New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-16
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ADVANCING CIvILlZATIoN-Cuffe is rapidly ad
vancing in civilization. The police and hosoita
records show it; it shows itself in tie n1ortuar1
statistics; the large proportion of pock-pittee
ebony faces now seen on the streets mark it very
distinctly it is rankly evident in star cars: and a
colored balls, at street corners, and in manv othe,
places, public and private, it loudly proclams it.
self. Our readers already acquainted with the
ordinances in relation to marriage which his new
masters-or their agent, the F. B.-have made for
Cutey, and no doubt have admired their wonderful
fitness and adaptability. If they have not, they
should have witnessed little scene which occurred
last evening on Carondelet street, near st. Joseph
1t excited the attention and exulting yes of all
the boys and girls of the neghborhood as well as
the visibility of the children of larger growth !"
without regard to color. And well it might 1t
proved Cufey to be rapidly becoming civilized
cutfee, indeed and proof to that point cannot but
be attractive in these days.
VI course every cuffee must have cuffer This
one had for his boned ebony quean, who
appeared as though she were rapidly approaching
her grand climacteric, but yet was fired with all
the Vlgor as well as the Xantppeanism of the most
approved models of civilization. And she laid on
with decided constancy and vina, while the cutfee
submitted with all the graces of henpeckdom Tn
TACT, II the converse of the proposition about the
fellow of whom it is said" "'twere base latterv to
call coward, )" be true he must be most fearful)v
brave. He shrunk from her cuffs just as abiectly
as the veriest spaniel or mongrel might from the
uplifed lash of cruel trainer brutal master and
made the quickest marching time he could under
the circumstances, in the effort, as it seemed, to
get home, so as to hide his humiliation and the
woman's blackguardism together.
The louder the juvenile crowd yelled, and the
larger it became, the more Justify and rapidly the
virago piled her big bony paws about the poor
DEVILS ears and the more he shrunk and lodged,
and the faster he walked or rather shutled along,
What his offense had been, was not disclosed. She
looked as she mightust have come from the kitch.
en- or wash.tub, and he was "to match" Perhaps
he might have been set to work to help her, but
had forsaken his duty, and the dinner had spoiled
or the clothes been bedevied, and he was taking
the consequences in little more Cuffey style than
the anecdote-mongers tell US was visited on Alfred
the Great on the occasion of similar delinouencv.
Perhaps he had been sent OH an erraud and had
stayed too long, and she was giving him little
Cufey- -caudleing for it. But, perhaps, lie was the
victim of " the green-eyed monster :" although
grinning, buxom wench, who was taxed with hay.
ing encouraged the bewitching attentions of the
"gay Lothario," denied the soft impeachment in
longitudinous /" No s-a.h!" as full of contemptu.
BUSINESS as the exclamation could be crammed
And so this points yet in doubt. The rest of the
incident we give for the benefit of some future
Buckle who shall make African civilization his
theme.
WHENCE IS 1T Among many common quota
tons, the origin of which is not known is that very
common one, "1enepOrd n,utaqte1, nos ct
n1dn,r in alis. 1t is often quoted with the nos ct
transposed, and it is given in most collections of
quotations but as that spoils it as an hexameter
which is quite unnecessary, most critical writers
prefer it as we have given t. The origin of it has
of late years been attributed to Borbonius a
writer of the middle ages, of whom, however, all
that can be gathered from the resources of Facts
and Fctons is to be found in "MysHvm Poet
cvm" prefixed to an old collection of the Latin
poets, in explaining the meaning of the term
"Anagrammatsmus." This we are told consists
in so transposng the letters of name as to make
words which can be used first in the proposition
of an epigr.m and then included in its cunciuson
Borbonius for instance, can be anagramma.ized
into bonus orbi ~ these are introduced into the
proposition tam bonus est or6i" (he is as good
to the globe,) and are included in ihe conclusion,
q guam bonus orbis ei," las the globe is good to
him). From this it will be observed that it seems
not to be understood that it was imperative to
have in the conclusion either the exact aagram Of
the name, or complete anagram of the words in
the proposition. So much for what can at presen,
be told in this column about Borbonius; aud thai
would not have been told had not delinquen,
contributor endeavoled 10 set somebody ON hunt
for the quotation which led to it, in the hirteenH