Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1890 — French Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

French Newspapers.

Allan Foreman, In the Journalist, France is a great country for journalists, but it is a mighty poor field for a newspaper man. In Paris they produce the handsomest, best edited, best illustrated periodicals in the world, and th ay have the meanest newspapers.' The English newspapers are slow enough to set an American editor crazy. But newspapers, as we understand them, can hardly be said to exist in France, for news occupies but every secondary place in their composition. 1 Take, for example, Le Petit Journal,! the daily paper with the largest circu-J lation in the world—genuine and un-i Toubted. It sells for fire sous, one a cent, and it is the worst-looking little; [rag I ever laid eyes on. Printed onj [ miserable paper, with heavy-faced type; •and poor ink, it presents a cheap, (smeary appearance, which would fill I the soul of the most slovenly backwoods editor with disgust. It contains condensed reports of the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies, political articles, short police notes, and a story. The story is the main feature, the; special articles next, and the news is* last to be considered. Dynasties may; be overthrown, cities may be destroyed,! kings and emperors may die, the Petit,* Journal will probably print the information some time; but, if the entire* Western Hemisphere should be destroyed by an earthquake, and it was a question between publishing the news of the castastrophe and the story, the news would lay over every time.” Mrs. Millais, the famous artist’s wife,, and the ex-wife of John Ruskin, lives! like a royal princess, and has a stall of artistically-dressed servants who care for her every desire. She is beautiful, accomplished and captivat-j ing, and is regarded as her husband’s mascot. Her Greek dresses are poems* and her poses the perfection of grace.' She has oriental couches in all her apartments, and is said to be the happiest woman in all Europe. Her husband is worth $1,000,000. Perhaps Jenner did not discover vaccination. In a graveyard at Worth, Dorsetshire, there is a tomb with this inscription: “Benjamin Jestsy, of, Downshay, died April 16, 1816, aged' 79. He was born at Yetminster, in this county, and was an upright, honest man, particularly noted for having been the first person known that introduced the cowpox by inoculation, and who, from his great strength of mind,. made the experiment from the cow on his wife and two sons in the year 1774,” i. ■ ■■■■ hi nil i ■ ■ ' ' At ten years of age a boy thinks his father knows a great deal; -at fifteen, he knows as much as his father; at twenty he knows twice as much as his father; at thirty, he is willing to take his advice; at forty, he begins to think his father knows something, after all; at fifty, he begins to seek his advice, and at sixty—after his father is dead—he thinks ha was the smartest mao tlu(t ever lived.