Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-12
WRITER'S AND WRITINGS.
BEING PERSONAL AND CRITICA

BEIyG PERSONAL A Nd CRITICAL.
CLARK, the paper man, newspaper
man we mean of course, is still beating
his way to and fro through the western
country.
The polished and refined editors of Il
weakly contemporary, purporting to be
''first- class family paper" had only for
ty three slang words and phrases in its |
last issue.
The feminine writer who keeps vigil |
ant watch upon one of our contemporaries, |
has suffered it to go two weeks unmuz- |
zled, ,lalthough the weather has been eX-
ceedingly warm. and in this we ac- |
count for the babblings that have come |
so Merrill-ly forth of late.
One of our correspondents says that
"the reason the Madison Press was
changed to Dairy Gazette was because
the editor of that paper wanted to make
it more like himself, and was evidently
intending to convert it into green
cheese" " The Press used to be Il
"rnilk and water" sheet, and a rever-
ence for truth compelled it's proprietors
to adopt a name that would Indirectly
suggest the fact without openly confess
ing it.
The Manufacturer and Builder for July
contains 4 great variety of articles upon
subjects of peculiar interest to mechan-
les, architects, engineers and in Il less
degree to all classes of men who take an
interest in the common or fine arts.
This pphIina tiO.1 IL nOnI nfh itxyr
on all topics of which it treats, and the
interest of its pages is always heightened
by the presence of a profusion of well
executed engravings in connection with,
and illustrating the letter press.
Appleton's Journal for the current
week contains poem, "Sail Rock. Lake
SUPERIOR" by Constance Fenimore
Woolson; the second installment of
"Mina's atonement,'' by Christian
Reid; story by Mrs. Denison, entitled
''The Ghost in the Channel. 'the continu-
alton of s'ROmance of Old Court Life in
France" by Frances Elliot, and vari-
| ETY. of other entertaining articles and
| sketches. Appleton's Journal maintains
an almost uniform degree of merit
which in itself would be nothing strange
were it not for the fact that it is always
high.
| The inmates of the Tuscaloosa, Ala,
Lunatic Asylum publishe. paper of
which the editing, reporting, type-set-
ting, and press work are all done by in
sane patients. This statement in itself
will not at all seem surprising to any
one conversant with journalism the
only really curious part of the affair is
that all engaged in the enterprise should
be fortunate enough to be under appro-
pirate treatment, instead of being left at
large TO grow madder every day, like
the staff on certain weakly cotempora-
ry for instance.
| Geo. P. Rowell & Co.'S "American
Newspaper Directory" for 1873 is a
very valuable and attractive number
Beside containing mention of every pa
per published in the U. S. and Canadas
it has many useful statistics, and best OF
all an admirable and comprehensive es-
say upon the growth of journalism in
the Central States. In our own country
there are, according to the Directory
5,S71 publications. issuing annually {
total of l,50S, ,54S, $50 copies. or these
papers over four thousand are published
WcChlJ Will u bUthI Oh III,
594 ,643 copies. OF daily papers there j.
an issue of 1851 ,247 copies.
On Thursday last Mr.. Sidney E
. Morse severed his connection with the
, New York Observer, the health of hi
family requiring his residence abroad
: Since 1856 he has been with the Obser-
ger, becoming one of the editors ant
proprietors upon the retirement of hi
. father and uncle in 1858. 1t was by hi
family, indeed, that the paper was es
: tablished, and by his own efforts it!
| value and prosperity have been very
; largely increased. Mr.. Morse's propri
etary interest in the paper is transfer
red to Rev. Charles A. Stoddard, D. ID.
who has been for some years an occa
= sional editorial writer on it's staff. 9th
erwise the old management is un
changed.
From the National Publishing Com
pany we have advance sheets of 9Th,
Undeveloped West, or five years in tn,
Territories" by j. ii. Beadle. The an
q thor's name is one well known by news
paper readers, especially those of tn
: western cities, and to all who have reat
e his racy and instructive letters from til,
@ west to some of our best newspapers
among which is the CINCINNATI Con,
IS not need to be told that tn
n Forthcoming book will be one vel
: worth reading. The subject of tn
work is. one which has not vet becom
: hackneyed, and if it had we fancy tina
e Mr.. Beadle would find in it much tina
1t other writers had passed by unnoticed
n s'It was my Prime object" says the wri
:, ter in the preface Of his book, s'to max
this work a startling novelty; in one re
s. spect, by telling the exact truth abou
:. the particular points towhich letters ar
=. most urgently merited.' This is in
- deed startling, and the execution of tn
- intentions has made ''The Undevel
u oped West" what few books upon tn,
= subject are, reliable, and therefore val
# liable guide and authority to the touris
II or the emigrant.
: 'sSocicty and Social Gossip" is tn
Is euphonous name given to a series o.
l. articles now being published in the Ad
e Uertiser, which, by their elegant sim
a plicity. forcibly remind one of the Tat
it tiers Tales and Sketches, and concern
: ing which an occasional inquiry ha
been made as to their authorship. Ex
70 actly why there should exist any doub
It upon this last is, however, difficult t.
d understand. Not only do the smootl
Al and elegant diction, the intimate knowl
s edge displayed of classical authors an'
e their works, and the terse, sharp phra
Is seology all show the handiwork of OIL
y able friend, S. c.. Durham, but, in addi
d tion, he openly avows the fact that h
r. it is who "writes them pieces.'' Al
e incident confirms our belief in the as
1t sertion. Not long since, in one of tn
II articles, reference was made to '"Thana
:, "a topsis," but by a typographical erro
n the word was spelled "Thanalopsis.
N Upon having his attention called to til
d mistake, the distinguished writer re
d piled that possibly it might be wrong
q although he never remembered to haV
u seen the mans name spelled any differ
I: ent." and then supplemented the re-
,e mark with the admission that .itl,cs
ii old Greek fellows names always di
l. bother him anyhow"