Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — Journalistic Sympathy in the Orient. [ARTICLE]

Journalistic Sympathy in the Orient.

We notice with deep regret that some wicked wag in Hong Kong has played a very cruel practical Joke upon the Yokohama Box of Curios. Undercover of a two months’ subscription he induced the unhappy editor to print a poem which grossly flattered the paper, but which was an inverse acrostic, so outrageously insulting and Immoral as to be unfit for publication. This is the second time that the Box has been made a butt for ridicule throughout the East, and we hope it is the last It will doubtless teach the editor a lesson. In tho meantime we extend to Brother Thorn, the victim of the hoax* our deepest sympathies.—Hong Kong Telegraph.