The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-06
EDITokIAL PARAeRAPHs. ETC.


papers,
Somebody presented white dove to the
princess Of Wales when she landed in Ireland.
The La Grange Brignoli troupe are to be in
Nashville next week.
Scandal now accuses Disraeli Of fighting the
tiger.
The New York Mail wants Dickens gallery,
as well as Milton, Shakespeare and Scott gale
ries.
Gen. Buchanan has changed the day assigned
for the meeting of the Texas constitutional con-
yention from the 18th to the lst of June.
Fred. Douglass has been elected to deliver the
next annual address before the students of the In
diana State University.
There is some hesitancy about the appointment
Of Wilkes as one of the judges in the presiden.
tial race, as Wilkes has entered Grant.
The reason why faces are never seen in the win
dows OF insane asylums is, that the heads Of the
patients are turned.-[Ex.
late Boston paper states that there are yet
snow drifts five feet deep the stage road from
Shelburne falls to the town of Adams, in North
western Massachusetts,.
Admiral Semmes will deliver his lecture on the
Cruise of the Alabama" in the senate chamber
at Mechanics Institute, Dryades street, next Fri
day evening. See advertisement elsewhere.
In response 10 an appeal from Bishop Potter,
several of The first ladies' of New York city will
sing in an amateur concert in behalf OF the SUI.
fering at the South.
Carlos Pierce, ESQ.,, of Boston, has given a
$4,000 organ, one of the best in the country, to
the Metropolitan Methodist Church, In Washing
ton, d. G.
1t is suggested that, IL the Fenans intend to
kill off the royal family of England, they will
have an endless task, at the present rate of in.
crease.
A precocious boy Of seventeen summers has
been writing in Mrs. Stanton's Revolution against
the custom, somewhat prevalent among females,
of wearing corsets.
member of the British House of Commons
recently walked to his seat with wreath of red
tape on his brow. II was more expressive, and
possibly appropriate, than laurel.
A little more than a month ago, noted pundit
of Mobile hkened q vegetable in the Southern
market to John Browns soul-it was March
ingon.
A new visiting card has been introduced. 1t is
oval with the border cut into twelve points, bear
the numerals from to IL, to represent the hours
of the day. The visitor turns down the point in
dicatDg the time of the call
An Indiana paper proposes that hereafter, in.
stead of saying Let Us sing the Doxoogy," the
minister shall say, Let us put on overcoats, ad.
just furs, slip on gloves, seize our hats and be dis
missed"
Thirty conductors have been discharged within
few days by the Third Avenue Railroad Com
pany, New York, on account of a discrepancy
between their count of the number of passengers
aud the enumeration made by detectives employed
for the purpose.
new bonnet is offered for sale in Paris for
three cents. 1t is composed of thin pliable strips
of wood, reticuled like net. The interstices are
filed with very narrow ribbon. OF course the
trimmings are extra expense, and at the op.
ton of the wearer.
J. Brown, messenger of the Merchants Union
Express Company, was robbed by unknown
parties on nicholson railroad train, on the LIST,
OF $1,000 in gold and $1,000 in currency. The
thieves surprised and bound him at a point about
fifty miles from New York city, and he was found
nsensibe on the on its arrival there.
Somebody has actually stolen from foundry in
France lifesize statue in bronze of the emperor.
Perhaps the thief desired it for his private oratory
perhaps for the purposes to which Quilp devoted
the figure head which bore fatal likeness to Kit
perhaps he only wished to beat Butler.
The Memphis Avalanche, Of the 3d. devotes
over nine columns TO an account of memorial cere-
monies in honor of the Confederate dead in Elm
wood Cemetery, on the previous day. 1t gives
the names of nearly nine hundred Confederates
resting in that place, orations by Col. L. C.
Haynes and Col Moses White, and a poem by F.
Y. Rocket, read by COL Yerger.
A Scotch paper describes the present state OF
the farm at Craigenputtock, where Mr.. Carlyle
lived from 1877 TO 1884, and where he wrote the
best Of bis essays. He still owns the place. al
though he has only visited it twice since ne went up
TO London to live. His tenant admres him great.
ly, and shows letters from him written about the
management of the farm and in the language OF
ordinary people.
Here is a suggestive item from the Boston Trav.
eller "The persons who, at the opening of the
st. James, appropriated some silver skewers,
under the idea probably that they were har-pins,
respectfully requested to return the same, as
they were intended simply for the ornamentation |
of dishes, and not as gifts to the guests" Two |
Of the number taken have been already returned |
through the mail.
The London Times, which always does its best |
to interpret the average sentiment and coming
purposes of the English people, pronounces some |
sentences which will be read as the Meme, meme, |
tekel uphdrsin of the Irish Church. 1t declares
that the church is an illusion. That it is a false
limb, only held in its place by ligatures and ban
dages. That the Irish land.interest on one side,
and the English church interest.on the other, are
the two dogshores'' that still keep it on its mar
row aud rotten basis.
new tenor in London is ifty.three years old, |
and Echoes from-the Clubs declares that no living
tenor Of ihirtyfve can equal his vocal efforts
Rufit IN hat nal bo .Io
tenor's lungs are in much better condition than
bis liver. He has sunken eyes, swollen eyelids /
and cadaverous complexion, which, the critic |
pensivey adds, is the complexion to which we all |
must come at last.
Queen Victoria is most regular in attendance on
divine service, and notices the absence of any Of
her servants. On one occasion, at Balmoral, last
season, she asked one of her attendants on a
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