The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-01-27

"A paper in this community Is called the Fog Horn, but it is already too fog ,orn to ever amount to much
 When daily paper in New York city speaks of a rival it invariably begins by saying our esteemed contemporary and closes by strongly intima,ing that the esteemed institution l. a liar.
 An Englishman says that nearly all American writers attemp; ta be humof- is;s, and that many of them are success ful. He might have added ;ha, nearly all English writers attempt to be humor- ous and that few of them are successful.
 A young man |, college. writing to his father says: Last week wrote lo you. asking you to send me fye hundred doi- lars. was drunk al the tune and hope you will excuse my unreasonable de- mand. Come .o think of |. am stiit drunk. Please send me thousand doI lars
 French humor. Madam \ calis to see Madam /. !" How we'll you look. says Madam X. ]" lis strange you sty so. replies Madam /. Why = asks Madam x. Because. rejoins Madam /. - peo- pie usually dispise wha, they do no, pos sess." This was written by reno.ned French humorist. marked with blue pencil and sent to this office. |, was translated at Jour own expense and we hope tha, the public will appreciate our efforts to please.
 The Hot Springs .Sen.fnei publishes d poem dedicated ,o "Hcils Half Acre. and cynic. in whom no trus; should be placed, remarked ,ha. the production had no local bearing in that It would have been dedicated to .'Hcli's Acre" The cynic is man who wen, to the Springs expecting to astonish the people b. h.. education and refinement and r,-rr's-i.- such failure that he was finally reduced to the necessity of receiving h.s meats from the back door of d resiauraat.
 The Nesv loyk .S..n does not favor u.e election of Mir. Henry Wa,tersoa. editor of the Co1,isy- /oA1n nai as mayor oi Louisville. decla.ins that Mr. Wa,,efsou. being at the head of the municipal gos- ernment, could not in lis paper ctilcize his course. This should ID, stand in the way of Mir Wauerson's election, for ac need not in the ieas, spare himself. An Arkansaw editor who was elected county judge some time ago. did no, approve of his own administration, and in an able editorial, written by himself, said ii is with sorrow that we announce that the county judge of this county and the editor of this paper is d-d fool.''
 The ARKASsAw rkAyEIER grea: on tie credit question. IL rises in holy md ignaiioa on fhe fourth page in favor of honesty in scissorings, and on the eighth page credits paragraph 10 CAeeS which belongs 10 ~Ckaf. if-Dcfr0if CkgF.
 The miscredit. II can be plainly seen. was a mistake THE ARKANsAw TRAv- ELER is great on the credi, question. 50 much so that when the name of paper or author is unknown, the clipping. ;o show ,ha, i, IS no; original. is credited io exchange" All we ask from any source IS an exchange ot flair dealing. How ever. we have no complaint to make of Cha6, bu, there are others. manly liter ary weeklies, whose horns we should Ike very much to knock of with hoop pole.
 Ex-Sena,or Dorsey has resigned the po- sition of secretary of the republican nation al committee. It IS no, stated whether or not he has accepted any other position of trust, but it can be regarded as a cer- tainty that he does not know why hs character should be blaekened by the very men who furnished him the pant Ah. Mir. Dorsey, better run a newspaper and be compelled 10 change sides of the street the first of the month than 10 be a politician started on the downward road. Just think, sir, how you could have re- tired years ago from politics, purchased weekly newspaper. hired some poor fool to edit I, and-but no doubt the memory of assassinated chances are painful 10 you- However. do 10, let the world grow dark. The mos; useful lives are some times the lives of men whose characters have suffered. You can go to New Mex leo and raise sheep. One sheep is worth more than two election tickets.