Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-01
Newspaper Qualifications.
BY NJ. QUAD.


"THERE are seven qualifications which
man must have to be good newspaper
man." says DeQuincy, although what De-
Quincy knew about the newspaper bust
ness, or what would be necessary hun
dred years after his death, is a matter of
uncertainty. He states that the leading
qualification is the genius of making the
most out of the least bit of information,
and there's great many journalists who
would be on the old gentieman's editorial
staff, if he was alive and selected for their
Characteristic in that respect.
There's that reporter in Cincinnati. The
other day he got hold of bit of news and
he said:
MARROW EscAPE--Last evening-it
was very nice evening, the thermometer
ranging beautifully-last evening, as DIR.
J. Walker-his middle name is John, but
people are in the habit of calling him as
We have written it-as Doctor J. Walker
was proceeding down Plum street-Plum
street is one of the finest streets in the
city, having beautiful elevation of one
hundred and sixty three Feet and eleven
inches above the rivers surface, and noted
for its fine business blocks-down Plum
street, span of horses-since the war
our people have got to using mules to q
great extent, many asserting that the mule
will do more hard work on peck of corn
than the horse can ON two bushels of Oets
"a span of horses attached to lumber
wagon-time was when a good wagon
could be purchased in Cincinnati for forty
five dollars; but, alasi those good days
have passed away, and a wagon with
blue hind board and a red axle-tree is now
worth seventy dollars-to a lumber wa
gon came dashing across his path, and but
| Tor the fact-speaking of facts reminds us
| that the firm of Wart d Company have
| just got on their new spring hats-the fact
that the doctor stopped moment to chat
with friend-ahI what power is there
in that wOrdl A man may be in Australia,
or even in New jersey, and his eyes will
| fill with tears the moment he hears the
wOrd-a friend, he would have been
crushed to the pulp of raspberry jamp
And there is chap in Buffalo who can
"hOld on" to an item like a Wisconsin
farmer To his hop crop. / never see one
of his articles without feeling a desire to
see how it ended, aud when the conclusion
will be published. Here is his usual style
of drowning folks:
| MELANCHOLY CAsE.-About II o'clock
yesterday-Of course some of the clocks
may not have indicated that it was Just
II, and others may have done so-the po-
liceman at the foot of Main street-since
the new pavement was put down at that
point property has increased 10 per cent.
in valuc-heard a splash-it may seem
singular to our readers that a policeman
heard it, but the fact is beyond dispute,
the officers grandfather being at the battle
of Bunker Hill-a splash in the creek
why the broad and handsome river which
flows into the lake at this point should be
called a creek is more than we can tell, al
though We have often sought information
| on this point-the creek, and turning
reund, he saw the struggling form of a
man-ahI the word man signifies far
more than some people believe, especially
when falling like the notes of mildest mel
ody from the cherry lips of single females
aged from thirty-hve anywhere up to sixty
I-of man struggling in the water. With
an energy such as is only born in heroes
speaking of heroes reminds us that Fluke,
the popular druggist, has Just opened a
one thousand five hundred dollar soda
fountain-of heroes, the officer seized a
pole-it is said that Captain Hall will soon
start on his exploring expedition in search
of the North pole; we wish him success,
the more from the fact that his mother-in-
law is very ill, and will never live to see
him come back-a pole, and extending
. the end to the man, soon had him-per-
haps the reader has seen the expression
had him there before, but we do not in.
tentionally use it in its broadest sense
him on the dock. The man would have
left-we are not going to say would have
left town-a wife and three children to
mourn for him-ahl who does not occa
sionally pause in his work to drop a teal
for some drowned person-in case he hac
fallen a victim to the limpid waves"
The other great qualification which De
Quincy suggests is never to make trutt
J unpleasant" / believe in this. Out IL
Omaha, when was on the Afternoon
Standard, after Jim. Mitchell had beer
! drunk for fourteen consecutive days,
penned the following:
"The steamer Wave left here for Leav
: enworth last evening, having Jim Mitchell
) and two-hundred and twenty eight othe
| whisky barrels as cargo"
= "Young man." said the editor, afte
: reading the item, to look at you, on
would Judge that you would live a thou
sand years; but if this item goes in yol
2 won't live six minutes"
And he turned the sheet over ana
wrote:
: al. Godfrey Mitchell, our popular can
didate for the Legislature, left last evening
l for a short stay at Leavenworth. Gu
people will miss his jovial countenance
and the void cannot be filled except b.
his return"
And, instead of shooting any one full
of rusty nails because a little truth ha
| been told, Jim walked up into the sanctuu
5 one day, and wound up pleasant chat b.
/ presenting the editor with a wolf dol
! weighing one hundred and eighty pounds
| -Detr0it Free Press.
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