Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13

young squint ola journalistic venture, it did
not heretofore possess. For its coming year,
it will therefore be bright, breezy, racy,
fresh, goSsipy and still instructive in high
degree. While catering to the tastes of the
careful student, it will also bubble over this
year with parenthetical Laughter" and
prolonged laughter" will be an everyday
occurrence.
There will be articles of interest from
time to time, by some of our most enter
tanning Congressional writers. Notable ar
ticles on Dakota by Cox, war history by
ingalls,, Sherman and others. Special ar
ticles will appear from time to time, by its
best writers, both in the House and Senate,
men who will, during the present year, give
up more OF their time to the preparation of
such addresses or ESSAYS for the Record and
less to making speeches than heretofore.
In past years there has been too much
delivering of these speeches or opin-
ions, and the printing has been con-
sidered secondary; but now the editors
Of the Record hope to print the best work
Of Congress, in advance of its delivery,
or in many instances giving much better
and entirely original matter in the Record.
Page after page of the magazine will this
year be used lor this purpose exclusively by
the publishers and thus it is hoped that
those who have heretofore gone to the House
or the Senate to listen to a speech, will be-
come paying subscribers to the Record, in
order to get more and better literary stuff.
A PROSPECTIVE MILLENNIUM.
1t is thought that the time will come at
last when Congress will be merely opened
with the aid Of powerful prayer, and then
the various associate editors of the Record
will repair to their committee rooms, thus
refreshed and purified, to write their edi-
torials for the great magazine and its eager
readers.
In the humorous department several
changes will be made with great advantage
to the paper; it is thought Senator Riddle
berger will give less time to histrionic humor
hereafter, and thus have more leisure for
sparkling and bubbling in the columns of
the Record Heretofore many of his last
things were not reported, as the blue pencil
has slaughtered his brightest and toodliest
humor, He will now have a chance to do
his best and see that his work is properly
printed without change. Mr.. Riddleberger
will also handle the laughter font and (hcD
galley under contract with the editor of the
Record, with positive obligation on his
part not to contribute to any other paper in
the meantime.
This may read like puff for the Con-
qreSsionGl Record, but 1 feel growing in
terest in the paper which is far above mer-
cenary considerations The paper is one
that ! have watched with much solicitude
for many years. 1t has had a hard struggle
and other papers have hoped on il in
critical way that made my heart bleed. Now
il is prospering. 1t has good staff and,
best OF all, it is backed by Congress with
writers like Preston B. Plumb and Amos j.
Cummings, old journalists, who can write
speech for themselves or others whose heads
may give them pain when thev trv to use
them for thinking purposes; with hell-box
full of statistics and a two-bushel coffee sack
full of poetry, to say nothing of the pick-ups
or picks.up rather, in thewsy of prolonged
sensation, [applause in the gallery and cries
of ''shet up."l
COMING NOVELTIES.
The Record is better equipped than ever
before, and yet there will be no addition
made to the price. A Representative
who is also the associate editor, tells me
that they think of making the
Record also an illustrated magazine
at no distant date. Senator Brown,
of Georgia, will contribute with valuable
articles on table etiquette, and Senator
Stamford will prepares treatise on "How to
Acquire a Competency; or, The Mighty
Masterpiece of a Sel-Made Man. An ex- |
Senator from Florida will prepare an article |
of 1000 words on the question, SIS Marriage
Failure?" Hon. Dauiel Webster Voor- |
hees, of Indiana, will write a continued |
story about the war. He will be followed |
by an Old Soldier and many citizens. |
Senator Edmunds will write something on
the care of the hair. He will be followed
by Senator Spooner, of Missouri. Senator
ingalls, will do the paragraphing for the
Record this year, and Senator Quay will
oversee the job printing.
1t is a bright. CHEEKY sight indeed, at a
later hour of the night to drop in and see
the staff at work on the forthcoming paper
In the midst Of it all a member of Congress
hurrieS in with q bicycle item, marked
must, or a painting secretary comes in
with something for the chpeS no1up,n All