The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-18
Ghf &tu ORLEANS Gursnlu.
THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH is. 1853.

salmon.skin makes neat leather.

lalphulln hht3 are the tnlng IOr young iauies.
The Northern and Western mails failed again to
reach us last night.
Dick Yates is said to have made very rye facA
over the cabinet ppointments.-IEx.
Strawberries have appeared in London, and are
sold at three shillings an ounce.
Livingstone has been elected member OF the
French Institute, dead or alive.
Somebody reports that Gen. Tom Thumb is to
be placed on the retired list.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers l. C. Har-
ris, Mary and Pioneer.
1t is proposed to do Beecher is bronze for the
Lincoln monument at Washington.
A French physician cures cataract with phos-
pburetted eye-wssh.
Fall River, Mass, has female negro school
teacher.
Work for shell road between Jefferson City
and Carrollton has commenced.
Fun inquiries how Art-Unions were conducted in
the days of the Pre-Rsfie.ites.
The navy Of the Sandwich Islands, 1t is said,
consists of two fishing smscks and a raft.
Charles Mathews and wife contemplate visiting
America this year.
At a meeting in San Antonio, on the 4th, $50 600
were subscribed for railroad to Columbus.
A Mr.. Findey, Englishmsn, declares that the
Gulf stream is myth
Two brothers. aged 90 and 95, and their servant
aged Il5, all died few days ago at Jamaica, New
York.
Kentucky has "stern parent" who keeps his
daughter chained 30 log, in order to prevent her
marrying contrary to his wishes.
contemporary says of an eloquent preacher:
During the serman he paid q high tribute to the
character of Christ"
A society for the protection of babies, in Paris,
gives medals to the most careful nurses and to
mothers who suckle their own infants.
Wine and women are the curse OF man. Men
and wine are the curse of woman. We are a cursed
set all arouDd.-[Ex.
Query-Wbether a lady wanting the grace to
acknowledge the tender of seat in street car is
really entitled to the courtesy?
George Ellis has Harper's Weekly, LesIie's
Illustrated Sporting Times, Hearth and Home,
and the Illuminated Western World.
L thirsty party in Cheyenne recently borrowed
baby from its mother and pawned it for dol
lars worth of whisky.
Affections stranger who visited Mobile recently,
remarked that what we most need here is about
twenty first class funerals.-[ Mobile Tribune.
Japan thinks the young fellows whom it sent
out to be educated know enough, and has called
them all home.
An old lady In New Jersey thinks the ice crop
will be very large this season, because there has
not been frost enough to hurt it.
correspondent thinks that one of the most sur.
prisng feats of the last administration was get.
ting Mndd out of the Dry Tortugas.
70 have man as secretary of the treasury who
will honestly collect the revenue, is said to be
worth SIS 600 600 year to the country.
Josh Billings, in an essay " Concerning Court.
ing" says the more advice you undertake to fol-
low. the less amount of good counting you can do.
The London Telegraph says that the new
English court dress is a copy of tina favorte cos
tune worn by George Washington.
An editor in Alabama had some iron ore dug
from bis land made into iron. the iron into plows
and the plows running in the course of the week.
Instead of fat OK, enormously stout man
was carried through the streets of Caen, France,
on Shrove Tuesday. He was paid s35 for his SER
vices, and gave the whole sum to q cripple.
A London correspondent writes that there is a
great influx of american shoddyistsh in that
city, who astonish and amuse the public by their
lavish expenditures.
Washington correspondent says Boutwells
nomination is known to be q small tub" thrown
TO the ultras in the Senate, who show an indispo-
sition to remove the tenure of Office curb.
The Bangor Wing says some OF the gangs Of
lumbermen, in starting 10 come out, have found 1t
necessary to put their horses on large sleds, to
be drawn over the drifts by men upon snow shoes.
The Pic. has seen a blonde of bewildering
beauty" and is In q state Of chronic admiration
of the ladies and the roses in the gardens of the
Fourth District.
The Algiers Independent, new paper from the
right bank, is very sensible and meritorious little
sheet. 1t is owned and edited by VIM. II. Toy.
Success TO it.
The ex-Queen of SPANS boudoir is of ebony.
rose satin and chiseled gilt bronze, style Louis
XVI, the bedroom and dressing room to match.
The furniture cost 100000 francs.
Said very old man T" Some folks always com.
plain about the weather, but am very thankful
when wake up in the morning to md any wealth.
er at ALL"
Hon. James Drsne, of Choctaw county, Miss,
died at bis residence on the sth inst. He had long
been, previous to the war, leading politician of
the State, and had occupied prominent official po-
sitions.
1t is said that all the gold in the world employed
for coin, plate, jewelry, ETC., If put in single
cubicsl block, would be 26 feet square, and weigh
10, 500 tons. Its commercial value would be six
billion dollers.
Some workmen on Black River. Wis, discover
ed two stones in the heart of tree which they
were chopping. One Of these stones is said TO
bear this inscription: - X MEG ma let re
etis Il"
The Pail Mall Gazette says upon ths liquor
question which is now sgitating England q" We
fear that the first step TO any sensible reforms in
the law relating TO the sale of drink must
be the suppression Of the temperance reform
ers.n
newspaper published in the regions of lakes
Memphremagog and Winnepesaukee, says that
" the fish in lake Holleyhunkemuuk, Maine, are
said to be superior to those of either Lake Wee.
leyobacook or Moosetockmegsntuc. Those of
Chauhungogungamaung were very fne, bat they
all got choked to death in trying to tell where
they lived"
Here is a new French smoking .the-csrs story.
gentleman entered a frst.cass car for Yer.
sailles and hghteds cigar. Monsieur" observed
a fellow.traveler, " you are not in a smoking COM