THE NEWSPAPER MAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4123, 30 January 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE NEWSPAPER MAN.

In tho United States things go this way with the Newspaper Man Little they know, or even think Of the work there is in shedding ink By the busy wieMers of pencil and pen— Generally known as newspaper iuen— 'Jotting*/ ' In General/ * Spice of Life/ 4 Variations,' and rumor rife, ' Saturday Notes' and ' Sunday News/ 'All Sorts of Parahraplia' to amuse. Market reports uud marine disaster*, Puffs of piils uud patent plasters ; Now at the theatre in a white cravat. Claw-hammer coat and opera hat; Then to the prize ring, where you write Sickcnlng details of a bloody tightSteamboat collisions, smash-up of trains. Election returns to bother your brains ; Agents dramatic with long-winded story, To write up his star to theatrical glury. Deaths and marriages, murders, rows, Balls parties and minstrel shows. Stock speculations, bubbles of air, Tossed about by bull and bear; Praising the limb in the dancer's pose. And next the calves iti the cattle shows Pencil in haud at the racing coarse. Taking the time of a trotting horse ; Jotting down each hit and catch Made in a famous cricket match ; • Now of a street row taking a note— And then of a row in a college boat. These are a few of the many things At which the tireless pencil swings.