The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-31
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC.

The Carys are summering at the White Hills.
Wendell Phillips is going abroad.
A loud cry comes from Maine for hay makers.
Boston will feed the Chinese on baked beans.
Chicago has sixteen immense elevators.
watermelons have just appeared in New York.
Caleb Cushing's politics are said to be doubtful.
Deaths in st. Louis last week, I'll.
Deaths in New York last week, 7s2.
Bsrnum is camping out.
The radical drama: Foul Plsy."-[Ex.
Swinburne is slowly recovering.
Miss Garcia, of Havana, stopping at Saratoga,
wears diamonds valued at over 800 900.
Illinois realizes revenue Of half million from
taxes on her Central Railroad.
Greeley's Tribune associates say he is i'll.
natured and mean.
An exchange hopes Mrs. Lincoln will spare the
queen and our national reputation.
A sexton recently dug his own grave at sandus
ky, Ohio.
George Ellis has Hsrper's Bazaar, Literary
Album and Campaign Record.
The Princess Metternich's milliuer bill is
$40 900 a year.
1t is not singular that beer loving Germans get
at lsger-hesds.-[Ex.
Rosa Bonheur still longs to visit America and
paint bufaloes
The venerable DR.. Spring is now making his
forty fourth visit to Saratoga.
Mirrors framed with looking glass are a late
novelty.
Rawlins is pronounced tie ablest executive off.
Ger in the service.
The journal of Chemistry says that tobacco is
the greatest robber Of the soil that grows. Did
it mean soul?
Will the Mobile Tribune tell US in what respect
Gladstone, Farrsgut and other distinguished per-
sons are quid nuncS?
The Mail reminds people who have gastralgia,
or stomach pains, after drinking claret wine, that
il is owing 70 the alum which 1t contains.
"No great career without great health. No
great health, either for body or soul, without vir
tpous habits" is the text of an essay by Parton.
A Babylon IL. ~ farmer caught in one day,
with hook and line, 1900 pounds OF blue fish, which
he sold for thirteen cents pound.
Yuba Dam says, when the Dutch came over
they found an Indian squaw, with a mans hat on,
hoeing corn on an island. The island was accord
ingly named Manhattan.
One Ching SIM in Pekin, is worth $50, 0OO, 600.
The embassy. since their arrival in New York
speaking 10 foWery way, consider him China
Astor.-[Ex.
Miles O'Reilly got out the last number OF the
Citizen without editorial assistance but it was not
less brilliant on that account. The Boy is jour
nalistlc marvel.
The London Weekly Engineering, in its last
issue, says the American war vessels are slow
tubs around which they (the English) can sail at
their leisure, "even when the Yankee is under
full steam."
A Yankee in Springfield, Mass, rides every day
in the omnibus, and always sits near the forward
end 30 as to pass up the fare Of his fellowpsssen-
gers. Each one gives him a ten-cent piece. bat
be gives the driver instead ticket which, as he
buys them in quantities, cost him but nine cents.
There was an unusually large audience at Hlr-
ward College to-day, to listen to the competitors
for the Boylston prizes. There were twenty-three
contestants, and their productions were Of a
higher order than usual probably because the
prizes had been doubled. The first prizes were
awarded TO Godfrey Morse and Richard Theodore
Greener. The second prizes were awarded to
Charles Gershom Falls, Nathaniel Cniids and as.
Jefferson Myers.-[Boston Transcript, 10th.
1t has been stated that the first prize in the
above contest was won by q colored man, and the
second by Mr.. Morse. But the above is doubtless
authoritative. Mr.. Morse, the winner Of the first
prize, is brother Of Mr.. Colman Morse, Of the
firm Of ]. Morse i Co., Of this city.