The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-25
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ErO.


Paris has soda fountain.
Drought is running the crops in Canada.
"Pluvious" again yesterday.
Dull times at the livery stables.
Lager beer business takes the lead Just now.
A ALandseer has been sold in London for 10000
Heenan has not challenged McCoole.
Portland will soon be wstered by Sebago pond.
Nebraska proposes to raise oysters.
Needless cruelty-Hsnging gardens.-IEx.
Flsttering to be designated as the husband Of
some strong minded.
Dexter has "bustedT Longfelow and Joel
Parker.
prospective million is sdded to the population
Of New York city in the next decade.
Mrs. Sprague wept over the defeat OF the chief
justice.
Reverdy johnson was banquetted at Annapolis
on the 2lst.
10000 600 eggs go from Ireland to England
annually.
The author Of Mrs. Pendleton was the author Of
the "star spangled Banner"
Nspier, not the lord mayor, received the free
| dom of London.
Plon Plon is on his way home. He made re-
served speech to the Cretans at Lyra.
Hesse, also, wants a naturalization treaty with
Wendell Phillips is the money pillar Of the Anti
| Slavery Standard.
The Spanish Queen is said to drink pint Of
| brandy day.
Madame strakosch has gone to Paris 10 attend
the wedding of her sister Patti.
II is said the railroad from Shreveport is to be
| pat through into Texas.
| shark was caught in Amite river the other
/ day.
| Cotton is good in the Alabama canebrake
| country.
/ Strong fears of the cotton worm are revived in
Mississippi.
Tar and feathers is the fashionable toilet in
| Mississippi. ....
| young bears domesticated in beer shop on
Common street. 1t is as playful as kitten.
Read Gen. Blar's letter OF acceptance in an
| other column.
colored lady advertises 10 q Chicago paper
for "a respectable white nurse"
Gems. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan reached
Denver on the 2lst.
James Stevens ex .Fenian head center, is said
to have arrived at New York.
There is a cheering rumor that the six-cylinder
epigram and campaign song machine has broken
| down from over.work.
Some OF our ungrateful Southern contempora-
ries complain of hot weather. They had better
go to New York and "cool off,"
Crops are still reported good in Carroll and
| Rapides parishes, and in western Louisiana and
eastern Texas.
A writer in Echoes from the Clubs thinks pic
MICS are yet in their infancy and that eighteen out
of twenty are failures.
A method has been discovered of converting the
soft and Heecy fibre of cotton into hard and
solid substance like horn and ivory. .E
Florence Matilda McNwen, actress, was
| 7 Cha baI
the previous night in revelry on board steamboat.
1t is said that the East Indians use enormous
amounts Of silver jewelry-enough to account for
the scarcity OF that metal in civilized countries.
Eight Arabs have been sentenced TO imprison-
ment for life IN Algeria for the trivial oifense Of
eating fricasseed baby.
A party of newspaper excursionsts from the
East we're running the papers and talking politics
ct Omaha on the 20th.
The " smartest woman in New York /" runs
wholesale harness and saddlery establishment and
transacts her own business.
We are enjoying very cool and delightful
weather, batting little too much moisture, for
, some purposes. . .-... ..s.......
Mr. oliver Dyer is acquiring a high reputation
! as a sketch writer in Pscksrd's Magazine. He
did the "wickedest Mar" etc.
Bonner is again advertising his paper by way Of
fractional stories in the New York dailies, "to be
| continued In the Ledger" .lH
The Mail recommends the reformed wicked New
I Yorker to be employed in the police department.
, on account Of his thorough acquaintance with
! crime and criminals. .. r
: The Prussan penitentiary, st Berlin, Is described
i as very jolly sort Of place. Birds and books
and every thing comfortable are found in the cells
of the prisoners.
Carl Benson writes to the New York Times from
, Berks county, Mass, Of positive green mist
= visible there on the evening Of the 18Th and en-
veloping the whole landscape. II changed to q
? purplish haze before darkness fell.
Q The "wickedest man in New York." John
Allen, offered to turn bis dance house into q
Y refuge for abandoned women, and to pay one
e third Of the expense The proposition has been
accepted by some benevolent gentleman.
= A rascally and seedy wag hoaxed Chicago the
!, other day, by announcing the arrival of Bonner
~ and his fast horses. Rooms were engaged at a
1t hotel, and a band discoursed much music before
g. house where Bonner was reported to be tenn
~ porarily stopping.
OF the coming opera season in New York the
i Mali says: Pike promises TO give us Italian opera
es and is endeayoring 20 engage Schneider TO come
a. here and show the original "Grands Duchesse."
!. Max STakosch has gone 70 Europe TO engage a
d German opera company, and declares he will
u bring nothing but frstclass material Grau IA re-
pairing the French Theater and greatly improving
II 1t preliminary TO opening in the autumn with opera
N bOuhe, for which he is now making engagements
Oh among the singers of the Partisan heaters.
r.
~ THEATRcAL-We understand that on the
he 10th of next month the Shakespeare Club will
C. give another Of those entertainments Z
IN IN which our people have now learned b
ng look forward with such pleasure. They vii
ce perform. we are told, "Dead Heart" anC
"sletches from India" We can imagine tn
is Il g.. ;,,,;,a,;o,,g ,l,a, tho reodno Of tbi
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