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Show HOW THEY READ NEWSPAPERS. i L"n:le Ned. says the New Ycirk Ho'.-:. -st h"n:s tip a f-ny thizg. then t3t:rt5 wi:h a will. Auc; Sue first reads the stories, then rams to the marriages, births, and deaths. The laborer locks only at the "Wants." hoping to tad a better open-inr open-inr in hie business. Itss Flora seeks out the new advertisements adver-tisements to ascertain the newest importation? im-portation? in bonnets or kids. Mr. Pleasure Seeker turns to the : amusement c-si-jmn and deciies which eatenainmt nt will afford him the greatest great-est eojuymenL Miss Prim drops a tear first over the marr.ages. then over the deaths, for, says she, "one is as bad as the other." Mr. Po'itician commences wiih the editorial, then scans the telegraph, ending his perusal with the speeches quoted. Mr. Professor slowly examines the editorial, its rhetoric, syntax, and logic, then glances at the correspondence, correspon-dence, finally returns to his Latin, and quickly forgets what he has read. Mr. Marvelous looks for the accidents, acci-dents, murders, inquests, and deaths, reads the court record, and ends with the stories in seatch of something sensational. sen-sational. The pensioner of the late war has eyes only for the t-iegraph, fo 'lowing the French and Prussians through their campa'gns with somewhat of th; eagerness of days when he w:i a soldiering. sol-diering. But why extend the list ? ilaeh individual in-dividual reads for himself, and if eneh does not find a column or more to his particular t3te, the paper is insipid, the editor lazy and deseiving of censure. |