The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-25

Kerr, Doesticks, Josh Billings and many
Others have chosen distinctive methods,
and have achieved nOtoriety if not fame.
Whether they add to the permanent
riches of literature may be o question,
hut there is no doubt that they amuse,
and in some degree instruct, the living
generation.
THE STYLE.
The extravagances Of style-simile OF
hyrerbole run mad-are old and famil-
lar, but are still in use. Curran de-
scribes politician as zone who, buoyant
by putrefaetion, rises as he rots." Bel
tbazer Gratian, in discussing the recond-
tie subject of mental philosophy, says
"Thoughts flow from the extensive coasts
OF Memory, embark on the sea Of Imagi-
nation, arrive at the port of Genius, to
be registered Mt the custom-hOuse OF the
elstanding Mather says: 1--WE oft
ell childishly cry for knife to cut the
fingers of our souls" A German writer
saws that young girl is fishing-rod;
the ewes arc the hook, the smile the bait,
the lover the gudgeon, and marriage the
batter in which he is fried. A young
gentleman once began romance in the
fgurative style: EsE.t
"Albert rode it'll the speed of an ar
row to the garden, sprang like the wind
from his steed, like a squirrel over the
hedge, writhed like a snake through the
palings, flew like a hawk to the arbOr,
crept up TO her all unseen, threw himself
passionately at her feet, swOre frantical-
" that he wonld shoot himself, was,
however, Immediately heard, seated him.
self in blessed delight at her side, sank
on her bosom, swan in sea of bliss-all
this was the work ola second"
THE MIXED POETIC STYLE.
The first exhibitions of poetic genius
are generally rather striking. An edi-
tor gives a few specimen verses Of
poem which he cruelty rejected:
Il had a dream;
sUNs.. / thort was alone, alone; Utti .
Oh ii did SEINE
So sad away from home, from home.
or My he'd upon my hand
I lent, lent I
Mi Use upon the sand
bent, Ibent. I
sGIIs8 #Btsfs i
Il thort of other days.
3 And things, and things; t'g' (.
Of happy. childish phase,
And strings and strings" f2.
This is neither SO bold in conception
nor so affecting in its conclusion, as the
following:
Poor Jonathan Snow
Away did go
All on the ragcn name,
With other males
All for TO ketch wales
4 nero come back agen.
The wind bloc h ..#
The bilers tost ... ..
All hands were lost
And he was one,
A spritely lad,
Nigh o."
Lines NAV be shortened or heightened
to express the idea, as in the odes to Com
modoIe Mutt and the Giant at Barnum's
One commences:
Hail. small mani
Short 'um. but
Great, though small
Hail, D Mutt
The other begins:
Phenomenon egreglousl Elongate and gigantic
Mamoth man Of Duscle o immense in osteolo
Surprising all the tall 'uns in the chronicles TO
mantle; .ta.
With genuhectious humble and with terrified
Diminatises sixfooters with trembling knees be
And take an observation OF thy longitude eK
tensive
Being struck with admiration that thy panta.
looms will bold thee
And wondering who made EN-, and If they came
expensive"
The manner of "Hiawatha" is easy to
initiate, as, for instance, in description
of cat and dog fight by the author Of
Tom Hyarwarther, beginning |
Meath tree as I was wanderen,
Spide / a maultee grimalkin
Cat Of venerable kuller
Meath the great umbrsjus shader.
Then she walked upon the CREME sod
IA ,Berrid depe in contemplation d.
Thinkin on the past and futer.'
Here is specimen of involuntary
rhyme: -'
''Didst We ever see steamboat,
r... Goes to Albany and back;
And whenst ye see ii
The smokes black"
Amethod by which persons with short
memories may sing songs which have
been partly forgotten, and also supply
rhymes, is suggested by the following:
Oh. If had a lumty tum lumti tum too
rt In the land of the olive and az. -
Iwould sing of the lumti tum lumti to you
And play on the thing umy,jfg.
Anu " " Tue iumu tuhl oattls fau,
A tumti tuin's all that crave;
Oh, bury me deep in the what-you msy.cal
And plant thingumbobs over my grave"
.rry ., THE PRINTERS STYLE
The following mild and perfectly prop
er and ineligible directions of the fore.
man of anewspaper composition room to
one Of his hands, will give an idea of this:
'Sam, put General Beauregard on the
Dalley and then finish the murder of the
negro yonS commenced yesterday Set
up the ruins OF Guyandotte; distribute
the smallpox; YOU need not finish the
! mutiny; put the mumps in the paper
this week Pitch that pi into hell, and
then 20 to the devil and, be VIII tell tou
how to dispose Of the dead matter.
This style might be varied in very
;o3xs{rfresfsyfet manner by the use of aisns,