The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-31

Governor Baker arrived IN lOWn recenuy'
Ristori met with poor success in Florence.
Minneso.a trappers are enjoying harvest.
This is the last day ofleap year, young ladies.
A peck of grapes will yield gallon of wine.
Busteed has no mercy for " rebels"
Morton IS too VI for the cabinet.
Grant favors the civil service bill.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company.
Porte Crsyon has gone to lyceum lecturng.
John Neal hes finished his autobiography.
"Sweet,n says Mrs. Darlington, are the uses
OF advertisements"
London has q Mormon church with one thous-
and members.
Concord, N. e., bes sugar maple. which has
been tapped LOG years.
lean Parl complains Of hirsute hast" at his
boarding house.
There are twenty correspondents of American
newspapers in Pals.
Forrest will do the muscular n Portland rhorily,
after an int. i'm Of more than thirty years.
The Houma Civic Gucrd is for sale for $1,000
cash.
There is a pleasant rumor that Miss Kellogg will
soon appear at our Opera House.
Fanny Fern would fain know how FL. G. con.
triyed to remain "beautiful forever"
The greatest marriage settlement in the world
-Utsh.-[Excbange.
Paas has q new paper called the Yellow
| Dwarf.
Richmond alreeiy has the first shad of the
| season.
Rows caused by drr"kerness are now called
"berz'ne explosions"
Major Gen. Alfred Gibbs DEED suddenly at Fort
Lesyenworth on the 26th.
People froze to death in New York Sunday
night.
We were RECALLED with thunder, lightning and
| rain last nigh.
New jersey Is the most Methodist State in the
Union.
! Two electioneeriug requirements - wind-bags
and money bags.-tJudy.
| A fellow out West put s'rychnine in the well
bucket. His mother-in-law lived with him.
Seward took Washington cook to Auburn TO
| get up bis Christine dinner.
After Mr.. Beecher has cleaned the bench he had
better scorr the pulpit.-[Boston Post.
| "Grand Duchess" Schneider made $40, 900 last
year.
Thanks to Senator Kellogg for valuable Con-
gressionsl documents.
Maurice Strakosch has been decorated with the
order of Medjidic by the sultan.
Mrs. Yelverton had to abandon her reading in
! Lexington for want of an audience.
There is no better manure for corn than cotton
seed in the hill.
Ledger Child has it telegraphed that he dined
with Longfelow in Rome.
Bonner's price for Dexter is about 500 900 00O
At least he says there is not money enough in
Wall street to buy him.
The Evening Press, q newspaper, is announced
in New York, that according to its prospectus
is to be Stree from journalistic dirt of any kind"
The Pound Table says country girls take to
riding horseback IS naturally cs Bostonian to
Emerson end cant.
Colfsx lad bail-tond ready for Bowles. II
wasa question of dinner with Schuyler and he
grew heroic.-lB Boston Post.
Beecher's son has been the victim of hszing'
sophomores at YALE who shaved his head in Bene
dictine fashion.
The Heerth and Home is the best advertised
paper in the world. Bonner must look to his
laurels.
The Herald hears q rumor that Grant will tender
to Butler the attorney -generaship, as peace Of
feri1g, and 10 get him out of Congress.
George Butler, nephew of Ben, went in search
of Bowles, and pointed him out to the officers who
arrested him. Bowles was not an admirer of
Uncle Zen.
Napoleon the Third recently refused to grant
an audience to Paul de Kook, who wished to beg
leave of him 10 dedicate his latest novel to his
majesty.
In Robert Bonner's stable, his horses are fed
from box in the floor, he believing that nature
intended they should take their food from the
level of their feet.
Geo. Ellis has the American Agriculturist for
January, the best work of the kind in the United
States, The Nation, Round Table, Sporting
Times and the Phunny Phellow.
John Paul calls bootbacks " those little sons
who shine for all y" aud answers the query,
"What are the wild waves saying ?" with Let
Us spray
Larkin Mead, who is ignorant of Italian, married
an Italian girl ignorant of English. The courtshp
was conducted by proxy and the telegraphy Of
eye and hand-pressure.
This, according to the World, is the way grocers
mustard" lie made Flour, 1862 pounds; rice
flour, $50 pounds cayenne pepper. 40 pounds
turmeric, l20 pounds. This, it will be seen, does
not contain particle of mustard.
A newborn male infant, says Mrs. Howe, will
easily be distinguished by its cry-it cries from its
lungs while the female cries from the throat. The
boy begins life with demand, the girl with q
complaint.
The London Times complains that the tene
ments for poor people, erected in London
through the munifcence Of Mr.. Peabody. are
rented at too high prices. and let to people in
comparatively comfortable circumstances.
In a recent French press trial, one of the law.
yers urged that there should be more calmness
and gravity in French politics, saying that in
America the people prepared themselves for an
election by several Gays of fasting.
Mr.. Richard Grant White, 10 his last Galaxy
article on ''The Use of Words. objects to calling
certain undergarment worn by ladies "che-
mise" He insists upon its original name of
| "shirt.n
Whenever European editors see an item of news
credited by The New York papers to the Homer
Iliad, of Louisiana. they invariably take 1t
as great jOke-instead of being very serious
| fact.
A Stratford Conn., dame. who keeps pet hens.
bad one Of them fy into her arms recently and
peck out one Of her false front teeth for kernel