The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-10-28
From the Netg Yo,k Picayune.
DOESTiCKS IN PHiLADELPHIA

go 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
u pleasurable ore. The most noticeable
thing on the route to Philadelphia, via Cam.
den and Amboy Railroad, is the throns OF
Jersey infants, oil all sizes, who, as soon as
they can run alone, are trained by their saw
age parents to surround the cars at every
stopping place in capaciors hoIdes, ahd beg
the passengers for newspapers. Nobody ev.
erglves them any, and their discomfted yells
pursue the train for miles; people are warned
wren The locomotive is coming, not by the
bell or whistle, hn, by the angry shrieks and
howlinss of the juvenile beggars a, the last
station.
Philadelphia, as city, runs 10 Savings
Banks and Cemeteries. A Five Cent or
Sixpenny Savings Bank is on every corner
and # you ride out OF town in any direction,
you pass six Cemeteries with handsome ese-
ways and an inviting prospect beyond. You
are perpe,ualy invited 10 make permanes,
investments of Of your sixpences or yourself.
Don't you DO it.
The streets are 50 regular that a Bostonian
longs 10 give The city kick which shall dis.
arrange The buildings and make the streets
run nowhere, and so give the town home-
look 10 him; and New Yorker wanders
| about in slate Of mild bewldefmeut, aud
never comes Out where he wants to, by rea-
son of making, from force Of habit, metro
polilan calculation for leeway.
The parks are feature, and are full OF
fouRtains with water in ,hem-feal water, by
George, which spirts-and thereby gives you
disgusting reminiscence of New York,
where the fountains seem TO be labelled,
''1o be kept dry" and TO be in charge of
some one who conscien'iousy obeys orders.
Besides the fountains, the parks are stocked
with squirrels and deer, all alive, and all do
mesticaled, like cockrcaches in iirs.class
boarding house. Don't ask me what kind
Of boys they have in Philadelphia I'm snre
| don't know. Pm New Yorker, and have
never had any experience OF boys who would
not stone a squirrel TO death as quick as
they'd steal pint Of peanuts. But the Phil
adelphIa bows and the squirrels fraternize,
| anG The boys iced the squrrels-New York
boys would reverse thus little arrangemerL-
| honestly believe that Philadelphia boy
could live with Banom's "Happy Family"
without pulling the monkeys ears, or wiring
ing the eagles head off. Just think of il, a
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 OH flying visits 10 the
tormer-never bringing about an acquaint-
ance between the brckbais aud the squr-
rels, or making the paving. stones SO intimate
with the peacocks, that nothing but death
could part ,hem-never pelling The dser with
clubs or hunting the Guinea hens into cor.
ners and smashing them with boards. You
don't believe ii OF course you don't be.
eve it, and that's why recommend Green.
wood 10 catch a Philadelphia boy, and pu,
him in the Museum with The oiber curiosi.
lies-he'd be greater wonder than the
Feejee Mermaid. He might put him 10 the
Aquarium with the porgies. However,
didn't see boy in Philadelphia while wa,
ihere-perhaps there ain't any, after all.
PhIadelphans are proud o! their city, ant
want 10 make it appear as large as possible
SO they have adopted plan of numbering
their houses in way 10 deceive Strangers
aud make them think they are in large
town. They count one hundred numbers tc
every block. Though a block has but Ter
city lots in it, those len have 10 be the bur
den of hundred numbers--he even hun
dred must come out at every corner. Thus
if street mile long is intersected during
that distance by twenty-five other streets
that street will have twenty-five hundred
numbers in II. Several streets are number
ed up above 5000. This, Of course, give
an idea of magnitude that is by 10 means
borne ou, by the facts. When New York
er reflects that Broadwdy is numbered 70
over five miles, and still there are not four
Teen hundred numbers in Broadway, hi
thinks II is very clever trick on the part o
the Quakers. So II is; for a street with 3 0Ot
houses N II will be novelty in Amerc;
long after Philadelphia uas grown to lei
times its present size--if it ever does.
Philatelphlans have curious fancy abou
} signboards; they impale every letter on al
, iron rod sticking out from The wall abou
two feet, as if The buildings felt themselve
/ TO be arislocratic, and repeled the plebiar
idea of trade 10 that arms length distance.
: Your Philadelphisn is a thorough soin
, good fellow; he is civil, but not officious
generous, but wants his full change; he com
} passionates New Workers, aud when the
speak of their city in comparison with Phila
/ delphia, be regards them with benevoler
pity, and declines ary conversation on ths
subject; 10 him Philadelphia is paradise, I
, which New Workers are only 10 be admit
, ted by courtesy, and it is his business, a
, attendant angel, not to argue with the sirar
l ger, but merely 10 DISCUS, him with his ow
; extra. heavenly home, by exhibiting to h
} astonshed gaze The super-emuent feclis
: and the great brag blisses OF Paradisaic Phi
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