The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-14

school expenditures during he past year were
81 900 000 Of which tno freedmen paid $500 900;
Northern benevolent societies. 500 900. the Bu-
A late letter from San FraneIsco ssys: "In all
directions buildings are shored mp. scAdoldings
are erected on numbeEleas places, 20 that work.
men can tear down and repair, and crowds Of
ins ing. lOoss 70 me g 4 sSs majority q fs The DAM
age is to be smoothed over rather than recon-
strucfed. A very large number Of persons are
leaving the hotels and other high brick buildings
IN the Lower P.r s Of the city and sTs seeking
The oldest tsnnery, It Is said. in the United
States Is located at Bethle chem, In Pennsylvania.
IL was built by the Moravians in l74s, and en-
lsrged by them In l76l. Eleven watts, sunk at that
paired on several occasions. The building Is Of
stone. three stories high
A young Albany girl, after receiving the alton
tons of . young man for several months, alb
ruptly asked him when he intended to marry her.
The. young man then said he was not on the
marry. She then broke teapot, filed with
boiling water, over his head. .
From Jan. ! TO Nov. I, 1865, the total shipments
Of sSs and sDss oil X eli ssatss o so pssa
ports were IS 1854, Sal gslIons Increase for the
same tine last year Of 1,069 .Ss5 gallons.
The Republican wife Of Democratic gentle
man ct Bridgeport, Ct, Illuminated their mansion
during the absence of the husband, 10 honor Of
Grant and Colfax. The "lord of the Manor heard
OF it, would not believe It. went and saw IL and
hA1 Hsf 49, .5 han S.ss IL NJ to v..,, am
lost $50 600; the Tradesmens bank lost $50, 900
10 1867 the Royal Fire Insurance company lost
100000; besides these, the Lord bond robbery
and other cases Of immense robberies, and yet no
single criminal has been convicted. When they
were captured they have been allowed to SETTLE
Such compromises are not right In the first place,
and 10 the second place. they are dangerous.
An Iowa girl recently killed large lynx With .
corn-cutter, after he had whipped two dogs. We
once knew . girl IN Illinois who killed great
black wolf under similar circumstances. The
wolf came TO the house. and was in the act Of get
ing away with pig when the house dog attacked
it. terrific. fight ensued. Seeing that the dog
was getting the worst Of it, she rushed into the
fray and split the lupine marauder's head open
with well directed blow. This woman was q
heroine-with wild beasts. But she married .
thin bodied, harrowsoulsd, selfish, psevish, cool
blooded little cuss. and was his sbject slave for
lhe.-rIndanapolis Mirror. ~
A Washington dispatch says: "The superinten-
dent Of one Of the most important government
works In New England writes here, In regard to
the working Of the eight hour law, that, in so far
as 1t was designed to secure better intellectual
culture of mechanics, BY giving them opportu-
nifty for study, IL Is humbug. Some Of his
men work outside at over-hours, and thus make
from 81 to So per day beside what government
pays them: Only two or three do anything
ing. while the majority spend their extra time
In useless loadng, invariably acquiring habits
that make them less steady and reliable a.
workmen.n trn 20 81 .
An exchange Gays narrow shoes with high heels,
which are now sll the fashion, are serious OBJ
stscles to good figure. Without solid basis it
is impossible to sustain the form in an erect pos
ture, and poised, as our young girls are, upon the
stills OF fashion, it Is not easy to preserve their
equilibrium. They thus habitually bend forward
or backward to the right or TO the left, until In
the course of time, they become permanently
misshapen IN one direction or the other. And this
is not all. The heels of fashionable shoes worn
by the ladies are so small at the bottom as to af
ford little or no support to the ankles. This in
part accounts for the peculiar walk of those who
wear them, and this Is causing many weak and
sprained ankles, for which there ia no cure. An
sDkle once spraned is ever after liable to be in
jured by very slight cause No lady who values
her comfort in life and her limbs upon which she
depends for locomotion. will wear high heels
tapered off as is now the fashion. t
A new and not unimportant reform is about 20
be introduced in German schools, viz: the aboli-
ton Of all afternoon classes. 1t was principally
during the past summer months that the expert
nsant was almost FORCED upon the authorities.
The results are on all sides reported to have been
more than brilliant. The forenoon classes are
mewhat, but not much, larger than formerly,
but IT is said that the pupils show an eagerness
aud vgor in those short morning hours which
have never been known before, snd their progress
is quite in keeping with their keen and energetic
sssiduity. The most curious point about the mat
ter (ssys the Pail Nall Gazette) seems to be the
fully authenticated fact that the schools having
hitherto Only closed experimentally earlier or
later, according to the wishes Of the respective
headmasters. the progress shown by the various
schools stands in an inverse ratio to the duration
of the classes. or, in other words, the less hours
beyond the four or five of the morning in school,
the more did the boys get on with their work.
Within the territory embraced in the country
tributary to Jefferson 40 900 bales Of cotton have
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in this city or shipped to New Orleans by this
route.-GJeferson (Texas) Times.
At meeting of the Chicago Academy Of
Sciences, held on the 10th inst, Prof. Fontsine.
of New Orleans, read q very interesting and in
The esssv vss couusd TO- the se
of Texas, where the author had resided. Fire, he
thought, was the great prime cause Of the forma-
ton of praires. The only other cause was the
drouths, which had sometimes dried the soil to
the depth of eighteen feet, causing all wood and
shiubbery TO perish. Add to this fire, and We
have the cause of the prairies Of the world. The
essay was well written. and was evidently the re-
suit of careful study, extended experience and
profound knowledge. A vote Of thanks was ten
dered to Prof. Fontsine for his excellent address
upon the prsiries.
The following story is told of the battle Of
ChickamsuRa: During the heat of the battle, en-
owl. alarmed at the unusual tempest of sounds,
was frightened from his usual haunis. Two or
and battle ensued. The contest was observed
by an IrishmaD of the Tenth Tennessee, which
wss at the time hotly engaged. Pat ceased firing,
dropped the breech of his gun to the ground and
exclaimed in astonishment. Moses. what .
country the very birds In the cir are fighting"
One of the editors Of the st. Louis Times, who
refused to take the test oath, and who conse-
quently could not get registered, has brought suit
against the registers laying bis damages at $40 000
The case will go to the Supreme Court for the
purpose Of testing the constitutonality Of the
Law.
Buckle, in bis History OF Civilization, says that
ma rage does not depend upon love, but upon the
price OF corn. II is evident that children have
long known this. and have even measured love as
men measure corn, as appears from their common
expression: 81 love you two bushels and peck"
The statistical lover Goes not now say, he used
to, " Amanda. love thee" but Amanda, pro-
visions are cheap"
The Paris correspondent of the Boston Herald
says: - r.L r a4fe
One of the most remarkable discoveries in the
manner Of producing stereotypical printing has
just been made In France, and bids fair to prove
. wonderful progressive step In the arts. which
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