Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-09

Many separate chapters of the biography
of this impersonal nature have been writ
ten, but no full memcirs, so far as we can
learn, have been essayed. We know he is
very ancient, having mention made Of his
Majesty in the earliest Scripiural writings,
and no figures regally in scandinavian
mythology. Agsssiz will tell you wha.
king he has been, having continents for
his kingdom, and Kane and Hall have
caught other lines of expression in their
photographs of him on his present North
ern throne. Scattered traits of him arc
down in the books, and every mothers
son of a Loeal has had occasion, each
recurring winter, to add some new stroke
to the biography of this Jotun, but yet, as
already said, no full memoirs have ever
been written. We do not propose to sup
ply this deficiency in this rqui5; but
merely to state that ,"Jack," as he is irrev-
erently called, is au immortal being, OF
nature ct once wild and gay, fatal and
healthful, and of genius erratic and yet
uniiorm,-and then pass on to mention
some of his authentic signs.
Now no one can tell, except negatively,
what this Jotun IS, but he is thought TO be
a god, and.is impersonal, as the Paatheists
say, and is known only in his myriad ef-
fects, or in the man ifoId forms he takes,
according to his seapr icious fancy and will.
Proteus as he is, ne clips from state to state,
from form to form, nov projecting" him
self into an iceberg, glacier, or mountain
top cap of snow, and now turning up and
c)ming 70 CONSCIOUSNESS" (if no. his own,
then some one elso's,) in the bloodless,
dainty foot Of beautiful maiden, or in the
chilled legs OF an old man, or N the blue,
sappy nose of an exposed pedestrian.
This arbitrary, caPricious Jotu1 made
his first "grand rounds" fer the cur
rent year, yesterday, and while
out on our accustomed beat
We observed somewhat Of his quality and
manners. aud noticed few of his freaks.
In aIIr -oeoo ko-G G-r+ ea-ao to 60 oousci0,s-
ness" in our ears, the tips of which were
frozen n q half mile walk. Unfortunate 10
have an ear SO long that the heart cannot
throw the warm blood to it's far distanttipI
Then tho sur face of the body grew cold as
the blood recoiled from the assault of this
subtitle agent, and the warm red life drew
back to the centre, leaving the outworks
in the possession of the enemy, giving one
to know how q tree feels whom its sap is
forced down into its s,-suggcstiDg,
perhaps, that the distance from the vege-
table To humanity is not great.
The immense icicles hanging from the
piers yesterday illustrated fact in geology,
showing how stelactites grow. But our
Jotun is the swiftest Of engineers and artists,
building an icicle in an hour, while years
must 60 to the growth of an equal icicle in
stone, and drawing in one night, en- win
dow panes, landscapes with mountains,
ravines, valleys and plains, 30 fantastic
and ideal that,be who would paint tho like
must spend many painful year, and then
produce a daub in comparison.
You may know of surety when this i'm
personal thing Of the Pantheists has come
to CONSCIOUSNESS" in man. One sign is
he betrays universally tendency to dance.
He becomes ashaker, and jumps aboutliko'
bruin of the forest, or like deer, accord
ing to the "grace" that is in him. We saw
some notable examples of this yesterday at
the depot, among the officials and others,
aud must make personal item.
A man there. the number of whose
pounds avoiydupois is great, kept up a con-
ant dance, introducing many new figures.
First, right foot forward, then left foot
ditto, and :hen an upward perpendicular
jump, when his feet, aIighting on an icy
spot, slip prOvOkingly forward, and down
comes the man with crash upon an ex-
. led portion of his anatomy.
Another and q positive sign is clear
liquid sphere suspended from the end of
the most prominent feature OF the face
This is the sign-manuGl, the r,yal sign,
whose name VIC omit for what's in a name?
A rose by any other name would smell as
Eeet. Fine gentlemen and ladies out on
promenade can eVade the law by never SO
assiduous applications of fine linen. Ma
ture will out, and this cunning god whose
traits we write, hangs at the nose-ends Of
all ali ze, whether coal-eart driver or su-
perb Aurelia, the drop of juice nectariOus
and balmy dew.