EXECUTION OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN !

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10111, 21 April 1896, Page 3

EXECUTION OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN !

EXCITING SCENES ON THE SCAFFOLD! Thk Americans can beat the Britishers all to pieces in newspaper headings, and you may generally gather all that the paper contains by carefully reading the elaborate headlines to the various items of news. But in the old country wo have an institution which is far grater than sensational headlines ; we refer .0 the itinerant newsvendor. The boys of this particular profession are wonderfully 'cute in their adaptation of their " cry" to the particular " wants" of the passer-by. The parson, for instance, is never appealed to with "Speciall All the winners!"—that is reserved for more likely patrons. You may not only learn, as in the American headings, all the contents ot the paper from their cries, but may gather a good deal that is not in the paper at all 1 On dull days it is almost pathetic to see ft " runner" appealing to a "hard case." " Scene in Parliament — Special 1 ' No answer from the old gent. " Horrible disaster at sea!" No answer. "Jack the Ripper's latest!" Still no answer. > A pause, and theu, " Ruin of a lady of title. Awful details I" Still silence. "Garnawayl Yer ain't human !" And yet the modest announcements made j from time to time have brought; Indian ChiefI Cigarettes into the front rauk anil their 1 quality will keep them there.