Those are just brilliantly written, thank you. What a contrast in journalistic style to today!

"And the energetic gentleman laughed in the same strain in which the cat was heard when she feelingly exclaimed, 'Hi, Hi! I have eaten the canary!'"

"The 'etherealized vaporic force' which was so liberally poured into the ears of a large and gullible public..."

I can't get enough. It's wonderful.