The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

because the captain bsd endeavored TO obtain
men through the E.e1ange,t boarding mouse mouse
the Undertaking Of that institution to furnish sea.
menl
Ti}re is college rebellion at Cambridge, Eng
land{ on the question of commons. At some OF
the colleges. the London Times reports, the OBJ.
lection is to the price, in others to the quality OF
the provisions, and at some to both. Tne prac.
tice Of the objectors Is 10 assemble, hear grace,
SO as not TO subject themselves to penalties for
absence, and then to leave en- rldsse. and proceed
TO dine at their lodgings or the various hotels.
"Settle down may be good advice to some,
but settle up 10 better to some others. Advice,
however good In itself, Is often useless when not
adapted 10 the circumstances of the individual.
As, for instance Advising people TO subdue their
appetites when they have not tasted food for
forty hours GOODNESS to people In fevers; wake.
fu1ness to person who has not slept for couple
of days to purchase the best when you hSve
means only for the most ordinary; loving your
peighbor as yourself, when he's black and you are
supposed TO bel white. Irr
The Salem Gazette says that in neighboring
town shoes are made up in one of the worst forms
of; shoddy, in the shape Of inner soling made OF
straw and leather chips. The leather presents
very plausible appearance to common obserya-
ton, and would. perhaps, wear tolerably well in
dry walking. But on wearing through the thin
outer sole, exposing the inner to the moisture OF
the wet ground. the sham stuff will soften to pulp
and come 20 pieces rendering the shoe utterly
worthless. The shoes thus made are intended for
BE good nstured. II is by far the best nature
that is cultivated. As a matter OF fact any other
sort is hardly worth cultiysting at all. Ii is the
golden passport Of many man and woman to the
best Rraces Of society. Good nature fs always
current. 1t goes well everywhere, and at all times
1t is the home of the healthy, the happy and the
wise and equally adorns both sexes. People are
sought because of its possession. IL Is grace OF
itself. Good nature is all nature rolled together.
Suppose, reader, If you don't know anything about
II, you try it. 1t won't harm an infant, and gives
dignity and strength to a giant.
A letter from Rome says the pope is very un-
well, though his condition is concealed at the
Vsiicsn. The journey to Civita Veccbia gave him
coS, which he increased on All Saints Day, by
Depending 10 the Sistne Chapel, and he has since
beSn tormented by cough attended with fever
at night. In spite of these bad symptoms he in.
sisted on going to the church of San Carlo at
Cerso on tie 4th. the festival of st. Charles Borro
msQ, and with difficulty was persuaded to give up
his state coach aad go In carriage carefully
closed. The exposure and excitement have had
a bod effect on the pope, and his cough becomes
msJe and mere distressing.
Eeprosy is reported TO be spreading at fear
fui rate in the Sandwich Islands, and Inc govern.
nett is urged to adopt severe measures in order
to Check the disease, which is believed TO have
tesu introduced by the emigrants from China.
TIA description OF ieprosy is considered conta'
eoss and unless its progress can be arrested, the
Sandwich Islands, It is asserted, will In fifteen
yeers time be depopulated.
in an answer to an appeal made by the collec-
4: OF funds for the London Printers Almshouses,
NJ Charles Dickens has sent the following letter
'redford Hotel, Brighton, Nov. Z, lS65.-Sir Re-
ferring to the sppealin aid of the Printers Aims.
hotses, beg to say l shall be happy to devote
tny gross amount OF my next reading IN London
tohe fund. What should have been without
printers / am grateful, and wish to show II.
Ydsms faithfully, Charles Dickens" The object
nosg sought is the erection of new wing to the
sfhe Rev. Mr. Davenport, Of East Bridgeport,
Conn, in srecent sermon 10 young women, said
tnat in every age woman has cared more for orna-
nycut than man, and in literature and in LIE she
fifures as the ornamentor. In this she but smu-
lhtes TO her Creator, who has shown by unmis-
taxable evidence that he has al love OF ornament;
The spiral shaped, beautifully convoluted, and
delicately tinged shell shows something super
added to mere utility. and the earth could have
moved on as grandly had IL never been heaped
aud garlanded with blossoms and bloom OF untold
varites.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin gives the following
particulars respecting young traveller, only ten
years Of age, on her way from Northwestern Min
nesots 10 Showhegan, Me. Her name was Stacy
and her parents removed from Maine to Mime
sofa some fourteen years ago. Recently her
mother died. the father having preceded her &c
the grave few years, and the little one. the only
child set out for Maine alone: letter TO con
ductors was furnished her, with tickets through
and she seemed to be getting on well. On every
train the conductor after telling her story, had nc
difficulty in finding some knd-hesrted lady to looi
after the traveller, and when the journeys end Il
reached, places her in charge OF The conductor OIL
the next train she is 10 take.
IL ia interesting to know the rate at which thi
great tidal wave Of August last crossed the Pa
cifc. The difference in time between New lea
land and Africa Peru, Is about eight hours, so tina
what was 1--WE o'clock in the afternoon of the l3n
at africa would be about one O'Clock of the morn
ing of the l4th in New Zealand. From one A.
of the 14ih 1.-THE New Zealand mean time when tn'
earthquake occurred the Central American
Is NJ Of
observed on the coast of New Zealand) is twenty
nine hours. which, reckoning roundly, 10 the tim
the sea wave took to travel the distance OF 81,
thousand one hundred and twenty miles from
shore to shore. The mean gate Of It's progress
would thus be about two hundred apd ten mile
per hour. !.
The washerwomen Of Holland and Belgium sc
proverbially clean, and who get up their linens 81
beautifully white use refined borax as washing
powder, instead of soda, in the proportion OF
large handful Of borax powder to about ten gal
Ions Of boiling water. They save in soap nearly
half. AL the large washing establishment
adopt the same mode. For laees. cambrics, etc.
an extra quantity of the powder is used, and 70
crinolines (requiring to be wade stiff stronl
solution is necessary. Borax being neutral salt
does not IN the slightest degree inure the texture
of the linen. It's effect is TO soften the hardes
water and, therefore, il should be kept on thu
toilet table. To the taste il is rather sweet;
used for cleaning the hair, is an excellent dent
frice, and in hot countries Is used, in combine
ZION Win tdrtdrlC dClu anu DlCdIDOuate vi sOuap
a cooling beverage.
A company of experienced miners has been or
ganized TO sink shaft for coal near Quincy, III
II is estimated that the stratum will be struck be
tween 400 and 600 feet below the surface, and tina
the vein will be about ten feet in thickness.
Larry Cook. . printer. died az the county poo
house at Decatur, H.. last week, aged ffty -seve
years. He served in the Florida war, under Gen
taylor; in the Mexican war, under Gen. Scott an
Was y volunteer in the Union army during the wa
Of the rebellion.
London ate or otherwise consumed 90
rabbits during the year 1867 skinned and prepare
for eating The animals were reared by the chi
dren Of the peasantry of the departments Du Nor
aud Pas de Calais. in France, who thereby obtain
ed s2l0 COO. These rabbits are sent over by tn
Ostend steamer. The skins are disposed Of in tn
country to hat manufacturers. The trade is entire
Nv in the hands OF children who are too young {
be employed in field labor.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg says the new
psper Moskows, the organ of the Panslsvist party
as been suspended for six months, after havin
received its third warning, for the circulation {
reports " calculated to create enmty among III
population, and excite the latter against the gov
eminent"
The collection of living reptiles belonging 4
the Geological Society Of London has just receive
a remarkable addition in the shape of one of Ii
rsrest of known species OF lizards one which unit
$500 -. snnnosad IN extinct II ia the I'M