A STARTLING DISCOVERY.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2620, 30 August 1882, Page 2

A STARTLING DISCOVERY.

Our contemporary the “Star,” after a long cruise amongst the musty volumes of the “ Encyclopedia Britannica,” which furnishes it with pabulum for the daily half pint of milk and water served out to its readers in its leading columns, has made a discovery. It has found out that on the subject of electric lighting it has written “ pretty forcibly.” It is perhaps just as well that our contemporary has taken care to publicly announce this fact in a marked manner, becauso had this not been done its readers and the public generally would have remained perfectly and profoundly ignorant on the matter. We congratulate our contemporary on having awakened from what no doubt, like the plants and trees, has been a sort of hybernation. With the advent of spring we may perhaps have a recurrence at intervals not longer than say a week of this “ forcible writing.” We may commend as a very good subject the audacity of the “ Lyttelton Times” yesterday morning in coolly staling that in respect to a certain telegram with regard to a fire on the Peninsular, which the “ Star” took great JcuJos for, that it was not founded on fact. Now, hero is an opportunity for our friend to leave off for a little while the nothing and slumber producing effusions culled from the source we have mentioned, and give us a specimen of pretty forcible writing. We make our contemporary a present of the hint, and shall bo delighted if any little assistance wa can give by way of announcing to the world the welcome change will bo of service in bringing about so desirable a result.