New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-18
Odds and Ends.
The velvet couch and The gilded hall,

"a IA Art, fashion and show, would give you Gil
For q seat inmy own wild bower Mss Could.
never yet found pride in . noble nature nor hui
\ milIty u A. unworthy mind OF all trees, ! OBJ.
sefye God hath chosen the vine, low plant that
creeps upon The helpful WALL OF all beasts the soft
and patient lamb Of all fowls, the mild and guleless
Y dove. When God appeared to Moses it was not in
ths cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading
plane, bnt ID bush, humble, slender, abject bush
-as II He would BY these selections check the con
ceited arrogance Of man. Nothing procureth love
! [Felthams Resolves.
Capital punishment as the boy said, when the
school mistress seated him with the girls.
AN IRISH CoxvERr.--An Irishman in time Of re-
vvals, had joined the church. Some time afterward
Va piousy inclined person was exhorting him on the
subject 81 religion, when Paddy Indignantly answered
~. Sure, an didnt jine the Methodist Fax an
z Ibid. jined for six months, and behaved SO well
n they let me of with three
N. ~, respectable female, named Crouch, aged 10
years. md member Of church, was detected pilfer-
ing articles in store In that city and secreting them
about her person. She arrested accused searched
and q lamp, bar Of fancy soap and brush broom
found hid beneath her dress She was then dis
charged but the stigma deeply affected her that
On reaching home she Immediately committed suicide
by taking poison.
a Boston paper giving q puff to new minister in
X that city, says:
His prayer, at the close Of his sermon, was the
most eloquent that was ever addressed to Boston
audience?
harrister entered one Of the Four Courts Dublin,
with bis wig 50 much awry as TO cause general tit
ter. Seeing Curran SMILE he said q Do you see any
thing ridiculous in my wig?" No, replied Curran,
< nothing but your head
" The young man who recently went on bridal tour
With an an angel in muslin has returned with ter
magant in hoops.
rri.s8 -,
man in Springfield (hlass) church, last Sunday,
married couple, substituting the words gentleman
and lady" for man. and 6 woman Outraged
Benton Where are thy thunders!
\ In the Catholic church at Lafayette, Ind, on
Easter Sunday ten couples were married, and each Of
the brides We're named 4 Hannah Cockney
would have called it Hannahmated scene.
sailor is not sailor when he ID aboard; sailor
is not sailor when he is ashore but he must be
either ashore Or aboard therefore sailor is not
sailor. Z Il
People are all the summer learning to leave door
open, and the whole winter learning to close it.
at Placervle the ladies' have formed a calico
league, 70 which nobody can belong who is unwilling
70 make her appearance at church, at parties,
the street, in o calico dress.
Vixenish wives have always been considered fair
game for the satirist in prose and verse EVERYBODY
remembers the old joke Of the husband who, learn
ing that his spouse was drowned, went to search for
ner yp reer from the place where the woman fell
49, a. reason that dead q alive she was
epigEam, in two lines or rather, an eptaph-sharp
enough 70 wake UP the vixen, if she was not very
dead Indeed:
w Here lies my wife Polly, terrible shrsw,
II ! said was sorry, then should lilo, too
a shrewd old gentleman once said to his daughter,
Be sure, my dear, that you never marry poor man;
but remember the poorest man In the world is the one
that has money and nothing else There is much
truth in this and we commend it to the ladies.
. What more touching commentary upon the misfor-
tunes Of Marie Antonnette than the cash entry made
the sexton and which is yet TO be seen n the par
ish records Of the Madelaine Paid seven francs for
a coffin for the widow Capet."
CoMET PARTIES y A recent number o. the Cincin-
matt Times, says:
Comet parties are now in vogue. The company
sembles and pass away the evening with such plea
appearance, about or o'clock in the morning An
hour Or 80 is then spent gazing at the efy monster,
and the company adjourns. Good amusement
Two little boys, who were brothers, were busily
talking together one Sunday, when they were over
heard BY their father holding the following da-
z Willie, don't you wish you could walk on the wa
ter as Jesus Christ did ~
/" It isn't right, Charlie, to say Jesus Christyou
mustn't take his name in vain.s
Yes, it la Willie, right to say Jesus Christ if you
II only say it with q sorroteful face
The Scientific American gives the following cure
for felons on the fingers
The past year we have known the spinal marrow of
OK COW applied to three different persons with
the most satisfactory results in relieving pain and
curing sores Of their feons The spinal marrow should
be applied every four hours for two days.
HIGHLY FERrrLE AND REPRESENTATIVES. Ii said
to be place in Pennsylvania known as Treverton
Manor, which has been described as being covered
with stones and under each stone there were fifteen
rattlesnakes and nothing but hemlock knots and
hucklebees were produced In addition TO stones and
rattlesnakes.h
" Mr.. Browns compliments to Mr.. Smith thinks it
unnecessary his pigs sbouldgo through his grounds"
Reply" Mr. Smiths compliments to Mr.. Brown
thinks it equally unnecessary to spell pigs with two
u GEES y5 .s5 aa a5a-
III THE CHINESE GrANT.-It is now quite clear that
the author Of Jack the Giant Killer either the
prophet Merlin. or some other one of the ancient
brotherhood Of British seers. The coupet put into
the mouth of Blunderbore
Fe-fa-f-Foh--Fum:
smell the blood of in Englishman ~
has evidently prophetic reference to COMMISSIONS
Yeh as a murderous miscreant, a disciple of Fob
and an adept in the Mystery OF Fun.
Whose despiseth little things will never attain grea
things ~
Pride requires very costly food--its keepers happi
Friendship is a silent gentleman that makes n
parade the true heart dances no hornpipe on tn
tongue
s a bright child asked his mother where he shout
go when he died
10 Heaven, | trnst,' said the mother.
"Shali / have anything to eat there p
q Yes, love, you will be fed with the bread of life.
g Well hope they put lots O. butter on it, cor
cuded the youngster.
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and woul
rather be remarked for their vices and foies than
noted at ALL
Hurry and cunning are two apprentices of dispatc
and skill. but neither Of them ever learned the
masters trade.
When we desire or solicit anything. our minds r1i
wholly on the good sides or circumstances of it
when it is obtained, our minds run only on the ba
ones.
Languages are not formed in day. They are all
vial Strata the slow product OF time towering pyr
fnids, to which day by day contributes stone.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meane
ofences,so climbing is performed in the same postul
az creeping.