Journalistic Enterprise.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4806, 4 June 1884, Page 2

Journalistic Enterprise.

Following the brilliant example set us by the Hevening 'Ennery, we yesterday despatched a special reporter to interview a great authority on the moon, and to pick up the latest items respecting the silent orb of night. Oar representative was fortunate enough to find the distinguished lunatic (if we may be permitted to use the term in a purely scientific sense) at home. He came to the hall door just in time to rescue our special from the attentions of a big yellow dog, and after desiring the servant to lock up the spoons, extended a courteous welcome to our representative by asking; what in thunder he wanted. Explanations having followed, our reporter wa3 soon chatting familiarly with the scientist; on the subject of his mission. The great man, in reply to a leading question, said the moon was not made ot green cheese, as had been erroneously stated in tue newspapers, and he added that the theory whioh pointed to the existence of a man in the moon was all moonshine. Naturally anxious to glean as much information as possible from such an undoubted authority, our reporter next inquired whether there was any truth in the commonly accepted belief that the turning over of silver in the pocket on the first night of the new moon was really efficacious in bringing luck to the person so acting. In reply to this question the oracle remarked, " That if it was so, he should smile," thus leading our representative to infer that he did not himself place implicit reliance on the value of the experiment indicated. Our reporter was busily engaged in jotting down the reply to his last query in his best pitman, when he was startled by' hearing a prodigious yawn, which, he says, seemed to point to the conclusion that his host was about full up of the interview. He therefore lost no time in preparing to make tracks. Just as he was going, however, as ill-luck wou t lcj have it, he happened to let fall a remark having reference to the celebrated Potts case and the "two" old women who fancied themselves aggrieved over that business. This remark caused the host to start from his chair with: alarming alacrity and " go for "a shot gan standing handy. Aotiug on this hint our representative lost no time in gracefully bowing himself out—just in time to dodge a plaster cast of Shakespeare which whizzed by in disagreeable proximity to his head. —Lance. . .