upwards of 500 tables were ar
ranged for the repast, at which some l5S pigs, 1863
fowls 3I5 geese, together with ducks turkeys fish,
vegetables fruit, ETC., etc., in like quantities, were
demolished