The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-23


reach this country right away, having been cast |
ashore on the Jutland coast.
Jouappe abe author of q French manual OF geo
grsphy to which s s9s s.s Dras ssys that
cipnati IL stsmall town on the ONO nven, -
Iouis Geiman settlement, and Principany 1o.eo
l 10 America and. next to New York the most con-
siderable tAvn In the United States"
Iaboulsye has been informed by the ministers
public nsuction that he VIII no ,oogeFF Francs on
the history Of the American CONSTITUTION. Oer
tain senators of the empire complained fourye
ago Of the tone Of Laboulaye's lectures, do;0e q,
Enfantink Carrier. leading dent-neonddnse, Oh
Paris received as birthday gift from ner pro-
fector,n O. rich English lord, pearl consr worm
leo 600 friDcs, pearl brooch worth zo,ooV rasues
and pearl ear. drops worth $4,000 francs. ms Is
believed 10 be the most expensive present ever
given to one Of these rapacious women. -,
The French prince imperial was desired py ms
mother to ask the wife Of the preie1, Msaahe
spent few evenings ago at the Casino at Bis lar
.ssos, - VI ssvs 7>n-ss paasad to hava-bad
he liked dancing, al prefer riding" was his
The French Court is very angry with the crown
prince Of Italy for not taking his young wife to
Fontainebleau and Paris, but visiting the Ger:
man watering places with her. The motive OF
Prince Humbert in giving wide berth to Paris,
however was not desire to slight the imperial
court, but to keep out of the clutches OF his
French creditors, to whom he owes ABOUT I'VE
hundred thousand francs. He spent that sum dur.
ing his sojourn in Paris last year, and he will not
be able to pay it until he ascends the Italian
throne.
Madame Gueymard to whom the Grand Opera of
Paris paid ninety thousand francs year, the law
yer of her husband stated that she had been mar
ried four times before, and that none OF her hus-
bands had been able to live with her. He admit
ted that his client had repeatedly horse whipped
her. but he claimed that there was absolutely no
other way of managing her. The husband, 1t was
proved In court, one evening locked tne aoor OF
her dressing room and whipped her for dve min
utes. She did not utter scream, but went i'm.
mediately after on the stage and sung her part as
If nothing had happened.
Christina Nilsson receives now larger salary
than Adehna Patti. One OF her enthusiastic ad-
mirers has calculated that che receives franc for
every note she sings In Paris She refuses to sing
at private concerts for less than five thousand
frances Adeina Patti received fifteen hundred
and twenty-five hundred francs for singing at sot.
until last year, when Strakosch declared that
she would not sing anywhere for less than tnree
thousand francs. Nilsson has no manager. but
attends herself to all her financial affairs. lrma de
Mursks the rising star at the Paris Grand Opera,
ii Is believed will soon eclipse Christina Nilsson.
She is fair-haired, somewhat robust beauty,
whose inseparabe companion Is huge New:
foundland dog, who follows Der everywhere, and
lies in her dressing room, at the theater, while she
Paris Maya zine contains the following item !:
MADAME lincoln, widow Of the late president OF
the United States, is travelling through France IN
order to take up her abode at Nice. We DO not
know If the honors to which she is entitled as the
widow of great citizen, have been paid to her in
our country. ALI If Madame Lincoln only were
Japanese But, unfortunately, everybody is
Ore of the Spanish infantas Is married to a
young poet Of very Indifferent ability, and said to
be the son Of a peddler in Havana. She made the
acquaintance Of this young man through one oil
her maids fell In love with him, and ran away
with him. There was no help for 1t, and the
uueen though very much incensed at the two
young lovers, consented to their union. They are
said to live very happily with one another: and
the iufanta for wonder, is pattern OF conJuga
Two Germans from Ohio, John Angeier and
Henry Bester, recently returned to their native
town of Ssarlous, and gave public dinner u
I've hundred persons. Every guest received {
bottle of wine, and the entertainment was TIT
handsome st that took place In that town for many
years past Most Of the inhabitants Of Saarloui
now want to emigrate TO America, where thei
two liberal fellowcitizens have made 80 muci
mcpey.
purchased the village of Busseto, where he wa
born, and large estate in the vicinity, over thre
leagues in extent. He caused q theater to b
bniit at his expense in the village, and at thi
tbeater free performances are given 70 tne peas
for "Nabucco," his first opera that was not Missed
was invested in the purchase of the house whic
had belonged to his parents.
in case the step father of the Marquis de eau
should die during the lifetime Of the lstter-o
Which there is not much probability, because tn
MARQUIS is about as old as his tepfather, and no
rear as vigorous as the latter-Adeiina fa'u "oui
Ks,koff the editor.in-c6ief of the Moscow Gaz
ettee. receives salary of 10 900 silver rubles, an
lives in q house which the proprietors OF the pape
he is considered the msst influential man in Russia
newly invented armor plating was recent
the subject Of interesting experiments In To
presence # the Emperor Napoleon III. The sat-
Gov attn nj fa In ma n
5fbers and woven Fabric and is compressed b.
the action of powerful machinery until it become
"a solid as cast metal. At the trial 1t was teste
both as q coating for ships and q breast plate
The Chassepot gun, it Is stated, could not pen.
trate the felt, and revolver discharged close
the surface produced no effect The emperor,
il reported, has given orders for trial OF IN
substance on q large scale, so as to ascertain i
applicability to ships OF war.
Among the many silly things which the poop
of Cardiff perpetrated by way Of celebrating Il
arrival of Lord Butte at his majority, was the e.
hibition Of performing goat, which had bee
taught TO pick out from an alphabet strewed abo
the floor the letters U Z, and from numero'
figures and ciphers the number 100000, whit
represents the msrquss yearly income 10 P0a au
Bnhntnf. private coachman to the emperor
Russia. He was very recently appointed counst
The manager of the Buffes Parsiennes WI
anxious to engage both Hortense Schneider al
Tostee, and the latter was ready to remain
Paris even at q much lower salary than she won
receive in New York, but Mile Schneider W
opposed to the arrangement, and declared th
she would not belong to the same troupe wi
Tostee. So Tostee had to go back TO the Unit
States.
Concha, the commander-in- chief of the queen
troops In spain, is not the celebrated marshal, b
the cousin of the latter, and an exlover Of b
majesty. He is believed to be the father of b
third daughter, whom the people of Mad
therefore call La Conchita. Concha hates Pr
because the latter called him, In one OF his rev
lutionary proclamations, "the base and leentio
Concha." ..r
Sophia Cruvelli whose sister Mary, the CO
brated cantatrice, recently died of consumput
has gone mad. She was married to wealt
nobleman who had latterly treated her In the mi
brutal manner. The scoundrel one day cut Oh I
magnificent black hair Of his beautiful wife, q
then drove her out of his chateau. On anotl
occasion he whipped her with q cowhide until {
servants fell on him, took the cowhide rom Ill
and threatened TO have him arrested. The pr
lady, in consequence of this maltrestment, p
m0turely birth N n child and her horn