A DOMESTIC ROW.

West Coast Times, Issue 6120, 22 January 1886, Page 4

A DOMESTIC ROW.

One morning the Washington Hand Press in a Printing Office suddenly flew its Frisket, and called out in a loud voice, " Hear ye ! hear ye ! B.ut for me the Banner could not be issued each week." '• Just hear that !" sneered a Case of Bourgeois over by the Window. "Where would the paper be but for its Type ?" *' And they never Printed a Paper yet without ink," added the Roller, in a Glue and Molasses voice. " Well I don't' want to appear egotistical," observed a bundle of White Paper lying on the floor, "but if. you knew how hard it was for the Editor to raise the cash to buy me, you'd imagine I was of some little account around here." ie Gentlemen," added tbe Imosing Stone, In a marble voice, " I dou'c claim to own all the corner lots ia towrj, but if the Chases, Shooting Stick, Mallet, Quoins, and myself were to go off on a picnic, I'd like to see the Banner go to press— l would." The Gordon Jobber, Box Stove, and several Galleys were gettisg ready to chip in, when the Editor entered and asked the cause of the row. The matter wai explained by the Card Cutter, in a calm and unbiassed manner, and the Editor replied : "Each and every one of you is valued in his respective place, and all combined go to help issue the leading Newspaper of this country— circulation (when a circus agent comes along) 6000 copies. Wood received on subscription as heretofore." Moral : And the Shears lay right there in plain eigat, and were not even mentioned.—Detroit Free Press.