The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-19
EDrToKIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

The French prick essences into unripe apples.
SAKE has given mp the idea of going abroad.
Bah returns to Florence in October.
Crimson umbrellas are the fashion 10 Berlin.
Grau has gone to Newport with his troupe.
Vim. G. Annis has left the Feciana Ledger.
There is no Sunday in Saratoga.
Long Branch has Puritan Sunday.
Boucicsult's last play is After Dark"
blackbird in Legion, Mass, roosts with the
chickens.
A basket containing three thousand different va.
rieties of the rose, has been given to Eugene.
The Chinese are delighted with our labor saving
machines.
Emerson says there is nothing to be obtained
abroad which cannot be had at home.
800 lbs. sword fish are caught on the coast of
Maine.
Mount Hood, Oregon, shows symptoms of a new
eruption.
Does vegetable diet produce turn.up noses or
carroty haTl-IEx.
An old portrait by the elder Peale sold in New
York day or two ago for $500.
1t is said DR.. Hamilton, bishop Of Salisbury, has
turned Catholic.
Louis Napoleon has just been purchasing hay
in New York, and war is predicted.
Breakfast coats of white linen are worn by the
gentlemen at Newport.
Psrssols Of wood, painted to represent pea.
cocks feathers, are now in vogue in New York.
Sacks of lace are both stylish and fashionable at
the watering places.
Bierstadt has sent home new pcture-a view
on the Tuoumne river, Oregon.
France has had fall Of white butterflies, like
q snow shower.
Pony, dog, goat, aud donkey teams are ali the
rage at Newport.
Gen. Buckner and his lovely daughter are re.
ported at the st. Nicholas Hotel, New York.
The Waleses are going to Scotland for the
shooting SEASON, and thereafter to Denmark.
We learn from the North that creole women OF
New Orleans are forming soroses.
The queen will return to Windsor Castle the
first of next month. The crown prince and Prin.
cess of Prussia are to visit England soon after.
John E. Owens is about to leave for California,
where paying engagement awaits him. A safe
voyage and speedy return. glorious john
Speaking of newspaper discussion concerning
milk, Punch says the best article on milk is
cream.
The tiger skin mantle formerly worn at Saratoga
by John Mcrrissey has fallen upon the shoulders
of Geo. fill.
Women are making living and curing them.
selves of sickness by cultivating with their own
hands small farms at Yinelsnd, NJ.
The little folks at Anderson, Texas, have been
treated TO a tournament by the kindness Of Mr..
and Mrs. CsusthOrn.
One Of the handsomest equipages at Newport
is owned by gentleman who five years ago was
fireman on one of the river steamboats,.
Arm.in.s arm the ladies' perambulate the piazzas
of the West Point hotels, on the watch for stray
cadet.
Dickens is in ecstasies over American oysters
Thackeray said he would as soon swallow a dead
baby!
Buttermilk is said TO be an excellent remedy
for the govt; but it requires five gallons day for
ten years TO cure man.-lEx.
Clark Mills is engaged upon the colossal figures
for the great Lincoln monument at Washington,
at his studio in Blsdensburg.
The New York Mail says The ladies have
substituted French gilt almost entirely for gold
jewelTy.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company, and
the officers of the steamers Reindeer, W. G. Rewes
and Josephine.
Mrs. August Belmont drives a lovely pair of
$4,000 cream-colored ponies in low basket phae-
ton.
bore is now ascertained to be man who does
not agree with in opinion Of ourselves; while
q fool is an impatient coxcOmb who prefers to do
his own thiDking.-lN. Y. Com.
The 22d regiment, New York crack corps,
have gone into camp at Long Branch, after the
Wimbledon, England. model. They will have rife
shooting and dancing.
Women naturally resent the charge that they
are wholly absorbed in clothes. We very fire.
quently meet women in society who, if not above
dressing, are far above dresses-[N. Y. Common.
wealth.
citizen of walthsm, Mass, has in his posses.
sion a lock of hair taken from the head of Martha
Washington by the wife Of Rev. John Murray, the
founder of Universslism in this country.
Does propriety allow a fashionable gentleman
to appear without wsistcoat when the mercury
is at go! is the question. That may depend upon
the extent, smoothness and wilderness of the shirt
'front.' and the beauty of the suspenders.-[ Boston
paper.
A Saratoga clergyman gave notice that he
should preach on the Race " few Sundays ago.
He was rather more sensational than a clergym an
of this city who recently refrsined from delivering
prepared sermon on Election" for fear of ex.
citing remark.
"Cousin Nourma" writes to the Pic. that the
instant a lady places her hand against a tree on
Nnlcn katIul0 Is singing, the insect ceases its
noise. A male persons touch does not make it
cease so suddenly, though by waiting short time
the same effect is produced.
John McInnis, the attorney appointed by Gen.
GilIem for the Lauderdale district, in Mississippi,
spells jurors with 9, term tedrnl, Johnston with
a g. each catch, district destrick, uses small and
capital letters without regard to settled rules and
is. in short, thoroughly illterate and incompe.
tent donkey.
Mrs. Stanton, in speaking of visiting English
clergyman, says one of his greatest trials in his
profession has been the ordinance Of baptism-as
he could never learn to hold baby. Mrs. Stanton
suggests if it would not be well to have female
prOfessorship to train young divines to these
graceful duties.
Newport air, it is said, improves the complex.
ion wonderfully. gentleman relates that while
walking past one of the prominent hotels at mid.
night he saw several young ladies. sound asleep,
with their heads on the window sill and the win.
dow shut down on their necks TO keep them from
falling out. We are not responsible, however
for the truth Of this story Mail.