New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-16
Something for Every Body

Something for Every Body
The average attendance of children at the
Public Schools during the last quarter 60S
Up to July 80 there arrived at Quebec rs, 1874
emgrants increase of 20 the same time In 1851
The Steubenville (Ohio) Messenger says oil
the laborers the railroad have struck for higher
The Pittsburgh Chronicle says that the river
Is 80 ioc at that city that is confined to its bed
The man who always drives good bargain
mas at length procured whip
The grand fancy dress ball at Saratoga will
take place about the Goth inst
Why are " culled pussons " first rate to whis-
per secret TOT Because they always keep dark
Inc BRITISH government intends sending 1000
to Australia to keep the peace among the mi
ners. .
II glrls would have roses in their cheeks they
must 10 as the roses dogo to sleep with the lilies and
get up with the morning glories
Mr.. VIM. Simpson, of Lawrence county. Indi-
the 2lst ut Graded ten acres and half of oats
IN ten hours. Can nybody beat it?
The Virginia State Temperance Convention
met at Staunton on the 18th instant, Gen :tohn II
Cooke, OF Flurana, was chosen to preside.
Somebody called Gen Scott q humbur, and
somebody else retorted by calling Gen. Pierce tumble
bug.
The Womans' Rights Convention held last
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| on the Sth of September.
The man who har6ors an evil thought, it is
reported has consented to let out pier twof good
| price is offered.
Mr. John Morrison, of Leicester, who was bit
ten BY spider some ten days since died from the effects
Miss Baldwin, of Virginia, a niece of Presi-
dent Madison is teaching missionary school in Athens
Greece
Emile Prudent, the celebrated French pianist,
who ranks among the first in Europe is coming to this
country with Madame Sontag.
Here lies poor NJ as good a soul
As ever flledn flowing bowl
Tread lightly stranger beseeeh you,
Or else, byGcorge, he'll rise and treat you.
The man who always tells an u1lUornishe8
tale has just been presented with five by the Men
daz Whopper Society in order to procure of the
needed material.
A rather dull young fellow was asked if he
knew the history of his lie replied he knew
nothing of his .qurs sisters except his mother and she
was dead
Bishops selwyn and Tyrrel, of NewZelana
have had escape from being eaten by the ma
ves of one of the Polynesian Islands, whom they were
attempting to convert.
No less than thirty-six men connected with
Barnums Menagerie, were arrested and Gagged on the
other sine of the river at Detroit recently mreatin
landlord, aud thrashing regiment of his friends
1T you are precise man, and wish to be Ger
tain OF what you get, marry girl named Ann for
we nave the authority of Lndley Murray and many
others for the assertion that Ann is an Indefinite
article.
A jury at Nenosha, Wis, has given mulatto
woman verdict of 500 against Captain Lundy of the
steamboat Baltic for turning her out of the cabin
on account of her color Under this decision the cabins
OF the Baltic are likely to become very indeed
A copper-head snake was lately killed by Ja-
cob Foster the property of James Sykes, ESQ near
sykesville in Howard county Md, which had seventy
young ones in her. each measuring from five six inches
in length.
"Colored ladies' says an exchange, "may
be compared to many because they born to
blush unseen 1t is the fragrance rather than the
that makes the and if colored born to
blush unseen, they not born to blush ,nsmeH"
fact we
In q town in Connecticut loafer was brought
before justice for being drunk in the street.-The fine
being one dollar for each offence The fine paid
next day he arraigned ugain No you don Judge"
said he know the lava dollar each ofence-and
this is the same old drunk"
=" How do you like the new furniture, carpets
etc, my dear said wife to her husband on his return
from voyage don't You think I've made great change
for the better ~ Very pretty-yery fine, indeed my
dear said Benedict feeling his emptied purse but how
much change did you take to make it,''
At the Middlesex (England) Asszes, pick
pocket on hearing that he sentenced years
seized an and threw with great
force at the Judge, making hole in the wall The learn
ed Judge calmly took another inktand and altered the
sentence to fifteen years.
A man out West, who advertses a store to let
in the delightful village of Pleasant RIDGE adds to his
announcement 1.-THE late occupant having been snd
denly taken off by the yellow fever densey populated
community of many miles left to the loss
good family grocery
A Jerseyman was very sick, and was not ex-
pected to Ills friends got around his bed and
Of them says John. You willing to die? .Iohn
made an effort to give his views the subject and
answered with his feeble voice think d rather stay
where I'm better acquainted
About one thousand six hundred of the cit-
ri hnyu
addressed memorial to the Mayor that city praying
for more rigid enforcement of the laws for the ofsery-
ance of the Sabbath day and the abatement of illegal
performances on that day.
A friend was complaining that he should be
obliged to change his tailor suit of clothes would not
last him above one half of the time it ought to do and
inquired ii he could recommend him to any place where
he could meet with apparel more durable Yes said
Lawrence, Il could recommend you to Chancery and
there you may havea suit that will last you for life"
We heard from a Sunday school teacher lust
now illustration Of kind of Christian forgive
ness Improving upon the days lesson, the teacher
asked boy whether, in view Of what he had been
studying and repeating be could forgive those who had
wronged him. Could you, said the teacher forgive
a boy for example who had struck insulted you?'
" ie-es sr replied the lad very slowly T-guess-I-
could p but he added in much more rapid uannor II
could il he Was bigger hGn ~ Isn't there something
of grown experience" in that [kniekerbocker.
One of the drollest occurrences in the annals
of gaantry is related of Gbbon the historian who was
short in stature and very fat One day being alone with
before her and made declaration of his love in the most
passionate terms The astonished lady rejected his suit
and requested him to rise The abashed historian re-
manned his knees Rise. Mr. Gibbon, | beseech YOU
rise.' Mr. Ghbon still kept his posture Mr. Gibbon
will you have the goodness to get up Alas Madame
fatered the unlucky lover cannotn lie too fat
to regain his feet without assistance Madame Crouzas
rang the bell, and said to her servant, Lift up Mr.
Gibbon.p
Cincinnati grocer house finding out that cram
berries commanded six dollars per bushe and under the
impression that the article would be bought to advantage
at St Marys wrote out to customer acduaintine him
with the fact and requesting him to send one hundred
bushels per simmons (he WAGNER usually sent) The
correspondent, plain uneducated man, had consderi
BILE difficulty in decyphering the fashionable scrawl COM
with merchants clerks of late years and the
portantrword cranberres. he failed to make out but
he plainly and clearly read hundred bushels of per-
simmons. AS the article growing all around him all
the boys in the neighborhood set out gathering
and the made his appearance in due time in Gin
cnnati with eighty bushels all that the wagon bed would
hold, and line from the country merchant that the re-
mlinder would follow the next trip explanation soon
ensued but the customer insisted that the CINCINNATI
house should have written BY Simmons and not persin
mons.
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