EDITORIAL TRIALS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3147, 20 March 1879, Page 1

EDITORIAL TRIALS.

Willard.A. Cobb, himself a journalist, in an address at Lotjkppct.,.,^. Y;» rccentlj, told his audilnca 'fhit.|ome.©f the trials of the newspaper editor mvb. He enumerated the following: " The placidity with which correspondents wrjtf upon both sides of the sheets, thus Betting all the compositors to breaking the Third Commandments; the appearance iv the sanctum of the man who has a grievance jibe" preseaeejjtfithe fiend who carries away the. best exchanges; the coming in of the man with the latest news—one oft hose character wfcd'lus an idea that wheri;h»g6esviire«fcth«t«aWt tips up and! rice; Tersaj'saiMf iiQQbb)(|qaight hare added ; tp .-that.^astj ejause^tl^, man who comes to the editor s private room to ask what is the 'hews ;' J nMW tfitf who has ebme in for* '♦ a= little 1 'telW^liories of ludicrous'typographical 4)lli»dew are legions in number, and r Mf $spbb retailed several good pnes. ,Bj ihp. drop- [ K. rof a single letter, the Bpok of Common P lnfe went' to press wittl: the senTrayer k. -; Bba n ; a n be chlttgediin tb« tence,/'^e, e ye^ traniformed into twinkling of au "We shall all be b^ . ? ,, wr ot o , "See the of an eye." A poet whp' 7 f r. fire,'* was pale martyrirt a'shebt-'bi 1111 '^d into startled to ,see his line ohaq,;; <hirt "See the pak mnrtyr witll hi»; j. "■« on fire." Mr Cobbjaouite right iv thinking such transgr^siipni are ai pardonable as the; blunderi iottetimei made in other 1 :pro*B9iii6ti«,-i arid' Itelli the story; of the minister who wai «ked to read the followingiiQotioeMV A .man having gone to soa, his wife deiir*» the prayers of |he churcb,;" and by the milplacing of a comma in reading It, frav«ly told the congregation that" a manntTing gone to see his wife, detired the piayerj of the churoh."-S. F. Chiwiicle.