The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-03

Moose steak is served up in the Montreal dining
saloons.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Josephine
and Matagorda.
We are indebted 10 Senator J. s. Harris for q
congressional dictionary.
A gentleman in Stratford, CT, has raised a
busbel of oranges from one tree.
Chicago has 1000 drinking saloons, which take
100000 year and pay the city 500 900.
The Bank of England prints Is, 600 bank notes
every day
The windows Of Westminster Abbey are all
being filed with stained glass.
Senator sprsgue, of Rhode Island, and bis wife,
have returned from their experiment of roughIng
it in the Maine woods, by Moosehead Lake.
Hearth and Home attempted to secure Bonner
for contributor, but Bonner says he is engaged
to write exclusively for the Ledger.
| Dubuque has farmer in its suburbs who one
night last week had seven lambs. one calf, seven
teen pigs and a baby all born on his farm.
Violet Stevens once the nurse Of Horatio Sew
mour, died at Oswego recently at the age of one
hundred and four,
bankrupt Boston merchant has lately re-
| ceived $1,000 from a former clerk whom he be.
friended.
buried six miles from Louisville and has simple
slab with his name inscribed to mark the spot.
Joshua r. Hull, of Miss, for several years az
slstsnt superintendent on the New Orleans, Jack
son and Great Northern railroad. ia dead.
Sixty folio volumes are daily filed with the &C.
counts of the Bank of England, and eight book
binders are constantly employed.
Elder Knapp year ago bought Is 900 acres If
NAllfOrIlQ a on -rh. l..
lately at 50.
The grave of Mendelssohn, in the jerusalem
hirchhof, at Berlin, is entirely neglected and
overgrOwn with weeds.
A Washington paper says that A. T. Stewart 4
Co. are to distribute $4,000 worth of spool cotton
gratis in that city.
General Van Wyck, of Orange county, n. Y,
has been taking one thousand children out sleigh.
riding.
A reat volume containing the addresses of the
business men OF Texas, can be obtained at
Gresham's, next door to the CRESCENT.
1t is rumored at San Francisco that Senator Nye
resigned for the purpose Of taking seat in Grants
cabinet.
virginia gentleman was aroused from seep
one night recently and found bouncing boy baby |
in basket at bis door, accompanied By note |
asking him to be mother to the little darling.
1t is positively asserted By the personal friends
OF Mr.. Greeley Gen. that Grant has rendered to |
him his choice of the positions of postmaster |
general or secretary of the interior.
Why is young lady who crowds against Won |
in horse-car Like something of which fools are |
destitute! Because she is a nigh dear. CIdeaA /
By Georgel
TheNew York Tribune divided $780, 1000 among
its shareholders during 1865, and It's aggregate
profits during the year are said to have been a
quarter of million dollars.
The Boston Latin School claims 70 be the old.
est educational institution in the countrv
John Hancock learned there how 10 write his
name.
Mrs. Hannah Pettengil, of Massachusetts. re.
Gently celebrated her one hundredth birthday.
she is still abe to eat pound cake, smoke her
pipe, and read six chapters of the Bible daily.
The New York Star admits that the Hon. Geo.
Washington was good, kind and shrewd. Int oh.
ects to New York spending $40, 900 in celebrating
lis birthday.
Joe Howe, the ablest man in Nova Scotia. and
ecently appointed to the Dominican government,
; Is years old. We believe his father. being q !
Tory, removed from Boston to Halifax soon after
ne breaking out of our first revolutionary war.
1t is said that kr. Washbnrns is too Ill to take
be treasury portfolio, but that he will probably
% as minister to France. Both he and Mrs. Wash.
urne converse with facility in the French Ian
mage.
Daniel d. Pratt The great American senator.
nee converted clergyman whom he found eat
q nelehoor melon on Sunday, in defiance of
he fourth and eighth commandments. Pratt's | !
loquence, combined with collie, induced repent
nee IN the clerical breast.-[ World. c
Gen. Grant has prepared his resignation as gen. I
raj Of the srmy, and will tender it to President
OhnsOn this week on the day after the electoral 7
Ote is counted and declared by Congress. So c
lys a Washington dispatch. Il
Rev. Mr.. Trask's antidote for tobacco, is: "Res-
ution, gentisn and the grace of God" The gen. b
an root, coarsely ground, is to be chewed in. f
cad of tobacco, until the appetite for the latter
es out, and can be purchased at the apoth. Q
,sry's. il
Mr.. Yisscher, formerly of the Louisville press,
I'd now editor of the Headlight, spirited pa n
pr printed and published on board the beautiful r
Gamer Richmond, called on rs last evening. He Il
Is head light like our late lamented friend, c.
rtemus Weird, and is q modest and genial gentle.
an. We are glad to learn that the Richmond r
ead-Lisht promises to be great success. II
At fashionable wedding reception in New @
Ork recently, the parlors were profusely orna- 10
ented with native and exotic flowers: but the ~
DRY Of the exhibition was q center.piece. con- d.
lung OF beautiful bower of the most exquisite
u and variety, and in the midst of which was -.
arge. shalov glass tank -a.or.hl;.- -. &c