A NEWSPAPER'S LITTLE JOKE.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 254, 31 January 1889, Page 2

A NEWSPAPER'S LITTLE JOKE.

Ous local contemporary ii very fond of using its leading c-dumns to get off a sly joke on its readers, or else the intention must at times he very bad. The other evening, in the coolest manner imaginab'e, it urged that the butchers should increase the price of meat I It goes on to say that the butchers must be lucky fellows if they can make both ends meet, and continues to give expression to a train of thought that it is not necessary to follow, There seams to bs a good joke somewhere, only that a dull person Cannot see it. The idea of advising that the price of meat be raised is one that ought to bo appreciated by householders—it is » proposition they will no doubt relish like a hungry man would a juicy beefsteak. In these timoe when money is so scarce, but wfaeo the pastures are so luxuriant in their growth, one may be pardoned for asking why the present time should be selected as an opportune one for advocating an increase in the price ot moat ? Of course wo know it is only meant ao a joke, but then some fools are not " wise ” enough to sea it in that light, When our contemporary has sucoeded in getting the price raised, it maintains that the butchers must not get the extra profit—they admittedly have difficulty in making the two ends meet, but the “meat,” we suppose, will "make" the butchers. Still wo muet not spoil the joke—if householders cannot see it, they must assume they have no inclination towards the humorous eld© of life. Our contemporary says " Iflee the priue bi meat- *1 We simply smile,