The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-25
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. FRO.

Chicago cuts up It's porkers with circular saws.
Mr.. Yelyerton Is at Cincinnati.
Collecting buttons Is the latest mania.
Barnum has purchased another horse to brsg
about. His name is Bruno.
The widow of Gov. Murrsh died near Tyler,
Texas. recently.
After Grant; what for! An ofice.-[ Boston
Pot.
velocipede sleeve buttons, in bronze. are the
latest novelty.
Switzerland manufactures 900 francs
worth of watches annually.
Mount Vesuvius. No, thank you; we'd rather
not at the present moment Judy.
The Hotel Rothschild is the house where Napo-
leon III was born.
We were unable to get any mail from the Post
Office last night
A delicate and almost imperceptible cough Is
said to be the fashionable affection this season.
Sylvsnus Cobb has two brothers (twinsl who,
as artists paint on the same likeness or work on
the same bust.
The first advertisement was inserted in Lon
don newspaper in l64s, and parliamentary report
ing had its origin in l64l.
The World says s54 GOO, 900 are annually lost by
consumers in New York through false weights
and measures and authorizations.
New York oil prince recently presented to
newly-married daughter service of gold costing
$4,000
Bishop EastbuIn, of Massachusetts, issues an
emphatic protest to his clergy against the 'popish
practices" that pertain to rituasm.
Dexter is now driven on the road without blind.
ers. The more he sees the more quietly be be-
HAYES.
1t is said Barnum will enter q horse for the
Derby, but Barnum denies that he is to open q
museum in London.
At the recent election in Boston. Samuel May,
aged 80, and Charles Sprsgue, the poet aud
banker, nearly so years Of age, appeared at the
polls and voted for Moses Kimball.
The Chicago Times recommends that the war
rors on both sides of the " late unpleasantness,"
federal and Confederate, be invited to meet to-
eether, Generals Lee and Sherman jointly pre-
siding over the assemblage.
The New York Tribune says over 100000 of
public money have been expended in carrying
electioneering documents through the mails under
congressional franks, and asks: How do tax
payers relish this feature of our expenditures"
Ex-Queen Isabella makes herself quite at home
in Paris, and is frequently seen in the streets
walking in company of friends or her family, and
followed by two footmen wearing the French i'm.
persl livery.
At Quincy, III is a German with curious blood
msrk. 1t is perfect deer. about the size of sill
yer dollar, and on his right cheek. TIE form and
outline Of the deer are as perfect as could be
drawn by an artist, and show deer in the at Of
leaping.
toy which causes much amusement at dinner
of fna 6oia n ,wara laid OF
the plate of each guest. Touching spring in the
handle. mp flies in the midst of the flowers some
grotesque figure like Jackn the-box. Such toys
were fashionable in England a century ago or
more.
In his lecture on the lost arts, Wendell Phil.
lips says that of some three hundred dis
tinguishsbe stories published In the English lam
gusge, the plots of fully two hundred and fifty
were invented thousands of years before the
Christian era Newspaper jokes, he says. are of re.
msrkstle antiquity. The stories put on the Irish
are mostly all Greek stories. Joe Miller's jokes,
instead of beirg two hundred years old. are folly
two thousand years old. he next in turn showed
the antiquity CT glass. the telescope, the steam
engine, making steel from iron, the balloon,
tombstone, electric telegraph, revolving pistols.
breech.losding guns and other inventions. He,
ia fact, could find nothing-not even sherry
cobblers, which were made 10 the time Of Aristo-
phanes-new under the sun except the daguer-
reotype and the printing press.
Our Greensburg contemporary has taken the lead
N moral homily appropriate to the approach.
ing close of the year. "Before another regular
edition of cur journal comes fourth" sadly OBJ.
serves that paper, "ls6s will be passed by, and
-.itl a. Ard uho
where aud what this people will be at the close OF
another twelve months? Will that time find us
lowered together enjoying the lovely blessings Of
a sweet and prosperous life among friends and
kindred? Or will we be scattered far apart away
from friends and relatives, where there is no kind
parents, sister or brother to lend comforting
hand to soothe or for their wants ~ If these
are conundrums, and they are p' opposed to Us fol
solution, we must be pardoned for giving them
up. Does not the interrogation himself immedi
ately add: "In all probability God only kaows.'
We are free TO agree with the writer that the
coming year may be one of the brightest that this
present generation ever passed through, or on the
other hand one of the worst, for" to continue the
question, although we don't quite appreciate tht
force of the argument, "there must be a reaction
take place in the production of the soil, although
our people have no right to complain, generally
speaking their labors have been well blessed, ant
the farmers are very well provided for, and have
enough to carry them amply through another
year" In conclusion, our philosopher reviews
the past and he finds 'that the only true way o.
reaching success that we must inculcate the prin
ciples that we are to be guided by; we must mak'
our course an onward one, and never retrack, bu
steer our course in the future, and by so doing
we regain the loss.' Certainly, of course!