The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-06
EDIronIAL PAKAaKArHs. ETC.


Psrisians are degenerating in physique.
Train is the Fenian presidential candidate for ~
Look to your levees.
South Carolina treasury is empty.
Nevada has six year old incendiary.
fiery steed-Horse radish.-IEx.
Singular-ro see a garden wak-[Ex.
Berger never rose to speak without trepidation.
Belle Boyd is Lady of Lyonizing in Houston.
The Omaha people call themselves "Omshogs."
Oyster pirates infest the shores of Maryland.
A "trapezst" has killed himself in Liverpool.
New York city has Is 600 opium eaters.
A velocipede, driven by steam, is the latest.
new name for 1.-THE Erie pressible con.
hict.-LEx.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is the editor of new
magazine called the Mother at Home"
Chicago has found its cue at last. 1t claims to
be the champion billiard city of the continent.
Thanks to the purser, Mr.. Burns, of the steam
ship Santiago de Cuba for late Havana papers.
Missouri thief was mean enough to steal q
tombstone from a railroad station.
China's emperor is fourteen and his afianced
bride eleven.
Frank Leslie is to start new paper called "The
New World. ("
1t is is said that Mr.. Benjamin has pleasant re.
lations with Disrae.
10. Howard, Jr., has left the New York Demo-
crst and gone to the Star.
The French think Wilkle Collins better that
Dickens.
Augustin DAILY, dramatic author, is to marry
Mary d. Duff.
Boston is cheered by the return of the Gun.
arders.
Pomeroy heads his shsrpest paragraphs "Brlck
Dust"
Bishop Potter of New York is said to purpose
resigning.
Abyssinisn Prince Theodore attends school in
the Isle Of Wight, England.
One county in California this year made $50, 900
gallons of wine.
In England, recently, man became insane
while being married.
Howe declines to accept place 10 the Domin.
ion government.
Ladies occupy only third of the space they
once did,
man in Montgomery, Ala, in biting an oyster,
found bis mouth full of pearls.
Alaska contains 37O,OOO,OOO acres, for which
was paid less than two cents an acre.
France and Belgium, last month, sent the Pope
LOCO 900 cartridges ard 5000 guns.
The physical condition Of women in this country
is said TO be improving.
Chief Justice Young, of Nova Scotia, has been
knighted.
Breckinridge is proposed for governor Of Ken.
lucky.
Eugenie has incurred more debts than she can
pay.
TenDyson drinks, smokes and reads his own
poetry.
The members of the Texas convention from
west Of the Colorado are called cdyotes.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Mata.
gorda.
Bishop McIlvaire is very severe upon operate
church music.
Voltaire said The more married men you
have, the fewer crimes there will be.v
Isabella paid e., 4eO to be released of her pur.
chases on the ChampsElysee.
The oath infantry INDUCED in a masquerade
parade at Vicksburg, on the LIST.
Cockhghting is popular at Houston, a relic of
Mexican barbsrity.
Illinois grew Is 100000 bushels potatoes this
Troy talks of having velOcipede tOurna.
ment."
1t is proposed to make Alaska an American Bot.
any Bay.
man and wife who have 81 children claim the
championship" in New York.
Partisan bride was unable to get married
recently without SIG 900 worth of handkerchiefs.
A psychologist asserts that there are no fne
singers who use tobacco.
Virginia apple tree has borne GEO bushels of
fruit in eleven years.
Chicago has had an Anti-Temperance meet.
ing"
The London police will not allow any more mas.
querades.
All the old servants of the Orleans family are
said to be hack drivers in Paris.
Lord Derby gave 100000 to hello the Tory
party pay their election expenses.
New York is said to waste 500 900 pounds of
good food annually.
Rev. Thomas l.. Preston has been called to the |
First Presbyterian Church of Richmond
The report that the editor of the Houston |
Times was caught playing poker on a Sunday is
without foundation.
A Texas paper accuses one of our city contem. |
poraries of con6ning account of the sinking
Of fatboat to sixteen pages.
A lady friend of editors sent miuce ME
hundred miles to be made mince.meat of by
Kinney Of the Houston Times.
Lady Palmerston is said to have electioneered
'OhfoiJ VI bho LiocI ii sue ~ Ine recent English
election.
In New Brunswick the teamsters dress their
lorses with cloth chest-protectors, with the best
esults.
typographical error made a New York coun-
~ paper call Senator Roscoe Conkling Rascal
jonkling
Geo. Ellis has the Nation, Scientific American,
american Artisan, Sporting Times, Yankee No
ions, Round Table and Budget Of Fun.
An exchange says: &" Hearth and Home comes
o us in new Dress" 1t would be very shabby
0 dress fine infant in old clothes.
The Galveston Civilian says there are no com.
ION schools in Texas-nothing short of acade-
lies, seminaries, institutes ana bureaus
Gov. Warmoth recommends the old Mint for a
tate House. He probably wants to see it once
lore full of "yellow boys"
Greeley says Of Shakespeare. "I admire him
nj do not know him; and all the commentators
nd critics serve only to render darkness more
isible.n