Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-22
Typographical Errors.

cautions, it is not always attained. 1t
is easy enough to point out errors when
it is too late to correct them, but it il n
very tedious task to guard against them.
II has been asserted that n book, abso-
lutely free from typographical errors has
never been printed. This seems rather
sweeping, but ii is very difficult to deny
with proof. Many of these blundcrs
are very amusing. For instance, when
a poetess intends to say:
"For tho dew drops that fall upon the freshly
clown roses,
and the types show " freshly blown
noses" it is not difficult to "phazy hur
feelinks."
If that was hard for the lady, how is
this for the man:
Is See the pale martyr in a sheet of fire
"see the pale martyr ,cjH, his shat Q" ire"
A party newspaper in England, wish
| ing to describe the enthusiasm with
| which their candidate was received by
| the populace, says they " rent the air
with their sn0uts ~
Errors are frequently made by the ty-
| pos correcting supposed mistakes III
copy, thus the Office DeCH in looking
| over the corrected proof of a new clas-
steal poem, reads the line:
",hall reign the Hecate of the deepest hell.
and, positive that there is no "e' in
cat, takes it upon himself to change 1t.
"Shall reign the He cat of the deepest he'll. ;
A volume of sermons printed in Eng
| Ian |, the proof of which was very care
| essly read, contained many typos raph-
| ical errors, one OF which certainly eX-
pressed the feelings of the author. The
COPY read-"Princes have prosecuted me
without cause )" the book reads
"Printcrs have prosecuted me without Il
cause.N
Punctuation is 10y by no means of
small Importance in the perfect rem
dering of a writer's meaning. Read
this recommendation rs it Is punctu-
ated -
81 continued on using it, and by
the time | had taken five bottles, |
found myself completely cured, after
having been brought 50 near to the
gates of death by your infallible mcdi-
cine"
An omitted comma in the description
of a rev building in this city, makes
the writer wax eloquent on :" the cX-
tensive view presented from the fourth
story of the Hudson RivcrW
An obituary in morning paper says
-" His remains were committed TO that
bourne whence no traveller returns at
tended by his fricnds!"
Some years since, an advertisement
in Il Philadelphia paper, by the sim
pie displacement of space, informed
the ma ses that Mr.. would
address them asses at the National
Hall ~
$50 the struck eagle stretched upoI
the plain.n So the stuck eagle stretched
upon the plate i"
1t was formerly the custom in tho
country in sending marriage notices tt
the press, to add some sweet poetlca
quotation suited to the occasion; in this
case the grOomsman quotes from poet
speaking of the II arrage state, Whel
heart meets heart rociprOcally soft
The naughty boys in the office i'm
proved the line thus =
"When head meets head reciprocally soft J
which it is possible was quite a. appro
pirate as the original.
, During the Mexican war an Englisl
newspaper announced as importan
news from the seat of war, that Genera
Pillow and 81 men had been lost i'll :
bottle.
Another paper in its Police Reports
mentions man who was arraigned TO
, stealing n small OK (6Or) from 4 ladies
worlS-bag ~
A rat (raft) descending the river, came
into collision with the steamer st. Louis
and so great was the injury to the boat
that every eXertion was necessary t.
keep her atloat."
A New York paper, in an obituary
notice of person of considerable celeb
rity, some years since, attempted L
say; on,,n,onoo, ,ifo ..
a legal practitioner, but was diverted
from it by lis love of letters"
The editor did not examine his proc
, and on Sunday morning he had the
pleasure of reading: "He subsequently
,, commenced life as legal politician, bu
was diverted from it by his love OF 6it
ters :"
According to country new spaper, -:
f train bound west, on the Erie road, Gu
two COWS into cdtCcs."
In placing form ON the press, lette
= dropped out unpcrceived, and al
e edition of the Book of Common Pray
q err, instead of the passage 1--WE shall al
be changed in the twinllling Of an eye,
G announces to the devout worshipper
j that we shall all be hanged in tn
r twinkling of an eye"
a An edition ofthe Bible was once pub
G lished in England, III which the wor
not was omitted in the Seventh Com
mandment. For this offence, whethe
: by carelessness or design, the Arch
t bishop imposed the heaviest penalt
!. known in history; the edition was re
!, auired to be DESTROYED, and fine exa6