The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-11

4 hoppers, and the prooE-reader agreed
with him. In fact the missprint in
\ question was one OF The most amusing
in the history Of typograp petal errors. y
The foreman of n job room Of st.
Louis newspaper turned ont the whole
edition of q pamphlet on the 1Life and
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. %
with the startling caption {: irThe Life
and Assignations of Abraham Lin
coln." The blunder is understood to
have cost him his place: 1E y
a religious paper noticed, by an
odd typographical error, that ga new
church has been founded at Eliza
beth. N. j., under suspicious circum-
stances" The suspicious was a mis-
print for suspicious.
An editor wrote leading article on
the fair sex, in the course of which he
said: "Girls of seventeen or eighteen
are fond of beaux." When the paper
was issued, he was rather shocked to
discover that an unfortunate typo
graphical error had made him say :,
"GIrls OF seventeen or eighteen are
fond of beans" u
4CkOALC4 AOA a L4OAlAOA "AOG0
the verdict of a coroner's jury "died
from hemorrhage," and the public
gained the Information, next day, that
the deceased "died from her MARRIAGE"
A New York paper funnily misprint-
ed the words of hymn into: "ShalI
we whose souls are blighted with wis
dom from on high"
Erop1 F1idsarank sau-ooz so o,,.o
the following:
Z ''Wanted-A young man to take
charge of a pair of horses of n religious
turn OF mind" A school committee
man writes: 1--WE have a school house,
large enough to accommodate four.
hundred pupils four stories high" Al
newspaper says: ga child was run
over by a wagon three years old and
cross-eyed with pantalets which never
lection against the sun, used by ladies
made of cotton and whalebone."
''Straps-Articles worn under the boots
OF gentlemen made OF calf skim" An
exchange, describing a celebration,
says: 1.-The procession was very fine
and nearly two miles in length as was
also the prayer of DIR. Perry, the Chap
lain"
During the Mexican war one of the
English newspapers hurriedly an
nounced as an important item of news
from Mexico. THAT Gen. Pillow and 81
OF his men had been lost in bottle |
(battle)." Some other paper informed
the public, not long ago, that ga man
in n brown surtout was yesterday
brought before the court on a charge of
having stolen small OK (box) from a |
lady's wQrkbag. The stolen property
was found in his waistcoat pocket"
"a rat (raft)I says another paper, "de-
scending the river, came in contact |
with a steamboat, and so serious was
the injury to the boat that great exer-
lions were necessary to save it." An
paper once stated that "the
Russian General Backinofkowskyl
was found dead with long word
(sword) In his MOUTH It was, per-
haps, the same paper that, in giving a
OF a battle between the
Poles and Russians, said that ''the con-
flct was dreadful and the enemy were
with great laughter (slaugh-
teri" Again: ga gentleman was re-
Gently brought up to answer the
charge OF having eaten (beaten) stage
driver for demanding more than his
fare"
At a bakers, at the upper end OF
Third avenue, the following vitality
Intelligence is conveyed by
a paper in thewindow: "Yitals baked
here" l Is5.a
After perusing collection like the
above, one is almost disposed to believe
in the wisdom OF Lord. Timothy Dex-
ter who, when he wrote his famous
book, entitled ga Pickel for the Know
ing Ones" in consequence of the many
heresies, schisms, and false doctrines
punctuation, grammar, etc.,
left out all marks of punctuation from
the body of the work, and at the end
printed number of pages of nothing
but stops and pauses, requesting the
reader to pepper his dish as might seem
unto him fit.