The Alexandria Herald

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE PRINTER.

He whose business it is--or, if you would rather have it so--he who makes it his business to try to please every body, is sure-to please nobody. This is precisely the case with the printer. Poor devil! he is for ever torturing his brains and ransacking his knowledge box, for novel notions wherewith to amuse his readers: he is always looking over his files of papers for the latest news, and most interesting occurrences, and the choicest pieces of sentiment g-but after all, he is rewarded with nothing but censure. Each one thinks the paper should be printed exclusively to suit himself.--The politician looks for bitter invective--and the sedate reader abhors it. The exquisite looks for poetry and pretty pieces of sentiment--and the man of business loathes such trash; and so it goes. No one is satisfied: there is either too much of one thing, or not enough of another; and the printer must bear all the blame. If he chance to complain or apologize, it is all the same; and he is loaded with a new burthen of abuse--from one, for publishing this article, and another, for not publishing that.--To enumerate all the ills which the typographical fraternity are heirs to, would be an endless task.

[Trenton Emporium.