The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-24
ODDS AND ENDS.

ected for the Sunday Crescent
Poetry-Thought in blossom the champagne
! the literary vineyard.
Home-Tbe place where the world seeks your
Xsracter; the magnet of positive or negative
:3ppiness.
4Thester-Nstu in the blouse of Correction -
.Te chamber wherein bachelors receive curtain
&ctures
Z; COat--Check drawn on society by your tailors;
mask OF men.
Z ECandle-A quiet friend ia the evening.
kDeath-The birth of the soul.
IDk-The colored slave that waits upon thought;
black sea on which thought rides at anchor.
EFamily-Matrimony doing penance.
Marriage-The only 'lottery" not put down.
raxes-Feathers plucked from all birds to line
nests of few.
! Bacheor--The slave of liberty; an OAK
q be from ivy; a wild goose in the air, mocn
3 used by tame geese in the farm yard.
EWine-Boitled fever; friend who seldom dies
Without tortuTing us with his ghost
COqueite-A child playing with FIRE.
. EsXperlenee-SOmethin9 for which we often paw
fhout wishing to become purchaser; life's
1 B.book.
ustice-The length of your purse a light in
ID distances blind mans buff.
aw-A foot.trap baited with promises Of profit
AkfeSenge.
ime-TO the aged, an atom; to the youthful
N ord.
sfoveriy- in life.
=: .Eyar-Eyidence of mans origin from beasts;
q tn doing rousing trade; murder TO music.
: iser-A man who makes bricks that his heir
I'd y build houses.
Hebt-A slice out of another mans loaf.
; esper-A fiat much put upon.
Question in necromancy-How to raise the devil,
SIS uadict your wife.
kdyersity exasperates fools, defects towards,
dkws out the faculties of the wise and ingenious
pAs the modest TO the necessity of trying their
s b., awes the opulent and makes the idle indus.
Us. Much may be said In favor Of adversely,
u the worst of it is it has no friends.
Why is milk like the tresd'mill! because it
strengthens the calves.
; 1ien are frequently like tea-the real strength
ID goodness Is not properly drawn out of them
Il they have been short time in hot water.
= Ahe willow which bends TO the tempest often
ssSapes better than the oak which resists it aud
sa4n great caamities it sometimes happens that
;spt and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity
y Ener than those of a loitier character.
!. Slarrisge is love brought to trial-going home
h&daylight after courtship's masquerades.
Kindness begets kindness i'll nature produces
a;Eer; anger, hatred Misunderstanding and mat
eeftiOn create more uneasiness in the world than
deception end arthce; or, at least, their conse
gJS noes are more universal.
J half our griefs are imaginary; before you have
:el curse to q dose of arsenic therefor, try what
giEue there is in an emetic instead of your bust.
Eess being deranged. II may turn out to have been
Eoshing bat your stomach.
, there is nothing that 80 much tends to keep the
TIRE Of love burn ng those little attentions that
Sbfw the loved one is ever present in your
lsssE. in themselves but important ia
Realities Of life-real estate, real money and
ri good dinner, none Of which can be realized
VI bout real hard work.
;i@ hy is man up stairs beating his wife like an
sSHorable man! Because be is above doing
uissan action.
a honest man is believed without an oath, for
swears for him.