New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-23
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY %, 1866.

rain, was sympathizingly asked if he was not mis-
| erably wet. "Och, dvil haporth mind the
wet" said he, "but, pasin your honor it's mighty
dry am.'' N"- '@
A RAILWAY IECIDEEw.-Friends are in the habit
of warmly greeting their acquantances upon the
arrival Of passenger trains at some OF the railway
stations in the North and the anecdote books tell
some good things connected herewith. One OF
these relates that young gentleman rushed
through crowd towards a lady, seized her hand
and gave her he arty kiss, the smack Of which
sounded above-well, let US say the ding OF dongs;
but its force will be understood if we state that the
report startled country lass hard by, who ex-
claimed to her "feer:" "'Massy, Josh! what on
airth's gev way on the keers?" E.nr
CArAsTRoPHIc.-S B. is well known planter
near Donaldsonville, about whom serious questions
are arising, whether he ought not to be made re-
sponsible for certain superstitious manifestations
of which he certainly has been the cause, Willingly
or unwittingly be it. Everybody knows the prom
inent and effective parts cats have played in the
mysteries Of demonology in all their occult work
ings. And their influence seems not yet to have
been overcome, the Salem blue laws and Thaddeus
Stevens to the contrary Notwithstanding. s. B.,
for instance, is cQnspiring by means Of his cats,
which is, of course, categorically conspiring, to
drag the poor men of this land into melancholy
catastrophe. His place is infested with rats and
he had cat. Not satisfied with that, his cat must
get kittens. Well, even that would have been very
well only that he must needs manage it so that
one Of the kittens should, like Richard Ill have
been pg fM I9,.s..a.. .+.r.f .,.
Brought into this breathing world beforeits time,
Scarce half made up and that amey unfashionaby
That dogs bark at it as it halts by them, I..@|
In plain matter Of fact language, it was born
without tail-and thereby hangs tale. Facts
| and Fictions would never have realized the terri
BILE consequences dependent on this little fact but
for lucky incident. An old lady, neighbor of
S. B.is, it was who casually exposed them She
had come to the city visited the Academy of Mu-
sic, of courses saw an ape there remarked the
resemblance between this beast and S. BIS tailless
kitten, and mentioned it. Not only that she be-
trayed the meaning of the talless cat to the hor-
hor Of all sensible young men present in the audi
dence. 1t was a fine cat, she said the ape re-
minded her of, and she wished the ape was cat,
as well as without tail, because the ladies would
then be sure of fine time The cats with tails
are always in the way, she said, and making the
ladies tread on their tails, so as to prevent them
from getting married. These cats without tails
could not have their tails troddenon, and so they
could not prevent poor ladies from getting mar
ried. There's the tale, mind: treading on cats
tail prevents young ladies from getting married J
Now, if this is the object of S. B.. to have more
marrying going on than there is at present, we do
hope that he will be satisfied as soon as he has got
rid Of his manageable relatives, and then kill his
talIess cat 1t is clearly impossible at the present
rates of waterfalls and aspirals that the sterner
sex can stand more marrying than the cats tails
at present allow and so let us have no more cats
without tails ifyou please, Mr.. S. 3. As matter of
facts and fctons both, more taless cats than we
at present have cannot be tolerated. The ladies
do not, even now, tread half as much on them
as they ought, if they had any charitable feelings
for the poor young men they fain would perseeute
by having, we may perhaps not unreasonably sup
pose, all the cats born without tails. And then
what pretty state of affairs we should have
Every young lady married, and every young man
ensaved to hoops ,shairdressers, haberdashers and
humbugs Frightful as fact; fearful enough as
fiction: no mare tailless cats Mr. S. B,