New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-22
Garts and Niftio,,s.

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woke up with the chiIieat kind Of dry North
wind blowing across its face, and reddenng the
noses Of its inhabitants Without joke it was re-
freshing-we had been cursed with SO much damp
ness lately that little dry air was positively a
& treat. We therefore welcomed the Northern blast
and issued out into the street well protected from
its piercing influences by double Ine.of breast
works artfully constructed by the fair hands of q
German creditor, out Of the warmest kind of dry
goods Bully for him, he has our sympathies. We
found everybody and his wife outdoors and seem
ing to feel lively, the noses of the ladies, lGod
bless them) were similar to some beautiful poem,
very much red, and we may add appreciated.
We wonder what the keen blast could whisper to
! those delicate organs to make them blush so. We
wonld like to know; until we do we shall be jealous
I of the North wind and censure him as an impudent
fellow. We would giyehm blast if we could.
By the by a friend meeting rs on the street as we
were rejecting upon this topic, asked us why the.
North wind was like bunch of flowers. We
could not fer our life answer, as our ideas were
chilled completely. Give it up 2" said our friend,
a whom we strongly suspect of having taken "some-
thing,, too often. Entirely" did we answer.
We'll, z said he, departing with a ehuokle, be-
cause il makes s nose gay.n s
IT IS FACT that some minds are so constituted
that they prefer corruption of language to estab
lished correctness and simplicity, and that Others
follow them from sheer wrong-headedness or
Anticipated stolidity. But these not the only
people who contribute to the propagation of ver
+ bal errors. There are not q few whose intellect
ndeultiyation are beyond question, and whose
dispositions are Of the best who still aid in doing
SO. This may arise from various causes. Some
may have 50 accustomed themselves to excep-
tional forms that a question of their correctness
never suggestssftse Others may really, notwth.
standing their general correctness, fail, owing to
some idIosyncrasy, to see the error when pointed
i ont to thaa, For instance, it is becoming COM
paratiyely Bomnon now, to find the harsh-souhding
form lily - used for the adyerb 8 i'll, y although
& even Webster says it is improperly SO used, and
nothing like proper authority can be found for it,
! any more than there can for .swelly,n instead OF
8 s well" That the conceited caprice of Horace
+ Greeley should adopt the abomnation, even to the
extent of Haunting into the eyes Of his readers such
compounds as ..illy-arr anged,'' !" "ily-edited," I"
:. illyonnened '' iilyused." !" .'iy yoked'' lily
won p hipreference tothe wcll-establshed, eupho-
nious AMI simple forms, "ill-arranged," and so
forth is OF to be wondered at But is vexatious
and lamen,sab to see the corruption adopted in
places claiming very different tone from that Of
the philosopher of the white hat. If they had
their due, them writing eould not be .'welly-
known till they got rid Of their t illy-chosen' .
barbarism.
In the endeavor to coin new words, too, others
are introduced. Under the word starvation, y in
Webster, the following note il given: /" This word
has been enormously called an Americanism, and
incorrectly said to be Of recent origin 1t first
used, according to Horace Wa,lpole, by Henry
+ fDnndaa the frat T,ard Melville in a sneech mn