The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-20
Editorial Paragraphs, Etc,

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The Clerks ball tonight at the National.
hudd will probably get clear-[Ex.
| Douglas Jerrold wrote hand like copper plate.
The ninety-ffth asteroid, at last.
Cape Cod has a suPerfuity of foxes.
! "Coolie labor"-faDning yoursef.-[Ex.
Grand sacred music Monday night at Christ
! Church.
The /" Barber of Seville" at the Opera House
tonight.
The wonderful violinst, Filomeno, tomorrow
night, at the National Theater.
John r. Thompson writes for the New York
Mail.
Ten thousand sleighs were out in Boston and
vicinity last Thursday.
Tennyson wearies of incense, but he don't in
tend to get incensed about it.-[Ex.
The armed peace of Europe costs 81 SOC, 900 COO
ayesr.
Senator sprague has also had brick in his hat
in public.
The Cincinnati Commercial says Ohio is for
Grant.
Secretary McCulloch is not going to London as
financial agent of Jay Cooke & Co.-[Gx.
The most dangerous of devils are those that
look most like angels-[Ex.
Why is it that no man ever keeps a boarding
house l-[ Mail.
Sophia, the mother of Macmillan, sat by his
coffin all night.
Brick Pomeroy says George Francis is spilIing
Train oil over the original blarney-stone.
Does it pay to smoke' is answered afirnativeIy
by xample OF Pittsburg.-[Mail.
Unctuous talk at the butter and cheese conven-
tion in Belvidere, Ill.
Havana is said to be strongly in favor of Grant
for the presidency.-[Ex.
The editor of the Boston Herald writes q letter
from Rome.
Corporal misunderstanding sergeant one
grade.
The best way to make persons love you-lOve
them--IEx.
Sometimes it producesa contrary result.
Ole Bull played at Louisville on Friday. The
Journal pronounces him greater than when ha
played in this country years ago.
Hair Strengthened here" is the announcement
on door of barbers shop in a section Of the
town where capillary kinkiness prevails.
Andrew johnson is the choice for the presi-
dency of the Democratic central committee Of
Tennessee.
Outdoor concerts on the Fair Grounds are pro-
posed. The drive to that pleasant resort is now
all the way beautiful.
The world may owe every man living, bat he
must dun it energetically and persistently be-
fore it will make payment.-[N. Y. Mail.
The editor of q down East paper, writing from
Rome, says no man can visit that city without
feeling peculiar sensation"
The Picayune hears rumors to the effect that
there are many wellknown professional thieves
upon the New Orleans police force.
Conway informs the world by telegraph, from
Washington, that he will soon burst upon New
Orleans.
Mr.. Thompson, formerly the New Orleans cor
respondent of the New York Herald, is now acting
In that capacity for the New York Times.
The New York Times suggests TO the Tribune
that small outlay for common sense in its edto-
rial columns, now and then, would prove judi
cious expenditure.
Question for the Academy OF Sciences-Has
the discovery Of spontaneous gas, on Gravier
street, any connection with Cassidy's gas.tronom-
cal establishment in the vicinity9
Mr.. Calhoun's library was lately sold, with some
other property, TO satisfy debts at about $3.50.
Whole shelves OF books were sold for from four
to six dollars a shelf.
A party of English tourists found the salted
body of Lots wife the Dead Sea- and
seasoned their lunch with her. story which
must be taken cum gTdno Sdlis.-[Ex.
The third presentation ofthe "Prophet' Tuesday
night was witnessed by one Of the largest and
most brilliant audiences ever assembled in the
Opera House.
The Turf takes the part of robin redbreast
against the charge of q Massachusetts, horticul-
turst that he is an "incorrgible thief and an un-
mitigated nuisance"
When see the twsrdy fashions, the costly vul-
garity and the wicked extravaganza of the times,
feel sure that thousands of American women are
strangers to the first law Of efnement-simpcity
in manners and ATTIRE Bishop Coke.
The following card appears in the Vicksburg
Herald of the 18th: "Tbe person who put pen.
tine on my dog yesterday evening is a c0oard
and a scoundrel. John OBrien, Washington
street. four doors from postohice."
The rumor that Mr.. Dickens would not 20 West
on his reading tour, elicits from the Chicago press
a running fire of personal abuse not especially
creditable 20 journalism in that section Of the
country.
Mr. Calhoun left at his death five sons and two
daughters, all grown up. OF these only the eldest
daughter is now living. -Four sons died Of con-
sumption within short period Of each other, one
daughter Of fever, and the eldest son, (then
mddle-sged MANI died during the war of apo
plexy. The family residence at Fort Hill is now
tba horra ~ ia VII nd