The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-03

saloon keepers.
Paris makes 100000 dozen toy drums every
year.
LoDgfsllov has been sitting for his portrait 70
Buchanan Read, In Rome.
Geo. Ellis has the Comic Monthly and the New
| York Ledger.
Mrs. Yelverton read In vieksburg to "smaIl
| ard select audience"
Brooklyn incomes this year: Henry Ward
Beecher LIS. b. G. Bowen s25,444, b. B.
Claim $3.50, 900. ]. W. HARPER $5S.6l5. 1lF
Mrs. Stanton tells Tilton that when she goes to
the Senate, "some wise woman Will sit on bis
right and some black man on his left"
| Fisk has sent for cargo Of cheap British We
locipedes. with which he intends to monopolize
| the market.
such demand In Washington that II will be printed
| for general circulation.
Grant considers that fitness and competency in
candidates for Office are merely "relative" terms
-IWorld.
| famous whaler of Nantucket died in Febru-
sry, at the age Of. So. His name was Barker. and
be came Of q whaling family. c-t- - FIJI
| z. @. 8. ID In terrible rage against T. T. be-
| cause T. T. puts Of the establishment of female
suffrage for twenty years..
| DR.. W. N. Swami, Of Bossier parish, was not
Killed. and still lives. respected by the people Of
| that parish.
The Lacrosse Democrat Of the 2sth ult. contains
double.leaded obituary eulogy Of ex-President
| johnson. ,.al- .s .-A
iend in human shape, excreting his venom in
Western paper. says that Olive Logans counte-
nance "beams with intelligence and two warts"
The Texas Republicans appear iuclined to meet
the Democrats half way. and have State con-
a. Az<k xowtto -fII kn
nominated by the newspapers or by themselves.
Seventy.six cottages and villas In Newport have
been rented thus far for the coming season, at
prices ranging from $500 to $4,000. Only forty
eight remain to rent.
Rev. Granville Moody preached on Sunday In the
First Congregational Church, Washington. He
styles the triumph of Christ over death the "moral
Appomatox."
Mehmet Ali, by bis wise foresight In planting
twenty million trees in the upper province of
Egypt and near the delta, has increased the rain
fan in these districts ten-fold.
Wood is 60 ecarce in France that they save their
| sawdust mix 1t with glue and press 1t In moulds.
making it is said, very good limitations Of carved
| wood. ,e
Eighty six thousand copies Of the first number
| of Appleton's Journal were disposed OF on the
day of publication. new edition was put to
| press.
Mr.. visscher, OF the Richmond Head Light,
| dropped In upon us yesterday. In the last issue
| of bis paper he dropped into poetry with toler-
| able success.
| married woman, In Brooklyn. tried to blow
| out her brains because young man to whom she
| made illicit overtures, apprised her husband Of
the fact She inflicted severe bat not dangerous
| wound.
A devotee of Bacchus was overheard the other
| night thus addressing his hat, which had fallen
from his head: f" If pick you up fall; If | fall
| you will not pick me up; then leave you;" and
be staggered proudly away.
Filomena shocked the "morril sense" of Boston
| by playing piece of Gottschalks on an encore
| at a sacred concert, and the manager had to ex-
plain that she erred through ignorance, not being
used to the Boston notion of Sunday.
| More care should be exercised in what we
| breathe than in what we eat. We breathe inces.
sanity and only eat occasionally. But nine peo-
pie in ten shut out pure air as it were infection,
and breathe that which is foul as If healthy.
Forney denies to the Senate intelligence, of
which he is not judge, and attributes TO II cor
ruption, of which he unquestionably is. Forney
; | ewes have been opened by the same shock by
which that body removed his body from his
clerks desk.-lWorld.
In Chicago, Mrs. Brigham Young and party
received invitations to the various places Of
amusement, and accepted several Mrs. Young
is about twenty-five, accomplished. and Of
pleasant manners. Miss Nettie Young, daughter
, Of Brigham, Is young lady Of about seventeen
The late James Harper in his younger days, and
the day Of hand presses, was the fastest pressmar
in New York, and when he had a "helper" whom
he did not like, he would work him out by sheel
:. strength, endurance and rapidity. he was always
proud of his skill as printer, and was fond
. | telling the fests of his youth.
0 Dom p makes terrible and justifabe Onslaught
on .art at the capital" BE sees little to admire
! among the public pictures, statues or monuments
i and suggests the revival Of commission tina
? once existed, made up Of gentlemen of taste, t
: serve without compensation, whose consent wa
Z | necessary before work could be accepted.
The Revolution says of q lady of Galens, I'LL
b nois. that. " although she has a large family o
olack-eyed, rosy-cheeked children, pictures ststu
!, arv. cabinet of rare minerals, q conseryator.
r Of beautiful plants. and husband who thinks ne
but little lower than the angels che still demand
= = the right to VOTE"
4 The Richmond Journal says: "Miss Bette Va
y | Lew, our new postmarm, is in receipt daily o
letters from all parts of the Union, congratulatin
l. | her upon the appointment sne mas reoo'eu' Oh
q is also bothered almost as much as General Gran
q with applications for places in the postofice, an
4 asks MS to state that there are no vacancies"
n DR.. S. B. Swan, of Norwich, Connecticut. wa
rs moved by the spirit short time ago TO write
!. Gen. Grant. imploring him lin poetry, By th
- love he bore him. to abandon the use of tobacct
d On Monday the doctor Was delighted at receivin
lie an autograph note from the president, thankn
at him for his friendly interest," but declining to tas
m bis advice.
Prof. Scott, of the New York Medical Unive
sity, holds that all diseases are produced ny mi
a ute animal or vegetable germs entering the Giro
On iation through the mouth. He asserts that II
only necessary to shut the mouth to pass unharm
We through the desdest masms or epidemic. II
n professor does not attempt to explain why
nd theory has not exterminated the fair sex long
at fore this.