Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-03-09
Sf(istellaneous.
Queer Things Done by Type.

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
mshaps Of this character, and we give be-
low some of the best:
An English paper once stated that the
Russian General Backinowsky 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 u letter after setting
up the Russian name correctly.
During the Mexican war one of the Eng
ish newspapers hurriedly announced an i'm
portant item of news from Mexico-that
General Pillow and thirty-seven men had
been lost ''in bottle y 1t should have
read "battlc."
A lad in printing Office came upon the
name of Hecate, occurring in Il line like this:
Shall reign the Hecate of the deepest He'll.
The boy, thinking that he had discovered
an error, ran to the master printer and in
ouired eagerly whether there was an in
cat. "Why no, you blockhead," was the
reply. Away went the boy to the press and
extracted the Objectionable letter. But
fancy the horror Of both poet and publisher
when the poem appeared with the lines:
Shall reign the He Cat of the deepest He'll
A newspaper some time ago gravely in
formed its readers that rat descending the
river came in contest with steamboat, with
such serious injury to the boat that great
excrtlons were necessary to save it. 1t was
raft, and not a rat, descending the river
In the directions for conducting the Cath
olic service in place in France, u shocking
blunder once occurred in printing callotte
cmioHe. Now cdllOHe is an ecclesiastical
cap or mitre, while the cuilote means what
is known in the drawing room English as
gentleman small clothes. The sentence
read, Here the priest will take off his
culloHe.
Letters Dropped Om-But let the form
of types he ever so correct when sent to
press, errors not unfrequently happen from
the liability of the letters to drop out, when
the form has not been properly adjusted or
locked sufficiently tight. A printer putting
to press form of the Common Prayer, the
in the following passage dropped out un-
perceived by him, "We shall all be chunged
in the twinkling of an eye" When the
book appeared, to the horror of the dcvout
worshipper, the passage read "We shall
all be hanged in the twinkling 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 (slaughter.) A man was said once
to have been brought up to answer the
charge of having, eaten (beatcn) stage
driver for demanding more than his fare. =
The public were informed some time ago
that man was committed for having stolen
a small OK (box) from lady's work-bag. =
The stolen property was found in his vest
pocket. In an account Of Fourth of July
dinner it was stated that none of the poultry
was eaten except the owls fowls.
A snake Up' Blunder.-A laughable
mistake is shown in the following mixing Of
two artices-one concerned preacher the
other about the freaks of a ad-dOg-which
occurred in a hurried ''make up in a print
ing office:
Rev. James Thompson, Rector of St.
Andrew Church, preached to a large con-
course Of people on Sunday last. This was
his last sermon. In few weeks he will
bid farewell to his congregation, as his
physician advises him to cross the Atlantic.
He exhorted his brethren and sisters and,
after the conclusion Of short prayer,
took IA whm to cut up some frantic feats.-
He run up Trinity street to the college,
At this state of the proceedings a couple
Of boys seized him and tied tin kettle to
his tail, and he again started. A great crowd
collected, and for time there was grand
scene of running and confusion. After a
long race he was finally shot by policeman.
1t has not been stated whether the fol-
lowing item, which is said to have been
printed once upon a time, was the result OF
inebriety on the part Of the printer or re-
porter;
Horrible Cdtdstrophe !-Yesteday morn
ing, at four o'clock ?. NJ, small man,
named Jones or Smith, with heel in the
hole of his trousers, committed arsenic by
swallowing a dose of suicide. The virdict
of the inquest returned jury that the de-
ceased came to the fact in accordance with
his death. He left child and six small
wives to lament the end of his unfortunate
loss. In death we are in the midst of life.