Did you ever stop to think of the number of departments in a newspaper? There are, as the name indicates, accounts of recent events, - local, state, national, and foreign. Then there are editorials, which express the opinions of the editors concerning these events, and which are intended to influence public feeling. There are also advertisements of various kinds, and communications from subscribers, expressing their opinions of matters of local interest.

Besides these parts of the paper, which deal with matters that are of present interest, there are the more purely literary articles, such as stories, descriptions of interesting persons and places, and poems. Here may be included, too, a really good "funny column."

If you stop to think, you will see that you have been trying your hand at most of these kinds of writing. Many newspapers might be compiled from your compositions of the last months.