New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-15
He that fails in love with himself willhaye no

He that falls in love with himself will have no
rivals.
fish, fourteen feet long They are rnning on the
credulous as Juvenile Sea Serpent
q Pa. how long, does the Legislature sit ~
Three four months, my son. Why, what set Of
Is getting late my SON. think you had better retire.
A lawyer on his death bed willed all his prop
crty to natic asylum stating his for do
ing that lie wished his property to return to the liberal
class Of people who had patronized HIM
An applicant for O custom house office, in
urging his claims the place. said his grandfather didn't
light in the revolutionary but he guessed he would
have liked to, if he'd been in the country at the time
There is School of Design for girls in Boston,
first opened in October last by VIM J Whitaker lie had
but pupils and before the end of the first term they
had increased to thirty The second term opened with
sixty pupils
Astove has been invented for the comfort of
travellers 1t is put under the feet and mustard plaster
upon the head which draws the heat through the whole
system
The Emperor of Russia has been obliged to
pass law to prevent his subjects from mutilang them
selves to avoid military service Sixteen hundred persons
had mutilated themselves to avoid enrolment between
January, 1850, and July 1851.
A friend in California writes us that they have
rehies large in that interesting State that they
them to cook by They hang their kettles their hinder
legs which bent for the purpose like pot hooks Great
country that
Notwithstanding the difference between the
sultan and Louis Napoleon. to the treatment OF
sh the French Rexpresdent has presented the Sultan
with magnificent dnnerset of Sevres porcelain and the
sultan in return has sent the six Barbary
horses. each valued at eight thousand dollars!
Spoons, half overcome with spe,7its, heard
some reading list of pictures etc, destroyed in the
recent burning of the library of the Capitol Among
other things there mention of bronze bust of Wash
ngton burnt Spoons went home and told his neghbors
that fellow named Bronze, got dus t'other day.
and got burnt up and for him he going 10 gut -
An old fellow, who had become weary of his
life thought he might well commit suicide but he
didn't wish go off without orgying all his enemies So
at the last moment he removed the from his neck
saying to himself never can Or will forgive old Noah
letting the copper-hea snakes get into the ark They
have killed three thousand dollars worth of my cattle
and when he and meet thereu be general fuss
''Those who have lived in Florence says
contemporary will appreciate the change which has
come over it with Austrian rule when we give them from
the foreign the incident that distinguished bot
ant Signor Baroni has been logged by the authorities
for stumbling against Austrian officer in the street
One Of the young lady ssschool marms,n who
went out to Oregon to shoot the young idea writes thus
the indianapolis Journal "A panther killed last
week near my school room measuring seven feet from the
tip of the to the extremity of the tail and back
again making fourteen feet in all ~
We see it stated in some foreign papers that
spy glass has been exhibited in London of greater
diameter than walnut yet SO powerful that the Inca
ments of persons face can be read by it at the distance
of mile and half 1t weighs only one and q; half
ounces and eaiy be carried in the pocket gem
tlemans vest
Prison, III Paris, is beginning to be looked
upon simply board and lodging without work. A
writer to the ntegencer says 1t has been found that
the adult cuprits in several of the great als conceive
affection for their residence and after serving out their
terms themselves to be committed to the
cages Seventyone of the birds the prison ST.
Lazare. ascertained to belong to that G.iagory
Two young men, escorting lady home from
ball Newly night had some words of controversy
in relation to the separate custody of their fair charge
when in the heat of passion breathing vengeance and
destruction and forgetting the respect they owed the
lady they commenced pitched battle and fought with
her journey home which she reached probably before the
contest had ended.
The Newburyport Union says marriage was
recently contaminated in that city under the following
wdower to obtain situation housekeeper On making
inquiry the gentleman replied that he was in more want
Of wife than housekeeper and if she willing to
take the former situation she could be installed
The young lady made but little hesitation and they
soon united,