New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-22
Clippings.

Premature consolation is but the remembrance of
sorrow.
Those that are frugal by habit hardly know that
temperance is o virtue
Fiuery is very unbecoming in those who want the
means OF decency.
The nakedness of the INDECENT world might be
clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
Ifprudence cannot always prevent misfortune, it
may do much in disappointing its effects.
More evil truths are discovered by the corruption
of the heart than by penetration.
AZ am surprised that you should leave me. Pat
rick said the widow Pinchcm to an eX-boarder,
"when set as good table as any i'll town. g Och,
ma am an yer thabe may be good enough, but nlver
dacent bit do ye put upon it, sure
An exchange paper, under the head of Good Ad-
vice advises young men "tO wrap themselves up III
virtue" contemporary well says, MANY of them
would freeze to death if they had no warmer cover
ing"
equal to four hundred and thirty-four pounds. This
is what science tells us but we know the jaw OF some
of our lawyers is equal to good many thousand dol
lars a year to them.
A small telegraph apparatus has been invented, not
larger than tobacco box, which can be attached to
the wire at any point along the line, at the instant,
| and q message sent as desired.
The ladies of Aurora, H., have passed the follow
ing resolution " Resolved, That if we, the young
ladies' of Aurora, don't get married this year, some
| DOuy VIII Et W plullit'
An English traveller DESTROYS of possessing ne
mortal of Madame de Sevigne purchased, for tile sum
Of eighteen thousand francs, the staircase OF her
chateau at Provence.
A country editor calls on maidens @ to take cour-
age because the census shows that there are nearly
half million more men than women III the United
States.
The tongue of viper is less hurtul than that of
slandercr and the gildcd scales of rattesnake less
dreadful than the purse of the oppressor.
There is wider division of men than that into
| Christian and Pagan. Before we ask what man
worslips we have to ask whether he worship5 ut all
An freshman complained to his physician that he
stuffed him so much with drugs, that he was SICK
long time atterhe got well
awe have to pay for everything, as the man said
when musquto attera voluntary serenade sent ms
bill into him.
When man makes his wife handsome present, it
is Il sign that they have been qualellns recently
POErIc VERSIONS OF THE OLD AND NEW IESTt
NESTs.-The eccentric Dr. Boyd who was professor IN
the University Of Glasgow, put the GA and New les
tAments into metre. He never published it, but the
manuscript is still preserved at Edinburg III COM
menting on the passage by Pharoah OF the Red sea,
we have the following curious AleXancrlhe;
And was not Pharoah a saucy rascal,
That would not let the children of Israel their wives
And their little ones their ocks aud their herds, so
Out into the wilderness for forty days,
70 eat the rascal =
And then dcploring over the condition OF Jonah III
the whales belly, we have these choice lines:
Lord, what doletu place is this!
There's neither coal nor candle
And nothing bat fishes tripes
And greasy cntrail5 handle.
The London Times, in speaking Of the degeneracy
Of the pulpit, says:
We ask for no polished periods but simply for
burning thoughts, couehed in simple and hotAely
phrase such as those which in other days drew man
IRON earth to heaven