Always ask the Editor.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1866, 21 June 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Always ask the Editor.

Above all things remember that the only way to get a thing printed is to see the editor personally. Editors don't go by the matter in a manuscript. They go by the looks of the writer. Besides that, time hangs very heavily on the hands of the people around newspaper offices, and it is difficult to see what would become of them if would-be-contributors did not £all once in a while to talk about their articles or play checkers. Bo careful, however, in ascending to the editorial rooms, to skip the double-acting spring step which is always somewhere along the stairs, and turns over, landing victims in the cellar. This is not meant for contributors, but for peddlers, and nothing so worries an editor as to find some contributor's bones among those of thsi peddler when it comes to the annual cellar cleaning.- — Philadelphia Gall.

It is easy to pick out a journalist in the crowded streets, beoause he is the only person who always keeps to the write. 11 Good-bte, Bweet tart," said the small boy,

as ho opened his capaoions mouth. If there is one time more than another when a woman should be entirely alone, it is when a full line of clothes comes down in the mud.

" Show me the man whb struck O'Dooherty ? " shouted a pugnacious little fellow at an election. " Show me the man who struck O'Docherty, and I'll — " " I am the man who struck O'Dooheffcy," said a big, brawny fellow, stopping to the front ; " and what have yon got to say about it ? " " Och, sure," answered the small one, suddenly collapsing, " and didn't you do it well 1 "