Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-12-30
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.

Harpers Magazine, some time since, suggest
ed collection of Typographical errors. The
following may be accepted as contribution 10
that direction. Many OF these instances may
be familiar, while many Others have not before
received special notice. Now for beginning,
with Illustrations of paragraphs made ludicrous
by the transportion of lines.
Two articles had been prepared for New
York daily (oue containing sermon preached
by an eminent divine, and the other about the
freaks Of a mad dog), but, unfortunately the
foreman, when placing them in the form, "mix-
ed them, making the following Contre. Temps:
"1he Rev. James Thompson, rector of st
Andrews Church, preached to a large con-
course of people on Sunday last. This was
bis last sermon. In few weeks be will bid
farewell to bis congregation ds his physicians
advise him to cross the Atlantic He exhort.
ed bis brctberen and sisters, and after offering
devout prayer, took whim to cut up some
frantic freaks. He ran up Timothy Street to
johnson, aud down benefit Street to College.
At this stage of the proceedings couple of
boys seized him, tied tin kettle to bis tail and
he again started. A great crowd collected. and
for time there was gr aud scene OF noise,
running, and confusion. After some trouble he
was shot by policeman" ,,a,.. fu
The more frequent errors, however, are mace
by the change of word or letter. A lad in
a printing office, who knew more about type
setting than he did Of the Greek mythology, 10
looking over poem they were printing came
upon the name Hecate, one of the female divini-
ties of the lower world, occurring in line some.
thing like this |: .a<
Shall reign the Hecate Of the deepest hell.n
The boy thinking that he had discovered an
error ran to the master printer and eagerly in.
quired whether there was an in cat. "Why,
no, you blockhead,' was the reply. Away
went the boy to the press-room, and extracted
the Questionable letter. But fancy the horror
of both poet and publisher, when the poem ap-
peared with the line:
"Shal reign the he cat of the deepest hell"
Miss Gould, the poetess, gives a ludicrous in
cldent in reference to poem she had sent to g
country editor. She says: For the drop
that falls upon the freshly-blowr roses" he
uauo ~ Hesuiy-UioWn noses. .r,.. b. .s..' .,.
Dr. Kunze, prominent minister of the Ger.
man lutheran Church 10 New York city, 10
the beginning Of this century. addressed com.
munication on vexed chronological question
to Mr.. Lang, the editor of the New York
Gazette. 10 his letter he adverted to the Greg.
oran style, and mentioned Pope Gregory. The
faithful Gdzette printed tom Gregory" The
venerable Doctor FASTENED to his friend, and re-
monstrated on the injury be had done him, and
requested the, erratum to-, specify instead Of
4" Tom Gregory" Pope Gregory XIII" Again
au alteration was made, and the Gqzetterequest-
ed its readers "lor Tom Gregory 10 read Pope
PomlGsegory XfllI Only one more attempt
atcorrection was made, when the compositor
bad the Typography SO changed that it read
Tom Gregory she Pope" The learned d.
vine, with a heavy heart, 10 q final interview
With the erudie editor. begged him to make
no further improvements, as he dreaded the loss
OF all the reputation bis years Of devotion to
the subject had secured to him, fF.
An English writer makes reference TO a vol
ume Of poular SERMONS in which owing to the
negligence Of the proofreaders, a deplorabls
number Of oftypographical errors appeared. Ont
of these as ifin reference to The other was sic
gularly appropriate to the unhappy, crcam
stances of The poor author; the verse Princes
have prosecuted me without cause, being
made TO read; Printers have prosecuted me with
out cause. A religious paper, called the
Gospel Bdnner, was once printed 10 the State
OF Maine. with the motto. 10 the name of oul
God we'up sstour baoners, the two words set
up being simply transposed. A New Yorl
paper Speaking ofa Russiap loan Aof thirty thou
sand reublesvery quietly saidNby it's types thai
the Russian Government had advertised fer
loan offhirty thousand troubles ~ Cog
Iu Mr.. Pycrofi,s Ways and Words Of Men o
Letters, there is given a conversation with
printer: Really said the printer gentlemen shoplc
not tplace saeh unlimited confidence ID the eye
sight Of our hard-worked and halfblinded reade
Of fprpofsi for am ashamed to say chat we ut
terly rnined one poet by a iudicrous misprint
Indeed and what was the unhappy line