Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — Journalism Under Difficulties. [ARTICLE]

Journalism Under Difficulties.

“We greatly dislike to find fault with any of the customs of our beautiiui little city,” says a Dakota editor, “b'tt ! he must nevertheless insist that people • S. i keep their swine out from under the office oi the Tribune and Falladuim. While engaged at out desk writing our . ■■ leader on ’The Stability of Our Territorial Institutions,’ for our paper th e week, one of Senator Mcßride’s razorbacked hogs humped its spine and began sera'ching its back on the beams under the floor, jarring the whole building and making it necessary for us to stop our work on the editorial, crawl tinder our. office and welt the critter along the s.de with a column rule. This interupted our train of thought, and the editorial is not what we could wish.’"