The Ideal Reporter

To be a good reporter these qualificar tions are necessary: Health, the news instinct, a sense oí humor, the ability to write a legible hand, eternal vigilance, temperance, amiability, patience, determination and ambition. Then, furthermore, it behooves the reporter to be a constant student and reader, informing himself fully upon every variety of subject that Interests mankind. For the professionof newspaper reporting we have the highest regard, and we find pleasure in this opportunity of saying that from the companionship of newspaper reporters we have derived incalculable profit, for of all classes and conditions of men (excepting, perhaps, the printer) the newspaper reporter seems to abound most liberally in wit, humor, invention, generosity, good nature, patience, pluck, fortitude, and those other qualities and accotnplishments which do so much toward brightening and bettering human life. - Chicago Herald. - An auctioneer, vexed, said: "[ am a mean fellow, mean as dirt, and 1 feel at home in this eompany. " Pupils under the lasli- In the eye.