Show essay on newspapers tho souvenir dancing orders of the albany N Y Press mens union contains the following contribution from a printers devil which is too funny for publication in so called comic papers at least they seldom have such genuine humor jt is entitled A prize essay on newspapers is called vehicles of information reporters are what is called the staff so many of them being sticks they work hard at refreshment bars proofreaders Proof readers i men what spoils the punctuation of compositors they spell a word ono way today to day and another way tomorrow to morrow they think they be intelligent persons compositors think different compositors is men as sets up the types and sometimes they drinks compositors is very steady men when they is sober which is very seldom when they can help it editors is men what kiowa everything in the heavens above and the earth beneath they is writers who dosen fc write anything whatsoever they is the biggest men you ever see managers is men as takes in the tin and gives patient medicines ads tops of columns next to reading matter thirty seven columns out of thirty two proprietors aint anybody they aint even seen printers devils is the anac persons in a prin tin office thedoes the hardest work and gets the least pay pressmen is well there be newspapers no circus bils without pressmen to print em feeders is men what feeds on the fat of the land if ever I 1 start a pai per of my own ill call ii the i la everybody will take it I 1 heard the foreman tell this funny story to one of the staff tho other day it must have been funny cause they both laughed this is the story A gentlemen was promenading the street with a little boy at his side when the little fellow cried out oh there goes an editor 1 hush said pa the father bont make sport of the poor man god only knows what you may come to yet |