New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-26
Newspaper Errnrn

Newspaper ErrOrH
From the New York Advertisers Gazettel
Grammatical errors, errors in punctua-
uon ana composition, and typographical alb
surdltles are Of such common occurrence in
the every day literature of the age as to ey-
cite no feeling in the readers mind, except
II be one OF wonder at the carelessness of the
printer, stupidity of the proof reader, or ig-
noranee Of the writer. The more charitable,
however, who in degree have been init
ated into the mysteries of the " art preserva-
tive of arts y knowing the hundreds of metal.
lie pieces gathered in the compositor's stick
from the various parts of his mysterious
case that go to make up single paragraph,
is mindful of the difficulties incident upon
any publication, and regards as necessity
what others look upon as ineXcusable blum.
ders: We premise these remarks In defense
OF What follows, and at once give the readers
OF the Gazette the collection we have for
several months been gathering for this pur-
pose from our various exchanges. Errone-
Gus In construction, and of such nature as
at best to defy the printers art we may IN
questionably set down such as these
Connecticut editor gives an account of
man who blew out his brains after bid
ding his wife goodbye with shot gun"
The first instance on record of u mans
raising up "a large family of children by
his own widow" is given in this obituary
taken from the New York Herald: The
deceased married many years ago, and sur.
ylVed his widow, 5y whom he had large
family of children"
| And while upon so grave a subject, let us
chronicle the affecting inscription given by
New York paper in an account OF a "new
monument recently erected in our village
church-yard."
Erected to the memory of John Phillips
accidentally shot as mark Of affection by
his brother"
i WiSppnsi, ~,
farm advertised in its columns for sale,
adds:
The surrounding country is most beauti-
full; also, two wagons and yoke of steers. u
A Caledonia paper, in an obituary of a
| young lady who died lately, closed by say
ing: or. -, tn. ..
uneommonly fond of ice cream and other
delicacies.n
The Salt Lake Vidette has the following
Correction-Instead of people all very
| lousy in a letter from Crystal Park the
other day, read people all very busy.w
| The strongest man has just been heard
| from, He was lecturing to female as
sembly at the West and an editor thus de
scribes the scene: Three thousand ladies
hanging on the lips of one man."
The INDEPENDENT in speaking of a new
/ steam brewery in the town, remarks:
We are glad to see imported article
manufactured at home, at greatly reduced
| prices"
The Springfield Republican tells of horse
which ran away in that city, throwing
the driver out and cutting a severe cash III
one of his hind legs"
The World says that Tex Governor An
drew was born in 1878, previous to which
event he had two strokes Of apopleXy, one
in 1904, and the other in 1907"
The classic London Spectator makes :
curious slip when it speaks of Matild,
Griggs, who Twas stabbed by q lover Il
whom she had borne child in thirteel
plaCes.n
A New Albany Undlana) paper says tina
in that city IAN iron thief was arrested ate
a hard chase"
A notice of a recent steamboat explosion
in a Western paper ends as follows: 9Th
captain swan ashore; so did the chamber
maid; she was insured for $4,000, an,
loaded with iron,n
An editor, referring to patent metallic all
tight collins, says: mo person having ono
tried one OF these collins will ever use an
other
A political paper in Minnesota, in adver
Using the election of its candidate, say
that its STANDARD bearer, Charles E. Elan
drau, has twice laid down his life to saw,
Western Minnesota from being devsstate,
by the Indians Its opponent thinks
dead corpse @ after all suitable candidate
for a dead party.
Here is still another from Wisconsin: &c.
new disease has attacked pork in Roc
county. Three hogs of Mr.. McCune i
GAINESVILLE, were struck by lightning o
Saturday night A new definition 70
lightning.
less amusing are the following;
An honest farmer writes to the chairma
of an agricultural society:
"Gentlemen, please put me down on you
list of cattle for BULL
A superintendent of police once made q
entry in his registry, from which the follow
ing is an extract:
2 asa precinus dolt, a scare crow q ragamuffir
, and an idiot, all OF which l certify to b
| true.n
One of the Jenkinses writing of recer
hop at Saratoga says:
"a very pretty girl passed by us leanin
on the arm of gentleman who was dresse
! | in Swiss muslin and pink SASH" That gen
tlenan must have been the cool of the ever
. ing.
Punch reports the speech of an Iris
! member of Parliament who thought tina
Ireland was overtaxed:
"Take a tenth of our income, sir. aye
that they do; and they'd take twentieth
/ they dared.n
/ An American lecturer of note solemn
: said one evening: Parents, you hav
J children, or if you have not, your daughter
may have
:, A Western editor once wrote: "a col
Il respondent asks whether the battle
j Waterloo occurred before or after the COZ
Y mencement of the Christian era. We a
swer it did,
u Those two observing men, one of who
said "he had always noticed that when ]
lived through the month of May, he liv,
through the year;n and the other who sa
!, at wedding, "he had remarked that mo
, women than men had been married tn
: year, were neither of them Irishmen.
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