THE NEWSPAPER MAN.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 529, 28 February 1876, Page 3

THE NEWSPAPER MAN.

{American Paper.) Little they know, or even think, Of the work there is in shedding ink By the busy wielders of pencil and pen, Generally known as newspaper men—- “ Jottings,” “In General,” “ Spice of Life,” “ Variations,” and rumours rife, Weekly notes, and special news, All sorts of paragraphs, to amuse, Market reports, and marine disasters, Puffs of pills, and patent plasters; Now at the theatre in white cravat, Claw-hammer coat and opera hat; Then to the prize-ring, where you write Sickening details of a bloody fight— Back to the city, just in tune To report the sermon of some divine ; Steamboat collision, smash up of trains. Election returns to bother your brains ; Agent dramatic with long-winded story, To write up his “ star” to theatrical glory. Deaths and marriages, murders, rows, Balls and parties, minstrel shows, Stock speculations, bubbles of air, Tossed about by bull and bear ; Praising the limb in the dancer’s pose, And next the calves in the cattle shows ; Pencil in hand at the racing course, Taking the time of a trotting horse ; Jotting down each stroke and catch Made in a famous base-ball match ; Now of a street row taking a note, And then of a row in a pleasure boat. These are a few of the many things At which the tireless pencil swings.