The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-03
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THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER $50,
GENERAL ITEMs.

The minister of public instruction in France has
caused an inquiry to be made as to the sanitary
condition OF the various lycees of the capital.
he subject had become one Of interest 10 parents.
The officially declared result Is expected TO satisfy
them. According to the report six students out OF
900 die in the course of . year; that is one in
5000. On the other hand, the deaths of children
Of like aRe-that is, between ten and fifteen
years-in Paris, amount TO five in 1000 annually.
Modern science is literally making " the desert
to blossom the rose" 10 the great desert of Sa-
hara. 10 1850 i've artesisn wells had be en- open-
ed, around which vegetation thrives luxuriantiy !;
80 coo palm trees, and 900 fruit trees were
planted, and two thriving villages established.
At the depth Of little over five hundred feet an
underground river or lake was struck aud live fish
have been thrown up, showing that there is q
large body of water underneath.
In Rhode Island resides q well known divine
who; few sabbaths since, gave notice that there
would be love feast' az his house. few
days after be met brother who accosted him
thus: "Well, | hear you are to have a love
feast: are you going to have pumpkin pie" On
being informed to the contrary, he quietly re-
marked, " should think you might sent you
The Macon, Ca, Telegraph, of the 3Oth, says:
We learn that a sale of fifty bales cotton Gas
made on Saturday. on the following terms The
cotton to class Liverpool middling, is to he de-
livered within sixty days after the lst Of Decem-
Der, at 20 cents Fer pound. One of the parties to
this transaction evidently expects cotton to 90
down during the next two months, and the other
does not Wen bet one or the other of them
will lose"
At recent prayer meeting in Chicago some one
rose and stated that the Erring Women's Refuge
in that cry was in great need, and asked the
prayers OF The congregation in its behalf. One of
Chicsgo's richest men, who lie said to be some-
what minute in his contributions to benevolent
objects, volunteered at once to lead the meet
ing in a prayer in behalf of the institution
famed he had scarcely closed when another
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wrong for us to ask God to do for us what he
had given Us the power to do ourselves. =" The
idea," said be, "of man who can draw o check
for one hundred thousand dollars asking God TO
give money to the ErriDg Women's Refuge is pre-
posterous? Let him give ii himself"
The contractors for the Des Moines rapids i'm
prove ment in Iowa have thrown up their con-
tract, unable to go on for want of funds. They
have completed about ten per cent. of the work.
The canal is to be about seventy four miles long,
extending from Nashville, Iowa. to keokuk Iowa.
Tie width at the water surface inside of the
canal Is to be from three hundred to four hun
dIed feet 10 embankment and two hundred and
MY Feet IN excavation, and in low water five feet
deep. -.--'--...-
The Charleston Courier of the 14rn inst states
that on the previous day, q lady, who was passing
down Wentworth street, met on her way two
colored girls who rudely pushed against her, and
she should have taken the outside and ought to
have known better since the election was over.
trivial matter, but an examplifcaton of the
old proverb-" Coming events cast their shadows
before"
Mexico buys only about six million dollsrs'
worth of dry goods annually. The most of the
people wear either blanket, or at best, coarse
cotton clothiDg the higher classes wear woolens,
mixed silk and woolens, cashmeres, ETC., as well
as cotton goods generally of all classes, but are
very economical in their outlay.
The Salt L axe Telegraph says: MANY bundle
OF SIN and blankets have been packed beyond the
limits of Bear River City since the handful notice
was distributed, warning them that unless they
made tracks before certain hour. they would in
all likelihood share the fate of the three men hung
on the 10th inst.n N
The Elmira Beecher is live dominic. He has
heard Ole Bull, and thus writes about him: Eyes,
he can. Ole Bull can. He iddled on election
day in Elmlra. If he comes again the churches,
common council, and Joe Rodbourn, ought to
make up 3 fund and have free fddling for the
county. He is a nice old gentleman. He hugs
bis fiddle, and his fiddle cuddles up in his neck
and sings and Pnrs to him. Yes, he can. Ole
Bull can fiddle. That's so."
Prentice says: LET the Democrats say what
they please about the destruction of freedom of
speech in the South; man can speak Just as
freely there as he can in any part of the world
II be Is only negro. And what right have folks
to be white ~
The compartment carriage in use In England, it
is asserted, furnishes less privacy than the long
American car. The six persons closely shut up
u
ney, forced into acquaintance, while there is no
public conveyance in which two friends can con-
verse so freely without observation, or pass the
day in such actual retirement, as in the long car
containing one hundred passengers.
Glycorlm is substance recently introduced for
healing wounds, covering them with a kind of
varDsh, which protects them from the air, and is
made by adding five parts Of glycerine to four of
yolk OF egg. The mixture has the consistency of
honey, has sSve-like feeling, and is unaltered
by exposure to air. sa
The Prairie Farmer says more attention has
been paid 10 almost every other crop than TO
y heat. More printers lex is wasted in a short |
time on some black cap raspberry, or new tangled !
straw berry, than ia used In all the wheat discus
'ions of whole decade. 1t seems almost as if |
The subject Of wheatraising was soon to be |
gDored altogether. HIl.. r
gentleman, writing from Illinois to a friend |
q Boston, says: while out hunting. two weeks |
igo, was ia some corn-ields which belong to a |
nan Dsmed Sullivan. BE probably owns more |
and ihsn any farmer in the State. He is the pro-
1rietor Of nine townships. each six miles square.
This year he has Is 900 acres of corn. This seems
ike big story, but il is nevertheless true. II |
just the easiest thing 10 the world to get lost
n his corn fields. / strayed into one field and |
walked four and half miles before came to the |
md of the row of corn which followed. A party of
ix Of us were absent four days, and during that |
line killed "a geese. 1853 mallsrd ducks, besides
'hiekens, cranes, etc., that We did not count"
The Montgomery, Ala, Mail says: "It is en-
rely possible to make Montgomery q manufac.
uring city, and to regain the cotton trade she has
ost To regain that trade, and to swell II in q |
Jingle season to one hundred thousand bales, IL is
,ny necessary TO establish Q frst.clsss factory
or the manufacture of cotton, directly in the |
leart Of the city. The profits of cotton factories |
re enormous. They sustain the New England |
,tstes.n ..--.
Widow is one of the very fe " words, il indeed |
here is another, of which the feminine form is the
riginal for owing TO the traits, functions and re-
atioDs OF the sexes, among no people would |
peculiar name be first given TO a man who was de-
rived Of woman l. would de-. only b afar i tbbss
usages had narrowed and straight |
ned the sexual relations that it would enter the |
mind of people to give widow its masculine |
companion word. cannot but admit that in Eng |
lsh this has been clnmsiy done. Widower is |
'oor, feeble word 10 all respects and particularly
n respect of its etymology. Widower should |
mean one who makes widOss, or one who has /
Widows; and how this word happened to receive
Is present form is beyond my coDjecture.-TG Gal
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NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC EXP sRTMENrs. An English |
'sper says: " The reproach of Photographic por.
nature dependent on the agency of nitrate Of