New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-02-09

slid from hill down lower
Ere we reached the base. Qike horse on race1
Our swift gliding sled careened,
And with tresses fair streaming back on the all,
Slceet Sally Uent eend oyer eend.
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TIT FOR TAT.-The following notes passed between
Dear dina: Please send me the collar you wore
at Mrs. P--s last night, as l wish to get one like
IT. ELLEN b.
Dear Ellen: make it rule never to let any of
my apparel go out OF the house, unless worn by my
self. M .gI ANNA c..
P. S.-f you will come around to the house, you
may look at the collar as long as you please.
Ina few days afterwards, Miss Anna had want of
her own, and expressed it to Ellen as follows
Dear Ellen: have an engagement to take ride
saddle? ANNA c.
Dear dina: make it rule never to let my sad
die go out of the house unless used by myself.
?. ST you will come around to the house Won
may ride the saddle long you please in the house.
lPorter's Spirit.
THRIFT.-In America, every industrious man may
accumulate from the products of his abors before he
enters upon the scar and yellow leaf Of life suf
Gent property to enable him to pass down the slow
decline of age calmly and peacefully, Independent OF
the cares and turmoils of business which will then
have become distastefal to him, and free from the
unhappy consciousness that he must bow his feeble
frame to toll even unto the last days of his existence
With the careless spendthrft, who casts no thought
to the future life loses its charm before the blossoms
of youth have begun to wther in the rpened years
of manhood:
The sunshine Of fancy in darkness goes down, -
The clouds of dependency shadow the sky,
Friends the cold shoulder the worldays good bye ~
SCENE IN New YoRK.-One of our exchanges
thus humorously "takes off Huntngton's plea of
"moral nsanity"-a plea set up nowadays by nearly
every murderer and forger: ..,-s5 "a Ia
shopkeeper:--" Hulloa there! here, you nigger,
what you doing with those boots p
Sab, Use only jist takn um away" r=a ~. .'s E
shopkeeper-'". Taking them away, you scoundrel
don't you know that is stealing?'
" Be keerful, massa, how you accuse dis Niger oh
stealing Use morally insane!"
stOne hears an immense deal about legal tender
said Lord Buougham, upon one occasion "but upon
my word never heard of anything legd yet, that
was not very hard instead of tender -..
SHARP WIT.-"What right have you to be sick?'
said schoolmaster to the pupil. "a constitutional
| right" was tpe reply.
| An Irshman meeting countryhan, inquired hi
name: walsh said the gentlema. ''Walsh,'' res
| ponded Paddy, "are ye from Dublin? l knew tw,
ould maids there of that name; was either of 'en
your mother?"
The parent who would train up child in the way
it should go, must go in the way he would train up
his child. Example is before precept.
AIR IN BEDROOhS.-lC Is SAID tnat bird suspended
near the top of curtained bedstead in which people
Sleep will generally be found dead in the morning
from impure air. Small, close rooms in the habita
tons OF the poor, are generally lventlated az the
curtained bedstead.
SAKE says, of sliding on the ice
d" 1t is hard to go & gs.N- =I s"N-Fa
Exactly right, with lady in tow"
IA entirely new route, over which Journey from
the Carson Valley to Salt Lake made in only sew.
enteen days. has just been discovered. The distance
is said to be three hundred miles shorter than any
route previously discovered. #l..aFg.=I
If you would increase the size and prominency of
your eyes, just keep an account Of the money spent
foolishly, and add it up at the end of the year.
"You look rather fat" said the tea.kettle to the
pancake. would take that as an insult said the
pancake, but am aware that you have been steam
ing it."
Tie Rochester Times says: ave could meyer
understand the reason why the man who sells yard
OF CLOTH or hoe, or an axe, or pair of shoes, is
regarded by the community as a better or a more
respectable man than he who made it-nor he who
sells barrel of -four ships it off to Another coun-
try than he who raised the wheat from which it was
manufactured
A very prosy actor was playing Macbeth before a
village audience. In the fifth act occurs the beautiful
solioquy commencing,
Tomorrow, and tomorrow. and to morrow."
He was so exceedingly slow over these words he had
hardly spoken the last word when his progress was
interrupted by voice from the gallery: "Hang it,
man, get to the end Of the week at once and ha
doLe with it,
ado you cast things here 2" inquired Yankee the
other day, as he sauntered into foundry and ad
dressed SCI the proprietor.
You cast all things in iron ~
Certainly, do You not see that is our business? ?"
Then cast shadow, will you?" -. D.
He was cast out.
A biography of Robespierre, in an Irish paper con
cludes thus d" This extraordinary man left no chill
dren except brother who was killed at the same
time
HoMELY SIMILE.-The Lisbon correspondent of a
morning paper in referring to the present stNge of at
fairs in Portugal, says To define the position OF
affairs in this country is about easy rs to describe
the exact pattern produced upon table cloth by 4
smashed esg.'
"If you ever think ofmarying widow, my son, "
said an anxious parent to his heir select whose
first husband was hung that is the only way to pre
vent her throwing his memory in your face, and
making annoying comparisons" " Even that won't
prevent it, exclaimed crusty old bachelor, " she'll
then praise him, and say hanging would be too good
for you.'
woman advertising for husband, wants him no
only to be strictly religious, but of good character.
A servant girl fell against stove in such manne
as to brand upon her arm the date, which happened
to be on the stove, 1S49. surgeon was sent for
who however happened to be absent and in his place
an assistant came but when he the date he shoot
his head and said to himself: There is no longe
any help for this, it is too old an injury"
A story writer says F." Florabel clasped her wild,
white brow with her two hands, as if to still the thun
der Of thought booming through her brain" How
her head must have ached with such noise in it
Florabel must be the young lady whose "eyes emf
| lightning flashes p
| Mr.. Ships wife wrote to her husband in California
and commenced her letter thus " Oh, tell me no
that absence eonquers Lowell the longer you stay ava.
the better Hike your '4
A gentleman, passing through one of orr public
offices, was aronted by some clerks and advised
tocomplain to the principal, which he did thus %
have been abused here BY some of the rascas of th