The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-03-25
Wanted to be an Editor

Wanted to be an Editor
"Have you had any experience
in the business :" We asked OF a
verdant looking youth who ap'
piled for all editorial position the
other day.
Haven't l though I" he replied
as he showed ono foot under his
chair to hide the unskillful patch
ing of a back woods cobbler. II
should say I'd had some expert
ence-haven'tI correspondent with
the. Pampkinoil6 Screamer for six
weeks f-Hain't that experience
enough ~
"That will do very well,' we re.
piled, shut when We take yOnng
men on u editorial staff, we gener
ally put them through an examipa
ton. How much are twelve times
one Z"
Twelve ! why any little boy
ought to an''-
"Hold on, please-don't be too
fast - who discovered Ameri
ca ?"
"Klumbus =! Pshaw, them ques
tiOns are just as easy as"-
"WhO was the first man I"
"Adam ! why Mister, l know
allie
"What was his other name?"
"His other name 7 why he did
MT have none,"
eyes he did. You see that's
where we've got you. His other
was Observation-Disclosures Adam
Esq, late of Paradise. Nobody
knows this but editors. and see
20 it that you don't tell any bo
dy."
He said he wouldn't.
GLOW many bones are there
in the human body"
"Well, l forgot now, but l did
know wunSt.'
"What don't You know that :
Why there's 1882 ,92 ,444 bones
in an ordinary man. A man that
shores has one bone more than
other people,
"What bone is that 2"
"The trombone. 1t is situated
somewhere in the nose. You won't
forget that, will you -
He said he wouldn't,
'HOW long would it take q
mud turtle to cross the Desert OF
Sahara with d small orphan boy
to touch him up behind with IA red
hot poker W
"We'l, look here, Mister,ifI had
Il slate and pencil | could tigger
that ont, but dog n.y. skin if I'm
much on mental 'rithmetic."
Estate and pencil Did YOU
ever see a slate and pencil about
u >aiIcinm Well, We'll let that
ane>tjo" slip. Have YOU got d
good constitution u"
Putty tUierab.e.''
"How long do you suppose
y"n could live OH raw corn and
faith, and do the work Of a do,
mesticated elephant W
"lord l don't believe l could
live morn a week"
SWELL, that's about as long az
you'd want to live if you got an
editorial position on this paper.
You appear to he pretty well pos
ted; We shall ask you one more
question, and it you prove equal
10 it you can take off your coat
and sail ill.,"
"Let's have Ter Squire. | didn't
correspond for the Pumpkinuile
Sc'eamer six weeks for nothin'
Let 'er come-l'm on deck, l am"
"Well, Sir, if two diamntrical
circles with octagonal peripheries
should collide with a centrifugal
ldios!yncrasy, or, to put it palmer
we'll say a disenfranchised nonen
tity, what effect would the catas-
trophe exert on a crystalixed cod
fish suspended by the tail from
the homogeneous ratters Of the
empyrean ~
As the full force of this ponder
Gus problem broke upon his he.
wildered brain, he slowly drag
ged his Enthusiastically cobbied shoe
from under his chair, and started
IRON the room. We heard him
descend the stairs, 60 out, and
close the door. We then placidly
resumed onr duties, regretting
that so promising a youth should
have been weighed in the balance
and found ~wanting.-Franklin
Patriot.