The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-07
EDrroRIAL PARAskAPns. ETC.

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The European steamers took away $4,000 In
| specie on Wednesday.
| The managers ought 70 file their speeches
That is the only way they can give them point.
Ikxchange.
A blue nose is on exhibition in Cincinnati.
lDctrois Post.
For nose read rose.
AT the Boston musical festival this week there
will be seven hundred voices. Including Pare
| pas and an orchestra Of one hundred.
Miss Romer, the English prima donna, died at
Margate on the l4th, in her 54th year. She had
retired from the siege for some years.
| Among the gifts at a recent wooden wedding at
the North, was fashionable bonnet made Of
shavings.
Mr.. Freeman, a pure-blooded Yankee, is
making stir in Germany actor in German
plays. He has got the lingo like q native.
Gen. Conora has levied 100000 black mail
upon the merchants at Mazatlan. He gives them
two weeks to come to time.
1t is becoming very fashionable for young ladies
OF the ton to take an early horseback ride around
the Central Park in New York, accompanied by a
| groom in velveteen tights and high top boots.
S. C. Herring, the safe manufacturer, has q
horse, six years old, nineteen hands high, and
weighing one ton. 1t comes of Canadian stock,
| and is said to be the largest horse in America.
A Sandusky mother recently reproved her three
year-oldster for eating cicles. The analytical in
FAINT replied didn't eat 'em, mamma, dust
sucked the juice out Of 'em."
man in Minnesota entered a newspaper office
and paid for an advertisement Of his lost dog. As
he turned to depart, the missing canine met him
at the door. Another instance of the marvellous
| power of advertising.
paper dealing firm in New York has nine
ledgeTs containing copies Of letters written dur
ing the revolution, by the war and navy depart
ments, for which they demand $500. The books
were originally sold for waste paper.
| In Roxbury, Mass, a cradle and coffin fac
| tory are located side by side. The name of the
town may, perhaps, account for this co-incident
| Rox standing for the cradles and bury for cot
Disraeli is not Jew, according to the Jewish
Chronicle. His father and mother were. but his
father seeded from his synagogue when Dizzy
was child, and didn't train him up in the way
the Chronicle thinks be should go.
lady was urged by her friends to marry q
widower, and as an argument they spoke of
his two beautiful children. 4" Children" replied
the lady, "are like toothpicks. A person wants
| her own"
Washington dispatch to the Cincinnati En-
qurer, says it is whispered among radical leaders
that an effort will be made in the Chicago conven-
ton TO throw Gen. Grant overheard, as the late
elections have proven him a dead weight on the
party.
French historian, prosecuting his labors
among all classes, called upon very aged peas.
ant and inquired if he noticed any great changes
since the revolution. "No," was the reply,
"only In my youth we had no umbrellas, and now
everybody has one."
The Cleveland Plaindealer says: ait is re-
ported that Mrs. Ben Wade has been making
large additions to her wardrobe, purchasing them
at one of the fashionable dry goods houses of
this city, in expectation of becoming at an early
day, the mistress of the White House,
The latest testimony in the Judd divorce case,
in New Haven, was much of it too indecent for
publication, and would make out Mrs. Judd a
perfect prodigy of corruption. The witnesses
testify to gross indecencies with half dozen
men, and worse than that with two or three.
One thing is certainly proved-that the minis
ter and his wife, and all their connections. are
q wretchedly uncomfortable and disgusting set.
"a leap year party was given at Fortress
Monroe last week, to which each lady was priyi-
legged to invite two gentlemen. The ladies' were
particular in the arrangement OF the gentlemen's
dressing room, and provided fullength mirrors,
combs, brushes, hair pins, pearl. pc wder perfume,
rouge and other articles presumed to be necessary
to gentleman's toilet. The ladies escorted the
gentlemen to the ball, and saw them safely home
after the party.
The health Of the Archduchess Csrlotta con.
tnues to improve SO steadily that the best results
are looked for. With the exception Of certain
fits Of sullenness, which are becoming less fire..
A.
malady from which she has been suffering. She
sleeps well, and her appetite has returned, and
with this taste for study. She passes almost
the entire day in her reading aud writing room,
and receives no one except members Of the royal
family.
T. 7. invariably announces additions TO his own
family in his own Independent. On one occasion
he made the fact the topic of bis religious leader
Now he publishes similar tidngs about other
pious people. The REV. Calvin Fairbank." of
Williamsburg, Mass, who should seem to be a
donkey after 7. It's own heart writes to the Inde
pendent for publication, delicate note that his
precious wife, after suffering eleven hours from
III O'Clock P. NJ. yesterday TO 10 O'Clock A. N. to-
day, gave birth 70 q son, which opened the future
before us, letting in the sunshine of PROMISE
And the Independent publishes the same
NE. YORK Word
George Augustus Ssls writes 4" have a nice
little Paris scandal at your service. The Marquis
de Wy went one day to see one OF the leaders
Of the Society Of the Hemisphere, and on coming
out he could not find his servant. Coupe and
horse were there, but servant. He walked
about for ten minutes, and then fancied he heard
voice in the coupe, the blinds of which he no.
ticed were down. 'Qudrante de cocOtes,' said
voice within. He pulled open the door. and found
his coachman playing bezique with q lady in a
fouldrd, who was in fact, both the mother and the
msid-of-sll-work Of the lady of the house. So
strange are the contrasts in Paris lfe.n
correspondent who Witnessed the landing Of
the prince and princess Of Wales in Ireland,
says: /" Her royal highness. though somewhat
pale, looked very bright and cheerful, with the
same sweet, child like smile upon her fair young
face which won the hearts Of Londoners when
they first looked upon her five years ago. She
wore dress and jacket of mduue colored tabinet