Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-25


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CuRIosrrIEs OF PBmADELPHIA LITERATURE =
! The sMiddle Aged Man, whose " MetrOplitans
Musings in the Washington Union constitute very
readable feature in that journal, has recently been
revelng in the curiosities of the literature Of the
City of Brotherly Love- and he declares that Phils-
dephia is pre- emiEenty intellectual city, and that
there is something about the atmosphere surrounding
! Ouakerly bodies which favors mental development.
In support Of this position though he thought it
/ might be regarded as anomalous, he points to the
fact that the Society of Friends can boast (think
of esyearly meeting" thus boosting itself into
popular notice. of many fine writers; Whittier and
the HOwitts have proved, by many pensive poems,
how natural it is for Quaker TO ne follower Of
Penn. We need not be surprised, therefore, he
says, TO find Philadelphia distauciug all her sister
cities in the race of literary development Il is not
alone in the enterprise of her prneey publishers
her Petersons and LippincOtts have done well, but
they represent but one phase Of ierature-uOr is it
in her resolute demand for ''trade sales in which
she is perfectly right-if she can make the book
sellers think so all these pale their Intellectual fires
before the brilhaucy 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 neWspa,
per is so high Oned-its leaders being frequently
essays worthy Of Blackwood, and its research cOu,ns
tiuually furnishing encyclopedia, revised snd
corrected to the latest hoUr-.hat never hsve
really prosperous magazine without the addition Of
pictures istO newspapers Of city that we arctic
look for indications of its intellectual condition, and
judging Of the city of Brotherly Love by this
standard its literary advancement is really wonder
full. Down to the most ordinary emplOyments of life
taste for bellies letres seems to have reached; each
large firm keeps poet sing praise the of its fabrics
and small dealers club together for the support of
an advertisement writer, as web private watch
man. In blank verse you are requested TO buy Shoes
and hexameters inform you of a bankrupt sale of
dry goods Prose- moreover, is turned aside from
its ordinary employ nents to set forth with
sounding periods and swelling rhetoric the advan-
ages of purchasing gridrons of the Black Brothers
With that mental shrewdness which seems to be
compensatory endowment for their fractional attri-
butes of ordinary mortality the talors have seized
the MITES and basted them to their putfs; each
goose seams to hiss forth wit the old clothes Of
history and fiction are out and made over to suit
the present style, and wonderful statements are
created out of whole cloth-all history, fiction,
intelligence, wit, apparently being only " furnish
ing goods for gentlemen of the scissors. The
science Of pufRpg has quite outgrOwn the clothing
assigned to it by Brinsley Sheridan; we have now
not only pus direct and puffs by implication, but
puffs that misead those who, having spent
their whole lives behind the curlsin of journalism,
might be supposed TO know every stage trick and
trap door Our Middle Aged Man has been at
some pains in prospecting this placer literary
wealth. from which he has reclaimed some interest
ing specimens, which we transfer to these columns
with few we have procured from the game source,
/ promising that in reproducing them have sup
pressed the names that originally appended to
| hem The first is the Puff Mysterious:
MYSTERIES oT THE RrIAN CouRT-An extraordinary
ment is made in the St Petersburg journals In demoshng
I'll .tt PaI. IN nat ctv the sIsIatoD ~ women
with fragment Of clothing which fell to dust
o5eng exposed to the slightest tradition they
add to show why she closed
the wall We have comments to make but simply add that
made the Mammoth Clothing Establish
- they would not have fallen to dust"
When the reader has recovered from this attack,
which he will fud very like of those electrical
phenomena in which, being in a state of semi-con-
sciousness, we fancy falling from an immense
height, and, after whirliDg through space,
awakened by the jar Of our descent to find ourselves
upon our beds he will beprepared for something fun
/ nv in the Puff Humorous:
'sDr1 Tools Frank says one student another whom
he caught swinging sythe most Justify field Of stout herds
ability should not he caught engaged in manual labor
mean to get my living fy my wits Well Blu you gu can
leading statesmen, and takes pleasure, when advrng to this re
mniscence, advise his listeners buy their clothing at
TyPoGR APHcAI ERRoRs-One Of exchanges the
1rs crop Gasonade county, Mo- this year IS estimated at
5000 gals" The wine was referred to- but . G9O gals
Times, noticing the death Of editor, says he was high
stump speaker Of the highwnded oraoy. loco foco
says the Democracy licked like band Of brothers. -
and we are theirs Types play sad pranks, generally
truthful when they made that the most beautiful Cloth
ing in the city is COTTON up by --'
In the viscissi,udes of human discipline and the
diversity of natural temperameuts, however, there
are many who would rather weep than laugh;
these must be approached through the tender aven-
ues of their hearts, which creates necessity for
the Puff Sentimental which follows:
CoNtDG Iowa feels his power and respons-
htv strongly lovely leans him Tor sup
port and relies his and his ability to protect her
What delightful when he knows
that beug world who trusts to him entirely,
looks him the first and the hs-noue but hus0an1
have this feeling and need aspire to that envabe po
sun, who not the elegant and becoming styles Oh
There are sclsss of people who take the world as
they fad il, and they to be attracted through
the Puff Phi'osophic:
TRUE PHuoorHy.-Never anticipate misfortune. Troubles
come without looking to them beforehand and
moreover by constantly expecting and disappointment
We destroy happiness present whcht is bounden
duty enjoy the full and troubles that come uneN
rced often the least The TRUE philosophy Of living
enjoy the present. he content with what we have and Du
clothes Of --
vusrRyENceence granted toman, but as tn.
reward labor. II argues, indeed small strength OF no
n yc in industry without The pleasure Of per
cevinr those which, like the hand Of clock Wills
thew make hourly approaches their point yet proceed so Slowly
Is to espe observation. il is by untring, persevng in
ustry that great clothing firm Of have attained their
present enviabe standing in the community"
TEE Use OF A Dos's TAu--It is absurd, as well as
harous act to cut of dogs tail. You might we'll cut on
Indeed dog talks far more with MS TAIL than n
does with his tongue With bis tail, dog not only shown MI
gratitude did, but hope enreaty oompaence ahec4on
obedience wrath, shame, defiance Tear and ooc II
organ quite essential to his comfort as you would gu
citizens, deprive them Of the elegant couhng SOL
daily by -"
In this age of steam and telegrsPhs, men DO no
/ often stop to read prOsey essays on any subject
hence we have the Puff SententiOus;