The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-11-05

The total number of newspapers IN the Onlteo
States is 53l9-or was at the last newspaper
census some may have died, and others sprung
into existence since. OF these about five hundred
and fifty are daily papers. Two hundred ana
fifty German newspapers are printed IN the
United States and British Provinces, OF which
about one-quarter come from Pennsylvania |;
forty-eight are issued in French, fifteen IN the
Scandinavian languages, ten IN Spanish, nVe Ia
Dutch, four in Italian, three in Welsh, two Id
Bohemian, one in Russian and English, ano one
Chinese and English.
AN OREGON VERSION OF THE LABOR DIFFICULTY.
"A certain Judge, and ardent democratic pollti-
can. of PortIand-on- Wallamet, had dumped at
his door a load Of wood. when immediately a
Chinese wood-sawer asked for the joo of saving IL
up. How muchee ?' asked the judge. Hap
dollar replied john. The bargain was about TO
be struck, when an Irish-Amerlcan citizen, OF tne
blue blood, demanded the job. low much Z.
again asked the Judge. "A dollar and a half,
replied American citizen. The judge demurred,
replying that the Chinaman had just offered to DO
the same work for a half-dollar. However,,
he said, as l prefer to encourage white Ameri-
can labor, | will pay you a dollar ana a nan,
whereupon the white constituent prepared Tor the
work, and John turned away disappointed. But
the Judge returned some hours afterward, and. TO
his surprise, found the Chinaman, and not the
white man. upon his wood-pile. How's this,
how's this ?" said his honor, who told you to
saw my wood % - Mclean man" said John.
50 How muchee he pay?" queried the judge;
8. Hap dollar said John. The judge accepted
this lesson on cheap Asiatic labor, and under
stands now that his fellow-democrat was wiser
than he in giving up labor with his own hands,
and in raising at once to the dignity of an en-
ployer by buying labor at fifty cents, and selling
it again at 200 per cent advance.
The JoURNEYMAN PRINTER.-What a queer
genius the printer is! How strange If he should
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perplexed with ans and outs; and more duties
devolve on him than any can estimate. He is a
man of many parts-but has a rule to guide him
in all his iUOrkS. A p!aner form is seldom met
with, as he chGSeS Dame Fortune, though he sticks
to titles with more tenacity than a lawyer to his
6riefS and cases, while his makeup borders many
times on the ridiculous, and he .fOuriShes in
circles where monks and friars both fat and lean,
never can c~onjurc up a hell to disturb him. Ask
him to ride and he takes the lines of the leaders
a puff, giving fair notice that he is ready
for a brush with any who may desire to press
him. AS an officer he cuts quite a figure with
his core, (O and shows his dOubLet with pride, as
he heads or counts his columns by thousands, and
stands to strike for his colOrs as a proof that it is
4 matter Of honor with him to copy none who
have gone before. Although versed in imposition
and posted on the use of the gaHeyS, he offsets
any foul spots there may be in his composition by
the clean impression he makes upon society, and
though forced TO use a tye sometimes, lew can
rum up a charge against him of being in io,Uer
than many who are ranked among the upper.
caps his work as the best type of a man by
his regard for his chapel, to which the deuil is
always invited and when the sponge is thrown
Up, and his mould becomes pr, his dead form is
IGNORED by an imposing stone, and he who re-
cabinets as mere tools leaves his bank,
,uoins, and furniture behind for the editor whose
are the most fitting, and the page of
lis life reaches its fms, and as his name falls
rom the rolls a blank is left in society.-TypO-
Advertiser.