The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-07
EDIroRIA PARAGRAPHS, ETC

Matilda Heron is on the stage again.
John Bell is lying at deaths door.
Fanny Elsler is fifty seven, and TAT.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamship Crescent
Beecher calls q fashionable parlor an owls
| paradise.
Jerseyman is in jail for the crime of cutting
of half q friends mustache.
The domination of Grant and Colfax excited
much enthusiasm IN Oregon.-tEx.
PrOOf-the late election.
Every wife should endeayor to husband her
strength, and strengthen her husband.
Prentice.
Butler is bald, aud as matter of personal
PRIDE ne wants to get Wooey where the hair
is short. ~ Boston Post.
Geo. Ellis, opposite the Postoffice, has the
Chimney Corner, Kelley's Weekly and the New
York Ledger.
Which kind of mortars have killed more people
those Of the battlefield or those of the apothe-
carries shops?-[Prentice.
genius down East thinks that Stanton's name
is Edwin Mucilage Stanton, because he 'stuckr-
as long as he could.
Gen. Butler not only annoys witnesses with his
tongue but keeps up cross-fre upon them with
his eyes.-[Prentice.
The retired physician whose sands of life are
nearly run out" has recently received by express
barrel of sand to repeEish his wasted store.
" Head prophesiesa cool summer with plenty
OF air. in New Orleans, owing to the fact that so
large portion of the population of the city sse
theoretically endeavoring to " raise the wind"
a Michigan editor wants to know who "this
Colonel Fox is they've nominated with GrantY
He intimstes that one soldier would have been
enough.
Lambee is a great favorite in Boston. The
Post says: Foot, ankle, leg-each is simply
study. Hardly SO pretty woman has graced the
stage for many day. nor one whose manners are
more agreeable, refined and lady.like."
The women have taken another fortress. After
q contest in which they had sustained more than
one defeat. they have made their way into the
London University, and will hereafter be able to
compete for its diplomas.
We understand that some of the glorious moon
light nights we are now enjoying are to be i'm.
proved by evening parties at the Fair Grounds,
where one very pleasant affair of the kind has
already been enjoyed.
Topper has marched to Dsrasli's assistanc, in
the following stanza:
IAN strong concentrations of power end of par
r. With lt pie :, and unserSpulGgs Ticks
In a biTdime that stuns as it sticks "
The long levee bordering cur grand river is q
much frequented and refreshing place of resort
during these hot afternoons. The monster cur
rent iced in the far off mountains, brings a reviy-
ing breath to the painting multitude who seek its
shores.
The medas-gold, silver and bronze-and the
diplomas, awarded to Louisiana, at the Grand Ex-
position, have been received, and are to be
awarded publicly. They will be placed on exhi.
bition first at some accessible place. Edward
Gotthiel. Esq, mentions the matter more fully in
another column this morning.
gentleman who was at school in Paris in
$780, gives curious example of the manner in
which history is sometimes written Ia the books
used in the school Napoleon Bonaparte was always
mentioned as Lieutenant General Bonspsrte,
commanding the armies of his most Christian ma
jesty, the king of France"
1t was on Sunday night, and Mr.. Gladstone, in
harmony with the day, seated himself at piano
and sung some sacred pieces. Brongham, for
whom such serious recreation had no charm, WIS.,
meanwhile Iestlessly wandering from one room to
another, stopping every few minutes as If to
listen, and then hastily exclauing to those who
were near, in utter good faith: Yes yes; id
good id good!"-[ Boston Advertiser.
@. A. 7. writes: Edmund G. Ross, the little
senator from Kansas, does not weigh over one
hundred and thirty pounds, and is very slight.
He has straight brown hair, smooth brown beard,
and playful face. His appearance is that of q
genial office newspaper man, as he used to be
both in Milwaukee and Kansas. He was born at
Ashland, Ohio, forty-two years ago. and learned
to be printer at the case at Huron, Ohio"
Chief Justice Chase, Immediately on resumng
his seat after taking the verdict in the impeach.
ment trial, wrote upon blank card, and sent it to
gentleman on the floor of the Senate, whom he
had more than once assured during the week that
the president would be acquitted. The card bore
but single word, and that, for greater decorum,
was in disguise. That word was the exultsnt use
of the French exclamation of Voild {" Behold!'')
So says the betting Wilkes.