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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1905, Page 3

One of our breezy American contemporaries relieves himself thusly on the subject of Editor versus Doctor:—"lf an editor makes a mistake, he has io apologise for it; but if the doctor makes one, he buries it. If we make one, there is a lawsuit, tall swearing , , and a smell of sulphur; but if the doctor makes one, there is a funeral, cut flowers, and a smell of varnish. A doctor can use a word a foot long; but if the editor uses it, he has to spell it. If mc doctor goes to see another man's wife, lie will charge the man for the visit; but if the editor calls on another man's wife, he gets a charge of buckshot. When the doctor gets drunk, it is a ease of 'overcome by heat.' and if he dies, it is heart failure. When an editor gets drunk, it is too much booze, and if he dies it is delirium tremens."' And so on for about a column. AWKWARD. "Are you a married man?" asked the absent-minded attorney who was doing a cross-examining stunt. "No, sir," replied the witness. "I am, a bachelor." "Very well, sir," continued the lawyer. "Now kindly tell the court how long you have been a bachelor, and what the circumstances were that induced you tc become one."