The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-18
EDITORIAL PAkAGKAFHs,E ETC.
Dick Busted is out for Chase.

W. D. Mann, of the Mobile Register, refuses to
again notice the editor of the Tribune in print.
A jewel of woman needs no jewelry for orna-
menL-[Ex.
New Workers spend $4,000 every Sunday at
Hoboken.
Gwenty-one Harvard students have been fined
for drunkenness.
There are six State banks remaining in Connec-
tieut.
A bride in New York, last week, received $780,
GOO os a wedding present from her father.
When is a woman's hair like q swans breast?
When it is down.-[Ex.
Spectscles are now the rage among the fash.
ionsble bellies Of New York.
How long does q widow mourn for her husband?
She nouns for a second.-[EX.
The West Point cadets Lave donned their white
unwhisperables."
Twelve white tulle skirts are necessary to a
fashionable evening dress.
new hotel in New York is to have perfumed
napkins.
Mr.. Belmont drove a very handsome fourin-
hand establishment at the races.
Saneuinary revolution Circulation of the
blOOd.-[Ex.
What is the worst kind of husbandry? When a
man in clover marries a woman in weeds. lex.
See, in Southern news the letter of General
Stone declining to be nominee for Office in Viz.
ginis.
Somebody wanted TO know yesterday what was
the last hobby Butler had ridden. The answer
was: TIE Wooley horse.
The New York city council attended the funeral
of the late ex.pIesdent at the expense of the cor
porston.
W H. Seward, jr., and family are in New York,
having come all the way from Auburn in their own
carriage.
The cost Of breakfast for one hundred and
thirty persons. at the New York station houses, is
ten dollars
Captain Ward Nichols, Of 'Sherman's March
TO the Sea- nOtoriety, was married recently to
the Cincinnati heiress, Miss Longworth.
RumOT has it that Patti has accepted an engage
ment TO appear in New York for one month dur.
ing the coming winter.
An eminent painter, on being asked what he
mixed bis colOrs with 10 give fine an effect, an
swered, 81 mix them with brains, sir.n
1t is said that should Mr.. Home be allowed to
retain Mrs. Lyons money. he means to bestow it
in charity. The charity that begins at Home.
Punch.
George Ellis, bookseller and stationer, No. 7
Old Levee street, opposite the PostofIice, has
Godey's Lady's Book aud Demorest's Monthly
Magazine. for July.
The Holmesville Miss Independent inquiries of
us as to the modus operandi Of tapping key OF
beer. If somebody would send him keg we
venture to say that he would manage to get at
the contents without any instructions from Us.
"We must study economy, Lorenzo, my A."
says prudent father to his impecunious offspring
." should think you would have learned it by
heart by this time" aptly retorted the unfiIial
Lorenzo.
We have no space to print all the fattering &C.
counts of the crops. When We find anything ad.
verse we will let our readers know. The rural
press ubilant over the promises of plenty which
cover the earth.
Some gushing visionary says matrimony is hot
buckwheat cakes. warm beds, comfortable slip.
pers, smoking coffee, round arms red lips, Find
words shirts exuting in buttons, redeemed
stockings, bootjacks. happiness, etc.
A. Heads Summer House of Refuge" as he
calls it, located in Artemus Wards native town,
has just been destroyed by fire. Head says he
can't take such matter cooley, and that his cal.
culations foI this season, at least, have ended in
smoke!
The American innovation of establishing com
munication between railway carriages and the
locomotive doesn't work well ia England. Fool.
ish people will ring the bell "for a joke" and
"out Of curiosity" until it becomes a nui.
sauce.
Porcelain made 10 Worcester, England, is com.
posed of granite from Cornwall, f ut from some
chalk district Norwegian spar, and bones. which.
o. course, may come from any agricultural dis
trict. Granite, flint, bones and spar are calcined.
then ground separately 10 water to an impalpabe
powder with stones.
Plums, potatoes, snap. beans, etc., come 10 the
porrirger Of the Greensburg Star editor, and he
Acknowledges them in his usual eloquent manner.
For instance:
We have been honored With basket of plums
from lady friend which were very uice and
delicious We have from the garden OF D.
Sutton most singular potato, OF the Irish kind
lie potato beng very large IN size measuring
fifteen inches in circumstances. having fge other
potatoes attached to the main body, forming and
sking one OF the most singular constructed po-
taiUes VI ever saw.-Ne have received from
the garden Of Mr.. John Brewer one of the largest
AMI longest snap-beans we ever saw, measuring
eleven inches IN length.
We are indebted TO Mr.. Weston, Of the steamer
Nina SHINES, for a remarkable example Of the
freaks Of nature in the shape Of potato bearing
a striking resemblance to the head and trunk Of A
human body, more especially as portrayed in East
Indian idols. Joined TO the lower end OF the trunk
are three leg-lke protubersbces upon which it
can be made to stand erect. The head Is large
bread and stikingiy developed, and the features
of The face are more or less distinctly outlined
1be outlines Of the shoulder blades are distinctly
recognizable but the figure is armess. Distorted
suggestions Of other organs are also observable
on this curious product Of the vegetable kingdom.
1t can be seen at the CKEsoENT Office.
The YicksbBrg Times of Tuesday came out in
entire mourning en- account OF the order of Gen.
Mcdowell removing the governor and attorney
general OF Mississippi It devotes several columns
to indignant denuncistons Of the act; calls Nc.
Dowell I" an ignorant and vulgar despot" and "a
pauper from the charity school Of the nation"
and says We devoutly pray that the Almighty |
God may blast with his just anger the man who
has dared to pollute the sanctuary of freedom,
and deseorste the affairs Of liberty" The Times |
10th 20. q