Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1888 — EDITING EXTRAORDINARY. [ARTICLE]

EDITING EXTRAORDINARY.

Be markable Sl«ht Enjoyed by a Rural Visitor to » City Paper. During the last State fair at Elmira, N. Y., many visitors from 'way back wended their way into the newspaper printing offices. A. very verdant specimen, Reuben Snyder, from Potter county, Pennsylvania, strolled into the Telegram engine room and said to the engineer; “Be you the editor?” “No,” responded that official; “you’ll find the editor in the next room." Snyder went a- directed by the joking engineer and accosted the foreman of the press room with: “You be the editor, be you?” “Yes,” said the printer of papers, who understood the joke. “How long afore you’re goin’ to edit some papers? ’ said Snyder. “Right now; look out!” answered the pressman, pushing the lever and starting the lightning perfecting press at the same time. As the machine went to work turning out the papers so rapidly that it made the old man dizzy he put his hands to his knees, stuck out his elbows and opened wide his potato trap, and yelled to his son. who stood in a distant part of the room. “Great Bcott, John, come over here and see this man edit papers!” The suppressed laughter among the press-room hands got vent after the old fellow had retired and fairly shook the building.