In a Newspaper Office.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 233, 24 July 1902, Page 1

In a Newspaper Office.

A da,per little mm cane inM a country newspaper ollice and ask.-d if (he .Amusement Kdi'<r wn6 in. The man handing out a piece of i astehoard ti-n inches Kjuaie said, " Here's my card. 1 wanttosoe jou about our huge combination of gigantic circuses—a circus ofcircuic, »ir. Yen, sir, just menti'in miles of oges containing beaßtn, including a recently discovered jabberwock from Africa. We employ tea thousand people and import artistes at the rate of twenty a week irom Rome to keep up the supply of thoso who die en the roa<'. " Indeed." " Yes, air ; and & mau like you with ft tine descriptive ability and inexhaustible supply of language which has made you famous in two continents—" " How many columns do you want?" " Oh, as many as you please." " When will the show be here 1" "Perhaps not for two months; we travel moie for pleasure than for coin." " Just bo. Well, our figures for big circuses like yours are £2O per column, cash down »nd 30 per cent of the grots proceeds if the show is a success." The agent seem rather affected. " Isn't that rather steep ?" "It would be for a small provincial paper, but we circulate such a mammoth edition that the price ia comparatively trifHing. Four hundred waggoDS come up every day with paper for our editione, worked oft by machines lightning geared. By simply cutting down the size of the paper an eighth of an inch we can save money to build four free libraries, and Ito endow an orphanage. We don't run the paper for money but simply for—" ' But the circus man had fled.