News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
JOURNALISTIC NOTES.

PR1ErbRs never speak as they pass pl'
TIE first paper mill in Massachusetts
was erected in 173O.
The first printing press in Charleston,
q d. was erected in 1870, by Eleazer
Phillips, of Boston.
THE first work printed in CONSTANT;
nople, Turkey, was aalexlcon' executed
between 1926 and 1928.
LAST night I viewed marble slab,
All craven with a practiced tool,
And read thereon these stony words
':Here lies a lifeless -.
FROM the fact that Henry Willard de-
clines to return to journalism, 1t IS be
lieved that he has renowned all Ideas OF
ever becoming wealthy again.
IT is believed that the proof-reader
must be an exceptionally well educated
man to make all the able and gifted mis-
takes that he is credited with.
LILA N. CUsHMAN's latest song is
entitled ''The Rest That Cannot Be
Disturbed" It need not be said that
she refers to the merchant who never
advertises.
No NEWSPAPER men were caught in
the Wall street furry. Newspaper men
quickly scent a gathering financial
storm, and transfer their funds to the
other pocket.
THE average number of employees in
the Government printing Office at Wash
ington, D: c., is about 2,140. The
amount disbursed for salaries is about
s., 900 per day.
A MAN in Kansas has started five pa
pers, each of which died within short
time. He has Just started another, and
calls it Kind Words, because, he says,
kind words can never die.
THERE are in Greece ninety printing
offices, of which half are located in
Athens. The number of existing news
papers and periodicals is given as 1876.
while the annual literary production is
computed at from 500 to 800 books and
pamphlets.
AN arithmetician computes that the
hand of a composition in setting type
travels 1854 miles a year. Yes, and it
goes at least hundred miles out of its
way in addition, for the purpose of MAX
ing typographical Understanding
ton Free Press.
81 HAVE no appetite; am strong and
healthy, but 7 can't eat, ;" writes young
man to the editor, asking advice
''What shall [ do?" Go and saw two
dollar load of slab-wood You will then
be able to eat. You are probably lazy
That's what ails you.
A MARYLAND editor shot dentist be-
cause the latter would not pay for his
paper. This was wrong, very wrong.
He should merely have said in his paper
that the dentist could kill more patients
in attempting to pull their teeth than
any two men in the country. Ph5tG.
Chronicle.
THE oldest newspaper man along the
Hudson is George W. David, of Pough-
keepsie. He reported the great fire of
Fulton's first trip to Albany in the Cler-
mont. David was a schoolmate of Silas
Wright, and says that he used to play
hop-scotch with old Gen. Root, of
Delhi.
"MY DEAR" said the wife'of the editor
of weekly newspaper, "shall I give
away those old trousers that you haven't
worn for two years, to some poor, de-
serving tramp?" ono" answered the
editor; 'let those trousers hang just
where they are. L may start daily pa
per some day, and then I will need them
sure. 1[iddJetOaO,a Transcript.
ONE feat of poor Sam Donnelly is told
by the Journalist. 1t was at the time
of one of the Long Island murders.
New was received at the San office late
in the afternoon, and Sam was assigned
to write it up. He glanced at the clock,
and saw that he barely had time to reach
the train. He caught an elevated train
by scratch, switched off at Thirty
fourth street, and broke for the train
boat. The gate had just been closed,
and the clanking of the cast,off chains
was heard. Sam was as thin as an eel
and as quick as flash. He Frustrated
himself, skipped under the gate, and
jumped on the receding boat, to the con-
sternation Of a Herald reporter, who
was left. The next morning Sans pa
per had the only authentic account o!
the murder.