Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-07-20
WHOLRINO..M94

( 'suhoeation" vas printed, With more
truth than was intended, "stuffocation."
was toldlately by q Ayrshire gentleman
that a7leeal poet IN his distriet-had been
quite ruined by The absufdities which
had been put into his mouth, in the Po-
cts Corner, by careless or nnischieYous
printer. The gentleman could give me
no specimens, bat the statement can read
lily be, credited if many corrections had
to be made like the following, which ap-
peared in a provincial paper in 1853:
''ERRATTN.-ln the piece on our fourth
page, entitled we must not lag behind
instead of the line, That moulds its dir
ty shirt please read, That would its du-
ty shrinkw t45s s14 aa4l
1t is not in the newspapers alone that
errors of so serious a kind occur. Mr..
Pycroft notices curious case of misquo-
tation in Johnson's Dictionary, where,
under the verb ''to sit" the followirg 3
occurs as an authority:-"AsSes are ye thai
verse being in reality, Speak, ye that
ride on white asses, yo that sit in judg-
ment." have also been referred to q
volume of popular sermons, in which, ow-
ing to the negligence of the proof readers,
rOrS appeared, One of these, as if in
reference to the others, was singularly ap-
propriate to the unhappy circumstances
of the poor author; the verse, "Princes
have prosecuted me without a cause
CampbelPs celebrated ASSAY on Miracles"
appeared in one of the advertisements as
''Campbell's Essay on Mangles." In news
paper articles of my own | have had
~
tions of the Church. converted into "the
Internal relations OF the Church" and
people who ''spoke the Gaelic language"
were made to-" smokeit." | remember
great peblic demonstration that took
place in q town in which was residing
at the time. After one or two unimpor-
tant speeches, certain demagogue arose,
whose appearance was the signal for loud
and enthusiastic cheering from the null
titude. A party newspaper describing
this, in the course of its gratulatory and
fervid report, said that the vast eoncourse
had ''rent the air with their SnOuts."
In 1862, when the McLachlan contro-
versy was at its height, lawyer in Glas-
gov sent long letter on some of the le-
gal aspects of the case to local paper.
(the Morning Journal 1t appears that 8
butcher had sent letter to the same pa
per, eriticizing, from a practical stand
point, certain statements that medical
men had been making as to the number
of blows that could be administered with
a cleayer within a given time These
two letters lay in type, together, | sup
pose, awaiting insertion. In a day or
two October llth) the lawyers letter APP
peared; but what must have been its su-
ihor's astonishment and indignation to
find himself las if with insulting refer
ence to his views on the McLachlan easel
called butcher, and his letter entitled,
in large letters. "a Butcher on Forensic
Mediciney Next day the real butchers
letter appeared, and of courss an editori-
al note along with it, explaining that the
headings had got inadvertently changed.
Of this sort, By the nisplac-
ing of lines. are rot uncOmnon.- and
some of them are very ludicrous. For in--
stance, in Ripon paper, the other week,
a line belonging to the report of public
meeting found its way accidentally
the births The result was the q
following remarkable announcement
''On the Sd inst, at ELLINGTON, the wife OF
Mr.. Terry, schoolmaster, of SON.. He.
spoke indistinctly, but was understood
to say that, on the 5th inst, at Bond Gate, e
Ripon, the wife of Mr.. Joseph Lousdale,
tailor. of a daughter" Less recent, but
not less astounding, was the following
item of local news which appeared in 4
Scotch paper: '.Last Saturday, a poor
in King street was safely deliver
ed Of one sergeant, two eorporals,- and
thirteen rank and file." Her. Gracious
Majesty is in the way Of making dona
tions in cases of three or more children
at birth. Whether she made any pro
portionate acknowledgements of the fore,
going prodigy of both fecundity and pat
riotism has never ''transpired. p Phit-
aaslVhaG Post. ,r.i1 s.'; r- ,.. --.s 9f
I One of the most terrible instances Of
ty typographical errors we reeOlleet, was
when Boston paper, which bad intend
ed to say; that ;'the Maine liquor law is
well in Massachusetts,, to. the
honor of its publisher, said instead. "the
Maine liquor law is working hellin Massa-
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