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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 327, 5 June 1878, Page 4

A clothier has excited public curiosity by having a largo apple painted on his sign. When asked for an explanation, he required : “ if it hadn’t been for an apple, where would the ready-made clothing stores be to-day ?'’ The publisher of a weekly paper in Illinois prints in each issue a chapter of the Bible, and upon being ridiculed for it by his contemporaries, remark? editorially ; ”We publish nothing but what is news to our readers.” The rapacity (says the Harper’s ■Magazine) of country journalists is aptly illustrated in the story told of a provincial editor, who discovering that one of his neighbours had hung himself, would-not cut him down, nor mention the discovery to anyone, but kept the body under lock and key for two whole days. His reason was simple and sufficient. His paper appears on, Thursday, that of his rival on Wednesday, aud,“ Do you think,” he triumphantly asked, “I was going to say anything about the suicide, and let that scoundrel have the paragraph ?” The ambitious warbler who is trying to climb to glory by flooding our waste basket with sonnets written in pale' red ink will have to get there by some other route. Brick-colored manuscript has about the same effect on a near-sighted editor that a crimson shawl has on a male cow.