The Perverseness Of Things

This tells the experience of many a newspaper scribe. It is taken f rom the Jonesville Independent : -'Our market report went on a 'tare' last week and qnoted butter at 60 cents a pound. Tlie next morning we were oifered several hundred pounds at that price by as many diiïerent people. We pursue the even tenor of our way weak3 at a time undisturbed, and we get to thinking that no one roads the paper. Then an error creepe in, we report a man dead and he comes in to dispute -with us about it. Mrs. Smith is to have a new baby, wlie.n Mrs. Jones te the one intended to have been reíerred to as havmg assumed maternal responsibilities, and so we mivjhc keep on with a list of troubles. AVhen the diay is over and lts events are reviewed in our mind's eye. the conclusión is inevitable that íhe people read the paper, and this conclusión lïrings satisfaction to our heart, although we have gone througn muoh sufiering to find it out."