EDITORIAL BORES.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1885, 11 May 1878, Page 5 (Supplement)

EDITORIAL BORES.

One of the leading weeklies has hit upon a happy plati for disposing of people who want to talk the editor to death. Upon entering the office the visitor sees in the glass partition before ( him four windows, a silver plate over each. One is inncribed ' Book-keeper,' | another 'Advertisements,' anoth?r 4 Subscriptions,' and last, but not least, the fourth is inscribed ' For Bores.' Any straoger showing a disposition to neglect this strong way of putting the matter is referred to the fourth window, where a speaking tube running down to the cellar, ami thence up to the roof and down again to an opening close to his ear, is at his disposal. Tube or not tube ? that is the question which he next asks himself. He generally puts his mouth to the oiifice, yells out, ' Is the editor in ?, and starts back affrighted as the words repeat themselres ia his left ear. He yells it again, and again the echo is repeated. Then he looks sheepish, smiles a sickly smile, remarks, ' That's a pretty good thing,' slides out of the door and down stairs before any* oue knows what's the matter with him, and neyer comes back.