Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-02-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

JOURNALISTIC " INTERPRISC' IN AMERICA.  It is when there is • criminal case to handle that American journalism becomes simply sublime. The criminal is no sooner arrested than the reporters hurry to his cell and get him to undergo the curious operation now known throughout the "interviewing." He is treated with all the ation duets a man in his position. "Mr. So-and-so, of the Earthquake, presents his compliments to Mr. Blank, charged with murder, and requests the favour of a few minutes' conversation." To be accused of an important crime gives a man a certain standing in America. The more atrocious the crime, the more interesting the accused, and columns upon columns of print supply the public with his slightest sayings and doings. He is the hero of the day. From the prison the reporters go to hest up the witnesses, whom they also interview in their turn. Regular mammaCons, these interviews ! I know of several American newspapers having quite • staff of detectives—yes, detectives. If a criniinal escapes justice or an affair remains surrounded by mystery, these new-fashioned journalists are let loose every morning on &search for the criminal, or to try and pick up threads of in formation that may lead to the clearing-up of the mystery. Therm detectives are employed not only in cases of crime, but work just am hard over a divorce or an elopement; it is journalism turned private detective agency. A newspaper that can boast of having brought a crin anal to justice, discovered the hiding place of an unfaithful wife, or run a ravisher earth, is rewarded by an increased sale forthwith. 11 there i 4 any I,,VP story mixed in with the affair, V there .LII ,i'-o' piquant details, you may easily j Imagine that the public gets the worth of its twi I cents.—Jonathan and his Continent. By Mao OTell.  consider Fashionable Doctor (out for a day's shooting): Never saw inch luck! What's the matter with Of birda? I can't kill one of them!" Noble Host " Write 'ern a prescription, doctor !" Travis: "Oh, what dreadful tortures they seed to practise in the middle ages! Think of breaking a man on a wheel!" De Smith : "No worse than nowadays; you never saw me out on in , bicycle, did you?" A simple servant.boy one evening went up ti the drawing-room on the bell being rung. When 1), returned to the kitchen he laughed immoderately Some of the servants asking the cause of his mirth, : cried : " What do you think? There were sixteen o. them who could not snuff tho candle and were to send for me to do it.'" mine minstrels recently ellittell on a tour, and advertised in • town 00 fiV• a performance for "the benefit of the poor. Tickets reduced to sixpence." The hall was crammed, and the next morning a corn mittee for the poor called on the treasurer of the concern for the amount the said benefit had netted. The treasurer expressed astonishment at the demand. 'I thought," said the chairman of the committee, 'you advertised this concert for the benefit of the poor !" "Well," replied the treasurer, didn't we reduce the tickets to sixpence, so that the poor could all come?"  irnmoder.boy  Caption. mine : "Oh, come now—you don't mean to say seriously that is a picture of General iggun " Photographer: " Taken from life !" I can't understand that. I've seen G I Biggun at the head of his troops many a time, and he always ,ncl a fireuating expression which no one could forgot; at th.l picture looks as meek as a lamb." "But, my ieer sir, he wasn't at the head of his troops when he 'tt for that pieture." "Well, I've seen him alone, ,m, and his expression wee just the same. He WM %JOIN when be sum here, I suppose!". "N.. sot anti, Wile We** kWh"