Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-03-04
Curiosities Of Printing.

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Curiosities Of Printing.
The mistakes of printers are often very
funny to readers and very exasperating to
authors. a single letter is often Of the
greatest Importance, and small mistake
frequently changes the whole effect of an
article. Some very funny stories are
told of misl,aps Of this character, and we
give below some of the best.
An English paper once stated that the
Russian General Blckinoifhowsky was
toand dead with "a long word in his
mouth" 1t should have been "sword. -
In this case, however, the printer could
not have been blamed for leaving out a
letter after setting up the Russian name
correctly. During the Mexican war one
Of the English newspapers hurriedly an
nounced an important item of news from
Mexico-that Gen. Pillow and thirty
seven of his men had been lost ain bot
tie" 1t should have read "battle."
A lad in printing Office came upon
the name of Iccatc, occurring in line
like this
Is Shall reign tho HEcATE Of tho deepest hell
The boy, thinking he had discovered an
error ran to the master printer and in-
quired eagerly whether there was an in
cat. "Why no you blockhead,' was the
reply. Away went the boy to the press
room and extracted the Objectionable let
te:. But fancy the horror of both poet
and publisher when the poem appeared
with the line:
q Shall reign the IIE Car Of the deepest hell"
\ newspaper some time ago gravely
informed its readers that rat descending
the river came in contact with steam.
boat with such serious injury to the boat
that great exertons were necessary to
save it. 1t was a raft. an1 not rat, de-
scending the river.
in the directions for conducting the
Catholic service IN place in France, a
shocking bunder once occurred in pliGt-
ins cul0ttc, cUiottc. Now calotte is an
&C :lcsiastical cap CT mitre, while culotte
means what would be known in drawing
room English, as gentleman's small
clothes. The sentence read, Here the
priest will take off his culoue.'
LETTERS DROPPED our.
Bat let form of types be ever so cor
rect when sent to the press, errors not un-
frequently happen from the liability Of
letters to drop ont when. the form, has
40. beon properly adjusted or locked suf-
i5icnt!y tight \ printer putting to press
a torm Of the Common Prayer, the C in
the following passage dropped ont unper-
eeiyel by aim "We shall all be changed
in the twinkling Of an eye When the
book appeared, to the horror Of the de-
yout worshipPer the passage re d: I'VE.
sha. all be hanged i'll the twinkIing of an
eye. .
y newspaper recently stated, in re-
port of u battle, that the conflict was
IrcaifuI,anl that the enemy was ropulsed
with great laughter (sIaughter). A man
was SAID once to have been brought up to
answer the charge of having eaten (beat-
em a stage Iriver f2T demanding more
than his fare. The public were informed
some time ago thp 4 man was committed
for having stolen i small OK (box) from a
laly's work.bae. Tae stolen property
was found IN his vest pocket. In an ac-
count OF Fourth of July dinner it was
stated that none ct the poultry was eaten
except the owls Cowis),
POETS MISEEIEs.
Some aggricvel author gives an ac-
count Of bis u,iseries. Thc story, we
may candilly admit, seems to US rather
exaggerated. He had just closed his
nigh school course, settled down in a
little town. and fallen IN lore
with L "rarc AMI radiant maiden" WHO so
filled his fancy that she be-
came for the time the theme for his poetic
This was the first gush Of
Ms fine frenzy us he inscribed it in manu-
script and seut it to the Weekly Courier:
TO MISS Lucy ANN wENDLEruaor.