Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-06-02
Newspaper Qualifications.
BIT N. QUAD.


"THERE are seven qualifications which
a man must have TO be good newspaper
man." saws d Quincy. alih ugh wha, De-
Quincy knew about III newspaper bui
hess, or what W, uld he necessary hun
dred y ars sfttr bis d aib, is q matter Of
unc, rainty. He staies that the leading
qualitcaitio Is the genius of making The
mot out of the least bit of information,
and there's great many journalists who
would he on the old gentlemsn's editorial
staff, II he was alive and selected for their
characteristic in that respect
There's that reportS In Cincinnati. The
other day he got hold of q bit of news and
he said:
MARROW EscAPE.-Last evening--it
was very Dica evening the Thermometer
ranging beautifully -last eve ing, as DR..
]. Walker-his middle name Ia John, but
pc pile are in the haiti Of calling him a.
We ha'e written it-as Doctor j. Walker
was proceeding down Plum street PUN
street is nne of the finest streets in the
city, having q beautiful elevation of one
hundred and sixiy-three feet and eleven
inches above the rivers surface, and noted
for its fine business blocks-down Plum
street, a span Of horses-since The war
our people have got to using mules 10 u
great extent many asserting that the mule
will do more hard work on peck of corn
than the horse can on two bushels of oats
"a span of horses attached to a lumber
wagon-time was when a good wagon
could be purchased in Cincinnati for forty
five dollars but, alas those good days
have passed away, and wagon with
blue hind board and red axle.tree ia now
worth seventy dollars-to a lumber wa.
gon came dashing across his path, and but
for the fact-speaking of facts n minds us
that the firm of Wart d Company have
just got on their new spring hats--the fact
that the doctor stopped a moment to chat
with friend-ahi what power is there
In that wordi A man may be in Australia,
or even in New jersey, aud his eyes will
fill with tears the moment he hears the
word-a friend, he would have been
crushed to the pulp of raspberry jsmp
And there is chap in Buffalo who can
"hold on" to an item like Wisconsin
farmer to his hop crop. / never see one
of his articles without feeling desire to
see how it ended, and 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 1t was Just
IL, and others may have done so-the DO.
liceman at the foot of Main street-since
the new pavement was put down at that
point property has increased 10 per cent.
in value-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 creek is more than we can tell, al
though We have often sought information
| on this point-the cretk, and turning
round, he saw the struggling form of a
man-ahl the word man signifies far
more than some people believe, especially
when falling like the notes of mildest 10 mel.
ody from the cherry lips of single females
aged from thirty-fv anywhere up to sixty
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
one thousand five hundred dollar soda
fountain-of heroes, the officer seized
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 i'll, and will never live to see
him come back-a pole, and extending
the end to the man, soon had hiul-per-
haps the reader has seen the expression
had him there before, but we do not in
tentiOnally use it in its broadcast 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 tear
for some drowned person-in case he had
fallen victim to the limpid waves"
The other great qualification which De-
Quincy suggests is :" never to make truth
unpleasant" l believe in this. Out in
Omaha, when I was on the afternoon
Standard, after Jim. Mitchell had been
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 other
whisky barrels as cargo"
Young man." SAID the editor, after
reading the item, ITO look at you, one
would judge that you would live thou
sand years; but if this item goes in you
won't live six minutes"
And he turned the sheet over and
wrote: vs
81. Godfrey Mitchell, our popular can.
didate for the Legislature, left last evening
for a short stay at Leavenworth. Our
people will miss his jovial countenance,
and the void cannot be filed except by
his return"
And, instead of shooting any one full
of rusty nails because a little truth has
been told, Jim walked up into the sanctum
one day, and wound up pleasant chat by
presenting the editor with a wolf dog
weighing one hundred and eighty pounds.
-UetrOtt Free PTess.