Prentice As A Journalist

The late Gcorge D. Prontiee, of the Louisville Journal, was iu his chosea vocatión of journalist a maa of mark and power. His ccctutricities, both of pen and person, were s.i numerous that para graphs deseribing tbem were eontiouallv floating through the press. Soma of '.hese are worth reprinting, now that the death of the (amous man is fresh in the minds of the people. A writer who knew hiin in his primo noted tbus his journalistic habits: "He wroto at times with untiring industry, aud for weeks he would be in the office ten or twelve hours a dny. Theo he would relax his efforts, and for several raontl'8 pay little attention to the paper. When ho was in the oífice, he wro'e, generally, tbrough an omauL'onsis, leaders and p.iragraphs, and often ! took reviews, as if hc had just foimed a connecticn with the paper, and was am bitious of distinction. flehad so dentified himself wilh the Journal that everythiog was attributed to him, though for two yeirJ past he has conttibutfcd verv little to its columns. Other persons oñ the staff learned to write pungent paragraphf, aud they were credited to Prentice, although he never eaw them until after they wero in print. His poerus havo been much admircd and widely copied,both at home and abroad." In the latter years of hn lile he was quite infirm and broken. A visitor to tho sanctum of the Journal wrote an interesting sketch of' his appearance : "Personally, Mr. Prentiee was raiher a homely, ccmtnonplaco lookiug man; when his features were in repose. J3ut when he was inferested, acd talked freely, whieh was seldom, his face lightcd up and his eyes redecmed its paleness. 'J'he upper part of his face was very good, and in strikiog contrast with the lowerj which as heavy, with a sensual cast. - He has not been In finn heitlth for some ycare, having suffered severely from a stroke of paralysis. When he was ;it work in hig private office, n an old wool en jacket and loose, we!l-woru slipperd, and seen shufBiüg sullenly about, he remioded one moro of a dysprptic tailor than a popular poet and a dislinguished journalist. He was not temperamentally a sanguine or oheerful man, ond was addioted, especially after age carne upon him, to fits of morosnness and gloom. - Sometimes ho would not spaak to his most intímate friciida for hour?, and appeared anxious to avoid society of all kinds. Generally he was a severe dent, and when trave'ing was foud of reading, aud in thehabit of taking notes on the marginsof the papers which he carried about ia his pockets. From such notes, when bo was at homo, he would díctate editorials and paragraphs, and frequently mako a biilliint arlicle nat of some well worn serap ho had cshuuied from his garmen's."