The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-19
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC.

Weston lost $500 by his last walk.
John Ruskin is lecturing in Dublin.
Seward is in Auburn-not Mount Auburn.
Chicago has "Sorosis."
| Chicago has population of 239 900.
Squirrels are fat and plentiful in Kentucky.
Raspberries have arrived in the Louisville mar
ket.
Louisville, with a population of 100000,
claims to be the healthiest city in the country.
1t is said Montgomery Blair is apt to succeed
! Beverdy johnson as senator.
Senator Salisbury is still bad boy and talk of
| expulsion is revived.
White India muslin dresses will be very fashion
! able this summer
Advice TO yourg ladies-If you have taper
| fingers, mind you don't burn them.-LEx.
Among the 10000 persons buried in Green
/ wood, there are but seven centenarians.
Many of the sermons preached by clergymen
in England, at this day, are composed by their
wives.
At fashionable wedding In New York recently
a lady is said to have worn an imported robe
valued at $500.
II is rumored that it will not be fashionable
next winter for nice young ladies to appear on
| promenade in short walking dresses.
Brazilian bugs and beetles and tiny humming
birds have recently been introduced for trimming
evening dresses. The effect is beautiful.
J. R. Eggleston, editor of the Mobile Tribune,
tells Colonel Mann, of the Register, to measure
his d. r. E.'s) responsibility.
Colonel Mann, of the Mobile Register, is a
brother of the congressman elect of that name
from Louisiana.
Banks is accused of turning colored woman
| mt NJ har in fha ~ aEa
room for secesh" lady of Baltimore.
-Four of the Ames family of Easton, Massachu-
sets, return incomes this year amounting to $685.,
] 422. Oliver Ames takes the lead with sl69 $50.
The Menken is again a wife. Her new name is
Maitland, and her husband is theatrical amateur,
very young and very green.
Adjutant General Thomas has been, at his own
request sent South to finish his examination and
report upon cemeteries for Union soldiers.
Geo. Ellis has the Metropolitan Record, Merry.
mans Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, Literary Album
and Waverly Magazine.
| If our rural contemporaries want US to read and
copy from their papers, they will please send US
copies that can be read.
The ladies of the chief Justices household are
very amisble, and evidently have their heart fixed
upon the executive mansion, says a dispatch to
| the Louisville Journal.
A returned Californian found he baby he had
| left at home miss Of five summers. One day he
offended her, and she irefully exclaimed: 81 wish
| you had never married into the family"
The conservative Republicans of New York
propose to make Greeley governor, for the pur.
pose Of securing peace between Horace and
Weed.
For a new opera 0fIenbach demands $4,000 to
begin with, s25 for each performance, and Sec
ond 5000 when the piece reaches its hundredth
| performance.
correspondent of the st. Louis Democrat pro-
| poses to increase the volume of the Mississippi
river by drawing supplies from lakes Superior and
Michigan.
| A traveller breakfasting at an Arkansas hotel
requested the waiter to take his cup of coffee out
! into the yard and pump some of the water out
of it.
There is some very pretty mourning jewelry of
onyx, made in the style now fashionable for coral
formed of solid balls and bars, arranged in cir.
cles and crescents, with pearl shaped pendants.
| A little darby sucking mOlasses from a hogs.
head through straw is vivid exempIfeation of
the fact that the sweetest joys are those taken
| syrop-titiousy.
Wien you find fellow obstinately deaf, and
bound to make you repeat every remark you
make in conversation, refuse to do it. 1t will
| after awhile improve his sense of hearing.
The National Intelhgencer was to publish on the
18th lengthy editorial, arguing the necessity of
the removal of Secretary McCuoch at once, and
setting forth the grievances the friends of the ad
minisustion urge against McCuoch.
| A London letter writer says: 81 well remem-
Der a celebrated clergyman at Liverpool, the
weIknown DR.. Hugh Mcneil, preaching a ser.
mon when Prince Albert visited that city, and tax
ing for bis text LO, the prince cOmeth in all his
! beauty"
When Charles Dickens arrived home last month
from America, all the farmers turned out on the
road to his house to greet him, and all the houses
Or miles on the way were dressed with flags. The
village bell ringers rang peel OF welcome home
again to the great author.
| Charivari depicts the war god, Mars, his enor-
nous sword hung upon a peg above his head,
stretched out fast asl ep upon a pile of very full
money bags. The reflection is: 4" He sleeps, and
that is well; but his mattresses must be very
costly"
A French actress, more celebrated for her
beauty and her irankness than for her intelligence
and her virtue, was in the habit of attributng her
Inconsistency to her bad luck. " The moment be-
come really attached to anybody" she used to
| say, am certain to be introduced to somebody
else whom like better"
The prospect of reunion between the Old aud
New School Presbyterians is now considered very
encouraging. The two great assemblies have
agreed to accept the articles of union. and to send
them down to the Presoy teries for adoption or re-
lection. Threefourths of the Presby teriesin each
| branch must approve them before the measure is
! copsummsted.
The recent tournament in New Orleans has
| been greeted with quite a flourish of tom-toms
! and fm-hams. 1t quite reminds one Of the DAYS
Of cbivalry 10 read the city papers of that date
few months since when something of the kind
was enacted at Meridian, every quill driver of the
| city press was Cervantes, ana the terrific and
! cutting onslaught upon the unfortunate QuixJtes
| and SaDcO PaDza's, caused Us to suppose We had
seen the last attempt at knighthoOd, during our
generation at least.
| IToodvlle Miss Republican
In the House on the 18th, the galleries were
crowded by the clerks of the departments during
the of the 20 per cent hill for thar