"The Extinction of News."
By Congregationalist
THIS is what we plead for,—that a large half of what is now called "news" be extinguished, instead of being disseminated. Hush it up. Let us go back to the good old ante-telegraph days, when one could usually unfold a damp newspaper without expecting to have his blood run cold with a recital of all the wretched and horrible things which have lately happened. Instead of "dumping" the "news" of the "Associated Press" into their columns unread, simply because it is out—only fitting it with the glaring sub-titles, let editors edit the same, condensing whatever is dreadful that deserves mention into the briefest and quietest and least sensational form, and throwing the rest bodily into the gutter. By and by such treatment would reform the whole news administration, and a better day dawn.—Congregationalist.