| Show the newspaper Rp reporter orter it is interesting to td watch the ahe struggles of the reportorial fraternity in their endeavors to furnish forth a sufficient quantity of heir startling and sustaining items thelast the vast material for wonder items and unlimited resources of the metropolitan tro politan are a constantly goading thorn in the side ortho of the rural editor that daily harvest of horrors that is garnered with the purlieus purlie us the slums and byways by ways of a gleat city and that failing source the police court sometimes drive th the count country rival rival to desperation cut e off from these u urban aba n source sources bf su supply p in this depart menthe is th thrown rown back upon himself and is is forced to 16 rely upon the vividness of his own imagination once or twice a month mouth according to tho the amount of strain his ganglion ib functions will endure and the scarcity of items he retires big with some idea in in the way of the wonderful into hi his inner consciousness and at length reappears weak and weary but flushed and triumphant beardt bearing g tenderly the fruits of his labors one of those items about a sheeted ghost a three legged hen ben or pr a seven hundred pound pumpkin thata that are reso so cheering 0 and comforting the last season in this parti particular cillar has been an active and exhaustive exhaust i ve one for the rural reporters especially fresh material has been hard to procure nurses and body servants hao have become a drug in the mar market et that brazil brazilian yarn about a man years year sold old oid knocked the stuffing out cfall of all ali the old people stories big turnips and beets three feet cucumbers fruit trees blossoming bloss oming the fourth and fifth time and vegetable eccentricities tri cities generally have not seemed to take very well in spite of these drawbacks the necessities of the emergency have so stimulated the inventive faculties that the season has been a brilliant success let us ils look on the neld field a little early in the season the selma seima Alaba alabama nih nth timos times started off lamely with a sweet potatoe six feet two inches long the murfreesboro tenn monitor met this with an old mare who ate chickens ducks and bacon ft then a virginia city nov editor of imagination ima imn all compact produced a domesticated woodchuck who got drunk and cheated at poker and the san guar dhan dian wen thim two better with a two wo headed snake these successes excited a tremendous rivalry and the scene now beca became me exciting ig so much eo so as to carry away several olt cit olty city y capels that joined in the fray the evansville irid frid journal the bowling green ky democrat the troy N Y times the rutland vt berald the tho philadelphia teo tei baraph graph and the st Paul MInn press went back to first principles and engaged ina in a mad rivalry in the tha ghost line tho the brooklyn eagle worked up the very stale story of the girl who lives toll ton years without tho lexington mo caucasian struck in characteristically with a child born with a tall talk A waverly tenn paper sang of otan an within an egg laid byan by an eccentric hen c of f that place the tile fort cayne vayne ind sentinel trotted out a boy who wilo pulled an eighteen inch snake from his stomach the tiie weston va vil democrat struck a ne newlean new rf lead with a newborn now new born baby whose whom mother was wag 83 years yevra ye irs ira old and whose father was 77 the louisville cour jour J our did not mak taake eavery avery greib greub great greit sensation with wah I 1 ita I 1 stor story of a cat that thab gave birth to three squirrels squirrels arbil gave the titre field anil farm courage to tell tel about labout a colt coit which climbed to the ridgepole ridge poles of barns and beamed pleasantly upon passersby passers assels asgeir by and after that the lebanon lebanon ky standard felt aquai to the task of telling tolling about a girl baby born with a chignon made alade desperate desperately by this the waverley Va verley venley tenn man came back wih with six tape worms inside one sheep ana fayetteville tenn remonstrated with a rooster with itil three appreciable begs the brought out bult its mouse which chewed up p two hundred dollars in greenbacks green backs and the evansville ca courier urlce came up tp smiling with the boy who ca coughed up a gold oid old dollar tile the Bratt brattleboro leboro vhf vt record cl exploded A trunk which injured a 4 lady who wa standing by upon her hen head hea d J and the kansas city tanies times follo followed v with a bustle bui bul bristing sting with direful results the erie eric pa dispatch introduced to notice a streak of lightning which entered that and alid knocked the beyll down stairs and the franklin aboul ky patriot recited a little story about a horse that committed suicide then the san ban diego cal union got arabian nights on ori the brain and told about a devilfish devil fish in a porter bottle which on being taken out expanded to a foot or two in diameter this the burlington gazette knocked into the shade with its little prairie chicken story how they settled lle ile lie head ad and tail in long on lines on telegraph wire sand how shrewd abowd hunters fired double gil uns na down each side of the wire and kno knocked cled off a couple of A A report from la franca of a man with the head of a scotch terrier aroused the struggling editorial fraternity to increased exertions and tile the whitehall N Y times capered madly to tile the front frond with a rat that sat by a sleep ing baby and wath its tail tall whisked away the flies and not satisfied with this dizzy flight of thclma the imagination n wen went tinto into the sea serpent business t san which though an old X fay pay 1 a Y 3 it worked up with constien consummate genius bub but the imaginative heroes are too many the roll toll of honor too lony long iong gaor for Us to mention all and after a f calmly considering all the rival claim claims of intellectual inventors 7 wo we calmly and sadly award tle the prize the that paper tells of a lady mrs X X igi iff suspicious suspicions living in kern viila vile who softened an eggshell egg shell with vinegar forced it into a demijohn aud and hatched it there thore now how sho aho has hns kas las a good healthy lien hen in n a l demi johir the voice edys say sas s sho she intends to bottle bottie an Amer amen icari eagle eagie for the centennial we presume but for incubatory obstacles she might be induced to try it with a baby the says sass ko no body need believe this if they thoy dont choose we are glad of this not that we would think pf af doubting the story stony but it sort sor gor of colet coiet lets us out as a it ivere were rimes times |
