Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-06-04

ladies pointed out to Captain Hope Johnstonc
box which she had just taken from the floor
and laid upon the table. She told him it
contained jewels to the value of 10 lacs of
rupees, or 100000. He at once placed
sentries at the doors, and gave orders that
no Que should enter Having with the aid
of his brother officers, taken the ladies out of
danger, he retired to tho Zenana. 1t was
blazing from end to end The sentries only
ESCAPED by clambering up to the roof, from
| which they were with difficulty saved The
taken them they would have been his, for
the kaiserbagh on this day was given up to
plunder, and what each man could get be-
came his property.
SLANG WORDS AND PHRASES. A lecture
recently delivered in Carlisle by the Rev.
A. Mursell, contained the following amuse-
ing and instructive passage;
The point to which have next to direct
attention is manliness in speech. There
ART many young men who seem to consider
it essential to maniHe>s that they should
be master of slang. The sporting world,
like its brother, the swell mob, has a lam
guage Of its own; but this dog English
Nh'Niuo idi OIu lilC SJDIllun WUIIu. IL
comes with its hordes of barbarous words,
threatening the entire extinction of genuine
English.
Now just lis en- for a moment to our
fast young man, or the ape Of "A fast young
man, who thinks that to be man he must
speak in the dark phraseology of slang. If
he does anything on his own responsibility,
he does it on his own "hook." If he sees
anything remarkably good he calls it a
"stunner." If a man is requested to pay
tavern bill he is asked if he will "stand
Sam." 1.-The secs a savage looking dog, he
calls him an ugly customer If he meet
an eccentric man, he calls him "rummy
old cove" A sensible man is 'chap
that's up to snuff"
Our young friend never scolds, but
"blows up;" never pays, but "stumps up;"
never finds it difficult to pay, but is "hard
up;' never feels fatigued, but is FUSED up"
He has no hat, but shelters his head be-
meath title" He wears no neckcloth, but
surrounds his throat with a "choker" He
lives nowh re, bnt there is some place
where he "hangs out" He never goes
away or withdraws, but he "bolts"
'slopes She ''mizzles"-he "makes HIM
self scarce"-he "walks his chalks"-he
"makes tracks"-he "cuts his stick"-or
what is the same thing. he "cuts his lucky
The highest compliment that you can pay
him is to tell him that he is Irregular
brick" lie does not profess to be brave,
but he prldes himself on being "plucky"
Money is a word which he has forgotten,
/ but he talks good deal about "tn," and
''the needful,' '"the rhino," and "the ready"
When man speaks h. "spouts," when he
holds his peace he "shuts up" when he is
Inundated, he is taken down peg or
two" and "made to sing small" Now, a
good deal of slang is harmless many of
| the terms are, | think, very expressive, yet
there is much in slang that is objection
able.
For example, as Archdcacon Hare
observes in one Of his sermons, the word
governor" as applied to father, is to be
rcprehended | have heard young man
call his father the "rclieving officer" Docs
it not betray on the palt of young men
great ignorance of the paternal and tilia
relationships, or great contempt for them I!
Their father is to such young men merely
governor-merely the representative of au-
thority. Innocently enough the expression
is used by thousands Of young men who
venerate and love their parents, but only
think of it, and l am sure you will admit
that it is cold, heartess word when thus
applied, and one that ought forthwith to
be abandoned.