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RILEY— NEWSPAPER CORRE- 

 SPONDENT. 



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letters 

 native 



kNE of the best men in Wash- 

 ington — or elsewhere — is 

 Riley, correspondent of one 

 of the great San Francisco dailies. 

 Riley is full of humor, and has 

 an unfailing vein of irony, which 

 makes his conversation to the last 

 degree entertaining (as long as the 

 remarks are about somebody else). 

 But, notwithstanding the possession 

 of these qualities, which should en- 

 able a man to write a happy and an 

 appetizing letter, Riley's newspaper 

 often display a more than earthly solemnity, and likewise an unimagi- 

 devotion to petrified facts, which surprise and distress all men who 



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