The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-05

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johnson high qualities as q humorist. By way Of
illustration it refers 10 his recent acknowledgment
that there is no d ference between the skulls OF
black and white men nor the State papers of Ii
berisDs and EogIishmen.
The N. Y. Star thinks there lie q trife too much
billiard playing. 1t has seen many man punch
ing ivory balls by the hour when he should have
been at bis business, and many, too, spending for
games and drinks the money that should have
been handed over to the family at home.
At his recent lecture at the Cooper institute,
Mr.. Train wore blue swalow.tail coat, with a
velvet collar and a brilliant assortment of brass
buttons large rosette, 10 which the colors of the
rainbow were beautifully blended. an imaculate
viii waistcoat. and sombre inexpressibles.
Queen Victoria wears her hair, in private, as
Ecgllsh ladies were wont to wear it five aud twen-
~ years ago; on the rare occasions on which she
appears in public, she bands her tresses under q
diamond Golf, after the manner of Mary, queen
Of Scots.
The London Spectator says the English Ian
guage is freer from the corruptons of dialect and
provincislism in America than in England. Rev
erdy johnson intimated as much in one of his
late speeches to an spplsuding audience of
Britishers.
We are panied to learn that one Of Cur most ac-
compl'shed tailors has become mentally deranged
in consequence Of long series of Intellectual at
tempts to satisfactorily adapt pair of pantaloons
to the actual developments of the undeniably fine
limbs belonging to one of his best patrons.
According to Cousin Nourma," who tells the
story in late letter from this city to the Louis
vile Democrat, the guests at the City Hotel are
waited on by live German prince who was de.
posed by decree of Prussia, whereupon he
" calmly laid aside his scepter " and assumed the
waters napkin.
Victoria is said to bea Ritualist On late oc.
casion in the Chapel Royal. St. James, she sent to
the clergyman officiating at the altar a red bag,
edged with gold lace, and containing 'the queens
offering OF gold, frankincense and myrrh, in com.
memorston Of the gifts of the msgi to the infant
Savior"
Will somebody tell Us the meaning of the leath.
ern cockades that we see on the hats of coachmen
and footmen of some of the flashing equipages 10
The fashionable thoroughfares? 10 England the
k,ckshaw denotes, If we are not mistaken that the
owners of the vehicle are of certain rank Of the
aristccrscy. and a commoner would no more
think O. p7tting cocksde on his coachman's hat
than Of qnariering the royal arms on his own es
cuteheon. NhSt can q cockade mean In New
York ?-lNew York Post.
VIM. Cullen Bryant, at the Burns festival at
Ne;s York, on Monday I'ssa., said wonder
how the poets would look q they could all be
brought together, with their eyes in : nue. frenzy
rolling and some of their number, fear, s~"iT
out at elbows. What would the denizens of Wall
street think of them If they were marched in pro-
cession through that part of the city! If an army
of stockholders could be mustered, aud another of
and a third of poets, to which of the
other two would the troop of poets seem, by their
demesnor, to be most nearly related? To that
question, fear, could not give an impartial
answer"
1t is now quite common, in case one meets
friend casually in company with other gentlemen,
to be introduced to all OF them. Perhaps, while
J GU are talking with your newly made acquaint.
snces, one Of them is seen by two or three of
bis friends, who are also introduced all around.
Thus. while you merely desired to exchange few
words with your friend, you are forced 10 make
the acquaintance OF an acquaintance Of his ac-
which you are unable to resist or to protest
against. This practice is peculiarly American,
absurd and annoying, and ought TO be frowned on
by all true gentlemen. 1t is-with rare excep-
tons-almosI as much the right of a gentleman
as of q lady. to decide for himself who shall be
to him.-[New York Mail.
The Turkish admiral, Hobart Pashs, dstin.
guished himself during our late war a blockade
runner. Twelve times he is said to have broken
the blockade of Charleston, each time
under circumstances OF great danger, and
in consequence Of this he published his
"reminiscences under the title of Never
Caught" When the Turks, few weeks ago,
sent him 10 Crete in order to destroy the Enosss,
the Russian minister, General lgnsteh made ener-
getic efforts to retain him az COnstantin0ple. Po-
litfpal hain0 unQVallinO QQflOn for
debt was at last brought against him, ia the hope
that he would be imprisoned or, at all events, de
tanned. But this device, too, was frustrated, and
he got away safely. Arriving on board his ship,
his first act was to forward 10 the Russian embas-
sador, together with polite message, his little
work entitled "Never Caught."-[Ex.
A Boston correspondent writes that the custom
of dinner giving is passion of the solid men Of
that city. "LoDg experience has made dining
one of the fine arts with Us. At the house Of one
of the weathest citizens the other day, the party
after remaining an hour or so at one table, arose
and were ushered into another room, where sec.
ond table, with all its appointments, was laid.
The meal was there finished. The opportunity for
double display of silver and porcelain was grand.
AS an Offset to this will mention club of twelve
gentlemen who dine every fortnight in a little
boat-house on bridge leading from the city. No
ore can become member who is not an adept at
cooking some particularly delicious dish. They
have no servants do their own cooking and wait
ing. and have better dinners than ever ate any
where else. The club was founded more than
forty years ago."
Horace Greeley makes this blandly blunt ora
ton to beggsrs of all degrees: Country friends
and especially young men. give you facts as
have long observed and studied them. l tell you
frankly that my interest in your action thereon is
partly selfish; for my soul is weary of these
incesssnt appeals for something to do or, that
failing, for aims. There must. there will be beg
gsrs; but need you be beggars? Even if you
must, l wish it were in your hearts to stay where
beggars are not so enormously superabundsnt as
here. / often respond rudely, harshly, to their
solicitations, because cannot help it. Worn out
by appeals to which l am utterly unable to re-
spond-denied opportunity to earn my own bread
by this endless procession of beggars-I often
speak more roughly than | should, because my
patience is utterly exhausted. am not as poor
as Lazarus, still less am l as rich as Dives but
fully sympathize with the latter in so far as he is
as wishing in Hades to send a mes
senger 10 his brethren still on EARTH to entreat