The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1892-12-03
WANDERING CHILDREN.


Articles That Travel the Country Over in
Newspaper Columns.
If one could only trace the wander
ings OF articles which go the rounds
of the press. Somebody did SO once.
in a solitary case. and the result was
an astonishing record. In November
of recent year an article appeared
in a London evening paper describing
the mission sent by Warren hastings
10 the Lama 1t was copied in the
following J7nrary by the Pioneer
OF Aliahabad. Here it attracted the
notice o. the French consul general at
Calcutta who translated it in full aud
enclosed IL in an ficial dispatch 10
the French minister OF foreign affairs
He sent it on to tho geographical
society OF Paris and Mt tho meeting
OF this society in March it was duly
read by the secretary. Afterwards
the article was printed rs a traus!a-
ton from. an Indian Journal in the
Official proceedings.
But what are the adventures OF this
article compared with those % Cur
few Shall Not Ring TO atght" the
poems made up of line rom other
poems the paragraph about the
dimensions OF heaven. the mum ber o
s.1rJs we use, and what not and
above all certain jokes Some OF
lhesc things have beeu travelling
about or years. and are likely to con.
tinue travelling until at least this gem
GRAFTON is laid to rest
The authors of the articles which
Tor II long time have ap irresist BILE
attraction for 'no editorial shears
should be proud men. Some Of them
are or at lealt me seems to detect
feeling OF gra location in recent
confession by Mr. Joseph Knight
In sportive mood that gentleman
invented bogus catalogue entry.
Mill on Liberty. Ditto on the
Floss" In every article subsequently
written on catalogues this was quoted
as "A glariug example OF laundering
ard it has probably appeared as such
in nearly every periodical in the
tnglish language. At last the So
called humorous mistake found
place in tho sober pages OF Notes
and Queries and then Mr. Knight
made clean breast Of his offence
Authors too are often amused at
the forms in which some OF their
offspring como under their notice. MIR.
Christie Murray would have smiled
before now AT the strange uses TO
which IA passage OF hi5-irom '.3ain-
bow Gold comparing lifo TO "A game
of chess, has been put Mr.. James
Payu. when n boy. wrote some
humorous verses oD dog named
Jack" Five or six years ago he
was pleased to SEQ them quoted in an
American book of poems by dead
and anonymous authors But what
does Mr.. Sala say about some English
newspapers which have recently re.
printed his 'Demetrius the Diver"
and credited it to an American week
is sheet? This 10 be sure. is nothing
new, Mt tho same time it is worry un-
Just to an author.
The groutcst sufferer in this re.
spcct however is the solo inventor
Of that amusing mock sermon on the
subject odd Mother Hubbard. which
everybody has read. 81 myself"
says the author heard 10 preached
oy Il negro minstrel at Haverly's in
Now York; 1T has been neatly printed
with an introduction by clergyman
and sent around to his brother
preachers 40 surnpto7of how not to
do it; it was bought for penny in
broad sheet form in the city year or
two ago by friend OF mine; it has
been read at countless penny readings
and entertainments OF the kind" IL
has appeared in several books of face.
tir. And all this without acknowl-
edgment II should be known. then.
that the burlesquo sermon belongs TO
the earl OF Dysa't who in one OF his
novels makes n character deliver it;
and the story goes that his lordship
wrote it when short of copy and Mt
his WITS end how 10 provide the
monthly instalment of the novel.