A Note by the Editor — 453
The editor of a Western paper owes a bank about 1000 dollars, for which they hold his note. The defaulting wag announces it thus in his paper:—“There is a large collection of the autographs of distinguished individuals deposited for safe keeping in the cabinet of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank, each accompanied with a ‘note’ in the handwriting of the autographist. We learn that they have cost the bank a great deal of money. They paid over a thousand dollars of ours. We hope great care is taken to preserve those capital and interest-ing relics, as, should they be lost, we doubt whether they could be easily collected again. Should the bank, however, be so unfortunate as to lose ours, we’ll let them have another at half price, in consequence of the very hard times.”
A disconsolate widower, seeing the remains of his late wife lowered into the grave, exclaimed, with tears in his eyes, “Well, I’ve lost hogs, and I’ve lost cows, but I never had anything that cut me up like this.”