The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-20
EDITORIAL PAKAeRAPns. ETC.

A. H. Stephens is in Washington.
Gold closed in New York at l44t.
Franklin Pierce is still convalescng.
Gov. Sprague has broken one of his legs.
Clara Louisa Kellogg is about due.
Perfumed cigars are advertised.
Gerrtt Smith has taken the stump.
Mrs. Lincoln is to reside at Nice.
A flying cat has been found in India.
Fanny Jsnauschek has arrived.
The Rehings are singing in Philadelphia.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamers Mata-
gords, Louise and Clinton.
The chief justice is at Concord, New Hamp.
shire.
Black satin plush hats for misses are again COM
ing into fashion.
The Mexicans promise Gen. Rosecrans a cordial
reception.
Earrings made OF psnther's claws suspended
from tiny gold chains are the latest novelty.
A velocipede race is to be the next sporting
sensation in New York.
Not less than fifteen hundred houses have been
erected in Kansas city this year.
Discretion in speech is greater and better than
eloquence.
The czarina's dressmaker is coming to New
York after fortune.
Attorney General Evsrts celebrated his silver
wedding at Windsor, Vermont, recently.
Butchers do not "dress to kill-they kill to
dress. Elk.
Twenty thousand people in New York city live
by borrowing money.
The Lowell Courierisays revenue cutter is the
man who don't pay his income tax.
half bushel Of potatoes is the price of ad-
mission to the Salt Lake theater.
John Allen, 'the ex-wickedest" man is going
into the lecturing business.
Alexander H. Stephens was in Baltimore re.
Gently.
There is a new moon, and more pleasant even
ings are at hand.
In its twentyfourth number the New York
Democrat claims a circulation of nearly $4,000.
Geo. Ellis has Bulwer's Miscellaneous Prose
Works in two neat bound volumes.
Paris farms out 20 COO babies year, and only
5000 come back.
The Prince lie JoinyilIe was robbed of all his
spare cash at wiesbaden recently.
Gymnastics are all the rage just now with the
young men Of Cincinnati.
1t is said that only five out Of hundred regular
army officers write their names plainly.
II is reported that Charlotte Cnshman will play
short engagement at Booths theater next winter.
ShawLpns have appeared with heads composed
of the soft down.covered legs and feet of the
owl.
The Herald, Of the 18th, contains nearly 1900
advertisements; Alb females want situations
ia people advertise for bosrders and dodgers.
Mankind has been learning for six thousand
years and yet how few have learned that their
fellow. beings are as good as themselves.-[Ex.i
Silver and golden anklets for ladies, to be worn
outside the stockings, are about coming into
fashion, says an exchange
Gen. Sheldon is the carpet bag candidate for
Congress from this district. His claims are dis
puted by the friends of Michael Hahn.
sweet sixteen, just back from Saratoga, says
there is nothing mean about her lover. The other
day he gave her ring worth $4,000.
Men frequently claim pity on the score of haV-
ing frequent calls upon their bounty. But Is be
not to be more commiserated who has but few op-
portunities of doing good.
Fastaff Hackett has made engagements to ap.
pear in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more and finally London, after having finished a
shooting expedition in the West.
Paul Morpby, the great chess player, sccomps-
MED by Mrs. Morphy and Miss Morphy, arrived
by the French steamer on Sunday. They are en-
route for New 0rleans.-tN. Y. Mail.
Adelina Patti, now Nine. Ia Marquise de Caux,
has bought a large lot on the Boulevard Alma,
where she lie going to have a residence built.
She paid thirty.fve thousand francs for the lot,
which was recorded In her own name.
prominent photographer of Pittsburg has been
arrested for libel, which consisted in manufacture
ing and circulating pictures Of the head Of we'll
known and respectable young lady of that city,
to which little boys body had been coupled.
What, says an exchange, makes blue silk so
popular that il is almost always chosen by writers
of fiction as the rsiment of their heroines which is
to be ruined by the spilIing Of coffee, lemonade,
preserves, ices and the like! Moreover if dam