Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-14

A aTAKNe" sUBJEor.-In writing
the first requisite is something to write about
Soldiers frequently right about face, but al
sssayist or paragraphist, who had the inflated
cheek to write about face - continually
might justly be considered monotonic-a
species Of tonic not popular with those who
like to invigorate the system at breakfast
with the morning paper. Some writer's, we
are aware, drive ahead without paying any
regard to the prime requisite referred to, but
we hold that " subject is as indispensable
to writer as it is to the anatomy class in a
school for the instruction of surgeons. If
you can't obtain it in any other way dig It up
as the medical students do. Failing in the
heavens above and the earth beneath, try the
waters under the earth. Get subject
A taking article can hardly be written
without a taking subject. We have taken
one and it is the verb Take" It isa word
of one syllable, taken from the dictionary
The early Grammarians (who catch the
wOrm) corrugated it take, took, tooken.7
We may not be entirely correct, but we think
it is an intransitive verb, neuter voice, pas
sive gender with tendency to conjunctive
oonjunctions. It is sometimes an active verb
for instance, when the rebels take to their
heels, and our men take after them, as they
did recently at Corinth. It is passive when
a man takes too much LIQUOR and is dead
drunk.
It has great many "moods." Usually
man who takes wife experiences far more
pIeasurable sensations than another who takes
athrashing, although in after life the shouI-
ders of the former may often be made famiI-
lar with the OOnjugal brOomstick. The mood
in which a person takes a glass of wine
differs greatly from that which urges another
to take a cup of cold pisOn, p although the
oonvivial gentleman may glide from grape
juice to the juice of the still and poison him
self to death with poor whisky at last. How
different the mood in which you take a note
from a shalEy debtor, and that in which you
afterwards take the money on it, if you are
50 lucky.
The " cases E." of the verb Take, are both
numerous and various. The river men take
the body of a drowned man from the water.
That is a case for the coroner. A thief takes
watch. That is a watch case. He repents
and takes it back That is case of con-
science. man takes his wife over the head
with the tOngs. That is a police case, or
would be, should the wife take out warrant
for him, as she ought to do. Two doctors
quarrel, take out their Iancets and hght it
out. That is a case Of surgical instruments.
A Newfoundland dog takes to the water; that
is a case of-of-Newfoundland dog.
man takes fifty or sixty horns of whisky each
day. Some physician will have a case of de-
lirium tremens. The rebels take their pris-
oners to Richmond, and the prisoners find
themselves in a very bad case. stonewaH
Jackson has taken US by surprise rather Of
ten. he is pretty hard case.
We are all taking after one thing or anoth-
er. Money being the root of all evil, we are
one immense garden Of plants, all striving to
take root. Do you take? One man takes af-
ter his father, and another takes after the |
girls. Some are industrious and take time |
by the fOrelOck;" others more indOlent,
" take their time Miss Lucy, " while tho ema-
ciated and disagresable old gentleman who
takes his exercise on the "Pale horse, ," over
takes us all at last.
1t is remarkable how much taking is 60
ing on now days. We take cold and take
snuff; take postage stamps, and take our
tods; take walks, rides, and the measles;
take the papers and "take notice ;" take
HObsnsack (every body takes it, and take |
chlorifOrm, while some of US can take a hand |
at old sledge. Actuated by the loftiest pat
riotism, we take commissions in the army,
and take-no, we havn't taken Richmond
yet. We take our ease, and take it afoot,-
even the small pOx is taking" After tax
ing life in various styles and fashions, we
take our last breath, and are passed over
into the hands Of the undertaken.