Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-21


ment. Our extracts are taken from the
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Mr.. PoDsNiP, THE GENTLEMAN WHO Is
WELL. SATISFIED WITH HIMSELF.
Mr.. Podsnap was we'll to do, and stood
very high in Mr.. Podsnap's opinion. Be-
ginning with a good inheritance he mar
ried a good Inheritance, and had thriyen
exceedingly in the Marine Insurance way, |
and was quite satisfied. He never could
make out why everybody was not quite |
satisfied, and he felt conscious that he set |
8 brilliant secial example in being par
ticularly we'll satisfied with most things,
and above all other things, with himself |
Thus happily acquainted with his own |
merit and Importance, Mr.. Podsnap settled |
that whatever he put behind him he put |
out of existence. There was dignihed |
conclusiveness-n to add great incon- |
venience-in this way cf getting rid of dis
agreeables which had done much towards
establishing Mr. Podsnap in his lofty place
in Mr.. Podsnap's satisfaction. II don't
want to know about it; don't choose to
discuss it; don't admit it Mr., Pod
snsphad even acquired peculiar flourish
of his right arm in often clearing the world
vfits most difficult problems, by sweeping
them behind him, land consequently sheer
away,1 with those words and flushed face.
For they affronted him. Mr.. Podsnap's
world was not very large world, morally;
no, nor even geographically; seeing that
though mis- business was sustained upon
commerce with other countries, he consid-
cred other countries with that important
reservation, mistake, and OF their man
ners and customs would conclusively OBJ
serve, Not English !" when, presto with
flourish OF the arm and flush Of the face,
thev we're swept away. Elsewise, the
world got up at eight, shaved close at a
quarter past breaktasted at nine, went to
the city at ten, came home at hslf-past five,
and dined at seven.
Mr.. Podsnap's notions. of the arts in
their integrity might have been stated
thus: Literature, large print, respectfully
descriptive of getting up at eight, shaving
close at a quarter past, breakfasting at
nine, going to the city at ten, coming back
ut half past five, and king at seven Mu-
sic /: a respectable performance without
variations) ON stFinged and wind instru-
ments, sedately expressive of getting up at
eight, shaving at quarter past, breakfast
ing at nine, going to the city at ten, com
ing home at half past five, and dining at
seven. Nothing else to be permitted to
those same vagrants, the arts, on pain of
excommunicahon. Nothing else to be-
| anywherel As a so eminently respeeta-
BILE man, Mr.. Podsnap was sensible of Its
| being required of him to take Providence
under his protection. Consequently, he
always knew exactly what Providence
meant. Inferior and less respecta bic men
might fall short of that mark, but Mr..
| Podsdap was always up to it. And it wAs
very remarkable land must have been very
comfortable that what Providence meant
was invariably what Mr.. Podsnap meant.
MISS PoDsNAP, THE YOUNG ROCKING HORSE.
There was a Miss Podsnap. And this
young rocking-horse was being trained in
her mothers art Of prsncing in stately
manner without ever getting on. But the
| high parental action was not yet impaired
to her, and in truth she was but an un err
sized damsel, with high shoulders, low
spirits, chilled elbows, and rasped sur
| face of nose, who seemed to take OCCASION
al frosty peeps out of childhood into wo-
manhood, and to shrink back again, over
by her mothers head dress and her father
from head to foot, crushed by the mere
dead-weight of Podsnappery. A certain
institution in Mr.. Podsnap's mind which
he called "the young person, may be con-
sidered to have been embodied in Miss
Podsnap, his daughter, It was an ineon-
venient and exciting institution, as requir-
ing everything in the universe to be filed
down and fitted to it.
The question above everything was
would it bring blush into the cheek of
the young person ? And the inconvenience
of the young person was, that, according
to Mr. Podsnap, she seemed always liable
to burst into bushes when there was no
need at all. There appears to be no line
of demarcation between the young per-
sons excessive innocence and another per
sons guiltiest knowledge. Take Mr. Pod
snaps word for it, and the soberest tints
of drab, white, lilac, and grey, were all
flaming red to this troublesome Bull of
young person. The Podsnsps lived in a
shady angle adjoining Portman Square
They were a kind of people certain to
dwell in the shade, whenever they dWelt,
Miss Podsnap's life had been, from her first
appearance on this planet, altogether of a
shady order; for Mr.. Podsnap's young
person was likely to get little good out of
association with other young persons, and
had therefore boen restricted to companion
ship with not very congenial older persons
and with massive furniture. l
Miss Podsnap's early views of life being
principally derived from the reflections of
it in her fathers boots and sn the walnut
and rosewood tables of the dim drawing
rooms, and in their swarthy giants of
looking glasses, were of sefibre cast
and it was not wonderful that now, when
she was on most days solemnly rooled
through the park by the side of her moth
er, in a great, tall, custsrd colored pheton,
she showed above the apron of that We
hicle like detected young person sitting
in general and very strongly desiring to
get her head under the counterpane again.
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General Mcclellan has made his own
platform, and we all recognize it. and we
care not for any other platform under the
sun. (Great cheering.) The letter of ae-
ceptanoe has the true clarion ring."4r (
Such was the language of Robert c.
Winthrop at the Mcclellan meeting in
New York, on Saturday night. The poll
ticians of New York city have kicked
over the Chicago platform, and snubbed
the Pendleton wing. But the tail must
follow the kite. ef-aa4ezEk
Among the latest patents is coasting
sled for boys, which can be steered at will
without using the leg for rudder, accord
ing to the old fashion. The sled rests upon
four runners, and those forward can with
the aid of rods be turned to the right and
and left by the lad, who sits upright, with
both feet braced forward. But no kind