The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05
JOURNALISTIC AMENITTEs,
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About American NewspaPerA-

du CORPS Restraints the gentlemen Oh The
press from indulging their propensity
for unpleasant personalities at the ex
pense of their fellows. 1t is 30 much
easier to he-fool and be-rogue writer
than 10 reply TO his arguments. Neither
reason. wit nor humor is required to call
an opponent iuurneyman grammar
smasher: IT. say that Is his nasty little
soul is not large enough to fill the socket
OF mosquitoes eye" Or describe him ar
" beery Iasterdemaiion," ga grit lacto-
tum," and epi1hets Of similar nature.
| Charging rival writer with drunken
ness is q isvorite method of abuse. Com
menting' on an article in the Virginia
Enterprise, the Nevada Tribune speaks
of it having been written, no doubt,
under the influence OF regret Tor
misspent life. 1t is on temperance. Our
virtuous and abstemious friend goes on
in true teetotal style, and really writes
most excellent temperance sermon. We
feel happy to know that 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: b" He is one Of the lew Jour
nalists VINO can put anything in his
mouth without fear of its stealing !" and
when 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-
trevertibIe: but the former ?"
Said an Idaho journal: The weather
has been hot again for the last lew days
the only relief we could get was to lie
down on the Portland Herald snd cover
ourselves with the Portland Bulletin
there is great GOODNESS between them"
This Kind of GOODNESS often brings about
an amusing interchange of incivilities.
A Michigan journalist declared in his
paper that certain editor had seven
toes. ] he alandered man thereupon rs
lieved Ills mind in "leader," denouncing
the statement as unwarranted, and its
author devoid of truth and q scoundrel |
TO boot. The offending gentleman re-
piled that he never wished it to be under
stood that all the toes were upon one |
foot; and the Disguised victim of the
" sell," appealing to his readers, asked:
q" Are these subjects which ought to be
discussed in organs whose duty ii is to
mould public opinion?" Another
worthy, of whom an enemy affirmed that
ne had just made the strange discovery
that ne could wag his left ear, did not
condescend to impeach the truth of the
statement, but made matters even by
declaring the man who gave it currency
had both his aural appendages under
such control as to be able to fan himself
with them in not weather.
An American editor is only too pleased
to catch brother tripping. When one
journal talked in its leading article of
3" buttered thunder" contemporary
politely desired to know it that had any
affinity to CREASED lightning" forcing
the explanation that by typographical
error muttered thunder" was the
article intended.
When western editor wrote, 4" We
are living at this moment under despot-
ism," his opponent kindly explained
Sour contemporary means to say he has
lately got married" A newspaper writer
asserts that his ancestors had been in the
habit OF living 8 hundred years; to
which another responds: "That must
have been before the introduction of
capital punishment" The proprietor of
q western journal announced his inten-
lion of spending $50 on "a new head"
for it. "Don't do it," advised g rival
sheet: better keep the money and buy
q new head for the editor" that gentle
man being evidently, in it's opinion, ="
young man Of frugal mental capacity"
as an Oregon Journalist delicately termed
another.
Mr.. lGumbs sought to enliven the PEG
pie of Cambria Co.,, Pa, through the
medium of lively, spicy, vigorous, fer
less and entertaining paper called the
Cambria Milky Way. He succeeded in
making things lively--very Gyely--for