The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-09-30
The Newspaper.


tons. 1t contains many things which
command our praise and elicit our admir-
alton but the most wonderful thing among
them all lat least it seems SO to us) is a
first class daily metropolitan Newspaper.
Nothing else 50 forcibly symbolizes to US,
the energy, the breadth, the tireless work
ings of the great Eternal Mind.
Think Of the appliances and resources
of a paper like the n. Y. Tribune or the
London Times.
There is its able corps Of Editors, each
one working in his proper sphere, each
one the segment of circle of talent and in
tluencc, more powerful than any mon-
arch There are the busy sub-editors.
Day and night scissors in hand they
search through the stream of exchange
papers which pours in and CLEAN from
them what ever is of general interest,"
There are the keen-eyed reporters, watch
ing oil through the vast city for news,
lowering about every place of interest and
with rapid pen writing out the details
for the morning and evening paper. There
is tie corps Of correspondents all through
the world. each contributing the gleanings
from his own special field for t! infor-
nation or entertainment of others. The
telegraph, the railroad, and the steamship
are all active agents. bringing together
the material of which daily PAPER is
composed. Then there is the Press itself,
running with lightning like velocity, by
whose power mere ink and paper, arc
transmitted into news, poetry and philos-
ophy. -
Every daily paper contains a miniature
yet graphic deliniation of our moral, So
cial, intellectual and political condition.
Let second deluge blot out man with all
his works and all bis historic records from
tie earth and new race of intelligcnces
people it, aud give to ono of this new
race single copy of the N. Y. Tribune,
and no would draw from the data it
would afford him, rs complete and accu-
rate picture Of our forms of life, our
progress in arts and sciences, as Prescott,
Willis, or Emerso on can do with the pan
Drama moving before their eyes.
Thon what condensing power the
press possesses. Crowded together in
tho narrow columns of Newspaper al
records of gay bridals and solemn deaths,
of noble hcroism and brutal violence, of
magnificent balls and squalid hunger,
of fortunes made and fortunes lost, Of
wrecks by sea and frightful accidents ON
shore, records of deeds of truth and noble
ness and love, and Of deeds of infamv,
shame and sin, while philosophical and
elegantly written review of new book of
poems, is followed by an article on tho
price of pork or the number of calves in
market.
The news items of a daily papo afford
ample material for thought. Many of
them are romances in miniature. Tho
novelist need so no further than the news
paper for the plot of his tale His Wild
est fiction may be founded on fact."-
Yet sober, respectable men, and dienifed
matrons, peer through their gold trimmed
spectacles and devour tho news, when
they would be Mortified to read s.Novel'
in which the same facts formed the basis
oftle story, and all the accompanying in
cidents were just and natural differences.
Wa found the following item in daily
J aper some tin Q since.