New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-06


win be with those who
charged accordingly. :
a Clerical Warming-Pan.
In many parts of Ireland warming pan is
called ssfriar." Not many years ago an un-
sophisticated girl took service in a hotel in the
town of -. Poor thing! she had never heard
of warming pan in her life, though she regu-
larly confessed to the friar.
1t 80 happened that on cool and drizzly
night priest took lodging at the inn. He had
travelled far, and being weary, retired at an
early hour.
Soon after the mistress of the house called to
servant girl: g Betty, put the friar in No. 60
The poor girl, not dreaming that by the word
ss friar her mistress meant the warming pan !,
fastened up to the priest, who was comfortably
settled in bed
Up went Betty to the poor priest &c Your
reverence must go into No g. my mistress says
6 How, why" asked the priest, alarmed at
being disturbed.
sc Your reverence must 60 into No. g.
There was no help for it, and the priest arose,
donned dressing gown, and went into No. 6.
In about fifteen minutes the mistress called
to Betty: stPut the friar into No. A.
Betty said some thing about disturbing his
reverence, which the mistress did not under
stand. So she told the girl in sharp voice to
do as she was directed, and she would always
do right Up went Betty, and unhappy priest,
despite his angry protestations, was obliged to
turn out Of No. 6, and go into No. a. But a
little time elapsed ere the girl was told to put
the friar into No. s. The poor priest, thinking
that every one was mad in the house, and sturd-
lily resolving to quit it the next morning, crept
into the damp sheets of No. g. But he was to
enjoy no peace there. Betty was again directed
to put the friar into No. 3, and, with tears in
her eyes, she obeyed. H. - -,E
In about an hour the landlady concluded to
60 to bed herself, and the friar was ordered into
her room. Wondering what it meant, Betty
reused up the priest, and told him he must go
into No. H. The patient monk then crossed him
self, counted his beads, and went into No H.
It so happened that the husband of the land
lady was troubled with g the green-eyed mon
ster" jealousy. Going to bed, therefore, before
his wife, his suspicious were confined by seeing
hetWeen his own sheets man sound asleep.
To rouse the sleeper, and to kick him into the
street, was the work of but very few moments !;
nor was the mistake explained till the next day,
when the priest informed the keeper what
Outrages had been committed upon him; and he
learned, to his astonishment, that he had been
serving the whole night as a warming pant"
ANEeDoTE OF JAMES SEYMOUR. THE Duke of
Somerset "a Seymour) commonly called ssthe
proud Duke employed Seymour, the painter,
to. paint the portraits of his horses at Petworth
One day at dinner the Duke filed his glass and
saying, with a sneer: sc Cousin Seymour, your
health, and drank it off
"My Lord, ;" said the artist, &c believe hare
the honor of being related to your grace
The proud peer rose from the table, and
ordered his steward to dismiss the presumptu-
GUS painter, and employ humber brother of
the brush. This was accordingly done; but
when the new painter saw the spirited works Of
his predecessor, he shook his head and retiring,
said: 's No man in England can compete with
James Seymour" .-+...=. .t5Z.. IS
The Duke now condescended to recall his dis
carded cousin.
"My Lord was the answer of Seymour, &C
will now prove to the world that am Of your
blood ioon't Gomez
Upon receiving this laconic reply, the Duke
sent his steward to demand former loan of
4100 IS
Seymour briefly replied that &c he would write
to his grace;' he did So but directed his letter,
g Northumberland House, opposite the Trunk
makers, Charing Cross l5
Enraged at this additional insult, the Duke
threw the letter into the fire without opening it,
and Immediately ordered his steward to have
him arrested
But Seymour, struck with an opportunity ol
evasion, carelessly observed that Sc it was hasty
in his grace to burn his letter, because in con.
tanned a bank-note of e100, and that, therefore
they were now quits. Home Journal
The UNAPPRECIATED SKY lit is strange
thing how little, in general. people know about
the sky. 1t is the part in Creation in which
Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing
Man; more for the sole and evident purpose o.
| talking to him, and teaching him, than in any
other of her works; and it is just the part il
which We least attend to her. There are moi
many of her other works in which some more
material or essential purpose than the mere
pleasing of men, is not answered by every par
| Of their organization; but very essential pur.
pose of the sky might, so far as we know, bl
! answered, if, once in three days, or thereahout
q great, ugly, black rain-cloud were brough
up over the blue, and every thing well watered
| and SO all left blue again till next time, viii
perhaps film of morning and evening mist fo
dew. And, instead of this, there is not q mo
ment Of any day of our lives, when Nature i
not producing scene after scene, picture after
picture, glory after glory, and working still
upon such exquisite and constant principles o
the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain
that it is all done for us, and intended for oul
| perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever
| placed, however far from other sources of inter
est and beauty. has this doing for him con
stantly. The noblest scenes of the earth can be
seen and known but by few; it is not intended
that man should live always in the midst o.
| them; he Injuries them by his presence, he
ceases to feel them, if he be always with them
but the sky is for all; bright as it is, it is not
"too bright nor too good for human natures
daily food'' Some times gentle, some times
capricious, some times awful; never the same
for two moments together; almost human in its
passions, spiritual in tenderness; almost Divine
in its nfnity, its appeal to what is mortal in us
is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement OF
| of blessing to what is mortal, is essential
And yet we never attend to it; we never MAKE
it subject of thought, but as it has to do with
our animal sensation we look upon all by which
itspeaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upor
all which bears witness to the intention of tn,
Supreme, that we are to receive more from th,
| covering vault than the light and the dew whiel
we share with the weed and the worm only al
a succession of meaningless and monotonou
| accidents, too common and too painful to b.
worthy OF q moment Of watehfulness or q glance
| of admiration. [John Ruskin.
A SHORT RoMANoE.-The following romantic
| incident is said to have occurred few years
before the Russian conquest of Armenia. The
Sirdar fell violently in love with beautifu
Armenian maiden, and demanded her from hel