The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-03-28
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS.
HELPING FOLKS TO SEE THEMSELVES
AS OTHERS SEE THEM.

How the scissors and Paste Man Preys
Upon Human Frailty--Curious Evidence
of the Weakness of Mankind-Gather-
ing Press Notices.
The business of reading newspapers for
other people, which was started IN this city
in small way not very long ago is said to
be in u fair way to swamp itself by too rapid
growth. Two concerns. are now devoted to
the business, and each claims to have all it
can attend to to keep pace with its own
growth. The original clipper, Henry Ro-
meike, who experimental with the idea in
Paris, and then went into the business in
London on larger scale, has made a;stock
company of his establishment there, and
come to this country to carry out his system
here. The promise, he says, is of something
gigantic in the line of scissors and paste pot
manipulation. Seven thousand papers were
read and 1900 notices clipped from them
last week for several hundred clients on his
lists.
CLIENTS AND THEIR WANTS.
A glance at his books gives curious in
sight into the weaknesses of men and women
whose names are familiar in widely different
circles of life The name of each client
heads page, and under it is brief note OF
,,e,sc,, wants From, ths ,oTass F,,li,, half Ss
tho 10 20 ofta,. tbo,,, h,,t t,, WI
..Tors,na1 Jyhataya, 10 said so,,t 49,,
calves thu, want II ,ro,d ~, rroat sstis
faction ~ scopes of s,nhhea ,ero7.ts,.s a,o,+
town ~, se i, tbase hooks th,, ey;,loncs, Of t,,.,
~ ,ot 1, -,
saw IA re,orters CITY of,cials yb have no time
20 ho+La,. Nth ,o,,,,.,,,, ,,,o,, ,,,i .,,t,.,,
women who vvouldnit have tbai, a,,,as 4, tbo
no,,e,. f, a,,tbino, - eoa ,,ots,yo, ;s ;,ta5
ahont tban,s ,,Evorvtb;ner oho,,t tl,a ss,,a,.,,
cos,, Voc :, oydo,. tba+ d,o, ,,,,,,,l ,,,.,,,s
fron, tho ,,octats ~ ono Io,y,ra,. last s,,o,.
,,Eya,th;ner alont ba,. ,.o,a,,to,, ;s 49,.
tbe mama of n ,aadiner sociot,, ,,o,,,s,,
,.Isvervthing hearino on fraud ~ olect;o,,s,,
"a tbo ,s,,,.;,,,s o,do,. ~ ctr ofao;a1 A,t;st,
and lita,a,, mon arc the worst Tho, al ,a,,+
10 COO a,,o,.,th;ns, that IL ,,,.;,,toI .I,,,,,t
their latest n;ct7,re a.. their no,yest t,,,ol,
About tho tiree tba ,,ic+,,ro ;e a,,hil,tod ~.
the hool, n,intod thew sand II, m orda,. co..
oil tba nara errarhs referyiney n, tIe ,vort and
then n,obablv ouit work fo, = weel, In or,Iey
20 ,e1sal IN the evidence 81 tho ti,;a ~ ,,o,,,,io
itv thot. tbev axnect will roll over, t,am 0e-
~, .,,,,.a - -.
60 tba;,. account Many t;r,os tha,.s orc En-
ss,e.,s - az
book bad, the paragraphs may run up into
the hundreds; but statistics ON this point are
incomplete, as the order is always Cancelled
after week Of this.
Political men, and especially congressman
seem to be the steadiest patrons of the insti-
tuition, but they generally mean business and
not vanity. Through it they collect masses
OF statistics as to some particular interest for
which they stand sponsor, or get evidence of
the tendency of public sentiment by which
they can trim their sails They all add "Per-
sonalp to their order, however. "Himself
and the Pacific Railroads. is one order A
senator wants sHimself and the Chinese
question: Himself and Peru" is the order
of a well known ex-mayor, Mayor Francis of
st. Louis gets lots of complimentary notices
now on the subject of the convention and st.
Louis. and he wants them all. A common
order limits the clippings to paragraphs at
lacking him only.n Lord Randalph Chur-
chill once gave an order Of that sort to the
London institution, and his bin the first
month was for 1000 clippings. Great
Heavens can't stand this,' he said. Send
me the favorable ones after this for a
n change and his bill fell to nominal
figures a.
MEN WHO HAVE HOBBIES.
Men with hobbies are steady patrons All
that is printed about Volapuk goes to one
college professor in this city. Paragraphs
on the Nicaraguan canal go TO another man,
and French official here gets all the De
Lesseps items. One engineers wants every