Year: 1872

HERE is how writer in the Detroi


Ffee Press talks about the pleasures pecu
/ liar to the deep grim silence Of tn,


sanctum.


! No one ever comes into the rooms o.
! the top story of a four-storv building SCI
! apart for the staff of daily paper. Thi,


is why every article reads so evenly ant


smoothly. All you've got to do If you


belong to the staff is to climb up there


sit all day long in the deep grim silence


and when midnight comes you can lower
yourself down stairs with conscious
ness that every article will read like clock
work.


Yesterday morning commenced an ar.
tlcle entitled "The Unseen Influences of
the Spirit World" and had got as far as
to say that although we hear no voices,
there Is some subtle influence pervading
tle -" when a man came up with a
demand for a correction of an article
charging him with bigamy. You have
to keep right on with an idea when you
get hold of it so run him in.


"Pervadng the air about you all the
time Peter Smith has called at this office
to say that the unheard voices coming
from the dead often swerve us from he
isn't the man mentioned as having two
wives the path marked out by the obsti-
nate"


Here another man came in and wanted
notice of his new building)


"-spirits which refuse to yield to
that new block on Michigan avenue,
although Smith is directly charged by the
police with marble front and 120 feet
deep. AT night, after days toll, who
does not love to sit down and let his
mind run to the mysterious, shadowy
basement under it, and stone caps move
the windows we take great pleasure in
setting Smith right before his fellow citi-
Zens, and"


(Here a man came up and wanted to
look at State map, although he could
have found one down stairs.


Certainly, sir look at all the State
maps you want to, and call back the spirit
of some dear friend gone before rs will
ascertain the name of the policeman who
wrongfully accused Mr.. Smith of having
frontage on Michigan avenue, which
helps the looks of that street very much,
and you will find the county of Tlllsdale
further to the left of that land from
which no one has ever returned to tell
us whether our friends are sad or Joy
full"


(Here boy came up and wanted to sell
some tonka beans to keep moths OFF,


THANK ye, bub, don't want any ton<a
beans; if you ever want to look at any
more of our maps come right up with
Mansard roof to crown all, and Smith is
now set right before the public and his
friends generally, who have thus improv-
ed the town and commune with them as
to whether moment of sadness does not
occasionally steal over them as they think
of the fond friends left behind come up
again and I'll talk with you about the
tonka beans and every patriotic citizen
ought to keen a State map in his new
block on Michigan avenue Smith states
that one of his wives deserted him in Hi
nOis and the other"


(Here a subscriber came in and wanted
to know why no paper was issued the day
after Thanksgiving.)


Because il was day set apart for one
hundred and forty-four windows in the
entire block with tonka beans enamelled
on State maps to mourn their early de-
parture through the valley of the shadow
of death. | don't want you to bother me
any more, Mr. Smith, about your wives
and come bub get right down stairs with
your beans TO that spirit land where all
Joy and peace the compositors wanted a
holiday and it's against the principles Of
Christianity to"


Here boy came up with a basket Of
apples.)


Forever more can't eat apples owing
TO my teeth and Smith is made good for
any beans which any State map connect /
ed with this Office has nothing but joy and
peace to mark the never ending time I'll
break your neck if you say apples to me .
again and you see tnat the new block .
spoken of has no bigamy to prove the .
moths don't apple the tanka beans sold in 4
Ilillsdale County"


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