New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-07-17
Something for livery Body.

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The tax on four-wheel pleasure carriages in
faris, is to be $42 per annum tg FL
Mrs. Farren, the actress, yis plaing in Chi.
cago, where she is great fayorite.
A land sail-boat has been constructed at
which run along the beach Mt the rate
fifteen miles the hour It 49, - 80 s1aaF
There are farmers in Deyonshire, England,
VINO pay $4,000 year rent for their farms who cannot
spen or write their own names.
A man in Cincinnati bv the name of Gerp-
wrgnt, Enough without arms has embraced the profess
SION OF tailor and does all his sewing with his toes
A young lady was discharged from one of The
largest vinegar houses in Cincinnati last week. She was
SO s'eef That the vinegar was kept from fermenting
Oftwo hundred and seventy.five female teach.
ers transported to the West by Gov sae It is said that
two hundred and five have since married
The Boston Courier says that the hotel keep
ers of Boston intend to raise the price board to
pensate them for the loss of their liquor business
During the last year $40 persons have been
run down. killed manned by vehicles in the streets Of
New York. =
The Austrian Government is as Jealous of the
stage as Louis Napoleon is Of the press The representa-
ton Of schillers William Tell has been prohibited at
A woman in Cincinnati, takes daily two ounces
and half of laudanum, which would kill an ordinary
person So accustomed has she been the draugh its
sudden discrimination would produce her death
VIM. H. Lord, not long Since Unitarian
yer and latest editor has been appointed Government
mail agent between New York and California.
s'The Voice Of the People, is the name of a
new weekly paper Just established in New York devoted
to the interests of the working classes it supports
with great zeal
We learn, by the late annual report of the
NewYork State Lunatc Asylum, that large proportion
OF the inmates are farmers This have noticed in for
mer reports also.
There is family of FIVE brothers living in
Newark N j. whose united height thirty feet four and
three quarter inches The talest is six feet two and
quarter inches and the shortest five feet eleven inches
The Boston Traveller announces that in few
weeks Professor Horsford of Cambridge and Dr. Nichols
of Haverhll will offer invention the public to rem
edy explosions from burning fluids. ~
A distinguished writer says, ethere is but
passage in the Bible where the girls commanded
to kiss the and that is the golden rule Whatsoever
would that men should do unto you, do ye
to them
A Dutchman having q friend hung in this
country wrote to his friends informing them that
large meeting of citizens, the scafod
which he stood gave way, owing to which he fell and
broke his neck.
A young couple who came to see the fireworks
at New Haven the 4th left their baby asleep the
grass where it found by the police at a late hour
The next morning early the mother appeared and claimed
her child
An inkeeper at Baruack, who had a shrew
for wife thought to tame her by attempting to commit
suicide The other day he hung himself in conspicuous
situation in the house but the lady going into
fits looked at him quietly until he nearly exhausted
and then cutting him down. gave him sound thrashing
with the rope
The farmers in some of the middle counties of
Engandare greatly dmayed at the sudden appearance
amongst their bean crops of disease similar that
which destroyed the potato crops 1t is stated that
upon acres which were planted with beans have been
ploughed up
A Scotch political economist being asked the
meaning of metaphy scs explained follows when
q party, who listens, dnna ken what the party who
apdt he rhp rhaf
he means hmself-that is metaphysical
The British naval establishment on the great
American lakes has at last been wholly broken up The
Kingston canada) Wing says that II. NJ iron steamship
Mohawk has been sold to private company and her Of
hcers will Immediately return to England
The Great De Forest prize, the largest ever
awarded in Yale College has been assigned Homer b.
sprague, of East Douglas It is massive gold medal of
the senior class which this year numbers ninety three
members.
They say that fish may be carried alive any
distance, by putting them good coating of compact
clay wet with salt water and surrounding it with ice In
this way may swimming in the shmongers tubs
at Paris, fish brought from the coast of Denmark.
The Duke of Wellington gave his annual
banquet to the victory of Waterloo the
surviving heroes in that conflict, June IS. at Apsey
House. Prince Albert honored the Duke with his
pany, and the invitation included about 60 officers
The other day one of widow b. IS admirers was
Of the toohache Mrs BIS smart hoy i'm
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She takes her teeth out and puts en back whenever she
wants tor few minutes afterwards the boy whipped
on some pretence other.
]. ?. Smith, q colored man of Boston. who
under $4,000 bonds the charge of assisting
in rescung Shadrach the fugitive slave the officers
Of the law has sailed for California and left his hasdsmen
to foot the bill Previous to his leaving he hired piano
and pawned it for considerable sum.
A wealthy butcher was playing the game of
ecate few evenings since at the mansion of city alder
man. when lady who betting on the game bent
over the back of his chair and innoceny asked friend
sorbed in the game quickly with the reply VERY
cheap; steaks are now. madam, but shilling pound.
General Pierce, says the Boston Post, sswas
action at the National BRIDGE There ouch
Ion though one was anticipated and every body was
surprised that there Pierce himself writing to
ieneral Scott shortly afterwards said have really
.esistance" Now. who knows best, General Pierce or
Colonel Greene
BY the year 1000, says an exchange paper, it
S very probable that manual labor will have utterly
ceased under the and the occupation of the adec-
i've = hard-hsed' will have gone forever. They have
now, IN NewIampshre, a potato-dgging machine, which
ties them from the dirt and loads them into the cart
while the farmer walks alongside. whistng Hail Column
oia, with his hands in his pockets.
An enthusiastic young gentleman resolved to
ain reputation poet, and immortalzed himself by
Thunder Storm and commenced in the following beau
iful style:
!" The thunder rolled from pole to pole,
The lightning spread from Sky to sky.