The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-25
EDITORIAL PARAeRApHs. ETC.

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1t ia not trae that President johnson will 20 Il
, Europe.
Six of the chief London theaters are managed
by ladies.
Henry Maury late of the Confederate army
died in Mobile on the 22d.
Memphis is preparing for great commercial
convention
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., fears that we are
to be swamped by the Chinese vote.
Crime always rises in an extent corresponding
with the rise in wheat.
wealthy Boston lady has adopted Florida
negro boy.
Last year the English railways paid 81, $50, 900
damages to persons injured By accidents.
Geo. Ellis has all the New York illustrated pa
pers and Hearth aud Home.
The population Of London at the miid'e of 1858
was 3,l26 6S5.
Hartford, Connecticut, has grown rich on in.
surance.
Porfrio Daz has been appointed governor Of the
new State OF Moreas, Mexico.
The Cubans regard the Peruvian monitors with
suspicion.
deserter from the army writes to the New
York Tribune that he sbsented himself without
| leave rather than be an officers servant.
| bill to prevent Cinnamon from abuse by the
white population has been introduced into the
| Nevada Legislature.
The latest from Paris is that the prince imperial
| went skating and made spread eagles +" seven
times in one day.
| An English lecturer in San Francisco recently
told bis audience that their city was the direst he
had ever visited.
A statistical connosseur calculates that only
one woman out of ninety.fve, in New York, can
be justly called pretty.
tpatent for snoring preventive" has been
| applied for. 1t consists in the application of a
clothes pin to the nose.
Mr.. Burlingame's credentials to the French
court were five long, and covered all over with
fve-cawed dragons.
There are only twentysix missionaries among
all the Indians of our country, while they number
between three and four hundred thousand.
Baron Lionel De Rothschild, Liberal, has been
elected to Parliament from London city, in place
of Mr.. Bell, Conservative.
tombstone in Maine, erected to the memory
of wife, bears the inscription: "Tears cannot
restore her; therefore weep"
Boston has "lady pickpockets" who "dress
msgnifcently," and by "fainting away in gentle
mems arms'' eau the downfall of their pocket
books.n
With reference to the child with no backbone, |
who IS reported to have recently died in Ohio, the
Boston Post says that by his death "the State lost
admirable material for member OF Congress-
The Chicago Post says watts is to be re. |
vised 20 as TO read, How sharper than Miss Anna |
E. Dicknson's tongue it is to have a thankless
child"
1t is rumorsd that Gen. Bully aud Mr.. Fisk, of
Erie notoriety, are about TO purchase newspaper
10 Springfield, Macs, to run in opposition to Mr..
Bowles' Republican.
Congressman Bingham is described by Wash.
ington letter writer. who says that "a Joke can
be got into this gentleman only by a surgical op-
Grafton. He is calm as a cow pen, and solemn as
gate post"
new fashion in stationery has been introduced
from Paris, where it has been used several years
a letter sheet OF fine paper which folds so as to
form its own enveIop. The Inconvenience of this
combined wrapper and page recalls the days of
our ancestors, when envelopes were unknown.
The New York Round Table publishes the fol-
lowing neat stanzs concerning the recent Shak-
spearean Tevivals in New York:
l. Mr.. Lester Wallack cannot act Benedck.
2. Miss Rose Eytinge cannot act Beatrice.
8. Mr. Edwin Booth cannot act Romeo.
4. Miss Mary McVicker cannot act Juliet.
Sol Smith some years ago prepared an epitaph
Tor himself, to be engraved upon plain stone in
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis. 1t is as fol.
oWs:
SOL SMITH,
Retired Actor.
lS0l-lS-.
"Life's but a walking shadow; a Door PLAYER.
That struts and frets his hour uponthe stage
And then is heard no more.r
Gan the worlds stage, 4
And all the men and women merely players"
EXIT SOIL
The American outdoes John Bull in meat eating.
L New York paper gives the following list of r
meats ordered by gentleman, a few days ago, ?
t the Metropolitan, for breakfast only: Beef c
teak, lamb chops, bacon and eggs, pigs feet, T
aussges, broiled ham, fried liver pork steak and :,
idneys or course, no mortal could eat all :
hese; indeed, he could hardly manage to taste
ach dish but careful observation showed that I
e made his breakfast almost entirely of pork in
ONE form. Half dozen slices of potato (fried
l hog fat) tiny piece of corn bread and one r
lice of toast made up the vegetable part. and E
ofee filed the bill.
One Of the editors OF the Tyler (rexasl Ra.
orter went to church the othef day, but his at a,
'ntion was distracted from the sermon by the
blowing Just in front IF US, on the back Of
re bench, the picture of man in a state of
AZURE, roughly drawn with o pencil, and of
ontispece size, glared its vulgar proportions in
1r very face. Beneath it, or rather to one side,
as written Bully Winkle,' an individual with
HON we are notpersonally acquainted, and who.
e feel certain, has no business in church in that
light. We suddenly turned our eyes away to the
ght, when they fell upon this writing in a large,
ain hand Abe Lincoln is a brick Again to
e left and little in front we turned our gaze.
hen we read in large capitals, why the h use
ed Jacket Btters.' Again we read: One day
ter date promise to pay, etc.-a note of hand
hich will be collected soon as any one will
It to heaven by dishguring church furniture.'u
Washington dispatch of the 10th SAYS: The Ia
hit for the repeal Of the civil tenure law COM alb
enced in the Senate to day in dead earnest and prc
9 discussion, headed by COnkling was against