San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-18
MISCELLANIES.
Ye Country Editor

MISCELLANIES.
Ye Country Editor.
He is little and meek, aud you'
scarcely dream
He'd ever a word to say;
But you ought to hear his adjective
stream
In q woful, wicked way,
When copy tor puffs comes III py 'n'
From patrons who do not pay.
New York Herald.
A Personal Greivance-Being left
out of the social column.-PucK.
| A Winter Game.-Sauso: When
people "play with fire" what do they
Rodd-Poker, 1 fancy.-Town Top
les.
The display advertisements ofready
made clothing houses come under
the head of countertit presentments.
st. Joseph News.
De Mascus-Why did he call it a
collection of fugitive verses?
st. Alphabetically because they
escaped from the pen.-St. Joseph
News.
Magazine Editor-Heavens, what
stuff this is of Quiller's! He must have
been out of his mind when he wrote
it.
Assistant-Yes, it doesn't read just
as if he had been in his write mind.
st. Joseph News.
Everything In Its Place.-"Er-
Jehn?" said the editor of the clothing
trade journal to his assistant. "Here's
an article on hats to 60 in this month.
Just see that the heads are put in
caps, will you?"-Smith, Grey & Co.'S
Monthly.
Mrs. Freshly-Is your husband as
entertaining to you as he was before
your marriage?
Mrs. Younger-N-o-no; / can't say
that he is. George used to be one of
the wittiest and most comical men I
ever knew.
Mrs. Freshly-And he is not so
now?
Mrs. YOunger-He is not so origin
al. He brings the comic papers home
and We read them together now
Chicago American.
A Gross mposition.-''How do you
get paid for your articles?" was asked
of a so-much-per-thousands words
writer.
"By the word"
"WeD, amt some words more val
liable than others?"
mot a Bit"
"Well, that don't seem fair. Pears
to me that these ALFRED long words
ought to pay three or four times as
much as the little bits of felIers. Least
ways, seems so to me. Darned if I'd
want to be a writer, gettin' paid by
the piece and maxim no more out of
! big un than little un. Texas
Siftings.
All in a Days Work.-Managing
Editor: Is Mr.. Greatmind busy?
Assistant-Yes, sir; leading editor
ial on tariff.
"Where is Quickpen?"
working up special"
"Send Lobblounger here"
"He's at the THEATRE
"Hum! Any of the local men IMP"
"Only the down town police report
Or. He's writing up sand bagging
affair, but he will be through soon"
Every well. Tell him to knock to-
gether column criticism on Prof.
Rocks lymph treatment and send it
In before ten o'clock. New York
eve call the new boy who is dis
type 'Circumstances,'" said
the compositer.
"Why is that?n
Because he alters cases. "-Ex.
Richly but Scarcely Attired.-Edi-
tor: Here, Scribbler, revise this re-
bart.
Scribler-How, sir?
you say that Miss Porkupine, the
Chicago heiress, wore nothing but
diamonds, at the opera last even
ing.n
Eyes, sir"
"May be true; but put something
more on her. "-Jewelers' Circular.
DOUBLE BACK-ACTING EDITORS.
I frequently am so lost to sense of
my own dignity as to read the funny
columns in the daily papers. Those
portions of them which are stolen
from Puck without credit, / always
enjoy very much. Sometimes, how
ever, see paragraph which annoys
me exceedingly. Hero is one l found
the other morning:
Johnny De Soggs-Papa, who is
that starved looking man over
there?
Papa De Soggs-That is Col. Bacon,
who writes those fine articles about
big dinners for the magazines.