"Nonrm-Cuiva Day News"
Si,—If there were a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Jokes, you would hear from them, I think, [with regard to the inhuman treatment meted out in your today's "From Day to Day" column to the poor little jestlet about "the Gloomy Dean."
'The lines referred to. in that' column, (for they are lines) constitute not a tribute to the Dea who is still engaged in his earthly pilgrimage, bat land they read tion) as follows Sir, you have been guilty at the east of a misstatement, a misquotation, and a misprint, any one which, in the ease of joke, should constitute legal cruelty.
Tam, ete.
Cacastiry Por.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.