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...Swinburne-like, wallows in a mire of coarse invective. Confessing that we do not see anything inherently nasty in the smoke of an aromatic herb, whatever may be the mental effects, we give a few selections as samples of the style of argument employed in the poorest grade of Western journalism: "If it was n't just for the name of the thing, I'd rather a man with a clean mouth would spit in my face than endure the foul breath of a smoker. . . . . A fine gentleman I would be, forsooth, to spit in your face...
...following neat but gaudy puff of a contemporary is from a Western paper...
COLLEGE exchanges indescribably dull. Western papers exploding over last year's jokes; Eastern agitated about the intellectual tournament, which (judging from the action of the Hartford convention) has dwindled down into something rather superior to an old-time spelling-match, but inferior to a good peppery debate in some Philopolysyllabic fraternity of Western fame. Apropos of the above, we are grieved to learn that black corruption has been at work in the proceedings of the convention. Vide the following extract from the Daily Saratogian...
...population of a college is of such a cosmopolitan and consequently migratory nature, that the beginning of a vacation causes scarcely a perceptible stir. The recitation-rooms become suddenly deserted, a few loads of trunks leave town, and a body of men, equal to a good-sized Western village, have departed with the stealth of an Arab encampment. An ubiquitous individual of the spirit-world could hardly be more interestingly employed than in following the men to their different homes and amusements, and observing what becomes of them, - we had almost said what they become; for a college man, marked...
...directors of the C. T. Co. have succeeded in uniting their line with the Western Union Company, making the connection by running the wire to the post-office...