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Updated: May 9, 2025
The old gentleman was not of literary turn or capacity, but he used to jot down brief paragraphs of plain practical information about the river, and sign them 'MARK TWAIN, and give them to the 'New Orleans Picayune. They related to the stage and condition of the river, and were accurate and valuable; and thus far, they contained no poison.
We'll start with a picayune," said Martin, selecting the smaller coin and placing it on the table. "That's too trifling. Say a bit," returned the man, but half concealing the eager impatience he felt to get hold of the poor wretch's money. "Well, I don't care! Call it a bit, then," said Martin. And the coin was staked. An observer would have been struck with the change that now came over Martin.
Fifty times on one page in the old Picayune, or in L'Abeille 'For freight or passage apply to the master on board or to T. Chapdelaine & Son, agents. Even then there were two Théophiles, and grandpapa was the son. They were wholesale agents also for French exporters of artistic china, porcelain, glass, bronze.
"Children and fools" could not tell the truth any faster or farther than did our newspapers Picayune, Delta, True Delta, Crescent, L'Abeille, and L'Estafette du Sud. After every military review the exact number in line and the name of every command and commander were hurried into print.
I will only give one instance of misrepresentation in the New Orleans Picayune, and put in juxta-position the real truth. It will be quite sufficient. Mr. Kendal says: "As the sun was about setting, those of us who were in front were startled by the report of two guns, following each other in quick succession.
"Because," said Hamlin, becoming suddenly as grave as the colonel, "I could not believe that any one who cared a picayune for the child could undertake a trust that might bring her into contact with a life and company as rotten as ours.
There was the keenest rivalry for business as it was, with the Kane Company very much in the lead. Lester's only available capital was his seventy-five thousand dollars. Did he want to begin in a picayune, obscure way? It took money to get a foothold in the carriage business as things were now.
It seemed to him a picayune piece of business on the part of the authorities to detain it, and all for the paltry sum of two cents. Major Yancey conferred with the judge for a moment, and then said that the colonel's explanation had relieved him of all responsibility. He owed him a humble apology, and he shook his hand. Colonel Carter had done all that a high-bred gentleman could do.
"Wouldn't give a picayune for the whole affair without her that's what you mean, and why not say so? I speak right out about Nellie, and she isn't one half as handsome as 'Lena." "It isn't 'Lena's beauty that I admire altogether," returned Durward. "I like her for her frankness, and because I think her conduct is actuated by the best of principles; perhaps I am mistaken "
I will only give one instance of misrepresentation in the New Orleans Picayune, and put in juxta-position the real truth. It will be quite sufficient. Mr Kendal says: "As the sun was about setting those of us who were in front were startled by the report of two guns, following each other in quick succession.
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