NEWSPAPER LIFE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2598, 5 May 1877, Page 3

NEWSPAPER LIFE.

There are people, mostly young and gushing, who look uponnewspaper life as about the pieasantest thing going, something that makes one feel good all the time, excepting when the compositors and cash come in with difficulty rather than with celerity. Let such read the following tabular statement, setting forth with bald accuracy the experience of an able journalist of Texas, and determine whether that man had many leisure hours that he could give to the " cultivation" of poesy, or the higher branches of art :— Been asked to drink, 11,392 — drank, 11,892 ; requested to retract, 416—didn't retract, 416; invited to parties and receptions by persons wishing for puffs,. 3,333 —took the hint, 33; didn't take ttie bint, 3,300; threatened to be horsewhipped, 174—been whipped, 0; whipped the other fellow, 4 ; didn't come to time, 170 ; been promised whisky, gin, &c, if we would go after them, s,olo—been after them, 5,000; been asked what's the news, 300,000—told, 23—didn't know, 200,000— read about it* 99,977 ; been to church, 2; changed politics, 32—expected to change still, 50; gave to charity, 5 dollars ; gave for a terrier dog, five dollars; cash in hand, 1 dollar.—Harper's, ;