American Journalistic Amenities.

Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 49

American Journalistic Amenities.

The Arizona Kicker contains the following :—

"All our readers will bear witness to the fact that we have exorcised the greatest patience in bearing the slurs and taunts of our esteemed weekly contemporary. On three different occasions we have been perfectly justified in killing him, bat we restrained our hand because we knew he owed his two compositors money, which they would lose if he went underground. "We long ago decided to pay no further attention to him, no matter what he said ; but there was an item or two in his last issue which calls for a word of explanation from us. Our lopeared, lop-shouldered, knock-kneed, slab-sided ramshackle, bald - headed, poverty - stricken, cross-eyed, web-footed, toothless old contemporary, with an average circulation of 217 copies weekly, against our tens of thousands (see our sworn statements), says that we were * cowhided in our own sanctum three days ago by a lady named Miss Green, who is a music teacher lately arrived from Indiana.'

"His statement is an insult to a young, beautiful, and accomplished lady, who was at once accorded the entree of the best society in the town, and who came here with the highest recommendation from respectable people. Miss Green called at the Kicker Office on the most peaceful intentions. She simply and sweetly desired us to publish one of her original poems, entitled ' When the hen's eggs nest again,' and we were thrice glad to do so. "It appears on our third page to-day, and we feel that we cannot say too much in praise of it. Thus do we confound, paralyse, upset, break in two, and knock out the human hyena, whose spite would blacken cur private character before this community, and with it the fair reputation of an angel in female clothes. Words fail to express our contempt for this inhuman monster, bub no advances will be made in our advertising rates."