AN IMPROVEMENT.
If all reports were true, the amenities of polite and refined society used not to be much observed by some of the journalists in the Western States of America, but it would appear they are fast acquiring them At the present time. One of the papers says, " The office boy of our esteemed contemporary is, in the editor's absence, ■till trying to palm himself off ou the community as his intelligent and wellinformed principal." Now everybody must admit that this* is a great advanpe upon the custom which formerly obtained of speaking of a brother editor as " the empty-headed sycophant across the way," or the presiding jackass of the low-down menagerie whose vile smelling odors pollute the BuVi'o»nding atmosphere." Bttt it if terribly severe qix the office boy.
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5287, 30 December 1885, Page 2
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130AN IMPROVEMENT. Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5287, 30 December 1885, Page 2
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