The Newspaper Appetite

"The Hermit in Nüw York" writes to the Troy Timet ; Tbe newspaper h not yet undorstood, and probably never will be exoept to the initiatod. Like the ostrioh, the press ■wallowg everythiug, but it i ut the ■ame timo a iniglity digeBter, and turns sl'itude eleuients uto ehape. luto the office thre rushee duily a va6t mob of politics, poetry. aeoidents, murders, sermotil, divoroes, clopemeots, battles, wed dings aod deaths ; tbe nezt day tin.' y go out in comely order to be reviewed, ommented ou, sermonized, or laughed i t by tbe world, wbile all their lessoue are wisely and earnestly eummed up in the leader, by meane of which the editor masters and directa that tbat merourial element, public opinión. Iotellectnally epeaking a newwpapcr stuff is n eombination of varied intellect, each working in its place witb such barmony aa pervade tbe human muecles, and the hole fused with one will. Here we have a composite "Colossus" better worthy to be called tbe wonder of the wor!d than the ancient etatue wbose name I have juut borrowed. If any one aak why I am speaktag thui, my reply is that the newspaper is absorbing everything. Our daily and miollnneous prees i eso extensivo tbat their titles would fíll a pmnll volume. - Bome men take half a dozen nowspapers daily. The paper to tbem is a tour tbrough the world. It may be all they e or want to eee, of lifo, literature or philoiophy. Taking ooiety gonerally, we all know that next to the Bible the newnpaper ii all in all.