The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-19
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Henry is mentioned as the present king O
| France. .I-
new banking house is to be started in Paris
in which Alexander Dumas, Jr, and Edmond
About will be the principal stockholders. 1t hal
now been definitely ascertaned that About re
ceived fifty thousand francs from the emperor
for writing his famous book on the Roman cues
| ton.
Somebody has won the great bundred ,bousani
dollar prize of the last Bordeaux lottery but the
fortunate mortal who holds the ticket in question
cannot be found. The managers of the lottery
have advertised in fifty French papers request
for him to come forward and take the money he
They are now publishing in France beautiful
edition OF the best American novels, translated By
able authors, at the low price of one franc.
hschette, the publisher, says he sells eighty-6ve
| thousand copies Of every volume, and the under.
taking is very profitable.
Ii is stated on the authority of English Belgian
| and German life insurance men, that no less than
| nifty thousand persons insured the lives of Louis
| Napoleon and William the First, of Prussia, so
/ that the death Of either of these crowned heads
may cause panic In the life insurance markets
1 novel robbery was committed in Paris a fe W
days back. Several persons were gazing at toy
| shop in the passage Jouffroy, and among them a
lady and gentleman with their little girl ten years
old. On their going away what was their dismsy
on finding that an adroit thief had cut aud IN ade
| of with the child's magnificent crop of golden
| hair.
Victor Emmanuel recently attended the we'd
ding Of one of his llegitimate daughters who was
married at Turin 10 a nobleman of ancient Geno.
ese family, to another member of which a beau
uful American lady was united. This branch of
the kings family is said to be numerous, and il is
added that be is never Indifferent to their claims
upon him.
In Morocco when anybody is bitten by mad
dog the wound is deepened and enlarged with
knife. GuDpOwder is then rubbed into the sore
and little pyramid il raised with the powder
over it. match Is then applied, and the opera
ticn terminates with hz, which has double
effect of cleansing the wound and staunchng the
blood.
A Genoese paper calls Admiral Farrsgut the
" hero Of Nashville" Guilsni, in his Italian his
tory Of the American war, says that jefferson
Davis was beaten by Lincoln and Douglas at the
Charleston election" and that he afterWard
made himself president of the South, which
would have voted for him but for that defeat at
the " Charleston election"
Austria has just done away with the papal
concordat," which gave political strength to the
Roman Catholic church throughout the empire
ard which placed in the han1s Of the bishops aud
clergy the education Of the people; and the
French minister of justice, NJ. Baroche, as the
cable informs us, declared ia the imperial legsa-
we chamber that the separation OIL church aud
state in the French empire is only a question of
time.
The gossips in Paris say that Adeline Patti has
not yet been married to the Marquis de Caux and
that the latter has received nothing further from
the little cantstrice and her father than promise
% the effect that If, three years hence, he should
apply again for PATHS hand he would probably
receive favorable answer. Ii has been noticed
that the empress lately treated Patti with unusual
GOODNESS. Sac vas not at her benefit, and did not
ask her to sing at the last concert given at the
Tuileries in May.
Olive Logan's account Of the connection of the
French emperor with the London Morning Chroni.
Gle gives the French government good deal of
trouble. The Marseilles Semsphore recently pub
lished extract from the aforesaid article in the
M \ cd he foIlru
csl cOT1ntuiqlte: " The article in the Semaphore
purporting TO contain an extract from a paper
published in an American Magazine, and headed
lie Journal du G0uUeTnnlent Imperial Lon.
dyes,' rests on nothing but tissue of msrepre.
sensations and Inventions
The Emperor of Brazil is so earnest in support
Of the war against Paraguay, that be shares in
the burdens TO which the rest of his people are
subject. II is stated that the emperor and the
empress have contributed a quarter and the other
members OF the imperial family one-tifth Of their
incomes, to aid in defraying the expenses of the
legislative and executive departments. At the |
same time, the emperor has refused to have any |
exemption from the tax of three per cent. on ali
earnings over 5000 yearly, and pays that proper
ton on the revenue allowed him for the support |
Of the imperial household.
The excavations at Pompeii, which are now |
carried on with great vigor under the direction of
the KING OF Italy, have just exposed two very /
valuable specimens of ancient art, viz two fresce
portraits, situated under portico of the Via Sta.
bIsna. IL is believed they represented the master
and mistress Of the house. The man wears a |
magistrates toga; the woman is in the attitude
OF person rejecting about what she is to write
for she has style in her right hand, and is about
TO carry 1t 10 her lips, while in her left she holds
Writing tablets. Both these portraits are well
executed.
DR.. Simson, the president Of the North German
Parliament, says that he never met a man with
more iron strength of will than Count Bismarck.
Z" Think of it. gentlemen" he said the other day
TO several members of the Parliament "at re.
cent parade saw. TO my surprise, Count Bismarck,
IN full uniform, on horseback. l knew that he
was very sick, aud when he saw me and rode up
TO me, could not help expressing my astopsh.
ment and regret at seeing him there. Yes, Doc
tor he replied, am sick, so sick that do not
NOW how got on my horse, and how | am to get
down from II. But then | wanted to be present,
and my will made me overcome all obstacies'u
Eugene Pelletan commits the unpardonabie sin
of saying IN a magazine article on the American |
press: There are not few papers in America
which, to the credit and best of the nation,
would like TO see disappear at the earliest mo. |
nent; but, il | should choose the American pa-
per which, for these reasons according to nv |
opinion, should go down first of all would point
)ut the Revolution. No really good lady will ap
Grove its tone and spirit, and If il really ia the
)rgan of female society in America. which [ do
Tot believe, that society is in q bad way"
One OF the many petitions handed the prince
imperial on his recent visit 10 Brest was as follows
6 was In child's handwriting, and was badly
1
ou are the hope of France, and that gives me |
he idea that you viii be my hope. Papa has been
o prison two months. What he has done don't
now. Mamma has wept 80 much, that her eyes
re all red. Let my papa out pray you. Nam.
IA will pray TO God for you, and / will love YOU
cry much. Mr. Prince Imperial salute you with |
II reverence, and am yours for life. Marie d Jon.
ett.r
One of the seals (phOcd uitulind) at the Zoolo-
ical Gardens, London, recently gave birth to a
Dung one, which was at first covered with an
bundance of fine silky hair this, as the animal
Irlggied about on the ground, was entirely she'd
nd formed dense blanket or rug on which IL
". In less than three hours the young phoca
BOX to the water and swan about actively, en-
eaVoilng TO suck as the mother turned on the | ,
de. Unfortunately, however there was no SUP. !
" OF milk, and the mother soon after died | :
nee which time the young one has been fed on | 7
nix and small proportion of cod liver OIL al.
inistereed by means of a feeding bottle. The !
Dung seal at birth was thirty-two inches long I
I'd weighed twenty pounds.
The hing OF Holland is so eXssperatei az the r
Onduct of his crown prince in the scandalous :
Tench real estate speculation that he has forbid.
en- him TO leave the Hague, and has dismissed :