The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-10-28
From the NeU York Pienyune.
DOEsTiCKs IN PHILADELPHIA.

| Pnilauelpnia is not IN new jersey, put fh-
asmuch as TO get to Philadelphia you mus.
90 through New Jersey, and as when you
have got 10 Philadelphia you have got out Of
New Jersey, the sensation Of the disguised
traveller on entering Philadelphia is always
pleasurable one. The most noticeable
thing on the route TO Philadelphia, MA Cam
den and Amboy Railroad, is the ihrong Of
jersey infents, oil all sizes, who, as soon as
they can run alone, are trained by their saw
age parents 10 surround the cars at every
stopping place in capaciors hordes, ard teg
! The passengers for newspapers. Nobody ey,
er gives them any, and their discomfiedy yells
pursue the train for miles; people are warned
wren the locomotive is coming, not by the
bell or whistle, hut by The angry shrieks and
howIings of the juvenile beggars a, The last
station.
Philadelphia, as city, runs TO Savings
Banks and Cemeteries. Five Cent or
Sxpenny Savings Bank is on every corner;
and If you ride out oi town in any direction,
you pass six Cemeteries with handsome gate
ways and an inviting prospect beyond. You
arc perpetually invited TO make permaneH,
investments of of your slxpences or yourself.
Don't you do il.
The streets are so regular that Bostonian
longs TO give The CITY kick which shall dis
| arrange the buildings and make the streets
run nowhere, and so give the town home
look TO him; and New Yorker wanders
II
never comes out where he wants TO, by rea-
son of making, from force OF habit, metro
polan calculation for leeway.
The parks are feature, and are full Of
fountains with water in them--feal water, by
George, which spirts-and thereby gives you
disgusting "reminiscences of New York,
where The fountains seem 10 be labelled,
''1'o be kept dry," and to be in charge of
some one who couscien,iousy obeys orders.
Besides The fountains, the parks are stocked
with squirrels aud deer, all alive, and all do
meslcated, like cockrcaches in first.class
boarding house. Don't ask me what kind
Of boys they have in Philadelphia Pm sure
| don't know. Pm New Yorker, and have
never had any experience oil boys who would
not stone squirrel to death as quick as
they'd steal pint of peanuts. But the Phil
adelphla bove and the squirrels ffaternize,
and the bows fsed ,hs ririrr-t---Nc-v York
boys would reverse this little arrangemeni.-
honestly believe that a Philadelphia boy
could live with Banum's "Happy Family"
without pulling The monkeys ears, or wiring
ing the eagles head off. Just think of it,
boy, real boy, living in a city where there
are parks full of deers, and peacocks, and
squirrels, and Gainea hens, and lots OF brick.
bats ard paving stones lying about, and nev-
er sending The latter on flying visits 10 the
tormer-never bringing about an acquaint-
ance between The brickbals and the squir-
rels, or making the paving-sones so intimate
with the peacocks, that nothing but death
could part them-never peliug the deer with
clnbs or bunting the Guinea hens into cor
ners and smashing them with boards. You
don't believe i' &course you don't be-
lieve it, and that's why recommend Green
wood TO catch Philadelphia boy, and put
him in the Museum with the other curiosi-
ties-he'd be greater wonder Than the
Feejee Mermaid. He might put him in the
Aquarium with the Porsies. However, I
didn't see boy in Philadelphia while was
lhere--perhaps there amt any, after all.
Phlatelphians are proud of their city, and
want 10 make ii appear as large as possible,
so they have adopted plan of numbering
! their houses in a way TO deceive strangers,
and make them think they are in large
town. They count one hundred numbers to
every block. Though block has but ten
city lois in it, those ten have TO be the bur.
| den of hundred numbers--he even hun
dred must come out al every corner. Thus,
1t a. street a mile long is intersected during
that distance by twenty-five other streets,
that street will have twenty-five hundred
numbers in it. Several streets are number
ed mp above 5000. This, of course, gives
an idea Of magnitude that is by no means
borne out by the facts. When New York
er reflects that Broadway is numbered for
over five miles, and still there are not four.
teen hundred numbers in Broadway, he
ihigks II is a very clever trick on the part of
the Quakers. So 1t is; for street with 5000
houses IN II will be a novelty in America
long after Philadelphia has grown to ten
times its present size-ifit ever does. 4,
Philatelphians have curious fancy about
signboards; they impale every letter on au
iron rod sticking out from the wall about
two feel, as if the buildings felt themselves
to be aristocratc, and repelled the plebian
idea of trade TO that arms length distance.
Your Philadelphia Is a thorough going
good fellow; he is CIVIL, but not officious !;
| generous, but wants his full change; he com
passionates. New Yofkers, aud when they
speak ofsibeir city in comparison with Ph,la-
delphia, he regards tdem with benevolent
pity, and declines ary conversation on that
subiecg 10 him Philadelphia is paradise, TO
which New Yorkefs are only TO be admit.
ted by courtesy, and il Is his business, as
attendant angel, not to argue with the strau-
ger, but merely to disgust him with his oun
extra. heavenly home, BY exhibiting TO his