The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-15
THE FESTIVE NEWS
PAPER MAN.

i al GlO MA1Nh
A Newark, O., editor is known to
wear No. 123 boots. Is this Jour-
nalistic feat7
g. G. McOosh, editor of the Mon
mouth, ILL.,, Gazette, VII lie in a
Chicago hotel picked up a wallet
containing $12, 900 and with no sig
Of ownership. The hotel clerk sub
sequently found the owner.
The Hochi Shimbun, a native
Newspaper of Japan, criticised the
authorities and was promptly sup
pressed. The editor invited his cub
scribers to the funeral. Several
thousand persons were Oh hand, and
the editorial staff bore a copy OF the
paper to an open grave on bier.
The editor Of the Ontario Press
makes the pathetic appeal: We
have a new cloth bound copy OF The
Footpri nts OF gTlme,' a historical
work snd complete analysis OF our
system of government, by Bancroft
really valuable book to any reading,
thinking msn-Whioh We will sell az
a sacrifice for cash, or will trade for
| -four. butter or meat.
| The Binghsmpton Republican at
tempted to print Mrs. Frances Hodg-
son BurnetPslbeautiful poem entitled
ga Woman's Reason" Only half
OF the poem, and that under the heal
ing Farming for Feathers" ap-
peRHed in the paper, and the editor
says: "A little farming for feathers
With Club on the head OF the person
responsible for the error has pro-
duced the poem correct in this
ssue."
According to the London Graphic d
bait to catch newspaper subscribers
has been offered by a new clerical
Roman journal II Goffedo. Each
annual subscriber shall be en-
titled to 600 masses, to be celebrated
by any priest they please, for the tri-
umpn of the church, while during
the year the subscribers viii have the
chance in periodical lotteries for
! money prizes, to be spent on the
same object. The programme has,
however, raised 3 storm in most oleri
cal circles.
Bill Nye has got no more music in
his soul than peg-legged OhinAman.
He tried to sing at the press banquet
in Denver o year ago, and the chan.
delier fell down, and thehotel-keeper
wanted to charge the boys 81 extra
per plate. Az for Major Ward, OF
the leadville Chronicle be is tine critic
who announced that Emms Abbott
was the finest baritone who had e.
ssyed the role Of Othello di hammer.
moor since the days OF Macoaroni.
In retiring from the editorial and
business management OF the Record,
We embrace the opportunity extended
to US to cay that We do 90 without q
single regret. If we've injured any
one during our brief journalistic
career We are glad of it, and if We
hurt any ones feelings We do 30 pur-
posely. If We owe anybody, We are
willing and ready 10 pay: and il any
body owes as, we shall insist that it
be paid iustanter. We don't know
anything about the newspaper bust
ness, never did and never want to,
and are glad to get out of it.
o. 81. VIOLET.
The vetersn editor George Dawson
bad his pocket picked by some con-
sienceless thief at Syracuse the other
day. To the proverbiaI editorial out
ffs OF worn and faded railroad pass,
o fish hook or two and q piece OF
twine disCreetly carried against gents
in his velvet suit, We do not hear that
Mr.. Dawson had added much TO his
worldly store Tor at least carried is
about With him) since he formerly
drove pencils upon the Albany Jour.
nal. So this foolish and indisceet
thief could not have secured much.
He will not try to rob an editor again.
Il don't pay an industrious man for
his time.
In q recent issue OF the Delaware
n GnScript the startling announce.
ment was Tasde that Rev. Henry
Ward Baecher had eaten q quarter
ssction OF pie st 9 railroad restauH
rant. The item was promptly copied
by all the other local pspers, flashed
ell ovsr the continent by the AssooI-
ated Press, and even csbled TO
Europe. The Delaware paper, OBJ
serving these phenomena, moralizes
as follows: I'VE see when it is to late
that we have lost good thing. We
realise now our want Of journalistic
enterprise. We might have got
column where We picked up six line
item. We ought to have interViewed
Henry Oh the Moral Uses of Luxury
and Railroad Pie
Happy names for newspapers are
rare, but the Appolio Of Belvidere, N.
j., ia the capital. So is the Toledo
Blade, hat one could wish Its columns
half az sharp az its name. The
Tombstone Epitdph out in Arizona is
smother good one. The Greeley (Col.)
Tribune required little ingenuity at
its christening. but the presentation
of its title on the first page in a mag.
nified fac simile of the great Journal
lists handwriting was 3 clever idea,
even il the effect is not particularly
artistic. But what is to be thought
of weekly journal with such a name
as the WoocesteT South Compendium,
or the Sag Harbor COrreetor! The