Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-09
SOME QUEER LETTERS.
Odd Questions An Editor is Called Upon
to Answer.

to Answer.
Every once in awhile an item goes the
rounds about the queer letters that the
President receives. odd and eccentric
as those are they are not more 30 than some
which the daily mails bring to newspaper
office. To answer half OF these in man
ner satisfactory to the correspondents
would require combination Of omnls-
cience and omnipotence not Vouchsated
to mortals.
A dozen times week "Mr. Editor" is
asked to give his opinion on blondes and
bfunettes, early marriages, the choice or
profession, the future Of the human race,
or on questions in science, theology or
perhaps politics. Not long ago youth
from out in the State wrote to the editor
OF the MORNING NEWS tor advice as to
which OF two young ladies he should
choose for better or FOR worse. He in
closed photograph OF each, aud stated
tnat his affection was 50 evenly divided
between the two that he could not de-
eide. Both were the daughters OF rich
but honest parents, and so far as specula-
non and acres went there was no choice.
One had blue eyes and golden banglets,
Whlle the frIZZes OF the other were dark
chestnut and her eyes hazel. At least
that was about the way the youth said
they looked.
One Of the oldest that has come along
IN a good while was an application for a
divorce "frOm cruel husband" The
wife intimated that her husband had
threatened her life, and that she was
afraid to live with him. AS the News
does not include divorces in its premium
list, and as they cannot be obtained with
out the aid OF lawyer, the best thing the
correspondent can do is to consult an
attorney.
An enthusiastic subscriber Of the
weekly writes: 81 am more than anX-
lOus for the young men Of the rising gen.
GRAFTON, both white and colOred to take
the WEEKLY NEWS, for in my judgment
IT is the greatest paper of the age" The
NEWS IS unquesuonably good thing for
the rising generation without regard to
race, color, sex, or previous condition of
serVltude. The same correspondent
shares the opinion Of numbers that the
NEWS is great educator"
Another subscriber says that he teels it
duty to get his neighbOrs to send their
81 % for years subscrip ion. He begs
permission "as an old journalist to COM
plment you on the journal you bring out.
IL Is . newspaper in every respect The
very flatterlng correspondent says that he
mas never seen a journal TO compare with
it,"
The professional that requests "the
FAVOR OF sample copy of the NEWS" is
very numerous. The NEWS is always
pleased to send a sample copy to those
who do not write every week. Fifty-two
postal cards dropped, one into the
mail each week, cost only
52c., and il each card is
responded to with a sample copy the
writer saves 73c. on bis years subscrip-
ton, and the proprietor of the paper
gets LETT Subscription clerks in
the offices OF papers with
large circulatiOns have to watch closely
for these professionals, and the postal
card subscribers little plan is generally
detected within month. Occasionally
paper will be mailed for two or three
months before the subscription clerk
drops to the scheme. There is one of these
professionals in Baltimore VINO is said to
nave copy OF every paper in the country.
He keeps them filed away in large room
in his house, and is regular mOnOmaniac
on the subject. A good many journals
when starting put the names Of these
specimen-cOpy subscribers on their regu-
lar list and send along the papers regu-
larly for year.
letter Of a recent date contained the
cOnuudrum, "WOuld 1t be advisable for
young couple to get married on 81 a
week"
Offers OF shares Of stock In unincor-
porated projects in exchange for liberal
free advertising are almost as plentiful as
prOnerS of advice as TO how TO run a
paper. Judging from the many questions
prCpounded one would say that a new
sphinx with new question for every da
in the year had arisen.