The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-14
ME1ROPOLITAN MUSINGS.
curiositics OF (PhiIadeiphial Literature.

GuFtOstttcs ot tlrutduciPHiaJ LNSAAtutS-
Philadelphia is pre-eminently an intellectual city /;
there Is something about the atmosphere surrounding
ouakerly bodies which favors mental development The
Society of Friends boast think of yearly meet
ing thus boosting itself into popular notice. of many
fine writers Whittier and the Howits have proved by
many pensive poes how natural it is for Quaker to be
follower of Penn We need not be surprised there
fore to find Philadelphia dstancng all her sister cities
in the race of literary development 1t not alone in
the enterprise of her pncey publshersher Petersons
and Ippncotts have done WELL but they represent but
one phase of teaurenor is it in her resolutc demand
for trade sales in which she is perfectly rigtf she
can make the booksellers think ill these pale their
Intellectual fires before the brillanoy of those mental
beams which are focused in the daily newspapers 1t is
the newspaper press which gives you the measure of
nations mind 1t is because the American newspaper is
80 high toncd-s leaders being frequently essays worthy
of Blaekwood and its research continually furnishing
encycopeda revised and corrected to the latest hour
that can have really prosperous magazine,
without the addition of pictures Putnam Magazine
of the most successful published in America
strictly confined to reading matter but the publishers
found it was impossible to compete with the daily press
the themes discussed in the monthly had been settled
three weeks previously by the journals and had grown
cold; yielding to this pressure attempt was made
to rival Harper's Magazine, which its success
almost entlTely 10 lts pictures, lew blChly
giles gave birth to very poor pictorial creations and Put
nam Monthly died The same prospect is before the
Atlantic Monthly which will find that the enterprise OF
establishing magazine is very like voyage to the
North Pole you proceed with favorng winds to certain
latitude, where you met by impossible barrier,
and after drifting and grinding awhile amongst the ice
bcrgs of dscouragement you are very glad to find your
self in the open pointed towards home and acnowl-
edging your defeat 1t is to the newspapers of city
that we to look for indications of It's intellectual
dion and judging of the city of Brothery Love by this
standard its literary advancement is really wonderful
Down to the most ordinary employments of life taste
for bellies lerG TO have reached each large firm
keeps poet to sing the praises of its fabrics and small
dealers club together for the support of advertisement
writer, as well private watchman. In blank verse
you are requested to buy Shoes and hexametcs inform
you of bankrupt sale of dry goods Prose, moreover,
is turned aside from its ordinary employments to set
forth with sounding periods and swelling rhetoric the ad
vantages Of purchasing grdrons of the Black Brothers
With that mental shrewdness which to be COM
posatory endowment for their fractional attributes of
binary mortality the tailos the MUSES. and bst
cd them to their pu each goose to hiss forth wit
the old clothes of history and fiction out and made
to suit the present STYLE and wonderful statements
are created out of whole cothall history felton, in
teligence or w.t. apparently heing only furnishing
putting has quite ougrown the clothing assigned to it
by Brinsley Sheridan we have now not only pufs
direct and pufs by implication, but pnfs that msead
those who having spent their whole lives behind the
curtain of journalism, might be supposed to know every
stage trick and trap-door. have been at pains in
prospecting this placer of literary wealth. and from
the accomplished productions of the Philadelphia putting
fraternity have selected the following specimens in
producing which suppress the names originally append
cd to them but am directed by the publisher to say
that they be given in full-upon payment of
the usual rates for advertising The FIRST is the Puff
Mysterious ......... ...l. s.. 4
ssMysrERIrs OF TIM RUSSIAN CoURT.-An extraordinary
statement is made in the St Petersburgh journals In
demolishing wall In the apartments of the Hereditary
Grand Duke in what Is called the ''Great Palace, in
that city, the skeleton of women found still
cred with fragments of clothing, which fell to dust
bong exposed to the air. There is not the slightest
tradition they add to show who the woman was, nor
why she closed up in the wall. We have no com
mens to make, but simply add that had she garments
made at the Mammoth Clothing Esablishmentof Spooney
& Spokes they would not have soon fallen to dust
When the reader has recovered from this attack which
he will find very like of those electrical phenomena
in which, being in state of semiconsciousness, fancy
we are falling from an immense height and, after whirl
ing through space awakened by the jar of our de-
scent to find ourselves upon BEDS he will be pre-
pared for something funny in the Puff Humorous
nDuIL Tools" Frank " snys student to another,
whom he caught swinging scythe most Justify in field
of stout herdsass ''what makes you work for living
A fellow with your talent and ability should not be
caught engaged in manual labor. mean to get my liv-
ing by my wits" Well, Bill, you work with duller
tools than ca" " Frank is one of our leading
statesmen and takes pleasure, when adverting to this
rcmniscence advise his listeners to buy their clothing
at the Moorish Mosque of U. Ketchum |. Cheaten,
In the vcissitudes of human discipline and the diver
sy of natural tempemments, however there many
who would rather weep than laugh these Inust be ap
preached through the tender avenues Of their hearts,
which, suppose, creates necessity for the Puff Sen
mental, which follows
.'CoSrDISG LoyE.--A feels his power and
responsibility strongly as when lovely woman leans
him for support, and relies his courage and his
ability to protect her Wlta delightful sensation comes
over when he knows that there Is one being IN the
world who trusts to him entirely and looks up to him as
the first aud the bestnono but husband can have this
feeling and no man need aspire to that enviable
position who wears not the elegant and becoming
STYLES of Chops aud Steaks the renowned Masculine Adon
nent Manufacturers
All persons are at times interested in some topic Of
pressing importance hence arises the Put Ephemeric.
,sTns ATLANTIC TgiHGnAru -IuosE ISrELIIGBLE WoRps
By the foreign news learn that few Ineligible words
Ind been received at Vaena Bay through the Atlantic
Telegraph We have been privately informed in q note