Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-03-28
WRITER'S AND WRITINGS.
BEING PERSONAL AND CRITICAL
COMMENTS.

Com -HENIS.
Mr.. Bloss is back at his old desk in the
office of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The editors of New York State hold
forth at Lockport, June II and IS.
The editor of a paper published at
Quitman, Ga, recently lunched on
nine-pound trout. What he dined on,
goodness knows.
"J. Joshua jenkins, alias E. D. Tay-
lor, one of the lively writers of the n.
Y. press is now editorially connected
with the Rome Sentinel
The wife of the editor of the British
Medical Journal, Mrs. Earnest Hart. has
gone to Paris for the purpose OF study
ing, with view to taking her medical
degrees.
Sarah Smiley, the Quaker preacher,
has taken captive the Toledo Blade, for
whom cher sweet voice swells out into
mellifiuous undulations more captivating
than the highest flights of oratory."
GODEY's for April, is as usual, among
the first of the montflies to arrive on
our desk. The present number is an ex-
cellent one, and fully up to the reputa-
ton which this publication enjovs. L.
A. Cooley, Philadelphia. Price three
dollars per year.
"Polutio,' the racy correspondent of
the Chicago Times, writing war news
from the Hoosier State, says one truly
good old lady whom he was seeking to
interview asked him unexpectedly, 'sDo
you live very near the Saviour?' And
he allows that for the first time Ill his
life, remembering the town from which
he. came, he felt a burning desire TO
equiyocate that he might do honor to the
occasion; but stern sense of duty COM
PEELED him to acknowledge as how he
didn't.
The American Artison for April is
now out. 1t gives ample evidence that
the publishers intend to maintain fully
the high standard of excellence which
has hitherto characterized this monthly.
1t contains thirty three beautiful engra-
wings, illustrative of various mechanical
scientific. and industrial subjects. The
publishers department contains a lBrge-
ly increased amount of advertising, that
shows that the efforts the publishers are
making to maintain their paper at the
head of technical periodicals in this eouus
try is duly appreciated by advertisers as
well as readers.
The Cleveland Leader, in its autobi-
ography of thirty years existence.
claims during that time to have gradu-
ated such journalists as John C. Waugh
an, of the Leavenworth Times; Mayor
Medill, of the Chicago Tribune; General
A. L. Campbell, Governor of Wyoming /;
Alfred Cowles, business man of the Chi
cago Tribune; eX-Congressman French,
Of North Carolina, and now Sergeant-at-
Arms of the Senate; General j. II. Sher-
wood, member of Congress from Toledo;
Samuel ID. Page, a wall street banker;
William n. Hudson, editor of the De
troit Tribune; Whitelaw Reid, of the
New York Tribune; Mr.. Goddard, chief
editor of the Boston -AGeertiser; Major
William Medill, killed at Gettysburg; :;
Captain w. W. Hutchinson, killed at
Resaca, in command ofthe One Hundred
and Third Ohio Infantry, and George
Alfred Townsend.
The April number of .ScriJner'S con-
tains another generous installment of
Mr.. Kings Great South the subject
this time being, "A Ramble in Virginia,
from Bristol to the Sea- The iliustra-
tions, as usual, are profuse. Among the
notable features of the number are the
beginning of .Iules Verne's serial. 'The
Mysterious Island;' an essay by Angus
tus Blauvelt, author of the articles on
Modern Skepticism, entitled, 'Christ's
Resurrection Scientifically considered; >
and Il timely paper, by Miss Beedy, on
The Health and Physical Habits of Eng
lish and American Women Noah
Brooks has an article Concerning some
Imperial Booty The new story-writer,
George w. Cable, tells tale of the
"Belies Demoiselles Plantation Mrs.
Davis's serial is concluded, and Miss
Trafton's is continued. The number
opens with an illustrated poem by Ben
iamin F. Taylor, and there are verses
by a. Il. Macdonough,. John Fraser, j.
G. H., Charlotte +. Bates, and Edward
King. DIR. Holland, in Topics of the
Time, writes about Jules Verne's New
Story The Taxation of Church Proper
ty,' and Social Usages.' The Old Cabi-
netis concerned with 'Veracity;' Anne
teur Theatricals are practically discussed
in Home and Society, and the other de-
partments have their characteristic vari-
ETY..