New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-14

/, fARIsIAs BREAKYAsT.-I rang the belI and
i'hsseuf onaTies Responded by bowing himself
IA as eraceIai ass dancing master. To this
/ ouI Ms. csnno. desermlne whssher Charles. was
the proprietor Of Hotel de Tours o., its oarcnn
he was sbreHd enough for the one and seryio.
4 able for the other. My order waa given Ia
seized diminutfve table, with one hapd per-
suaded it to the middle Of our sitting room.
| threw over it a snow-white table cloth, rushed
wildly yet noiselessly out. returned with plates
| for three, dimiDutive war clubs, which Ne "a
cognised as bread, and in twenty minutes.
(American time,) from the giving Of my order,
breakfast Was smoking on the board. beg
pardon for the misnomer; it vas only sugees-
ton Of breakfast to hungry American The
bread appeared as wasSiubs, but not Of sizs
20 Knock down a strong appetite; the butter
pats were the most delicate hints at butter ever
thrown ont; the fowl was but g Niss chicken Of
very slender genteel proportions; while the beef
STEAK could never had been missed by the noble
OK, y lts a former propristor. He might have bsen
~ Lhat very moment roaming over pleasant
fields, quite unconscious that a homeopathic
portion OF himself was before three dismsyed
hungry Americans.
6. Monsieur Cnarless' said d., with eminent
solennity, IS if compatible with the larder Of
Hotel de Tours, we would like to have some
butter, / don't mean several pounds, such as a
western american is accustomed to. but suffi-
cient- sufficient, Monsieur Charles; and Mon
sieur Charles, another fowl--say the twin sister
u thislate unfortunate; and, Monsieur Charles,
| cause oarr1cades to rise and Government to
go down, we would like TO have little more
bread and another beef-steak >,
This, translated into French, brought forth,
hrst, a stare Of astonishment, then the visnds
The breakfast, with these additions, was excel
| lent True, we missed the light biscuits, the
het cakes, corn bread and the many substantial
| articles of an American breakfast How these
French manage to live on the shsdovy tribes
here called feod cannot make out; it is another
mystery of Paris. am satisfied the waas of
substance is working degeneration The
French will never be free or capablso Of sslf-gov-
ernments until they suppress soups and strength
en- themselves on beef, corn cakes, buckHheats
| and abundance of the best vegetables.
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A fellow who came on the railroad on We'd
nesday. being stranger, stroiled about for
some time on the ssoutskigtsp' of the town in
search of o barber. He finally discovered one,
and requested the operator to take off shii-
lings worth Of hair. The barber trimmed his
locks neatly, soaped up the renainder very
handsomely, snd then combed and brushed him
till his head looked as if it belonged to some
other person than himself
ssAre you donea" asked the stranger as ths
barber remassd the napkin from hisneck.
& Yes, sir" said the barber, with polite
| bow
"Are.you certain that yeusook OFF ashilling's
l-worthi. -saa.
.sYes. sir; there's the glass, you can look for
| yourself" 49,,
sWeIl," said the stranger, SD. .you think you
have got shilling's worth off, I don't know az
| I've got any use for il, and ] haven't got no
change, so you may just take the hair for your
| trouble" ssssas.
On hearing this the barber made jump for
| the man, whereupon he made jump for the
door, which not being bolted, he bolted himself,
the barber vowing if that man ever came down
here again he'd have him nibbed to death by
ducks. sqs Is