Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-15
A QUEER NEWSPAPER
THE OSTRICH OF CORNWALL AND ITS
ECCENTRIC PUBLISHER.

EultOf are bS lunhNibhhs
In the heart OF Cornwall there is pub.
lshcd and read newspaper perhaps the
most peculiar in all the world. This Is
The Ostrich, and If the news OF the day,
its murders crimes and sensations should
shock you or offend your nervous system
Tho Ostrich is the very paper for you TO
read
10 begin with, this singular Cornish
journal ia printed ON n delightful pale
rose colored paper. IL has n great and ever
gaining circulation. Throughout Corn
wall you see 1t everywhere From Plym-
outh to Lands End genial old squircs
and parsons merry eyed maids specialized
elderly Indies, young bloods in cricket
fanncls or hunting brooches, farmers,
fishermen and laburcrs may be seen peace
fully perusing these rose hucd pages And
every one can sec that the faces OF Ostrich
readers possess settled look Of plncldity,
lust as II nothing in the world could dis
turb them.
"Yes, ~ said the proprietor of Penzanoe
hotol, "The Ostrich is n wonderful paper
1t settles the nerves and brings back
health and happiness. All people coming
from the largo towns seeking rest should
read it, 1t is boon for the nervous.
One opens The Ostrich, and the first
thing noticeable is that certain words in
the text are printed In large, heavy type;
words like happy, good, & saved, success,
health, pence, beautiful, amiablc-all tho
pages arc crowded with them, so that they
give the impression of being kind of OPP
tilnist chart pointing out all that is good
and beautiful on the earth Short sighted
people, holding the newspaper at n yards
distance, will only be able to see these
agreeable words, and besides this, in tho
ordinary text, all words like death, mis-
fortune, sickness, pain arc carefully avoid.
ed. In tho entire paper, one column cx-
oepted not n disugrccnblc word is printed.
The system OF the publisher is based on
the science Of suggestiycncss. AS most
people are easily influenced, tho pcrusal of
puge OF this rose cOlored paper, with its
hundreds OF pleasant words may readily
bring the reader to state Of mind in
which he begins distinctly TO sec the world
through rose colorcd glasses.
The paper is appropriately called Tho
Ostrich a little picture in the middle of
the heading represents this famous bird
buIying it's lead in tho sand and 0ppar-
entity feeling well content In doing So
The motto OF the paper is Even OF Truth
IL
up all that Las happened in the world
twice weelly-in not moro than six col
umns-politics, elections, accidents, art
and literature. Everything is treated by
The Ostrich in these columns from his
special viowroint
The first column bears the title, "What
Would 5 H. y. say to IT." 5. H. ID.
stands for Sir Humphrey Davy, who was
horn N DnnVnr7rn and hoe IA
there. This great Christian and chem
list, as Tho Ostrich calls him, the in
vcntor of the safety lamp, Is tho model Of
all human beings, the ynrdstick with
which everything Is measured. In this
column ono finds all sorts of news, and
every item with n commentary. For in
stance: AT banquet at birmingham
Lord Salisbury declared that the situation
of the Armcnians was indeed such as do
manded serious consideration Is. ii. ID.
would say; Tho consideration only be-
comes serious by Lord SHlisbury's calling
1t so, There may be less in the matter
than one would expectD" Or, 1.-The potato
beetle is again making himself nuisance
on our coast mot in Normandy, for there
they have no potato harvest at all this
ycart 5. H., d."
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