New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-17

A railway is to girdle Paris which will cost
niue million francs.
When are lady archers in danger of having
iutempered husbands When they select cross-Jtaus
Mr.. W Mason, an American pianist, has been
much applauded in London
The Bank of England employs 500 clerks, and
the salaries rise from ESQ to $4,000 year.
Why is beautiful lady's foot like romantic
tale of oden times Because it is interesting legend
Why does the cook make more noise than the
bell' Because makes din but the other dinner.
What tables are most used throughout the
world? Vegetables, teatables, and con-stables
Blessed is the woman whose husband has a
wooden leg she will then have but stocking to knit
An artist painted a cannon so naturally the
other day. that when he finished the touch hole it went
There are seven thousand persons in prison in
the United States o. whom four thousand three hundred
are natives
The Quarterly Review says that man is 45
pounds Of carbon and nitrogen, mixed up in five and
half pals Of water.
The London Punch says that the best way to
crush question is to appoint parliamentary committee
to SIT upon it.
Horn Tooke being asked by George Ill if he
played at cards. replied II cannot tell king from
knave"
The celebrated Rabelais is said to have made
the following will ~ owe much. possess nothing
give the rest to the poor"
A Western editor lately published an entire
chapter Of the Bible adding that he supposed it would be
new to most Of his readers. Sharp fellow, that
Drunkenness and crime are greatly on the in
in Boston, compared with last year notwitbsand-
ing the operation Of the liquor law.
The Louisville Courier states that the cholera
has appeared among the hogs in several parts Of Ken.
lucky, and that firm lost six hundred in ten days
Definition Of Bussing iRe-6us, to kiss one
ayain omnibus, to kiss them all bunder-bus, to ks an,
other mans Wife syna(y)s one lady kissing another.
An Eastern paper says that the labor of re.
moving so ponderous column as Csopatras Needle TO
Old England will be the most costly needlework ever
heard Of
Dickens, in his Household Words, maintains
that in seventy years have but about fifteen for labor
He deduets the remainder for sleep eating, amuse.
ments, etc.
The horse warranted to stand without ty.
offered for sale by the purchaser with the guarantee that
/" be will not move without whipping"
81 don't believe it is any use to vacoinate for
child vaccnated, and he fell out of window and
killed in less than week after"
Hobbs, the celebrated locksmith who took the
prize at the Worlds Fair lisa great phanthropist He
has succeeded in inventng key which will prevent PEG.
pie from being carried of by the lock,jaW
An Irish musician, who now and then in
dulged in glass too much was accosted by gentleman
with Pat what makes your face SO red % Please yer
honor, always blush when speak to a jintleman.n
A biography of Robespierre, which appeared
in Irish paper concludes in the following ludcrous
manner This extraordinary left no children be-
hind him but his brother, who killed at the same
time"
A short time since there was q fancy ball in
Washington and young ladies' with conductor pre-
sented themselves mot in costume) at the entrance
Your characters ?" asked the usher, in whisper We
do not appear in costume tonight ~ said the two young
ladies' Two ladies without any characters bawled out
the usher, at the top of his voice.