Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-10-28
Newspaper Errors.


during the next few weeks.
Newspaper Errors.
Grammatical errors, errors in COM
position and punctuation, and typo
graphical absurdities, are of so COM
mon occurrence in the everyday
literature Of the age as to excite no
feeling in the mind of the reader but
one Of wonder at the carelessness OF
the printer, stupidity of the proof.
reader, or ignorance of the, writer.
The more charitable, however, who
in degree have been initiated into
the mysteries of the tart preserva-
tive of all arts" knowing the hun
dreds of metallic pieces gathered in
the compositor's ''stick," from the
various parts ofhis mysterious lease"
which go to make up single para
graph, mindful of the difficulties
incident upon any publication, may
regard asa necessity what others may
look upon as inexcusable blunders.
Erroneous in construction, and of
such nature as at best to defy the
printers art, we may unquestionably
set down such as these:
A Connecticut editor gives an ac-
count of a man who "blew out his
brains alter bidding his wife good
bye with shotgun.
And while upon SO grave subject,
let us chronicle the affecting inscrip-
ton, given by New York paper, in
an account of ''new monument re-
Gently erected in our village church
yard:"
Erected to the memory Of John
Phillips, accidentally shot as a mark
Of affection by his brother"
/ A Wisconsin paper, in describing a
large farm advertised for sale, in its
columns, adds:
"The surrounding country is most
beautiful; also two wagons and a yoke
of steers"
The Independent, in speaking of Il
new steam brewery in town, says:
1--WE are glad 20 see imported ar
ticles manufactured at home at great
ly reduced prices"
The Springfield Republican tells of
a horse which ran away in that city,
"throwing the driver out and cutting
a severe cash in one of his hind legs"
The Wortd says that Ex-Gov. An
drews was "born in 1918, previous TO
which event he had two strokes If
appoplexy, one in 1901 and the other
in 1900"
The classic London Spectator makes
a uriol slip when it speaks of Mi 8
Matilda Griggs, who twas stabbed
by a lover to whom she had borne a
child in thirteen places"
a New Albany, lind. paper says
that in that city IAN iron thief was
arrested after hard chase"
A notice of recent steamboat ex-
plosion, in western paper, ends as
follows:
"The Captain swan ashore. Sodid
the chambermaid; she was loaded
with iron, and was insured for the
sum of $4,000"
A political paper in Minnesota, in
advertising the election Of its candi-
date, says that its STANDARD bearer,
Charles E. Flandrau, has twice laid
down his life to save Western Min
nesota from being devastated by the
Indians"
Not typographical, 1t is true, but
not less amusing, arethe following:
An honest farmer writes to the
chairman Of an agricultural society:
Gentlemen, please put me down
on your list of cattle for bull"
A superintendent of police once
made an entry in his register,1roIn
which the following Is an extract:
1.-THE prisoner set upon me, called
me an ass, a precious dolt, a scare
crow, a ragamuffin and an idiot,-all
of which l certify to be true"
One Of the Jepkinses, writing OF a
recent hop at Saratoga, says:
IA very pretty girl passed before
us, leaning on the arm Of gentle
man who was dressed In Swiss mus
lin and pink SASH"
That gentleman must have been
the cool Of the evening.
Punch reports the speech of an
Irish NJ. p, who thought that Ire
land was Overtaxed:
"TAke a tenth Of onr income, sir?
Aye, that they do; and they'd take a
twentieth if they dared"
An American lecturer Of note said
one evening:
parents, you have children; or II