NEWSPAPER LIFE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 307, 18 April 1877, Page 4

NEWSPAPER LIFE.

There are peopl % mostly young and gushing, who lo »k np.xi newspaper life as about the pleasautest thin/ going, s>mething that makes oire feel go »J all the timer, excepting when thj c»npo3t irs and paper man have to be confronted, and e.ish coiu.'S in witFi cntic ation ratiier t tan with celerity. L t such re:id the following tabular statement, setting f„rt!i with bald accuracy the experience of an able journalist of feX w, and dvtermiue whether that man had maoy kisnre horn's that he ewtttd give to th; ''cultivation " of poesy, or the higher branches of art :—Been askttl to drink, 11,332—drank, 11,0J2; rt'«p:ie9ted to retract, 41C—didn't retract, 4itJ; invited to parties and receptions by persons wishing fwr putTs, 3,333—t00k the hint, 33; didn't take the hint, 3,300; threatened tu be horsewhipped, 174 — been whipped, 0 ; whipped the other fellow, 4 ; didn't come to time, 170; been premised whiskey, gin, &c, if we would «o after them, s,6lo—been after them, 5 000: been asked what's the news, 3XMKlo—told, 23-dhln't know, 203,000 l-.ed about it. 911,977 ; been to c mirch, 2 ; changed polt.es, 3J—expected to change still, s"0 ; gave to charity, 5 dollars ; gave for a terrier rive dollars ; cash in hand, 1 dollar.— Harper's.