Daily American telegraph., 1852-09-22
Too Much Reading.

TO The Editor Of the NeW Torh Tribune:
like your paper, but / shall have to stop it.
have to work for my living, and | can't find
| time to read half your sheet Column after col
umn of foreign intelligence news from the Pa
cihc, correspondence from all parts Of the world
| court proceedings, reports Of meetings, &C., am
obliged to leave unread, not from lack of incna-
tion to peruse them, but from sheer want of time
still do contriye to worry through the greater
part of your reyular sheet, by staying at home
| evenings when ! should be otherwise looking
about town; but every now and then you double
| the dose by an extra sheet or supplement, and
! that quite does me up | can't begin to read it.
| think, therefore, shall have to discontinue the
Tribune. Yours, &c. JOHN II SMITH.
Response:
DEAR JOHN Your case is distressing but it is
by no means so peculiar as you seem to imagine.
1t is not in the Tribune alone, nor even in read
ing generally, that people labor under difficulty
akin to yours. For instance, your brother Baxter
Smith came down here from the country the
other day, and stopped ut the Astor House, but
had to quit 1.-THE living was too much for him.
The food was very good and abundant-n fact
too much so-and that did him up. He didn't
eat more than half way down the bill of fare
while he saw others on every side who had got
very near the bottom of it, and were still working
away when he left the dinner table, so full that
he could hardly stand or walk. He had touch
of the cholera the second day, and was threatened
with apoplexy--so he had to quit the Astor
| abruptly and take board at n chop-house, where
he only ate what he called and paid for, plate by
plate Had he staid, the cofin-maker would
have taken his measure before this time.
Then there was your cousin, John q. Smith,
who came down and bought ticket to Barnum's
Museum, and found it regular gouge. He
thought he was going to see every curious OBJ
ect in the world, and perhaps he might have
done so but, after looking his eyes almost out
Of his head, for nine or ten hours, and giving
leaving half the objects unseen, because the ut
tendants began to blow out the lights, and told
him it was time to shut up and go home.
And then your nephew, John wilkins Smith.
who came down with sloop-load of turnips, sold
them satisfactorily, and thereupon resolved to
treat himself to a saltwater bath, which he did |;
but staying in two hours in order to get the full
worth of his money, he came out with ague.
and is now suffering severely from rheumatic de-
bity. His case is even harder than yours for
you can stop the Tribune and he has been try
ing to stop the ague, and cant.
There are more such cases, but let them pass
We will stop your paper, very cheerfully but we
can't stop putting in more than any one patron
will be likely TO peruse In fact, we can't give
each reader what he wants of the news Of the
day without giving his neighbor great deal that
he don't want Nor can we give any one just
what he needs today without inserting many
things that he probably would not want to-mor-
row. So we must try to present n bill Of fare
from which various appetites may be satisfied,
though each may leave good deal untouched
Good by, John. Ed