The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-08

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph of the lth instant
says: The millions of surplus money now being
received at Macon and in Middle Georgia for the
cotton crop of 1865, must find employment. It
cannot be more probably invested than in real
estate in Macon. We need more cotton factories,
we need pillow factory, we need factories for tn
manufacture Of farming implements generally.
Now, If ever, these things will pay. The negro
has gone by the board as matter of money, and
we must now find another channel into which 70
direct our surplus capital. What shall we do
with it, wise man will not bury his gold,
Except In time of I" bummers,") but will put 1t
out at interest, and WHINE he labors with his
hand his money will bring him In an income"
The other day chap was seen In the street
with an empty csrpetbag. He came from the
other side of the Potomac and wants to 90 back.
He'll fill that bag before he leAves. Look sharp
after your old clothes.-[ Brownsville Sentinel.
Within four hours ride of Montreal by rail there
is colony Of from 10000 to Is 600 Highlanders.
The county of GleDgarry. on the eastern frontier
of Upper Canada is full of them. In the back settle
ments they retain their ancient language sing their
ancient language, sing their Gaelic sings, and have
their Gaelic preaching. About half of them are
Catholic and half Protestant. The Glengarry
men are renowned for their size and strength. Il
is said that the townships Of Kenyon and Lochiel
alone could turn out thousand Highanders-not
o man OF them under SIX feet In his stockings.
The shoddy and gunboat millionaires get crack
from wise thinker, who declares that when .
civil war pushes to the front q man who has been
among the baggage ell his life, and he builds o
castle in the air with q French roof and q tower
opposite the old gambre roof which sheltered his
youth, his old neighbors hug themselves and say,
" 10 be sure il lie nothing sganst him that bis grand
mother died 10 the poorhouse and his mother was
no better than she should be.'
The ex Queen of Spain left behind her 176 car
risges, several splendid Arab and English horses,
well as the finest collection of mules In Europe.
One vehicle, that which annually conveyed her
majesty to the opening of the cortes. is marvel
ous specimen Of gliding and carving. .Jr-
An lrishman wishing to express his idea Of the
inexhaust'ble supply Of fish In the Irish waters,
sid: !" There are 40 many fish in the sea that II
you we're TO take every fish you could catch out Of
Il, be didn't think there would be one less In -
Near Lake .Chatsuque, In Western New York,
remarkable as the highest navigsble water in the
United States, stands q barn. from the northern
slant Of whose roof the water flows toward Lake
Erie. and thence BY Niagara, Lake Ontario and
the St. Lawrence into the Gulf OF st. Lawrence,
while from the other side Of the roof IL runs by
way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. into the
Gulf of Mexico-twenty degrees Of latitude 10 the
destination OF drop depending upon the variation
Niebuhr saws that brandy was known TO the
ancient Egyptians and that the whole process of
dstillation may be seen pictured on their monu-
ments. Xenopbon speaks Of q wine made Of bar
ley, which was used by certain people whom
the ten thousand Greeks met In their retreat. He
says that 1t was bitter, and that the Greeks did
not at first like it, but after short time came to
be very fond IL. This barley wine must have
greatly resembled our ale, a. well 10 its formation
as in the mode in which one learned to like 1t.
There Is nothing like civilization to cultivate the
natural man. .i.o rfs rr-
Alloys of metals used in Paris for the manu.
facture Of spoons and forks have recently been
subjected to analysis BY German chemist. The
first metal, . beautiful yellow alloy, Is aluminium
bronze, and Ia composed Of 1913 parts OF copper
end los parts Of aluminium. The second Is also
q understanding alloy, and has been named
1905 parts Of zinc g oe psrts a. pictei viii q %
parts Of iron and 90 parts of tin. The two last
named are probably accidental ingredients. The
third Ia beautiful white. metal, very hard and
taking beautiful polish. II IL composed Of 69.8
parts Of copper, 1913 Psxts Of nickel, 5.5 Of xino
and Al Of cadmium.