Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-22


graph come to the door," such eager.
ness lor work as this shows itself in diff
io'ent forms. An euterprisiug English re
porter had heard that Lord Palmvrston
was 10 be present az an archery meeting
In small country village Ia Hampshire,
and he accordingly posted down to the
place. Lord PaimUrstOu's task was to dis
tribute prizes to some halfa dozen blush.
ing young ladies, and he whole company
present didnt number much above score.
His LOrdship performed his task with un-
usual grace and good humor, dare say
giving The young ladies paternAl pats on
the head, but making only the most com
monplacG observations. Our stenographcr
waited most anXiOusly in his place until,
to his horror, he saw the proceedings
brought to close without a speech from
the Premier This was more than he
could stand lie rushed from his corner
to the noble Lord, who was getting out of
the room as fast as he could My Lord
| beg your pardon, but really this won't
do" What do You mean, sirY' was the
reply of the astonished statesman. "Why,
you've made no speech; I've come all the
way from London to report it, and I
must have speech Of some sort"
WhereupOu, it is saii-aud this story
is a true one-that the good-tempered
old gentleman turned back, and detained
the retreating audience for twenty min
utes, while he gave them genial disserta.
tion on the good qualities of English
women in general, ard of Hampshire
lasses in particular. On another oCC ision,
however, he made up for this Complais-
ance He was attending an agricultural
dinner, and saw a large gathering of re
pOrters for the times were critical, and
speech of his certain to be valuable. But
re IN tdc up his mind not to speak-nu
man knew better when to- hold his tongue
and accordingly he slyly sent down "a.
the gentlemen of the press" slip of
paper on which in his bold round hand,
were written the words: This fish won't
bite |"
An American reporter Of st. Louisa
very genial fellow, by the way, and well
known all over the country among his
prOfcssion-was once sent by his paper to
report speech Of Kossu;h, at the time the
distinguished foreigner was visiting St.
Louis He (the reporter) went as he sup
posed, to the proper place where the
orator was TO hold forth. There was a
large crowd of Germans on hand, and
great deal of enthusiasm. The meeting
had not begun. Before long, however the
proceedings commenced with speech
from a man who spoke in a foreign tongue,
and whom the reporter supposed to be
Kossuth, though he was of course unable
to report him. On going back to the
Office he found he had made very slight
mistake as to the location of the meeting
1t appeared that the meeting he attended
was German Debating Society, and the
orator whom he supposed to be Kossuth,
Ind; mi
penter," who was just about to open the
debate of the evening, which was: Is or
is not lager beer intoxicating
But the most enterprising reporter l
ever knew was gentleman who is now
an editor in New York, and who, some
years ago, when a reporter Gas he says,
though | will not vOuCh for the correct
ness of the statement), reported two meet
ings at once in front of Tammany Hall
one being held inside, and The other out
side. He was sitting about midway be-
tween both of them, and was, possibly,
"half seas over" also.
The following is the feat Of Western
reporter, hailing from Nevada: The edi-
tor received the following as his first man
ly effort: We are informed that the
gentleman hoo stood on his head under a
spile driver for a porpOs of having Il tight
pair of butes drove on, shortly afterwards
found hisself in Chiny, perfectly nakud
without a cent in his pocket. He writes
that it is his intenshun of returning by
way NV the Paris exposition"
Not many years ago, it is said, when
two distinguished opera singers first came
to this country, an enterprising Southern
paper sent to the rooms prepared for the
distinguished Sdests four reporters, reliev-
ing those who had been aboard the steam
er. One devoted himself to the carpet
and sofa; another to the bed, while the
fourth examined the chairs and the wall.
The apartments were counted on their
fingers, and were found to be five in num-
ber Ii was also found that the side walls
were ornamented with green and gold,
while the ceilings were painted ala tresc0
Upon puncturing and slightly scratching
the paper, it was found that former coat
of paper had been removed to make way
for that on the walls The furniture was
of a carved rosewood, covered with a rich
satin damaslI, supposed to be worth from
three to five dollars per yard. One of the
corps cut small piece of the sofa cover
ing, and ascertained that the upholsterer
had defrauded the purchasers of those ar
ticles, as they (the sofas, not the uphOl-
sterers) were discovered partially stuffed
with moss, instead of curled hair The
window curtains were of linen and dam
ask-47 yards. foot 6 3 4 inches of the
former, and 80 yards, 2 feet and 1-2
inches of the latter. The carpets were
very rich and costly. In one room there
were 80 carpet tacks, and in the others 30,
55, 36 and 73 respectively.
That was an example of the accurate
reporter. He is particularly admired by
the authors of arithmetics, agebras, as
trOnomers and people of Statistical
minds" generally.
know of no better description of an
English reporter of the old school" than
the following: "Proby had never been
out of London, never in boat, never on
the back of a horse. To the end of bag
wigs he wore bag; he was the last man
| that walked with a cane as long as him
self, ultimately exchanged for an umbrella,
which he was never seen without in wet
weather or dry, yet he usually reported
the whole debates in the M0rHing CHrohice,
and wrote two or three novels depicting
| the social manners of the times He was
a strange feeder, and ruined himself in
eating pastry at the cOnfectiOner's shop
| (for one of whose scores TAYLOR and |
| bailed him); he was always in perspira-
| ton, whence George Colmau christened
him King Porus : and he was always so
punctual to a minute that when he arrived
in sight of the office window, the remark
used to be There's Proby-it's half-past
two, and yet he never used to set his
watch. If ever it came TO right time,
cannot tell but If you asked him what
o'clock it was, he would look at it and cal
culate something in this sort; Il am
| twenty-siX minutes past seven - four,
twenty-one from twelve, fOrty-it is Just
| three minutes past three Poor, strange
and simple, yet curiously- Uniformed PROXY
Ibis last domicil was the Lanbeth parish
workhouse, out of which he would come,
in its coarse, gray garb, and call upon his
friends as freely and unceremoniously as
before, to the surprise of servants, who
entertain an 'orrid' jealousy Of paupers
and who could not comprehend why a
person so clad was shown in. The last
letter his friend received from him spoke
exultingly of his having been chosen tC
teach the young children in the house the