The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
REFINhMEETs OF LANGUAGE.

Among all the improvements OF the age
none ptrhspa, are more striking than those
which have recently been made, and, indeed
are at present making, in the language of or
binary life. Who in these days, ever reads
Of boarding schools. They are transformed
into academies for boys and seminaries for
ments." A coachmaker's slop is reposito-
ry for carriages miliner's shop, depot ;
thread-seller's, an emporium.
One buys drugs at medical hall, wines
Of company, and shoes at mart. Black
ing is dispensed from an institution and
meat from purveyor. One would imagine
that the word shop had become not only con-
temptibe, but had beer discovered not to be-
long to the English language. Nova days,
all the shops are warehouses or "places Of
business" and you will hardly find trades
man having the honest hardihood to call him
self shop. keeper. There is now, also such
worl as that oftailor-that is to say, among
speakers polite. Cloihier has been discover
ed TO be more elegant.
Instead Of reading that, af,er ball the
company did not go away till daylight, we
are told that the JOY full groups continued
tripping on the light fantastic toe till Sol gave
them warning 10 depart. If one Of the COM
pany happened to tumble INTO ditch, we
should be informed that his foot slipped and
he was immersed in the liquid element. A
cool breakfast is described as making the
"tables groan with every delicacy Of the sea-
son."
A crowd of briefess, lazy lawyers. unben-
efted clergYmen, and half-pay officers, are
enumerated "host of fashion," at a water
ing place. where we are informed that la
dies, instead of taking dip before breakfast,
plunge themselves into the bosom OF Nep-
tune. A sheep killed by lightning is thing
unheard-the animal may be destroyed by
the electric fluid, but then we should n t be
told that it was dead we should beilfJrmed
that the vital spark had fled forever.
All little gis, be their ia, es ever so plain,
pitied or piliable, if they appear at public
office to complain ofrobbery or i'll treatment,
are invariably intelligent and interesting"
If they have proceeded very far in, crime,
they are called unfortunate females. Child.
murder is elegantly termed infanticide, and
when it is punished capilally, we hear moi
that the wicked mo her was hanged, but The
unfortunate tulprit underwent the last sen
lSnCt' VI tuS ldNy anu WAS IduuCLtu lltC
eternity.
No person reads in a newspaper that a
house has burned down he perhaps will
fad that the house fell sacrifice to the
flames in an account of a launch, not tha
the ship went off tn, slips without an accident
but that she glided securely and mjsstc
ally into her native element the said ma,
tive element" being one in which the saJ
ship never was in before. To send for a sur.
geon, if ones leg is broken, is out of the
question man indeed may be despatched
for medical aid. There are now no public
singers at tavern dinners; and actors are al
professors OF the historic art. Widows ar,
scarce, they are all "interesting reiicts >
and as for nursery maids they are nowa days
universally transformed into young persons
who supernttnd the juLior branches Of the
family"