The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-26
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC.

Ice is cheaper.
Victoria admires Longfellow's poetry.
Prince Alfred is sweet on Mile Schneider.
Eugene prefers ferns and shrubs to flowers
The London Times uses two tuns of ink week
The queen of Denmark knits.
The White Mountsins are neglected this season.
The young ladies at Newport have a mania for
shaggy ponies.
The Eclectic for August, full of literary wealth,
is at hand.
We are indebted for courteous attentions to Mr..
J. H. Lyon.
Geo. Ellis has the Boston Pilot, New York Led.
ger and Chimney Corner.
Senator Morton was to be married on Thursday
night to Miss CORTLAND of Baltimore.
The Princess of Wales, on the lth of July, was
delivered of daughter.
Chinese hats are becoming quite common on the
streets They are hideous, but comfortable.
The New York carriers are threatening to strike.
That would be next to sun-stroke.
Sleep on hot nights is facilitated by spreading
canton mating over the bed.
Mr.. Link, of Nashville shot his wife for buro
lar.
Chicago proposes to build a million dollars
worth of churches this year. They are needed.
i.
died lately, at an inebriate asylum.
The king and queen of Holland are never seen
togethsr.
Victor Hugo has realized 700 900 francs by the
sale of bis " Miserables."
The printers of Berlin have struck to reclaim
Sunday for rest.
o, for lodge in Stewards vastest iceberg.
Northern paper.
The London Times has twenty-five law re porters
aud twelve police reporters.
Gossip mates General Beauregard with New
York heiress.
A fish breeder at Bellows Falls, VT, has q, 900
trout, and expects to have 900 next year.
Chicago consumes over 100000 gallons of
water daily, and talks of new tunnel. 1t lays
mile of pipe day.
MOrrissey undertook to remove Geo. Rokey
from his establishment in New York, and got his
eyes damaged.
Thanks to the Texas Express Company and the
officers Of steamers Louise, Texas, Mary and W.
G. Hewes.
Victoria and lot of the aristocracy bre akfsstsd
the other day in the garden of one of the London
palaces The queen occupied a tent.
The oysters of West Mexico on the eastern gulf
coasts, are dried and shipped in bales to San
Francisco. smoke-dried oysters are a common
article of trade in China.
There is a beautiful deer in the yard of the
United States Mint. Now, nobody need to soap
that up and remind us that there are numerous
beautiful dears about New Orleans.
On late occasion in Paris a lovely Armenian
wore tunic which took eighty years to work.
and alot of people gave it up successfully. Some
went on for about five years, others ten, the more
persevering twenty some turned green, some
yellow, some gray over it but there it il, and tn
wearer had rather not know all its vicissitudes
The second season of opera bouffe has com.
menced in New York, under Manager Bateman.
with "Blue Beard" which is said to be a little
stronger than any other Of Oaenbach's works.
Conspicuous among the new singers stands Mile.
Trina, the original Cendrlon at the Chatelet.
Paris. and who in the part Of Boulotte in Barbe
Bleue," set the French capital in ecstacies for one
hundred consecutive nights. She is said to DOS
sess beautiful face and figure, in addition 10
charming voice. The other leading members of
the company are Miles. Lsmbele, Jeanne DucIos,
Rose, and Messrs. Aujac. Dardgnac and Gudon,
tenoIs. Mile. Tostee will return from Europe
early next month, and will Immediately make her
rentree before the public at Niblo's Garden.