Show SHABBY publications christmas editions of newspapers w were ere quite numerous this year among them some neat newspapers which got out special publications on for far tho the day that were first class tho the proper thing on such OCCa occasion siong as we view it la Is to rive give riv e a fair reflex of 0 the country upon which the tile journal mainly depends for support together with as large and diversified a class of literary and general matters as circumstances circum suggest and opportunities permit those christmas papers which issue annexes that are at best advertise adver advertising 9 schemes designed to rake in a few extra dollars and at the fame same time be a vehicle for tho the publication of pictures of personal friends of the projectors very few fely of these being people ol 01 note even inside their own circle together with puffs of cheap shows and indifferent combinations tha whole thing bearing a patent outside patent medicine almanac appearance pe pei arance rance are blots upon the honorable name of journalism it is still worse when whoa these catchpenny makeshifts rive give the most mort of what little attention is bestowed to their material interests to places and enterprises enterprise 3 having limited or no prominence and in many cases doubtful merit leaving matters and localities posse possessing going great and peculiar importance either unmentioned or spoken of so meagerly that tho mention amounts to nothing and when such a faked up hotchpotch hotch botch blows and blo and puffs itself out like a bullfrog over its enterprise and anti circulation the better part of the few readers are disgusted and everybody elso else that sees il it lays laya it do down wa with a feeling akin to that which possesses the system immediately after a bath in too warm water there are people who have by some mischance got into the ownership and control of newspaper publications who have no more idea of what true journalism ia is nor any bettor conception of journalistic ability or what should enter into th composition of a wideawake wide awake progressive periodical than the oldest inhabitant of zanzibar has and in nothing I 1 is a this more clearly manifest than when they get up cometh something ng of the kind referred to yet they make a business of their calling and a living out of it bat but because john L sullivan makes a business of acting on the stage and bits gas a very good living from it too Is no prof that be is anything more than a muscular brute it Is fortunate in some respects that it is a year till another christmas comes around the country is already well enough filled with advertising fakes takes having no merit whatever ver CHICAGO BAYS SAYS an envious exchange from the effete east has bas annexed and absorbed until one can go out and agoot wild turkeys inside her city limits and she has sufficient pastura range to feed texas steers all summer why nothing considering Chi cagos pretensions even salt lake with all her shrinking modesty could easily take care of the steers IT is a source of genuine sorrow to learn from so eminent an authority as mr stanley that americans dont pronounce correctly it if there is in anything in the world calculated to 10 take the c conceit out of the average american it is to to discover in this rude way that he Is not acquainted with the a b cs of his own language langu aeo AT A charity cale fale of dolls in kew new york the other day mr depew acting as auctioneer solda sold a doll dressed by mrs II arrison Harrison for immediately a after which one dressed by alre cleveland brought the highest price of the day grovers popularity may admit of question but francess never |