Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — Some Newspaper English. [ARTICLE]

Some Newspaper English.

Franklin Matthews writes in the Chautauqunn of the use of correct English in newspapers. The following are among the examples he quotes as having been sent to newspapers for publication to show the care necessary in editing “copy” before it can be used: “City of Mexico, July 20.-Withln a few hours total blindness came on the stricken minister, and, notwithstanding the best medical treatment obtainable, he has been unable to see anything at all, being kept in a dark room with bandaged eyes.” “Riverhead (L. I.), Jan. 4.—Chester, son of Jacob Carter, of East Qnogue, was drowned yesterday. He was found this morning skating on the bay. He fell in an air-hole.” “The fore part of the animal passed over in safety, but the hind part broke through, dragging the fore part to the bottom of the well.” “The boy was quite dead, and no efforts could resuscitate him in the least" "If every pearl contained in the long string could speak they would form no inadequate history of the country of the fleur-de-lis and of Its short supremacy in the east during the last 350 years. The fat and hearty oysters that produced these gems so long ago In tlie depths of the Indian sea little foresaw that their descendants would be served up on the half-shell ntthe tables of the Waldorf to the husband of their future possessor.”