The most trying time for a reporter is when he has to take a full note of the remarks of a very rapid speaker; then his lahours are greater almost than he can endure. I have known men of my acquaintance made ill for days after reporting certain abominable public speakers. Two gentlemen of great talent, and no doubt in other respects justly estimable, are in particular the horror of all reporters who have once encountered them. Sickness, palpitation of the heart, and utter physical prostration, have followed noting down their addresses, delivered with a jerky rapidity, which] though not unpleasant to listen to, is frightful to report.— Chambers's Jourml.
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 491, 15 April 1869, Page 2
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110Untitled Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 491, 15 April 1869, Page 2
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