The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-06
JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES.

| tlll n0urlSn IN America, Wnefe no esprit
du corps restraints the gentlemen of the
press from indulging their propensity
for unpleasant personalities at the ex-
pense of their fellows. 1t is 90 much
easier to be-fool and be-rogue q writer
than to reply to his arguments. Neither
reason, wit nor humor is required to call
an opponent journeyman grammar
smasher; 70 say that "his nasty little
soul is not large enough to fill the socket
of q mosquitoes eye" or describe him a
ga berry characterization" Ga grit iscto.
tum," and epithets of similar nature,
Charging . rival writer with drunken.
ness is favorite method of abuse. Com.
menting on an article In the Virgins
Enterprise, the Nevada Tribune speaks
OF it having been written, no doubt,
under the influence OF q regret for q
misspent life. It is on Temperance. Our
virtuous and abstemious friend goes on
in true teetotal style, and really writes 9
most excellent Temperance sermon. We
feel happy to know thst our esteemed
friend of the Enterprise has determined
to keep others from falling"
A California editor invested in mule,
and the fact was chronicled under the
heading, Remarkable instance OF self.
possession" Said one Milwaukee editor
of another: He is one of the few jour
nalists who can put anything in his
mouth without fear of its stealing" and
when a western editor wrote, "We can
not tell lie; it was cold yesterday"
his rival quoted the remark with the
addition, The latter statement is incon-
trovertible; but the former w
Said an Idaho journal: "The weather
has been hot again for the last few days /;
the only relief we could get was TO lie
down on the Portland Herald and cover
ourselves with the Portland Bulletin
there is q great GOODNESS between then"
This kind of GOODNESS often brings about
an amusing interchange of incivilities.
A Michigan Journalist declared In his
paper that 8 certain editor had seven
toes. The slandered man thereupon re-
lieved his mind in "leader," denouncirg
the statement IS unwarrAnted, and Its
author devoid Of truth and q sounded
to boot. The offending gentleman re.
piled that he never wished 1t to be under
stood that all the toes were upon one
foot; and the disguised victim of the
"sell," appealing to his readers, asked {:
care these subjects which ought to be
discussed in organs whose duty it is to
mould public opinion :" Another
worthy, of whom an enemy affirmed that
he had just made the strange discovery
that he could wag his left ear, did not
condescend to impesch the truth of the
statement, but made matters even by
declaring the man who gave it currency
had both bis aura appendages under
such control as to be able to fan himself
with them in hot weather.
An American editor is only too pleased
to catch brother tripping. When one
journal talked in its leading article of
" buttered thunder" q contemporary
politely desired to know il that had any
affinity V" creased lightning" forcing
the explanation that by typographical
error mu.tered thunder" was the
article intended.
When o western editor wrote, 1--WE
are living at this moment under despot-
ism," his opponent kindly explained ::
d" Our contemporary means 10 Ay he hiss
lately got married" A pewspaper writer
asserts thas his ancestors had bean In the
habit Of living . hundred ysars; to
which another responds: "That must
have been before the Introduction Of
capital punishmsn.." The proprietor Of
. we,tern journal announced his iptsn-
,sion Of spending $50 on ga new head"
for it. "Don't do it," advised . rival
sheet: better keep the money and buy
new bead for the editor" that gentle
man being evidently, In its opinion, "a
young man of frugal mental capacity"
Is an Oregon journalist delicately termed
another.
Mr.. Gumbs sought to enliven the peo-
pie of Cambria Co., Pa, through the
medium Of lively, spicy, vigorous, fear
less and entertaining paper called the
Cambria Milky Way. He succeeded In
making things lively-very lively-for
himself. In his first number he called
the editor Of an older journal names
which we cannot repest. He stigmatized
the mayor as corrupt magistrate, whose
torments from mental remorse were only
surpassed by the physical agony he
endured as the consequence of his de-
PRAYED debauchery. He mildly alluded
to the postmaster as an official Dick
Turpin, whose populations could only be
compared to the terrific robberies COM
mitted in times past by those Spanish
buccaneers whom he so closely resembled
in general character and finished of
by delicately announcing that we'll
known young lady, in rejecting certain
young man, had done the wisest thing
possible under the peculiar circumstances
of the case.