STOP MY PAPER.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 1, 5 April 1876, Page 3

STOP MY PAPER.

An indignant funner recently entered the office of a New Jersey paper and ordered his paper to bo stopped, because be differed in bis views regarding the advantage of suitsoiling fence rails. The editor, conceded the man's right to stop Ids paper; but he remarked coolly, looking over bis list. “ Did you know Jim Snowders, down at Hardscrabble ?” “ Very well/’ said the man. “ Well be stopped bis pape” last week because I thought a farmer was a great fool who did’nt know that timothy was a good thing to graft huckleberry bushes, and be died in lour hours. ’ “ Lor, is that so /” said the astonished granger. “ Yes ;■ and you know old (.1 gorge Mi ickson, down on Eagle (Jredc 1 “ I've heard of Idm.” “ Well, said the edhor, gravely, “he stopped his [taper because 1 said he was the happy lather of twins, and congratulated him on Ids success so late in life. He fell dead within 20 minutes. There arc lots of similar cases, hut it don’t matter. I’ll just cross your name off, though you doiit look strong by the color of your nose.'’ “ Hee here, Mr Editor.” said the subscriber, looking somewhat alarmed, “ J believe I’ll just keep on another year, ’cause 1 always did like your paper ; come to think about it, you're a young man, and some allowance orter bo made.” And he departed, satisfied that he had made a very narrow escape from death.