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Show party were criticis ing Ms !rnreial view? as not being in accord with the administration, admin-istration, said to the president he hoped he would not let his position embnrrar.s him. If the president had b?en offended with the secretary's course and had I been looking-for an opportunity to tell him that his resignation was desired, the secretary's remark 'would have opened the way. Put he wasn't and he promptly told the secretary that he was ; not embarrassed in the slightest degree. de-gree. On this trifling incident was built the dispatch that the secretory had tendered ten-dered hi3 resignation, ft was a re-inikaboo re-inikaboo a statement of news out of all proportion, and almost out of relation rela-tion to the fact3, and yet having a certain cer-tain origin and shadowy foundation.' No other word than roir.ikaboo quite describes the kind of publication. Just why reinikaboo does so vouVl be difficult dif-ficult to tell. As a. word, reinlhaboo exists, ex-ists, "arid applies by common usage. In the classification of the Washington newspaper man there are fakes, rein-ikaboos rein-ikaboos and real news. The paper which indulges too often becomes a reinikaboo re-inikaboo newspaper. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. THE WORD REINIKABOO. Washington is if ltlrthplncc, Newi paperdom Its Stronghold. "Reinikaboo" is entitled to a place in the next revision of the dictionaries. It has groAn into the degree of usage which warrants formal recognition in j the language. Peinikaboo is a, noun, j The derivation may be a matter of some doubt. The definition is clear. A reinikaboo reini-kaboo is a newspaper publication of a certain character that can bert be illustrated illus-trated by something that gained currency cur-rency recently. The statement was sent out that Secretary Gage had tendered his resignation. 1 It was not true, nnd 'yet it could not be classed as a fake pure and ;6imple. The fake is a publication pub-lication of what purports to be news, but which is wholly fiction. The reinikaboo reini-kaboo is net n fake. A few davs ao the secretary of the treasury, when some cne of the pronounced pro-nounced bimetalll.'-ts of the republier.r. |