Chapter 17—One Taken for the Other
“I do not believe he has arrived.”
“And why do you not believe it?”
“Because my newspaper has said nothing about it.”
“Your newspaper is badly served, then, for in mine I have the news at length.”
“Then I shall stop my subscription.”
“And you will not do wrong.”
“Assuredly, for it is not to be permitted, when a fact occurs of this importance, that a journal should have no mention of it, and that its readers should be unaware of it.”
“It is unpardonable.”
The conversation was between two citizens of Cincinnati who were walking on the suspension bridge, 120 yards long, thrown over the Ohio near the mouth of the Licking, between the metropolis and the two suburbs of Newport and Covington, built on the shore of Kentucky.
It is the Ohio, the “Beautif
