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Chit Chat.
CHIT CHAT .
NEWSPAPER REPORTERS . ( A hint to a noble Editor . )—The daily press complains of the loquacity of parliament , as a serious impediment to business . The steady remedy is " cease to report the nonsense that is spoken , and the members will talk less . " The ' Spectator , " remarking on the threat of the " Times , " says , — " Honourable members often speak less to be heard than to be reported , and by subscribing to those talkers against printed spacethe daily journals encourage idle loquacityuntil
, , their own columns are surcharged with a burden of tediousness that disgusts all readers . A concentrated style of reporting , apportioned to ideas rather than words , would please readers , would cause members in truth to be more read , and would tend to chasten the flow of eloquence . " The hint is equally applicable to the provincial press in its treatment of local orators . The practice of reporting everything that is said , by fools as well as solonsmay be described as "reporting run mad . " The
, highest style of reporting is that which gives , in the briefest possible space , the substance of all things spoken and done . Column after column of " full reports" form literally a mass of rubbish , gratifying to nobody but him whose vanity it flatters . The exceptions to this rule are but few . —Sheffield Times , 1849 .
FEMALE MYSTERIES . — " There is not a mystery in creation , the symbol , or practical invention , for meanings abstruse , recondite , and incomprehensible , which is not represented by the female gender . There is the Sphynx , and the Enigma , and the Chimera , and Isis , whose veil no man had ever lifted ; they were all ladies , every one of them ! And so was Proserpine , and Hecate , who was one thing by night and another by day . The Sibyls were females , and so were the Gorgons , the Harpies , the Furies , the Fates , and the Teutonic Valkyrs , Nornies , and in short , all representations of ideas , obscure , inscrutable , and portentous , are nouns feminine . "
THE MEDRASH relates of king Agrippa , that he wished one day to sacrifice a thousand burnt offerings . He sent for the High Priest , and told him , " To day no one shall bring a sacrifice except myself . " A poor man happened to come on the same day to the priest , and brought him two turtle-doves , requesting him to offer them . The priest replied , I regret I cannot , for the king has commanded me "No one shall bring a sacrifice to day except myself . " The man lied" Mlord
poor rep , y high priest , I catch every day four doves , two I offer up , and with the other two I maintain myself ; if thou wilt not offer them , thou cuttest off my living . " The high priest took them and offered them . When King Agrippa was told that the hi gh priest had given precedence to the poor man ' s offering , he was very wroth with the hi gh priest , who , however , thus appealed to the royal master : " The poor man seemed to fear that he only succeeded in catching four doves every day because he
offered two , and apprehended if he were not permitted to offer the two in gratitude to Providence , he would not have the other two either ; and could I refuse this innocent man ? " The king was appeased , and said , " Thou hast done well ; if all my subjects would be as grateful , I should be the happiest of kings . "—Jewish Chronicle . CHINESE INTERMENT AND ENGLISH DISINTERMENT . —The sickness and mortality amongst our troops on certain stations in China have been
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Chit Chat.
CHIT CHAT .
NEWSPAPER REPORTERS . ( A hint to a noble Editor . )—The daily press complains of the loquacity of parliament , as a serious impediment to business . The steady remedy is " cease to report the nonsense that is spoken , and the members will talk less . " The ' Spectator , " remarking on the threat of the " Times , " says , — " Honourable members often speak less to be heard than to be reported , and by subscribing to those talkers against printed spacethe daily journals encourage idle loquacityuntil
, , their own columns are surcharged with a burden of tediousness that disgusts all readers . A concentrated style of reporting , apportioned to ideas rather than words , would please readers , would cause members in truth to be more read , and would tend to chasten the flow of eloquence . " The hint is equally applicable to the provincial press in its treatment of local orators . The practice of reporting everything that is said , by fools as well as solonsmay be described as "reporting run mad . " The
, highest style of reporting is that which gives , in the briefest possible space , the substance of all things spoken and done . Column after column of " full reports" form literally a mass of rubbish , gratifying to nobody but him whose vanity it flatters . The exceptions to this rule are but few . —Sheffield Times , 1849 .
FEMALE MYSTERIES . — " There is not a mystery in creation , the symbol , or practical invention , for meanings abstruse , recondite , and incomprehensible , which is not represented by the female gender . There is the Sphynx , and the Enigma , and the Chimera , and Isis , whose veil no man had ever lifted ; they were all ladies , every one of them ! And so was Proserpine , and Hecate , who was one thing by night and another by day . The Sibyls were females , and so were the Gorgons , the Harpies , the Furies , the Fates , and the Teutonic Valkyrs , Nornies , and in short , all representations of ideas , obscure , inscrutable , and portentous , are nouns feminine . "
THE MEDRASH relates of king Agrippa , that he wished one day to sacrifice a thousand burnt offerings . He sent for the High Priest , and told him , " To day no one shall bring a sacrifice except myself . " A poor man happened to come on the same day to the priest , and brought him two turtle-doves , requesting him to offer them . The priest replied , I regret I cannot , for the king has commanded me "No one shall bring a sacrifice to day except myself . " The man lied" Mlord
poor rep , y high priest , I catch every day four doves , two I offer up , and with the other two I maintain myself ; if thou wilt not offer them , thou cuttest off my living . " The high priest took them and offered them . When King Agrippa was told that the hi gh priest had given precedence to the poor man ' s offering , he was very wroth with the hi gh priest , who , however , thus appealed to the royal master : " The poor man seemed to fear that he only succeeded in catching four doves every day because he
offered two , and apprehended if he were not permitted to offer the two in gratitude to Providence , he would not have the other two either ; and could I refuse this innocent man ? " The king was appeased , and said , " Thou hast done well ; if all my subjects would be as grateful , I should be the happiest of kings . "—Jewish Chronicle . CHINESE INTERMENT AND ENGLISH DISINTERMENT . —The sickness and mortality amongst our troops on certain stations in China have been