The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-27
FDITOBIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC.

Thanks to the officers of the steamer Hewes.
Chinese edible birds nests are a new feature in
| Paris restaurants.
Napoleon gives the Princess Salome 5000 900 to
start with, and the car allows her sl2 900 year.
"straws show which way" the cobbler goes
| IN. Y. Com Adv.
Amedeo, Prince Humbert's brother, is to sep
| arate from his wife. Cause-she slapped his face
The Paris papers want to make out that Sothern
is insane.
Thurlow Weed calls for some one to muzzle the
Tribune.
Wendell Phillips is very wrathy at the senate
rial seven.
The Davenport brothers are giving their fare
well exhibitions in London preparatory to coming
hither.
Eight hundred piano-fnrta makers are on a
strike in New York for an increase in wages.
The average at present is fifteen dollars a week.
Napier found, in q church in the wilds of Abys-
sinia, golden chalice engraved with the royal
arms of England.
Leonard W. Jerome drives four-in-hand coach
on "the avenue" and August Belmont dog
cart.
Somebody reports Daniel Drew insane but il
| So there is method, if not Methodism, in his
madness.-[N. Y. Leader.
Blue, says the New York Mall seems to be the
fashionable color for scarfs among the gentle
| en-.
Forney says of impeachment; " The morning
| breaks.' We shall be glad if the nation doesn't
break with it, Prentice.
A. Fl. Lee, of Randolph county, H., the man
who drew the Crosby Opera House, returns an
income for 1867 OF $2l3,S3 so, on which he pays
$lO,69l SO.
Napoleon lately said to a lady: Il was not
born with warlike propensties. 1t was feeling
of duty which prompted me to command the
| troops in Italy"
Capt. Moore is in New York training his horses
for the Jerome Park meeting, which commences
June 9th. His stable includes Beacon, Stone
wall Jackson, Mcmahon, Privateer, Fanny Cheat.
ham, Grisette, Maggie G. and Lilly Ward.
The gem of the evening at recent Paris ball
was swell +" in the full costume of the period,
who had fastened his white tie with rosette,
composed Of pheasant's feathers, with a beetle
set in the middle.
A fashion chronicle says that orange blossoms
now compose the principal trimmings on a bri-
dal toilet. They are employed as fringes on the
sash and sleeves, aud are also used inste ld
Of buttons.
A young lady at Ole Bulls concert at Albany,
the other evening, regarded the diamond-tipped
bow thoughtfuy for several minutes, and OBJ.
served TO a lady friend " 70 tell the truth,
should much prefer that bow to the one 1 now
have"
A Yazoo, Mississippi, paper, in an article on
the morality of the city, asks: " Are there twen-
~ men in Yazoo city who do not average from
three to nine drinks daily?n and then APOLOGIZE.
cally adds: " We do not mean to say that it is a
dssipsted place. on the contrary, we have never
seen, elsew here, so little drunkenness
Patti was Kissed for the first time in Paris
week or two ago. She had agreed to sing at a
benefit in which one act of " D9n Giovanni" aud
one of " La Traviatan were to be given. She
failed to appear in the former, aud the au-
dence took its revenge when she came on as
| TiOlettd.
When the sultan goes to the thester he makes
business Of it, He lately went to the Naun The.
alter, and staid from seven O'Clock until midnight
He heard in that time the whole of the " Bar.
biere," and an act each of Robert" Linda"
Martha " and" Norma" At the close he sent
the manager present of $1,000.
The opening of the Fete Champetre at the Fair
Grounds. yesterday, was in all respects brilliant,
and promising of the most gratifying success.
Not less than eight thousand people, including
large proportion Of our best citizens, were in
attendance. Nine hundred and fifty dollars in
money were taken at the gates. This Of course
is exclusive of the money previously obtained by
! the sale Of tickets.
About fifty persons are daily seen 10 our streets
| with long hair, slouehy felt hats, colored spec.
| tacles, Tsw-bOned cheeks and doefully elongated
| Visages, and having about their round shoulders
| snd gsuDt frames long shawl and in their hands
either blue or green cotton umbrella in extent
| something like an awning. Il is presumed they
ha m and h.
| They are CHARTERED on friends who are no doubt
| delighted TO see them-but whose delight wOuld
be much increased to see them at least dfty miles
| off Boston Post
NJ. Jules Fsvre was presented to Napoleon on
bis election to the French Academy. The new
seademician said "Sire, fortunately men like
" Consin do not altogether die they survive in