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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 135, 11 June 1869, Page 2

Ljvrceny. -*- Thomas Lawrence Ward has been- committed for trial at the next Nelson' Supreme Conrt Criminal Sittings, for stealing a cash-box, containing £60 odd, from the Telegraph Office, Blenheim. The case occupied the Resident Magis-, trate's Court two days. Bail was accopte(J r-rtwo sureties in £500 each, :-■.-.•■..-.

The following is a schoolboy's idea of an editor: — "The editor is one of the happiest animals in the world. He can go to the circus, afternoon and evening, without paying a cent; also to inquests and hangings. He has free tickets to picnics, and strawberry festival?, gets wedding-cakes sent him, aad sometimes gets a lickiug, but not often, for be can take things back in the next issue, which he generally does. I never knew but one .editor to get lickt. His paper busted that day, and he couMn't take anything back. While other folks have to go to bed early, the editor can sit up late at night and see all that is going on. The boys-think it a big ihing to hang on to ten o'clock. When I am a man I mean to be an editor, so I can stay out late of nights. Then that will be bully. The editor doesn't have to saw wood or do any chopping, except with the scissors. Railroads get up collisions for him, knowing if they didn't he'd make them. In politics, he don't care who he goes for, if they are on his side. If they ain't he goes for 'em anyway: so it amounts to nenrly the same thing. There is a great many people trying to be editors who can't, and some of them have been in the profession for years. If I was asked if I had rather have an education or be a circus-ridev, I would say, let me be an editor." — American Paper. A man was boasting about his knowledge of the world, when a was in company asked him if he had ever been in Algebra ? " I cannot exactly tell, but I think I passed it on the coach."