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Show Only a Printer. "He is only a printer." Such was the sneering remark of a leader in a circle cir-cle of aristocracy the codfish quality. Who was the Earl of Stanhope? He was only a printer. What were Prince Edward William and Prince Napoleon? Proud to call themselves printers. The present czar of Russia, the crown prince of Prussia and the Duke of Battenburg are printers, and the emperor of China works in a private printing office almost every day. William Caxton, the father of English Eng-lish literature, was a practical printer. What were G. P. Morris, N. P. Willis, James Gale, Charles Richardson, James Parker, Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Dick-ens, James Buchanan, Simon Cameron and Schuyler Colfax? Printers, all, and practical ones. Mark Twain, Amos Cummings, Bret Harte and Opie Reid are plain, practical printers, as were Artemus Ward, Petroleum Petro-leum V. Nasby and Sut Lovingood. Senator Plumb was a printer, and so is James S. Hogg of Texas, and the leader of science and philosophy in his day made it his boast that he was a printer, In fact, thousands of the most brilliant bril-liant minds in this country are to be found toiling in the publishing houses of large cities and towns. It is not every one that can be a printer bruins are ibsolufely necessary. Century. |