The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-21


Kansas has discovered petrifed crocodile l26
feet long.
A New York retired merchant has paid $4,000
for drawing-room carpet.
The cheap dining houses opened in Glasgow,
Scotland, have become very popular in thai city.
Rev. DR.. Spring has spent fortyfvs consecutive
summers at Saratoga Springs.
One of the survivors Of DR.. Kane's arctic ex-
pedition Ia Q street diver IN Cincinnati.
yeuiIlot speaks Of Jean Jacques OEenbach as
that lascivioos scoundrel Of composers"
Parepa Rosa started overland from San Fran.
cisco for New York on the 18th.
The family of the late Nathaniel Hawthorn la
esout to sail for Germany to reside.
More than four hundred works on fishing have
been published.
Small gilt champagne bottles are the latest de-
siga for earrings. They are all the rage in Paris
and London.
A new weekly Fre,ch paper has been started
in New York under the title of lie Noaveau
Monde.
UNIV ram VI Iuxuo xry Iour uuuurvu yarus w.s-
and leap two hundred and ten feet in one un-
broken mass, almost equalling Niagara.
Rev. Mr.. Hepworth says no man can write .
good sermon with an unpaid provision bill lying ON
the table before him.
Houghton b Co., of the Riverside Press, Cam
BRIDGE turn out daily from three to four thousand
volumes containing, on. an average, six hundred
pages each.
At late mechanics fair at San Francisco there
was exlibiteda stick of timber four and half
feet square, fifty feet long, and wholly free from
knots. .
Among the enormous estates in various parts Of
the world, waiting to be claimed and divided by
American citizens, is the Albertson estate, worth
some $50 600. 600, in Holland.
Belgian curate has been fined for the singular
ofense cf performing the Cesarian operation upon
one of his psrshioners In order to bsptize Der un
born child.
Mrs. +. Cady Stanton informs us that as baby
Anna E. Dickinson was cross, sleepless, restless
and crying continually with loud voice, thus pre-
pairing her lungs for future action"
There Is a lady in Paris who clears $4,000 year
$780, CO0) by buying up the admissions to the the
aters, which the dramatic or operate authors are
privileged to sign and retailing them to the public.
Allen, the prayer meeting specimen of wicked
ness, had the misfortune to have his wife fall into
the hands of justice recently. sailor got
robbed in his pious and blackguard abode. John
himself ran of.
Young Mr.. Church, Of Chenango, driving to
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Chenango sold those articles for his own behoof,
and went away darkly, but probably South, to be-
come acsrpetbag candidate for Congress.--tNew
York World.
The London Standard says that President
johnson has informed Mr.. Thornton, British min
lister at Washington, and Mr.. Reverdy Johnson, of
his intention to pay visit to England as soon ss
bis term of Office expires in March next.
John Crabb, who fought with Sir John Moore in
Spain, is living with Mrs. Crabb in Maine. He is
ninety three but according to the local journal,
in possession Of all his faculties and In the ap-
parent flush Of youth. This is because. being q
Crabb, he can 60 bsckward.-[N. Y. World.
Bsndmann has written to Germany that the new
drama which Bulwer is writing for him will, per-
haps, never see the light, inasmuch as Bulwer
has rewritten 1t already three times, and then,
being dissatisfied with it, burnt the manuscripts
again and again.
The wife of New York banker and the daughter
of Baltimore manufacturer havo been notified by
the master of ceremonies of the Empress Eugenie
that the permission formerly granted them. to sp.
pear at the Monday evening receptions Of the en-
press, had been withdrawn. cause -Unbecoming
dresses and unbecoming conduct atthe last soiree
in the Tuieries. p al3f1 iI'l