Facts are stubborn things.—Smollett.
See also Witnesses.
EXAGGERATION
A War Lexicon
In a letter to the editor of the New York Sun an anonymous writer gives the following important interpretations of various phrases of "Desperanto," or the language indulged in by frantic telegraph editors on American newspapers:
Terrific Slaughter—Sixteen French and seventeen Germans wounded.
Hurled Back—The withdrawal of an advanced outpost.
Thousands of Prisoners—Three German farmers arrested.