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"Quotations"

A Yankee editor advertised the other day that he would take a good dog in payment of one year's subscription for his paper. The next day 43 dogs were sent to the office. The day afterwards, when the news had spread into the country, over two hundred farmers sent two dogs each by express, with eight baskets full of puppies, all marked « C.O.D. » The offer found its way into the neighboring States, and before the end of the week there were eight thousand assorted dogs, from bloodhounds down to poodles, tied up in the editor's front and back yards. Some hundreds broke loose, and swarmed on the stairways and in the entries, and stood outside the sanctum and howled, and had fights, and sniffed under the crack of the door, as if they were hungry for a taste of the editor. He climbed out of the window up the waterspout, and out on the comb of the roof, and wept. There was no issue of the paper for six days, and the only way in which the friends of the journalist could feed him was by sending luncheon up to him in balloons. At last somebody brought a barrel of arsenic and three tons of beef, and poisoned the dogs, and the editor came down, to find on his desk a bill from the mayor for $8,000, being the municipal tax of $1 per head. The announcement has been withdrawn.

The superiority of Man to Nature is continually illustrated. Nature takes a good many quills to make a goose; but a man has often made a goose of himself with one.

Physician (examining rural editor for life insurance purposes): « Your circulation does not seem to be impaired? »

Editor: « No. We're printin' 630 copies a week now, again' 600 a year ago! »

The following gentle hint is from a Kansas paper:—« There i$ a little matter that $ome of our $ub$criber$ have $eemingly forgotten entirely. $ome of them have made u$ many promi$e$, but have not kept them. It i$ a very important matter. It i$ nece$ary in our bu$ine$. We are very mode$t, and don't like to $peak about it. »

The following new exchanges are acknowledged with thanks:—American Art Printer, New York (from No. 1, January, 1887); The Bookbinder, London (from No. 1, July, 1887); Printers' Sales and Wants Advertiser, London (No. 5, July 15); Effective Advertiser, London (from August, 1887; Export Journal, Leipzig (from No. 1); Typographische Neuigkeiten Frankfurt (from No. 4, June, 1887.)

Our valued exchange, the Art Age, has not come to hand lately. The February number is the latest on our file.

It is veritably a « tricksy sprite » who presides over printers' errors. In a morning contemporary, the Governor, in opening Parliament, is made to say: « The aim of all, of whatever political breed, should be to promote the establishment of a numerous and prosperous agricultural community. »