The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-05
Tricks In Language .-CaFiosilies
q rrinttng..Queer Things done

1 AFlcKS In Language ..C0f10SttieS
p rrlnting..Queer Things done
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 a small mistake
frequently 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:
i An English paper once stated that the
Russian General BackinOffkowsky was
found 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 announced an I'M
portant item Of news from Mexico-that
General Pillow and thirty-seven Of his men
had been lost Tin bottle Itshould have
read battle
A lad in printing office came upon the
name of "Hecate," occurring in line like
this:
Shall reign the Hecate OF the deepest hell"
The boy, thinking he had discovered an
error, ran to the master printer and inQuir-
ed eagerly whether there was an e in cat.
''Why, no, you blockhead," was the reply.
Away went the boy to the press room and
extracted the Objectionable letter. But fam
cy the horror of both poet and publisher
when the poem appeared with the line:
"Shall reign the HE CAT Of the deepest hell
A newspaper some time ago gravely in
formed its readersthat rat descending the
river came in contact with n steamboat
with such serious injury to the boat that
great exertions were necessary to save 1t.
1t was a raft and not a rat, descending the
river.
| In the directions for conducting the Cath.
Ollie service in place Ofignorance, shock
ing blunder once occurred in printing sea-
lOtte, "culotte." Now "culOtte" means
what would be known in drawing-roOm
English as gentlemap's small clothes
The sentence read, "Here the priest will
take off his culotte.''
LETTERS DROPPED OUT.
But let form Of types be ever SO correct
when sent to the press, errors not unfre-
quently happen from the liability of letters
properly adjusted or locked sufficiently
tight. A printer putting to press form Of
the Common Prayer, the c in the following
passage dropped out unperceived by him:
1--WE shall all be changed in the twinkling
of an eye"
1--WE shall all be hanged in the twinkling
of an eye
a newspaper recently stated, in report
of battle, that the conflict was dreadful,
and that the enemy was repulsed with great
laughter (slaughter.) man was said
once to nave been brought upto answer the
charge oc having eaten (beaten) stage
! driver. for having demanded more than
his fare. The public Yves informed some
time ago that Il man was committed tor
having stolen IA small OK box from lady's
workbag. The stolen property was found
| in his vest pocket. In an account OF a
| Fourth OF July dinner it was stated that
none of the poultry was eaten except the
owls fowls
/ '.MAKE-UP' BLUSDER.
A lauyhable mistake is shown III the fol-
lowing mixing of two artlc!es--one con-
corning u preacher. and the other about
the freaks of mad dog, which occurred
in a hurried "make-up" in Ii printing
office
"Rev James Thompson, rector Of st. An
drew's church. preached to Il large con-
course of people on Sunday last. This was
his las, sermon. In a few weeks he will
bid farewell to his congregation, and his
physician advises him TO cross the Allan
TIC. He exhorted his brethren and
sisters. and after short prayer
took within to cut some frantic freaks. de
ran up Timothy street to the college. At
this stage of the proceedings, n couple OF
boys seized him and tied Il tin kettle TO his
tail, and he again started. great crowd
collected, and for n time there was grand
scene of running and confusion. After q
long race, he was finally shot by u police
man."
1t is not stated whether the following
item, which is said to have been printed
once upon a time, was the result of inebri-
ETY. on the part of the printer or reporter:
'HoRRIBLE CATAsTROPHY.-Yest erday
morning. at four o'clock in the afternoon,
a small man NAMED Jones or Smith, with
a heel in the hole of his trousers, commit
ted arsenic by swallowing a dose OF sui
eide. The verdict of the inquest returned
"a jury that the deceased came to the fact in
accordance with his death. He left a child
and six small wives to lament the end OF
his unfortunate loss. In death we are in
the midst of life
THE POWER OF COMMAS.
The following sentence from recently
written novel, shows the importance Of
punctuation:
"He enters on his head, his helmet on
his feet. armed sandals upon his brow:
there was a cloud in his right hand, his
faithful sword in his eye, an angry glare he
sat DOWN.. y. Post.
SENSE FROM ASoUTHERNER.-Now here
is the wav our people reason about the
matter. They say, I'VE have got to start
life anew. We want peace; we want that
kind of peace which will be permanent"
You all have not felt the war here like we
have. Our homes are desolate. Our land
: is nearly waste. Our children are nearly
upon the point of starvation, and, there
fore, it behooves US to look about and see
how we are to avoid such troubles as these
for the future. We want q permanent
peace. We know we cannot have q per-
manent peace while negro slavery exists,
and We know more than that, that we cam
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