Life — November 24, 1887 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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296 HOW THE GREAT DAILIES ARE EDITED. Tue Sun. The Sun is made up entirely of matter furnished by the office-cat and half a dozen editors. The proprietor does the police court re- ports, and is the embodiment of what is collectively known as The Sun's stafl of ubiquitous reporters. The financial editor writes the baseball accounts, and the literary editor manufactures the foreign ‘The snake editor lays himself out on dramatic criticism, and the remaining associates manage the mud-slinging department. THe Wort. This journal employs a small army of reporters who are under contract to furnish two columns of scandalous or suicidal sensations a day. When they have finished reportorial work they are detailed throughout the metropolis to swear to the circulation of their paper and to concoct romances about their salaries, The advertisements, including the thrilling ‘Sol Pringle” column, are all written by the office-boy, who receives three dollars a week for his services. Tue Trinuse. After much lost labor in epdeavoring to find the editorial rooms of this paper we discovered that there were none. All the work is done at the respective homes of each contributor, and is sent down to the composing-room every night, where it is immediately put into type by **know nothing" compositors. The proofs are then shuffled together in a hat and drawn by the city editor until the pages are filled, All that remains is reserved for the Tribune Almanac. news, Tue Herato. The Herald is simply a long-winded equivalent of what is known as ‘ Harper's Drawer," or the puzzle department of a country weekly. All the editors are noted for their harmless and childlike simplicity, and their faculty of writing backwards, It is made up in the ordinary manner. The very ordinary manner. Tue Times. Nothing is known of the way in which this paper is edited. editors know as Jittle about it as anybody. The The Star. Less is known about The Star than The Times. THe JourNat. The Journal is not edited at all. ROMANCE IN HIGH LIFE. Party in Background: —But, Jimmie and Maud— Hero (with Pistol): We are no longer Maud and Jimmie, When we turned our backs upon yon village this damsel became the Tinsel- faced Cruller, the Daisy of the Wigwam, whilst I—ha, ha !—assumed the title of Venom-toothed Rosin Eye, the Mingo's Terror; so follow us at your peril, we are on the war path and our way is towards the setting sun! - LIFE: A THANKSGIVING FABLE. The greedy turkey gobbled up the goodly fare and grew fatter day by day, but the prudent turkey, suspicious of such bountiful grub, refused to eat it and grew rapidly thinner. Finally the master came and said, “ Better keep the fat turkey for Christmas ; if we do not kill the thio turkey he may die on our hands.” MoRAL.—Enjoy the good things of Life as they come. SCRAPS. HE question of mixed schools is agitating the Virginians. The Southerners seem to be quite as much down on the mix as the New York subjects to Irish Rule. . * . Ie talking over the piracy of American publishers, the literary symposium in the Nineteenth Century fail to state that the authors of the Bible have not received one cent in copyright for their work. . . . (A NIRPOVEREY is coming along at a great rate. McGlynn can now afford to go to Rome. . . ’ Dr. HE Prohibitionists assert that liquor is pollution. They take no notice of the fact that water is dilution, THE NEW REGIME. OMSTOCK : Is this Heaven? St. PETER: Yes. Comstock: Well, | have a warrant against your Master for allowing people to be born naked. comicbooks.com