Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-21
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oOluclu1uB AWFUL 1uuuy
Amaid In the hallway
With poem sweet;
She Is dressed In sealskin
From her head to feet.
THE editor of the Oil City DearScE
claims to have country-seat. 1t is a
stump.
WHEN an editor empties q basket Of
rejected poems into the stoves he is SIM
ply burning the midnight toll.
At convention Of journalists, to take
place at Philadelphia, the adyisability
of paying for poetry by the yard instead
of by the pound will be considered.
Four newspapers in Texas are edited
by women. And when man gets mad
at something one of these papers says,
and goes in to larrup the editor and
finds it's woman, the way he feels
mean is terror.
We certainly beat all of them for hon
esty. A lady dropped two IS gold pieces
on the Office floor, which we found
and promptly returned. We defy any
Iowa editor to produce an equal record.
- Washington (Loao0) Democrat
TIE old subscriber came upstairs and to tie editor
Remarked that, If paper wasn't managed solely for
The public veal he'd missed his guess considerably
far
In nal az ~
andoets
Is daily placed on record likewise Legislative votes
vigflant reporter all the wicked doings notes.
"But here's little matter that you seem to have
forgot:
My answer to the theory that worlds are made red
hot
It shows that more than Huxley knows each night
have forgot"
Up spoke the weary editor unto the aged man:
SIN print your able argument-that is, whene'er
can;
But just OF present. We are working things down tc
hard-pan.r
The old subscriber still comes round; his faith has
never swerved.
His essay upon nebule better fate deserved;
But it forms the lower stratum of pile that's marked
Preserved"
Chicago Tribune.
WRITER'S of 'sleading articles are err
roneously called "quill-drivers," be-
cause quilts require to be driven, while,
in fact, they are generally written by
"leading" editors with a pencil, and
pencils cannot be driven. but must al
ways be lead.
THE wen-known fact that newspapers
make excellent bed-coverlets is circulate
ing again but, unless the newspapers
are paid for in advance. the wind will
whistle through them like blast
through an open door.-NeO Haven
Register.
AN Eastern editor claims to have read
the Bible through great many times.
His assertion would be subject to grave
doubt if the fact was not known that
for the past two or three years he has
been proof-reader in Bible publish
ing house.-Quincy Modern Argo.
The editor man sat lonely and grim
In his room up near the sky,
And never hint Of his terrible rage
Could be seen In bis deep blue eye.
With pencil and scissors he toilsA away,
Nor looked from his paper up,
But his soul was scared with an anguish wild,
And on gore he could calmly cup.
Beneath o shirt-front so snowily white
Reposed rubble-stone heart;
For the editor man was reading piece
Which he described as start"
"Dod-ros the darn poets !" he fercely said,
with their soul-songs and other gush;
III had my way would sink their stuff
Along with the fishery slush."
Afair-hafed maid stepped softly in
The EDITORS girl, I ween.
Full quickly he looked from the manuscript up
'sAh, tits you, my hearts own queen"
The editor-men have pretty tough times,
And often their bones do ache;
But in winning the hearts of the madens fair
The editors capture tho cake
AN Oswego editor went to Buffalo the
other day, and soon after teleraphed to