The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-02-15
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BATON ROUGE::::::::FEB. 16 1854

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ST.. VALENTINES DAY.-It Had en-
tipely escaped Us that the 18th If Feb
ruary is the day consecrated to the
merry semi demi-gods St Valentine.
It should not 'is;y passed without :
leader 81 tie subject; the lack d
which udst b charged to somebody
Dcs account, for we are not at fault
Our Almanac with remarkable days
ed-expressly for leaders. has
been basely filched from the editors
table, and thus has IN important day
passed over, without the usual amount
ofwords from our pen-consecrated
to its memory.
Some discriminating somebody, has
called Us up, to e knowledge Of the
fact, BY dedicating few lines to u.s.
appreciative Of our merits and justly
discriminating. Whoever wrote them
must certainly have been an editor,
ifnot'a poet, or something worse
"Hail mighty scissors"
NYour Scissors save both pens and ink,
- Not only that but time to think;
They steal 4 leader in minute,
Less than the writer could begin it
Without their aid, what could YOU do
To drawl your prosy subjects thIoughe
Then sound the praise Of Scissors high,
49, Which want Of brains and wit supply
Hail to the blades! the blades divine!
Oh |! plagiaristic Valentine V'
That's a fact. Do you know-hon-
est and virtuous reader, that all tho
very bestsSwittiest, wisest and pithiest
things that have ever been said or
written, You are indebted to the Scis-
sors fora Such is really the fact
The author is thus cut out Of it, and it
is Published and republished, and pub
lished again, until the author dies, and
then it goes into somebody elses book,
and it makes him immortal, for at
least month. The great genixses
of science, literature and art, are thus
cut down to dead level with other
minds, and their thoughts sliced out
and scissorsed up, until there is not
= trace left Of them. Is not this a
fact? What Is an editor without
scissorsl Why if we were called
upon to define nothing in the abstract,
per CT, We should say it is a newspaper
editor without scissors. =
Since the above went into type, sew
eral other epistles in the way Of Val
entines, have come in, and we cannot
forgo the pleasure of printing them.
TO the Comet E1i,or:s 5est-r r-t
Some have at first for wits, then poets pas
yed; -
Turned critics next, and proved plain fools
at last, -. 80 ...s T. os-e
Some neither can for wits nor critics pass.
As heavy mules, are neither horse nor ass.
Good This is what We have been
for, and are pleased TO find
me at least in the community who CO. !
l;lis,- wltaus All able at the same j
ime to give poetic expression to the
sentiment. 3 I
Another prosey sentiment: Z
Il am in want Of funds, and you
would oblige me much by calling
'round tonight between seven and
light O'Clock, and pay me that two I
dollars and fifty cents you. promised
&c last Sunday evening. Please burn
his. Very respectfully.
By Jupiter |! Bluntly we say we :
we Mrs Bleunt nothing. In this con 9
ection we might well xclaim with
ncient Pistol, "Base is the slave, that Z
avs"
Another Qady we presume) gives !,
rpression to the following.poetic SEN :, =
ment: 2
> down the plane, the rival rain drops =
chase, o
urius he'n watch to see which wins the 4
race; 81 -e' T
nd let two cats beneath his window fight T.