The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-04-18
SATURDAY, APRIL Is, 1874.
For THE "ORASGEBuRG NEWS
interviewing the Orangeburg
News Office.

Mrs. Kitty having had different and
interesting descriptions of the details of
tyre setting. (and the confession is here
made that they were sometimes little
fabulousO desires tn interview tho
NEws office, consequently our card:
"Mrs. K.'s plimcnts, md may she
be admitted to the my yser:es OF the
inner sa;lctum.
If, aye Please clean the ink from.
your ia best stool hide the Devil be.
hind /1rn, as is fashionable in high
life, and put the "bcst favored TO the
fore-EscpnT."
The res .onse was "ayc," AMI, whe,hS
er the commoLiou Which followed was to
overcome the objections of his little
majesty to be hid as in the fashionable
world, or whether it was found difficult
to decide MS TO the latter request, has
not t.anspircd. AS rsgards tho last it
is feared we shall have to go to the
Times Office for good looks.
We, that is, Mrs. K. escort, anil Tie
last one of the little Mollchs, under
whose aSs saeaptal cars SO many John.
'nys haSl lssB5latcd themselves (vide
Tetterby Otamly) ascended the r;cketty
stairway thereto. The first emotion
was, that the two dollar dues might be
promptly met, that the way up might
be bettcred Tho next, that tho o..u.
pants are in danger Of breaking their
individual necks if this be not done.
But ut last the consnlat ion derived from
an old saying which makes it impossible
for break nech, steps to do their Office on
certain children of destiny, is accepted.
Up inside Mrs. X. requests that
as printers arc always in want of copy.
they will insert Moloch with illuminated
lettering, to which the objection is rails.
ed that Molo III is 50 large and the pipe
so small 1t is decided that su ch COPY
is not available Now the truth is that
Nlol"ch is snub nose, and the editor
has some Of the right sort at home,
(hatclet-faced, and the foreman thinks
as did the fox, that the grapes are sour.
'Tis explained to us th,t typ es are set
wrong end up, and they obligingly set
Moloch up thus-thc type VIC mean.
We see the NEWS type in waiting
like vast army under review, each let.
ter soldier, ready to d. the bidding oil f
the pen and INK dispatches which
courier may bring. We see the work,
ings OF the machinery that gives to the
nations the same ideas and thoughts
in only the space Of time that the
putting iron horse requires to distribute
the sheets We see the virgin white
paper, before it is soile'i by tho dirt and
volcanic mud of seethiny life. We see
the = the Devil as he emorges from
behind his form anu is formal intro.
duced
! ''Is he man or boy,
| Or q hobblcde hoy"
His fom ensemble says plainly "what
ICE (THE NEws) don't know aint worth
worth knowing g"-looks hundred, but
owns to only sixteen. yet we must think
better Of the printers dovil, since We
have seen Rileys open but cute physiog-
nomy.
Various articles of the trade were
exhibited. Persons not posted up in
the matter will ho surprised to learn
that they have B"nh, tha. they occa-
sionally make pies, hy up, keep car
1a9c, are continually JustiIyng what
they do, right or wrong, have horse,
Care often ariding the high horse. -
| lh.y have composi,eI STICK, Which ma,
be supposed very necessary ifany of the
underlings should wish to ride the high
horse-we have one ut homo. They
have shooting. .stich and coNn. The,
deny any knowledge OF the latter, bu,
it il well known they 60 together. No
wonder the two latter are thought
necessary to tho outfit of an editor
when it is known they keep vas