The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-18

Russian royalty dotes on dogs.
Richmond is having opera by the Richings.
VnginIan has invented peanut picker.
Queen Isabella owns large estate in France.
Thanksgiving in Massachusetts, November 26.
Mobile is very dull.
Cough will splurge on Circumstances"
Dulce is sick and declines Cuba.
Showing at the North yesterday.
The schoolmaster's motto-Teach and learn.
Punch.
Fung Shuey is the Chinese for wind and
water"
Heavy artillery is looming southwark from
Fortress Monroe.
The Louisville Courier is 10 build fine new
Office.
Gen. Sherman praises in field order the GAL
laniry Of the Indian fighters.
"Civs Americans sum pumpkins" is the
motto the Mail suggests for the Train meeting.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamers Louise
and Matsgords.
Hon. A. P. Hill, of Madison county, Miss, is
dead.
Marshal Serrano Is known as the handsomest
officer in the Spanish army
Guizot receives fifteen hundred francs for
each of bis articles in the Review des Deux
Mondes.
The prince of Wales is attached to the duke of
Somerset, who, in turn, is fond of muscular sports
end the society Of fremen.
Ofienbach's latest operetta, "The Castle at
Toto" did not please the Psrissns. They are
about tired Of his compositions.
The New York Times thinks marble floors in.
duce rheumatism, chills, colds and other grave.
yard affections.
An exchange amisbly alludes to our hand.
some, polite, smisble, and big-hearted friend
Smith," We know him.
The Bostonians are not permitted to keep fowls
without license. Sensible. The Hubites do not
fancy chsnticleer serenades in the small hours.
The Wisconsin papers tell terrible tales of the
effects of the collapse of the hop bubble, the
termination of the hop fever and the fall in the
price Ct hops.
The telegraph undertook. but failed, to say
that Gen. Howard has directed the assistant com.
missioner of the bureau, for the District of Colum-
ba, to close the Office on the lst of November.
All his boyhood. says "swede," writing of
Seward, was spent in devouring books. He was
neither q fisherman like Webster, nor boy of all
work like Clap. little two-headed, willing,
wondering youngster, be ran away to school
against permission. and was nearly drowned for
trying to walk foot bridge and read book at
the same time.
Hobbies pauses in the midst Of much execrable
nonsense to say. very truly, that "nothiny Is so
much failure as some successes. People often
think they win when they only lose. Cheating
may seem gain, but the one who makes it is Q
loser. Success In anything that is not clearly fair
and right is failure while every effort In the
right direction is to that extent success"
gentleman and his family who, fortnight
ago. were driven by the food from their residence
on Bienville street, were yesterday enabled to re-
turn to the premises. The water has been nine
inches deep on the floor. The pigs had been quar-
tered in the kitchen to save them from drowning,
and the fowl had occupied one of the bed rooms.
The condition of the house can better be imagined
than described, and forcbly illustrates the many
exaspersting snnoysnces and expenses attending
the late overflow.
Most of the factory girls ct Roubiax have bsen
thrown out of work again, and % there is but
little prospect of their receiving remunerative
employment in that part Of France, they intend to
emigrate en- masse to America, and seek situations
as house servants The manufacturers of Rou.
biax have contributed literally toward defraying
the expenses of the first two hundred of these
girls, who will sail in November from Hsvre for
New Orleans. So says the Foreign Gossip" ef
the Cincinnati Commercial.