Show A manuscript hunt the editor of a popular weekly was placed in a great dilemma the other day says the westminster gazette having with much care selected six complete stories for publication he placed them for safety on the floor underneath der neath the waste paper basket on leaving late at night ho forgot to change their position and when the charwoman came tho nest morning she swept them up with other litter and put thorn in the dust bin the same morning the dustman came around and tho paper including tho editors priceless stories was placed in largo sacks and sent off to the salvation army depot the editors despair at discovering the fate of his manuscripts may bo imagined but he is a man of much decision and having learned the process of collection ho chartered a hansom and taking two assistants with him set off for the salvation army quarters it was of course impossible for tho au ties there to contained the litter the huge sacks 40 in number which had been collected during the morning were without any mark of identity and it was at apparent that if the manuscripts were to be recovered it would be necessary to search the entire litter undismayed at the prospect the editor and his assistants took off their coats and went to work after many hours of weary search five out of the six were ultimately recovered the last and according to the editor the most priceless evaded all search but triumphant kt the result of the days labors the editor and his assistants returned to office and the manuscripts were forthwith handed to the waiting printers |