The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-03
Ghs Sew Orleans Grsstsnt.
Editorial Paragraphs. Etc.

editorial Paragraph, Etc.
January /, 1863 was a rarely glorious day.
Dickens is going to Buffalo and Hartford.
Eugenie doesn't play the piano.
Black hair is to succeed golden.
Cincinnati has a city soup house.
Mast, the Harper artist, has made 900.
New York proposes to raise a regiment for the
pope.
Thanks to the officers Of the Frances for Mobile
papers.
Russian magnates are sitting on the Eastern
question in st. Petersburg.
The Peak Family are ringing their bells in Gin
cinnsti.
A pleasing Arabian jugger in Paris skewers
out one Of his eyes.
Governor Swami is after Reverdy Johnson's
place.
Grant is said to have urged the removal of
Ord
It Is said Grant was opposed to the removal Of
Pope.
The dead letter Office has 10, 900 photographs of
Union soldiers.
II is said Prince Alfred has gone into the paper
making business in Australia.
10000 copies Of the first number Of the revived
Putnam were sold.
Grace Greenwood prefers negro to woman suf.
frsge.
There is said to be great demand for ministers
all over the country.
The best ship carpenters on the Merrimac get
but 81 % per day.
1t is said John Browns brother has become
member Of Prince Leopold's household.
The immigration Of 1867 was 10000 larger than
that of 1866. .........
The telegraph reports five cases of down
ing of skaters on the LIST.
Prime, of the journal OF Commerce. has been
trOutiDg up in New Hampshire.
The funeral of Gen. Griffin is tastefuly referred
to as a "f fine display"
Eighty millions of people crossed the New York
ferries last year.
Gold and wheat are lower than they were a
year ago.
An exchange thinks five meals day better for
dy-peptics than two. a
The Philadelphia bootblacks were treated.to'a
free Christmas dinner in the Ledger press-room.
A New Yorker has ordered $36, 900 gold and
silver dining set.
Beecher viii not give readings from "Nor.
wood World.
jenkins dscloses the awful fact that some
houses on Fifth avenue do not have the two upper
stories furnished.
would pay the national debt if sold by the pound
at current rates.
A gentleman is now in the West securing eight
thousand partridges to stock Berks county, Penn.
sylvania.
The bones of the great Whitfield rest under
church at NewburypOrt, Mass. The skull is in
perfect state of preservation.
A venerable gentleman of our acquaintance
made upward of eighty calls Wednesday, travel
ing chiefly upon his muscle.
Russia is TO have 10000 Borden rifles turned out
at Hartford and Prussia hundred Calling revoly-
ing cannon.
Having a cold, the other night, Dickens ex-
planned the matter to his audience by distributing
cards through the seats.
Raymond says he would not exclude any man
from voting simply because he is back !; but
neither would he admit men to vote merely be-
cause they are black.
A great degree Of skepticism has been enter
tanned in regard to the mode Of supplying brinde,
or raw meat, to the guests of the fashionable
parties at GOndsr, the capital Of Abyss nia.
When the company are seated at the table, a COW
or bull IL brought to the door and his feet tied
Two or three servants are then employed, who,
as fast as they can procure brinde lay it on cakes
Of tef. The company are SO ranged that gen.
teman is placed between two ladies. No man of
any fashion feeds himself. The ladies cut the
brinde, and lay it upon piece of tsff bread and
then powder it with pepper and salt, and wrap
il up like cartridge. The one whose cartridge
is first ready then stufs it in his jaws, at the risk
Of choking him, and until he is satisfied.
And in gratitude 10 the fair ones who have fed
him, he makes up two small rolls of the same
form, each of the ladies opens her mouth at once
while with his own hands he gives portion to