The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-22
THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.
"THE GALAXY"

the following list OF articles
\ ''Put Yourself in His Place. by Charles |
Reade; chapters xxx, HNAl, and AAAu.
with an Illustration.) "Ernnas Spinning, |
by Margaret j. Preston. Expressions" by |
Il. M. Coan. brigham Young" by Justin |
MCCARTHY. "Polly Mariner, Tailoress," by
Rose Terry. ''Ten Years in Rome, Random
Notes of Roman Society. "The Bedouin's
Rebuke," 10y Henry Abbey. 1.-The Oversoul
of Manse Roseburgh." Ventilation and
Warming, by John @. Draper. ga Hundred
years Ago, by s. NJ. b. Piatt. Letters
from Havana, Laure d'Hauterive to Angela
Gaynor l. by f. de NJ can Editors Tales"
No. III. 'lho Galaxy Miscellany 'Drift--
Wood by Philip Quilibet. Literature and
Art" ''Nebulp," by the Editor.
We quote from the GdJaGy IH{SceUdRy the
following by George Wakeman:-
1t is amusing and somewhat instructive to
observe the idiomatic words and phrases which
are common in different sections of country
and among particular classes. Words that
have never been seen in any dictionary are
heard in common and serious use, and others
that are familiar are found to have acquired
new and surprising signiications
1t is said that statement like the fol-
4 lowing would be quite intelligible in the
West - 'Look here, Judge! See what
your boys been at. He picked up
a gravel rock (stone), chucked it over neigh
Dor Barnes haydoodle (haycock), and killed
our bobiddy Gooster)." sat" seems to be a
favorite Western proposition, as in the sem
tences, ''Where did you get cold at?" 'Where
do you live at?" In Arkansas a stone would
be called 'donock." In the South or South
west, to carry is to ''tote;'" loaf of bread is
/ q "pone;" a small stream is rum" a canoe
fashioned from a large log is very express
sively, q 'dug-out." Everything is fright
smart" as when considerable distance is
said to be Fright smart ways" We and you
are ''we uns" and ''you uns;" and in the use
of the verb to do such expressions occur as
81 gone done it" "He gone done it, "You
uns gwine gone done it., ''They uns gwine
gone done it,
The idiomatic words together with the
peculiar pronunciation of the Yankee have
given him in the pages of Sam Slick, and in
the more refined works of Lowell, dialect
of his own. In New England, thing that is
tbran Cor brand) news" and clean thing is
"spick span clean" The word 'kindy" Cor
kind oO has come into almost universal use
in the sense of rather; as when a thing is
kindly nice, kindly good. A nice girl is ''kindy
U scrumptious.' Pretty is very generally used
in the same sense, as pretty good, pretty nice.
"Guess which is so common in New
England, though it IS an English
word transplanted is not synony-
mous with think believe. 1t ex-
presses a meaning purely its own, and,
though considered ungenteel by some fastidi-
GUS persons, seems TO me TO De very uSetul
in prefxing thought which we are willing
to admit is only thrown out for what'it is
worth, and may be modified at any time
But the use of calculate in the same sense
is execrable.
The New Enganders have some curious
complaints among which are ''conniption
fits, i" ''maggrums' (megrims), ''rheumatics, y
and 'hypo.' Boston poet has written a
''Sudbury Ballad about little girl with
mourning ribbons in her hair, who, instead
of indulging in a refrain similar to that of
Wordsworths little heroine, ''We are seven,
reiterated continually that her aunt died of
the ''shocanum palsy.
"What sort of palsy, love ~ saia l.
''That name never heard before"
This was my little maids reply
"Iye told you twice and won't no more
What was it killed your suffering aunt?"
She answered:-"I will tell you, then,
But If you ask again. shan't.
She died o. the shocanum palsy"
An amateur etymologist might suggest that
the child meant a shock of numb palsy, but
very likely he would be wrong
1t is curious to notice by what different
words the same ideas are expressed and the
same things named by different people. In
some districts of England, too much high
sounding talk is called ''clishmaclaver," and
scolding is "clapperclaw." In America it is
called ''hifalutin," and sometimes 'kerhum.
mux." In New York great talker is said to
elbow" or ''gas;" in the West he is said to
''gostrate;" and in New England farmers
wife sometimes advises q garrulous neighbol
not to 'blob around" SO much. The latter
seems to be corruption of blab, as ''splosh'
and ''slosh" are used in New England fol
splash and slush. Indian meal boiled is called
in New England ''hasty pudding in othel
parts Of the country ''mush." The India1
name was 'suppawn,' which is now Otter
used. In England, minute pudding is
E'hasty pudding" In New England, corn
bread is ''johnny-cake" in the South it i
corn-dodger or hoe-cake, as it is sometimes
baked by the negroes on a hoe.
A long article might be written merely oi
the titles that have been given in variou
ages, countries, and sections to money
Rhino, the tin the needful, the ready, tn
ducats, the dust, the spondulix, are all old
In the West, the popular synonyme for fund
is now said to be ''koshpoppy," the derive
tion of which it would be difficult to guess
In England, overshoes are called 'galoshes;
in New York they are ''rubbers," and i
Pennsylvania they are called ''gums."
Philadelphia gentleman and his wife visited
friend in New York, and one evening whe
pthey had been out, the gentleman entered tn
parlor alone. ''Where is Emily?" said th
host. "Oh, she is outside cleaning her gun
npon the mat, said the Philadelphian.
momentary astonishment crossed the feature
of the New Yorker, which soon gave way
! laughter.
In some parts of Vermont, popular"
used III the offensive sense of aristocrati
and powerful" is common in the sense