Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1882 — JOURNALISM ONE HUNDRED AND FIETY YEARS AGO. [ARTICLE]

JOURNALISM ONE HUNDRED AND FIETY YEARS AGO.

The Hamburger Correspondent, one of the largest and most widely circulated German newspapers, not long ago celebrated its 150th anniversary. The proprietors published on this occasion a memorial number of 200 pages, giving literal reprints of some of the most interesting numbers. The accession of Frederick the Great, tho principal ovents of his wars against the united cowers of Europe, are recounted. The revolution by which Catharine came to the throne, wading through pools of blood, inoluding that of her husband, is given with comical reserve. The number of Feb. 5, 1793, contains a most pathetic account of the execution of Louis XVI., which ends with the pleasant news that “exchange on Hamburg is 72 and steady.” When Napoleon ruled over Germany, the old respectable journal, then already nearly 80 years old, became Journal Oftlciel du Department des Douches de VElbe. Under this regime the number of the 16th of November, 1813, contains the official account of the battle of Leipzio, twentynine days after the event The official account says that Napoleon had won the battle, but retired to Erfurt for “ strategetical reasons.” Among the contributions to the feuilleton are Schiller, Letsing and Herr Goethe, “who is the well educated and talenlod son of the fiigh-bom, most respectable, most worthy Herr Senator Goethe, of the free city of Frankfort. ” Heine was a frequent or. tributor. A han may work twblve hours a day V>r fifteen years on a morning newspaper without taking a vacation for tho benefit of his health; but should the same man get a position in one of tho Government departments at Washington, w here they oommenoe work at 9 o’clock a. m., and quit at 8 p. m., in less than a year he would be so “ overworked” and worn out that he would want a six-weeks’ holiday to recuperate. It must be in the drinking water.—Norristown Herald. ♦, * —" 1 ■ 1 So mr men have hard luck. A Boston irtist painted a picture of bullfrog it iving a spasm in a pot of red paint, i.::d the critics pronounced it a finejcopv of Turner’s great painting, “The Slavo •Ship.”— Boston Post.