MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Issue 96, 23 August 1866, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

" " ,Masical PhotograjphV: —The "Sydney^ Morning Herald," of June 30 says : — "We have seen a mos^t elegant specimen of photographic art by a process just discovered by a German. { We believe the invention was hardly" known in' England or France at the time of .'thevdepartui'e of the mail. A piece of paper abotit the size of an ordinary, address 'card is produced upon which nothing can be seen. A piece of plotting paper is ;&hen put over it and gently damped.' It i 3 jlaid on a table and covered with .AvaterA After an, hour the water is changed, and-ths new bath is continued two hours. A' third change of water then' takes place, and this completes the proccess, except drying. The specimen we have seen submitted to this process is evidently the photograplf of a most beautif ill picture— an angel bearing ; the spirit of a child to Heaven. It is impos-, sible to cohesive of any tiling more elegant and tender than these figures, who are rising above the city where the visible moon and stars overhead reflect the shadow upon the water. It is' evident that such an invention may bo applied to many purposes, where secrecy is desired, there being nothing in the appearance of the papa* to /indicate the chemical changes which have operated upon it." x . 1 ■Editing a Newspaper. i-Therears people who think it an easy matter to edit a newspaper ; men whovthink any person of educav tion can succeed in the profession. -But the truth is there are comparatively few men who succeed in it/ and for the reason that they do not regard it as a- profession,. It is, moreover, a laborious profession, where pursued with industry s iif:cieat to insure succerß. The London Daily Times furnishes this paragraph, which gives .a great deal of truth iv a few Hues' : — " A 1 good editor, a competent newspaper conductor, is like a general or poet, born----not made. Oh the Linclon daily papers all the great historians, mvelists, po3ts, ad write. -a oh travels Lave been tried, and nearly all Lave failed. We might say all, for after a display of brilliancy, brief; but grand,^they died out literally. Their resources were exhausted. 'I can,' says a late editor of the Times to Mooi-e, ' find any number of men of genius to write' for'niOj but very seldom- one of commen sense. I" ' Nearly all successful editors have been men of -this description. Campbell, Carlyle, Bnlwer, and Disraeli failed ; Barnes, Stirling, and Phillips, succeeded. A good ', editor seldom writes for his paper ;he reads, judges, selects, dictates, alters, and combines ; and to do all this well, he has but little time for composition. To write for a paper is one thing — to edit a paper is another. . ' . \ Courtesy to the Press.— At the Derby banquet, a reporter ■ was ■ sitting directly behinl Mr Disraeli, "taking him down," in a reporting sense. The reporter unluckily missed an important sentence, and somewhat audibly expressed his annoyance. Mr Disraeli, on this, hesitated in true parliamentary, style, and very quietly repeated the dropped sentence. No one but the grateful- reporter knew why he did so. v This week another reporter sent a hurried note to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking for some information as to his banquet speech. On "the Thursday afternoon tlie foremost -man in England gently walked into the reporters' "den,-" and politely gave the astonished "gentleman of the press" what he required. Similar anecdotes might be told "of Lord Stanley, and they are merely mentioned as a hint to local "great men" who think it a part of their, role to snub the reporter, so frequently their superior in the sense in which a man is judged to be or not to be a gentleman. —"Court Journal.""