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A Curiosity Of Journalism

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Day
12
Month
January
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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"One of the curioeitioa of jonrnalism," saysThe Mobile Register, "ia a set of letters Tvhich is flled away in thia office, emanating from a correspondent at New Havon. For ten i . years and odd, lettors have come every two ■ weeks from this correspondent, oach letter' being bulky and proporly prepaid, sometime with two, and sometimes with threo Btamps; The correspondeneo is never printed, and never will be. Tho author ouco Bigned himaelf 'James,' but all subsequent lettera bear the initials 'A. B. J. ' Who he is or what his object in writing, save to put bis views upom paper and pay a liberal postage thereon, cannot be stated. He is perhapa an inmate of some lunatic asylum who is allowed to passhis timo in this innocont amusement. The letters are each a dissortion upon some ab- stru8e point of constitutional law.and aro very verbose and inconsequential in argument " Translated f rom the Omnibus: Housewife' - "Before I you employ muatl you aak, "Have y ou a lover?" Servant maiden- "Oae? I should amüel The Flight of the Guixs.- Mono Liake, near Bodie, Nev., was the breedng place of thousands of gulls, curiewa and other water birds for years anti] it vas suddenly discovered that their cgga ïad a markêt value. Hundreds of egg ninters last year camped down about he lake and uttcrly despoilcd thenests. As a result the birds have forsaken the )lace and this year the number that iame there to breed could be counted. Vhere thev have gonc has notbecn disovered, but they have apparently emigrated in a body. . The silence that accepts rnerit as tlienost natural thing in the vvorld is th highwt applftuse.

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Ann Arbor Democrat