The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-03-19
Chr selarietta aounal,
Marietta. Georgia.
Friday Morning March 10, go
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.

TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.
In every careful Office, perfect accu-
racy is aimed at, but in spite of all pre-
cautions, is not always attained. 1t is
easy enough to point out errors when 1t
is too late to correct, but it is a very
tedious task to guard against them. II
has been asserted that book absolutely
free from typographical errors, has
never yet been printed, This seems
rather sweeping, but is very difficult to
deny with proof. Many of those blum
ders are very amusing, for instance,
when poetess intends to say:
For the dew drop that falls upon the freshly blown
roses"
and the types show "frcshly blown
noses," it is not difficult to 'phanzy her
pheolinks.' If that was hard on the la.
DIV, how is this for the man:
| ''Sec the pale martyr in n sheet Of fire
! ''See the pale martyr with his shirt on fire.
A party newspaper in England wish
ing TO describe the enthusiasm with
which their candidate was received by
the populacc, says they "rent tho air
with their snoutsW
Errors are frequently made by the
typos ofiicious correction of supposed
mistakes in copy, thus the Office dcra in
looking over the corrected proof of a
new classical poem, reads the line:
,,f IL. hall
and, positive that there is no in cat
takes it upon himself to change it,
"Shall reign the lie cat of the deepest he'll
A volume of sermons printed in Eng
land, the proof of which was very care
essly read, contained many Topographic
ical errors, one of which certainly cx-
pressed the feelings of the author: the
copy rcad-"Princcs have prosecuted
me without cause y the book reads
'Printcrs have prosecuted me without 9
cause"
Punctuation is by no means of small
Importance in the correct rendering of {
writer's meaning. Read this recon-
mendation as it is punctuated.
81 continued on using it, and by the
time had taken five bottles ! found
myself completely cured, after having
been brought so near the gates of death
by your infaliblo medicine"
An omitted comma in the description
of a new building in one of our cities,
makes the writer wax eloquent on "the
extensive view presented from the
fourth story of the Hudson River"
1t was formerly the custom in the
country, in sending marriage notices to
the press, to add some sweet poctical
quotation, suited to tho occasion; in
his case, the groomsman quotes from a
poet, speaking Of the marriage, "whcn
heart meets heart reciprocally soft. y
Tho naughty boys in the office, improv-
ed the limo thus:
''When head meets head reciprocally SOFT
which it is possible was quite as appro-
pirate as the original.
During the Mexican war, an English
newspaper announced as important news
from the scat of war, that Gen. Pillow
and thirty-sevcn men had been lost in
bottle.
Another paper in its Police Reports,
mentions man who was arraigncd for
stealing small OK (box) from a ladies
work bag
"a rat (raf) descending the river,
came in collision with the steamer st.
Louis, and so great was the injury done
to the boat, that every cxertion was
necessary to keep her aAoat."
A New York paper, in an obituary
notice of a person of considerable celeb
rity, some years since, attempted to
say:
ale subsequently commenced lifo as
legal practitioner, but was diverted
from it by his love Of letters" The ed
itor did not examine his proof, and on
Sunday morning he had the pleasure of
reading: "IIe subsequently commenced
lifo as legal politician, but was divert
ed from it by his love of bttcrs."
In placing form on Press, letter
dropped out unperceivcd, an edition of
the Book of Common Prayer, instead Of
the passage ave shall all be changed in
the twinkling of an eye" announces to
the dcvout worshippers that "wc shall all
be hanged in the twinkling of an eycw
An edition of the Roman Catholic
Missal was once published in France, in
which the accidental substitution of a for
a. rendered the duties of the priest rath
err trying to an over modest man.
TalOtte, is French for his head dress or
mitre, which at certain point in the
service, is required to be taken off; but
the missal was made to direct the
removal of his culOtte! (Anglice,
breeckes y