Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-04-22
Tricks in Lamguage~.s.Curios OF
Printing! -Queer ThlNgs Done
In TypO. 80.

Tricks I'm Langa OF
Printing Qneer ThiNgs Done
In Type. ,ea
From the New York Evening Post.
The mistakes Of printers are often very
funny to readers and very exasperating to
authors. A single letter is often Of the great
est importance, and u small mistake frequent
ly changes the whole effect Of an article
Some very funny stories are told Of mishaps
of this character, and We give below some Of
the best:
An English paper once stated thst the
Russian General Backinoffkowsky was found
dead with "a long word in his mouth II
should have been ''tsword." In this case,
however, the printer could not have been
blamed for leaving out a letter after setting
up the Russian narae correctly. During the
Mexican war one Of the English newspapers
hurredly announced an important item OF
news from Mexico--that General Pillow and
thirty-seven Of his men had been. lost Ia .
bottle" 1t should have read battle"
A lad in printing office came upon the
name of Hscate, occurring in line like this
'shaI reign the Hecate Of the deepest hell"
The boy thinking ho had discovered an er-
ror, ran to the master printer and INQUIRED
eagerly whether there was an in cat
Why, no, you blockhcad," was the reply.
Away went the boy to the press room and
extracted the Objectionable letter. But fancy
the horror Of both poet and publisher when
tho poem appeared with the line:
"shall reign the He Cat OF the deepest hell. !"
A newspaper somo time ago gravely in.
formed its readers that rat descending tho
river came in contact with steamboat with
such serious injury to the boat that great OK.
ertions were necessary TO save it. It was
raft, and not rat, descending the river.
In the directions for conducting the Cath.
olic service in place Of ignorance, q shock.
ing blundcr once occurred in printing "ca.
lottc," "culotte." Now q "cuiottsn means
what would be known in drawing room Eng.
lish as gontleman's small clothes. The
sentence read, "Here ths.priest will take of
his culotte."
LETTERS DRoprED ouT.
But let form Of type be ever so correct
when sent to the press, errors not unfre.
quently happen from the liability Of letters TO
drop out when the form has not been prop
erly adjusted or locked sufficiently tight A
printer putting to press form Of the Com.
mon Prayer, the in the following passage
dropped out unperceivcd by him.
1--WE shall all be changed in tho twinklne
Of an eye"
When the book appeared, to tho horror of
the devout worshiper the passage read:
1--WE shall all be hanged in the twiuklins
of an eye"
A newspaper recently stated, in a report
OF battle, that the conflict was dreadful.
and that the enemy was repulsed with great
laughter (saughter.) A man was said once
to have been brought up to answer tho
charge Of having eaten tbeatcn) a stage dri.
yer, for having demanded more than his faro.
The public Were informed some time ago thar
a man was committed for having stolen "
small OK (box) from lady's work bag. The
stolen property was found in his vest rocket.
In an account Of Fourth Of duly dinner IL
was stated that none Of tho poultry was eat
en- except the owls tfowls) e
A MAKE UP BLCNpER.
laughable mistake Is shown in the fol-.
lowing mixing of two nr,cles--one concern
ing preacher, and the other about the freaks
OF a mad dog, which occurred in q hurried
make up" in printing office:
Rev. James Thompson, rector of st. An.
drews church, preached to largo conoourse
OF people on Sunday last. This was his last
sermon. In Il few weeks he will bid farewell
to his congregation, and his physician advis-
es HIM 10 cross tue Atlantic. Ile exhorted
his brethren and sisters, and after q short
prayer took whim to cut some frantic
freaks. He ran up Timothy street TO tho
college Al this stage Of the proceedings, n
couple Of boys seized him and tied tin ket,-
tie to his tail, and he again started. A great
crowd collected, and for time there wns a
grand scene of running and confusion. Az.
ter long race, he was finally shot by po-
liceman."
1t is not stated whether the following itom,
which is said 10 have been printed once up
on time, was the result of inebriety on the
part OF the printer or reporter:
HORRIBLE CATAsTRopHY.- Yesterday
morning, at four o'clock in tho afternoon, 4
small man named Jones or Smith, with hoel
In the hole OF his trousers, committed arseuio
by swallowing n dose Of suicide. The YER
dict OF the inquest returned jury that tho
deceased came to the fact in accordance with
his death. He left child and six small
wives to lament tho end of his unfortunate
loss. In death we are in tho midst Of lifs."
THE POWER OF COMMAS.
The following sentence from a recently
written novel, shows tho Importance of pune.
tuation
" lie enters on his head, his helmet on his
feet, AIMED sandals upon his brow there
was cloud in his right hand, his faithful
sword IN his eye, an angry glare he sat
down"
THE SIMPLE Scientifically clerks in q
store; twenty hands in printing office
twenty young men in a village. All want
to get along in the world and all expect
to do so. One OF the clerks will rise 10
DC partner and make fortune in the
world. One of the compositors will own
newspaper and become an influential and
prosperous citizen. One of the apprentices
VIII become master builder. One OF the
villagers will get handsome farm and live
Ike patriarch. But which is destined to
be the lucky individually Lucky2 There il
no luck about it. The thing is almost as
certain al the rule Of three. The young
fellow who will distance his competitors is
ne who masters his business, who preserves
his integrity, who lives cleanly and purely,
who never gets into debt, who gains friends
by deserving them, and puts his money
into saving bank. There are some ways
to fortune that look shorter than this old
dusty highway. But the staunch men of
the community, the men who achieve some-
thing really worth having, good fortune,
good name, and serene old age, al 20 this
road. 1A7
A short time ngo, in tho loyal city Of Phil.
adelphia, q" largely dressed female answer.
ing the description of an +. +. w., hailed
street car, and just as it stopped to take her
aboard, Union soldier stepped out Of the
same car. On entering several seats were
vacant, and this would be-lady inquired, in 3
very sharp tome I
Where did that soldier sit,"
No answer RS
Again, but in more shrill tone than st
first Tho saypa ut,act,nr ,vas ,>rt