| Show lettla Nw napper per Hum humbug bugs tile the claim of omniscience and the assumption of omnipotence are the amusing parts of a newspaper it is artless and transparent the omnis omniscience cier co is that of the encyclopedia and the omnipotence is the frown of jove it is a stage stae effect which is pretty but which deceives nobody the roar aswell done but bat the performer is not mistaken for a lion BOIL he is pla plainly n ly seen to bo be the excellent mr sung snug who is p professionally ra 0 ally engaged in the support of his family the elaborate proclamations of the newspapers private business as a matter of public importance Is another aspect of the same comedy the newspaper soberly announces that after prolonged deliberation it has decided to widen its columns and that tor many months the most prodigious machine machinery has been in course of construction to enable it to satisfy the demands of its swiftly aly increasing host of advertisers who will have not bill less than all tho the conveniences provided by the most modern science tile the newspaper is gratified to bo be able to state that it is now pro prepared to smile at all rivalry to outstrip outstrip its esteemed contemporaries at every points point and to enable inai mazi kind to dispense with all other journal but itself this is as simple and I 1 childlike as it if a great mercantile house sho should I 1 d announce that it had just bought a now new set t of massive account books in russia leather and laid now new floors of southern pine and added another story to the warehouse tho the buyer heanu meanwhile hile is interested in the goods and inspects them and them on only ly to decide whether to buy or to look elsewhere these cheso are the little humbugs humburgs of the tha trade of oatho the newspaper harpers |
