The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-13
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC


Victoria snufs and Eugenie smokes.
Dearer than life Fashionable funerals.-lEx.
Grant has gone to his farm near st. Louis.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the issue before
the people is Brains or Buttons.
Hall blows gold bugle at Saratoga. 1t cost
$1,000 in gold.
Mr.. Holden, Boston Journalist, has recently
made his twelfth balloon voyage.
They have base ball club in Meridian, Conn.,,
ycept the Window smashers."
The mellow horn-The last glass at a convivial
party.-[Ex.
The flowers of speech spring from the root of
the toDgue.-LEX.
Flashes Of merriment are sometimes q mere
fash in the pan.-LEx.
1t being Paris fashion for ladies to take babies
out to drive, little ones ere et' for that purpose.
An lbs. speckled trout was pulled from the
water at Galveston, on Thursday.
Only thirty nine deaths in Galveston in June.
Nineteen were two years old and under.
The Oldest living inhabitant of New York city
is said to be brother of Washington Irving.
The gossips say that Napoleon has put stopto
Eugenie's charitable explorations among the bad
places of Paris incoq.
General Allen B. Magruder has written letter
to the attorney general Of the United States, in
behalf Of Lieut.. Braine.
Carlotta has just had a crown made in Brussels
which she has sent TO Vienna to be placed on the
tomb in which lie the remains of Macmillan.
The trade of Boston is annually about nine
hundred-millions, which is second only to New
York.
The Lanterne says that one thousand million
francs is an awful big price for the people to pay
for getting gullible Austrian arehduke shot in
Mexico.
We are indebted to the courtesy of Mrs. W. S.
Bassett, of tie Fourth District for very tempt
ing specimen of delicious Smyrna figs, grown in
her garden.
Yesterday the radicals began to see it. They
| will see more in November An Irish friend OF
ours objects to Grants silence, yet prefers no one
| to SdynOre-St. Louis Rep. 10th.
Emerson thinks himself fortunate when he can
write twenty good lines.a day. Moore sometimes
devoted a whole day to a single line of poetry ;
hut nnr epigrAmatic neighbor don't waste his
valuable time in that way.
| st. Paul has just witnessed the christening of
| locomotve-the first for the Superior and Missis-
sippi RailrOad-by L" a minglement of drops from
Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean," as West
ern paper beautifully remarks.
The Empress Eugene has erased Sainte- Beuve's
name from the list of guests who regularly in
vited 10 her soirees. Thecourt is terribly exas-
perated against him, and Napoleon himself is said
to frown upon his Liberal senator.
Gen. GilIem, who has superseded Gen. Nc
DOwell by order of the president, is an East Ten
nesseean by birth, and the author of the most
laconic dispatch of the war, viz: the one which
read about this wise % have pursued, captured
| and killed John Morgan"
| A..
largest capitalists known to exist in the world
The first is an American manufacturer who has an
income of ten millions; the second is a Russian
boyard and the third an Englishman possessing
immense territories in the East Indies. The
Rotbschilds only occupy the number eleven on
| the list.
"See," says the Cracow Gas, a paper published
ia the Polish language, "the Muscovite barbarian
arm in arm with the republican strumpet of the
United States. Which Of the two is more worthy
of loathing and contempt" The editor of the
Gas used to be a reporter of the New York Her.
aid and a clerk at the New York Custom-house.
No discipline in English composition, says the
New York Mail, would be of so much value TO 8
class of college students as the writing of thirty
or forty "items" every day for year-or for four
years. Pupils would learn to express, in all their
writings, such facts as they had occasion to use
in the most direct language possible.
The New York Mail reports that maiden lady
has sailed from that city to Paris with a lap.dOg,
in order to consult physician there touching her
pets health. The dog is sixteen years old. The
lady desires that he may live until he is twenty
five. He has bronchitis and a cough. He is ugly.
He looks like dirty mop, but is tenderly beloved
by his mistress.
Napoleon III has ordered his copy of the Lon.
don Times to be stopped. His newspaper read
ing which formerly used to be quite extensive, is
now confined to few of the Partisan dailies, in
which his private secretaries, Cont and Pietri,
mark with red pencils such passages as they think
will be Of special interest to the emperor. His
majesty reads great many more novels than he
used to do.
An attendant at the South Boston Hospital for
the Insane reports a recent conversation between
two patients. They had entered into On argu.
ment relative to the difference between riding q
horse and a hobby, and contending that there
was none. The other replied that there certainly
was, and upon being called upon to define II
said "Those who ride horse can stop and get
OF whenever they feel like it, but those who yiGs
hobby find it impossible to do So"
Does Grant smoke! We find in the New Yorh
World the following explicit statement upon thi:
point in a letter by Frederick L'0msead 81 have
been with General Grant under the most intimate
circumstances. l have slept with him. l have
eaten dinner with him. have attended the presl
dents reception with him. l was with him at the
private marriage of General Parker in Washing
ton. On none of these occasions did he smoke
Indeed, have never seen him with a cigar u, hi
hand" This is deemed a satisfactory reply Il
the protest Of the National Anti Tobacco League