Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — "Writing for Publication." [ARTICLE]

"Writing for Publication."

M. De Blowitz, the famous Paris correspondent of the London Times, said in a recent interview: “I have got so used to writing for publication that even my personal letters have a sort of printed tone. I dare say I’ll die with a pen in my hand.”

M«w Klad es Exhilaration. James Hudson, a'New York tea barer, has brought to this country from Arabia a sample of the laughing plant It gets its name not because the plant laughs, but because it is the cause of creating laughter in any one eating its seeds. The plant is of moderate size, with bright yellow flowers in clusters, and soft, velvety seed pods, each of which contains two or three seeds resembling small black beans, which, if eaten, produce effects analogous to those of laughing gas. The seeds are pulverized and taken in small doses. Any one taking them begins to laugh loudly and boisterously, and then sings, dances and cuts all kinds of fantastic capers. The effects continue for about an hour, and, when the excitement ceases, the exhausted individual falls into a deep sleep, on awakening from which he is utterly unconscious of any such demonstrations having been made by him. —Chicago Journal.