The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-09

Two serpepts in a Paris mensgerie attempted
to swallow the same cat. Their jaws met hall
way. when one Quietly solved tne oilncuiy oy
sv allowing both cat and snake.
The Cologne Gazette says that the Prussian
Government has orDidden the further celebration
Of the battle of Sadowa. not wishing TO offend the
Germanic countries that SIDED with austria;
Some of the old sristocratic families In Venice
are so poor that bnt for what little rent they get
from tourists for their diapidated palaces, they
would actually have to go to the poor house.
A project is on foot in England for line OF
swift steamers between ST. Johns, Newfoundland,
and Vslentis, ireland, by which the passage from
New York to London can be shortened to seven
days. -...-.-.-- -
N. Won Thiele, Bismarck's id interim success.
sor, is old gentleman Of very simple tastes,
who spends nearly all day at his OH 70. and is be-
eyed to be better versed in European diplomacy
han any other statesman on the continent.
The name of the private tutor Of the prince i'm
perial is Filon; but the young rogue, despite re-
peated castigations administered to him BY the
august hands of his imperial father, persists In
calling him Fiou," (rascal.)
In the contract between the emperor OF Aus
tria and the king Of Belgium, concerning the for.
tune of Macmillan and Csrlotts, IL is expressly
stipulated that the latter, if she should recover
the foil use OF her mental faculties shall never re-
turn to the court OF Vienna.
In the army of the grand duke Of Hesse Darn
stadt are two Americans who serve as second
lieutensnts. One Of them was brigadier gen
eral in the rebel army, and the other served 10
the United States navy during the early part Of
the war, but deserted in 1858.
An old painting which an American tourist al
Pisa purchased few days ago for q few scudi,
turns out to be enc Of Pietro Perugino's master
pieces, which was supposed to have been de-
stroyed at a conhagration in the sixteenth CEN
tuIy. 1t is worth at least thousand times as
much as the American tourist paid for IL.
Christina Nilsson, besides her talents as q canta-
tTice, is y first class violin player. In private
circles she often sings and accompanies herself on
Ck Il, - a.
concerts in the Tuiieries, although both the en-
peror and the empress urged her TO do so. She
lives in Paris on the fourth floor of house in the
Rue de Rivoli, with lady OF company.
Madame RstaZzi is at Ems, as coquette, dec0ue-
tee and good looking as ever. She swears dire
vengeance against Eugene, declares Victor EN-
manuel blockbead, and intimstes quite strongly
that Italy will be republic at no distant day,
when Nj. and Nine RatazEi will occupy the presi'
Dental mansion.
At all the dry goods stores in Berlin, where the
Princess Victoria buys goods, female clerks are
employed. This is done in compliance with the
special request Of her royal highness, whose
great hobby is the extension of female labor
beyond the narrow circle to which it is still
confined. r
The grand caravan which set out from Cairo for
Mecca with the holy carpet in the month OF Jan
uary returned TO Cairo on the 25th of June. IL
included 1913 pilgrims, hereafter having the right
to bear the honorable name of q hadji,n and l4Sl
snimals, chiefly camels. There are also thousands
who made the pilgrimage by the Red Sea from
Suez to Jeddah these had returned previously.
A letter from Madrid, of the 10th ult states that
notwithstanding the measures taken by the gov
erDmeDt, the situation OF things was not less crti
cal than before. rising was expected at any
moment. A considerable quantity Of arms had
been introduced into the country, and their place
of concealment is not yet discovered by the
police. ..-r
Among the basreliefs adjoining the pedestals
Of the statue erected honor of the Yankee Count
F1rl pfah 10 cd hal nj
ham Lincoln. Count RumfOrd is represented In
the unifor IN of Bayarian general, and his statue
| stands on Maximilisn street, by the side OF the
monument erected in honor Of the celebrated
| Frauenhofer, opposite the National Museum.
| Marie Simon, q noble lady of Dresden who dis
| PLAYED great deal of devotion and heroism dur
| ing the war of 1866, and was to be seen as good
sngel amidst all the horrors Of the cholera hos
pitfalls in Bohemia and MoTayia, lately received 8
| very valuable present and letter from the queen
| of Prussia, who called her in 1t the Florence
| Nightingale OF Germany. .
Thirty years ago, when King Christian, of Den.
mark, then a poor little German prince, fell in
love with lis wife, then still poorer but pretty
little countess, his parents told him that he must
! not disgrace himself by such q nleSdHidRce. How
ever he did so :" disgrace " himself, and the result
is that the poor little countess Is now considered
the most sensible, digni6ed and respectable lady
seated on any European throne.
The Danes are somewhat angry with their
crown prince for his great reluctance to q union
with the young Princess Louisa, OF Sweden. Ii
il strange that he should not like her, for she is a
very good looking dsmsel, well educated. sweet
| tempered and unassuming But the trouble is that
the crown prince has fallen in love with lady Of
the English sristocracy. His father has in con-
sequence forbidden him to make any more trips
to England.
Another winter OF starvation and distress seems
TO be in store for the poor people of East Prussia
| long continued drought has much reduced the
prospects Of good crop, and even partial
failure in this respect will lead TO q renewal of
last winters horrors, The East Prusssns are
| filed with the utmost gratitude toward the United
| States. Next to Germany, North America has
sent them more liberal assistance in their distress
than any other country In the world. France and
Russia did almost nothing for them. The COM
| psrativey largest contribution in money came
| from San Francisco.
| The old Archduchess Sophie, of Austria, Maxi
milan's mother. denounces the emperor of the
| French in unmessured terms for sending to Fran
| els Joseph the letters of Macmillan aud Carotta,
in which they call the present emperor Of Austria
| a weak headed man, and unfit to occupya throne.
II is the old srchduchess who has strenuOusly sd
vised the Empress Elizabeth not to 60 to Paris
and visit Eugenie On the whole, the relations
| prevailing between the Tuileries and the Vienna
| Hofburg are by no means as pleasant and friendly
| &c they seemed to be year ago.
| NJ. Viennet, the French academician, Is dead, at
| the age ofDinsty -one. He was peer az the time
| of Louis Philippe, and made himself remarkable
| by going TO the chamber as bourgeois 10 an
| omnibus, with an umbrella under his arm. He
wrote several fables and some tragedies. among
| others Clovis " and Constantin." He was
grand master OF the French Free Masons Of the
Scotch rite, and took a leading and success full
| part some years ago against the project of the
government to amalgamste them with the Grand
| Orient
The Vienna Presse has the following anecdote
One of the principal citizens Of Prague is q GER
tain DR.. N, well known for his eccentricity. The
doctor headed a deputation TO the Prince Nspo-
icon on his recent visit, and commenced his
harangue by saying: al had rather address
your imperial highness in bad French than in
good German, and wish you to understand that
| am not here merely for the sake Of saying
have spoken to Prince Napoleon" Here the
prince interrupted him by saying, laughingly
4" | understand perfectly; you have had the kind
ness TO come here in order that might have the
honor of saying have spoken to DR.. NJ
The Florence correspondent of an English paper
describes an extraordinary religious riot whict
recently took place in Lodi. The bishop, mem
Der Of the noble family Of the Bengalia died a
the age OF 100 years. The corpse Of the vene
rsble prelate was, according TO his own directions
TO be conveyed for interment TO a private family
I -. - L II D.. D.