New England Religious Herald

A New Fact Disclosed.—We were not aware until recently, that the books of newspaper publishers are consulted, to quite a large extent, by people in business, to ascertain the pecuniary standing of persons. Debts for newspapers come due once a year, and persons who pay up regularly for their papers are regarded as prompt, and worthy of confidence. To ascertain whether a man is good, they find out the paper he takes, and contrive in some way to peep into the account. Men who are good are sure to pay for their newspapers; and if they do not pay for these, they think them not good. We were pretty forcibly struck with the idea. A pretty shrewd observer of human nature said in a newspaper office very lately, "Give me a printer's books, after all, to tell whether a man's good—they're a complete thermometer, sir; a credit thermometer; we always know a man to be bad if he don't pay the printer."—Christian Intelligencer.