New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-01

Pearl grey and azure blue are the fashionable
colors for Paris ladies' stockings, and boots of
black satin with gilt heels.
No change has been made in the form Of the
plow used in Sicily since the time Of the Romans.
monument in honor of Columbus has been
erected at Salamanca Spain. It is placed on
lofty elevation near the grounds Of the university,
in the place where the doctors of the institution
received and listened to his theories concerning
the new route to the Indies. The monument is a
large pedestal, resting on broad base and arch,
and above are beautiful eagle and globe. The
height of the whole is one hundred and six meters.
It is constructed entirely of granite Of dark and
regular color.
Robert Christian Wiley, foreign minister of the
Hawaiian Islands for many years, died there last
fall, leaving property to the amount of $4,000 to
Robert Christian Cochrane, on condition that the
latter should assume his name. The young man.
instead Of complying with the conditions Of the
viii, cut his throat with razor,
ALondon paper says;
In a large glass case, standing in one of the up
per chambers of our great national museum, is to
be seen the skeleton, decently encased in ats Orig
nal burial clothes, of one Pharah Mykerinus, sur
rounded by fragments of the coffin, wherein the
name of its occupant can be easily read by the
conclusive evidence that it contained the mummy
of king who was reigning in Egypt more than
century before the time of Abraham.
A remarkable violation Of the law Of Mohsmned
has just taken place at Tangier. The Koran, as
is well known, forhids the reproduction, by paint
ing or sculpture, of any living creature, and con
fines those arts to flowers and arabesques The
cheriff of Onasan, descendant of the prophet,
and man held in great reverence by the people
of Morocco has Just had his portrait taken by the
well known French artist, NJ. Landelle. Baron
dAquin, French minister at Tangier, who possesses
a remarkable talent as a draughtsman, has also
taken likeness of the cherif, and presented it to
him.
Among the European armies of the present day,
the Italian Minister declares that the French army
alone can be said to be equal or superior to that
of Italy in point of the military education Of the
soldiers.
Explorations into the recently uncovered
temple of Juno, at Pompei, have resulted
in the discovery of three hundred skeletons
crowded within that sanctuary, propGiatory
sacrifice being evidently held in the hour they
were overwhelmed. There was the statue of the
goddess, with attendant peacock, the tripod in
front of their altar, the golden censer the jewels
on the person of the priestess, the rich vessels
holding deposit of animal blood. The eyes of
Juno were of the most vivid enamel, her arms and
her whole person richly decorated with gold
trinkets her gaudy bird resplendent with cluster
Of glttering gems Aromatic ingredients lay
calcined within the censor, while gorgeous lamps
and bronze ornaments strewed the tessellated
| pavement.
| The Tribunal of Correctional Police in Paris
| recently tried a man named Ansart, who was in
the employ of mover of furniture, on a charge Of
stealing eight dozen of electro-plated knives and
| forks and four dozen of eoffee-spoons, the pro
perty of lady whose goods he had helped to
convey to her new apartment. The complainant
deposed that she had made parcel of the spoons
1 and rolled it up in Mattress on opening which
she found that all had disappeared. Suspecting
that the prisoner was the thief she went to his
employer, who investigated the matter, and found
that Ansart, having stolen the articles, had solo
them in lots for about fifteen francs and spent the
money in drinking with his comrades. Two dozer
of the spoons were afterward recovered. Wher
the prisoner was asked to explain his conduct, he
said he had taken the property because the usua
allowance of wine had been refused The com
plainant here stated that the defendants employer
assured her that the drinking propensites of hi:
men caused him endless trouble, and to prove tht
truth of his assertion he gave her paper which
he had found, containing the rules adopted b!
them and their fellows. This document she haC
kept, and now produced in court, 1t ran as fol
lows:
We were never to move bottles that are hal
empty, but drink the contents at once II ther
are none half empty we must make them so.
the wine be in casks we tap it, and each MAJ
drinks as much as he likes before starting on thu
. and an W
goods we move gives us wine we take less, bh
Still as much as we want, When there is no wine
and when none is given us, we sell empty bottle
| by the way to buy some. If the person accompa
MES the wagon we try to induce him to treat Us
but we break his furniture for revenge. If h
| will not give us any drink on the road we tax
some of his property to make things even be
| tween us.
The prisoner smiled while this paper was read
ing, but assumed a very different air when tn
public prosecutor pressed fora conviction and
severe sentence, on the ground that Ansart ha'
already been twice condemned for similar ohenses
The tribunal declared the charge fully proved
and sentenced the accused to six months impris
onment.
Dr. Barber, London physician, afirms tina
ground coffee possesses some remarkable proper
ties as disinfeetant. Inseyeral cases where h
had to make postmortem examinations of bodie
under very disagreeable circumstances, he foun
that handful Of coffee strewn over the body an
about the room quite overcame any bad odor.
The expenditures of the British Museum durin
the past year amounted to over half million G
dollars, viz; 9l01 sos las, 4d. and the sum re
quired for the present year is estimated at large
figure The number of persons exclusive G
readers, who visited its general collections durin
the twelve months was 369,967, and the number
readers l0O2S1-a daily average Of $40, eac
reader consulting twelve books daily. Yaluabl
! acquisitions have been made to the department
Oriental, British, and medieval antiquities an