New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-29
rYPOGRAPHTcAL TEXATToNS.


labor whose petty annovances are 50 freq0ent or 50
exercising, as editors Dealing as they DO Win "oris
syllabes and letters, in the OF which eXacnessn
imperative and naccuracy nexcusabe, they are CON
santly subjected to the torture of seeing their most
earnest efforts defeated and their we-intended labors
MARRIED by the recusan; types which never tired
of making mischief and, Ike little demons OF o0nrs-
dictOn as they are, Of disturbing reversing, turning
and twisting ideas into nonsense facts into fables,
Jokes into seriousness ans ashos into bathoS There
IL no compOsiion 50 GOO that they cannot render Il
.r,id none 30 feeble which they CANNOT utterly sub
due and though they possess all power Tor evil they
never make mistake in favor OF Improvements Ihey
are peryeSe in the extremes pew,er, bIaxen-taced
irus: as provoking es they are s1ohu, AZ" u NeenS
Of the father of plaques
Jah has been held to have possessed patience. and
that he aid take the loss of cattle deaths IN the family
and srb-cataneous Inflammation with an eqnsmnuy
ouite exemplary may at all times be conceded. bas
Ie was very far from sounding the depths OF misor
time and yexation; we think that his ioriuee wouia
have Given WAY under the pressure OF Journalism, ana
that II lie had been additionally afflicted VITA me ed
toralship of The IL Morning Chronicle or Inc
"Daily Comforter" his friends khphaz' bi'dad ana
tho rest would have found him in no resigned mood oil
mind But job was spared that feather TO his raing
lack. else hsd he known woes he wo, not OF. inste
are griefs beyond the power OF ca1apasns 20 nsaon;
aches which poulticcs VIII never ORA" 10 mead aaa
OF these are the family Of Typographical Blinders.
We have had our trels OF this sort and 70 far from
use breeding habit o! indifference, II has only IN
creased ami cxaccfbated the annoyance. There Is no
art: neither has any editor arrived a, compeso
resignation to the bufct.inrs of mischancc, ami SO
long the types continue 10 play their pranks SO long
will the realization OF angelic eqGanlniiy be post
poned We have yet to see the contributor to the
daily press who can say, win ms hand 10 nis "as'
coat that typographical errors DO not yex hlm.
As many Of these unexpected rendefings OF language
contain the provoca,On 10 O smile, II struck us some
ntlle time SINCE thnt list o. such rs came wish our
own experience which were rot absolutely senrees~.
no
randa of q few, all of which we assure the reader &c
tusllv were presented 10 our wondering eyes, Ia
proof" submitted 10 our revision. We ask aiten-
ton TO what the poet Oh plaai"uS No'hu eau inc"
In AN article mentioning Russian loan Of 900
roubles the types made say that the Goyernmeni
had advertised for +" loan OF 30 Ooo froHo'es. pat
this was not an invitation to the Crmcan invasion:
/. another paragraph the same day we were surprised
nt finding "COmiort for the Silver GTays Transformed
into Composf" for those political vegetables. We
fear that they gone beyond hope OF trucnacahon'
the Nebraska blight has done for them.
Speaking of the Sandwich Islands annexation
scheme we tried to say that the King had refused
10 sign the treaty before seeing the heir apparent
but the substitution OF space Tor the irst maae oia
KamehamCha as soicitoUs for the honors OF grand
maternity In some lines of poetry, contributed by q
worshiper at the foot OF Parnassus we were not hat
tered al discovering that "heoyen-born mat was
Transmitted INTO "heayy.bom babe" ms went
into Tie paper and for some weeks we avoided public
places aud iequented back streets prophetic error.
we fear was that which, in en- article referring to the
movement Of Turkish troops TO the Crimes, puI the
drsfrucfionn for the destination OF Omar fnshan
army" But none of these wac a. bad as the total
Ignorance of the Church liturgy displayed by com
posiior in an uptown Office who IN setting an article
descriptive of conservation, maze inc response 10 's
CLERGYMAN TO read And with thy SHIRT, instead OF
spirit" Another of our coteinporanes, IN speaking
of adys school held the singular doctrine that the
female should Re taught independence as well "a inc
mole - instead Of the male.
H. 10
something in reference to the position " sustained by
Henry Ward Beccher in relation to National politics
and Public mJrals' but alasl it was fated that tho
types should dsappont Us IN our moderate
| and the reverend gentleman appeared as somehow
! related 70 Natural politics end Quebec morals
| President Pierce was "medifafiRg on the affairs OF
Europe" instead OF mediatng in those Affairs, thus
accidcr ally placing him in position which, Judging
| fom his tbcuehtloss acts he cannot often occupy.
! The Argueniine Confederation was transformed iato
| "Augentno Consideration, ana the promise Oh q
"haven for the Black Sea feet tortured into the
| "promise of a heaven; apromse the sincerity oil
| which some Of the poor fellows have had the oppor-
! ,unity Of testing
| The Catholic Church was spoken OF and the mps Of
the c0aia have il thar The incense OF her altars
rises beneath the skins of every cline, instead OF
skies as il was written. But The same days work re
vealed the singular fact thai IN an assembly OF young
| girls all hal ktAk of grace, which Yves an I'M
/ Troyomens upon Kind. AdvertDg to {. ~ Gays
speech al Boston found Ourselves making the sur
prisiDg assertion. since he Is not Clncnnatia, that
| BE- Loarcd the modern Atheninus," und worst and
most annoying OF ALL in article copied from an
Eastern PAPER describing the process OF casting some
! thing, the mschiefmakeIs insisted upon saying thei
| the surface was SKINNED by ladies Of all impure
"tes" we need not say that ladies was the proper
| word. .
But enough for to-day. If there be any meek and
moral men DESTROYS of testing his utmoet capacity for
resisting tempteiion; any Mark Tapley who wants TO
be Jolly under the most adverse circumstances any
! individual, finally who believes in the superior ag
grayating potency of toothache, and would Ike To
| know what can be than corns, LET him nppren-
tice himself to the editorial trade write blind hand
and read his proofs late at night with his eyes hef
closed. Ii be survive the revelations OF the nexf
morning. will turn him out as inyunerabie TO gri&
| and caDable Of penIsng "THE MosSIKISs."