The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-04-12
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lie amusement aIONlet ny luill-
crolh photographed errors will be in
exaustible willie printers are fallible
and editors write with abomilable in
difference to legibility. One of the
most astonishing blullders Of this kind
was committed some years ago In an
editorial IN the Buiie,in. The writer,
who had cautioned his readers against
casting their pearls before the swine,
was amazed and grieved to perceive
that the composition had warned the
public against ''eatiug pills before sun
rise" This was corrected III the proof
but the reporter who declared of a Ger
tain new store that had ''Sixty fancy
windows" " was even more indignant
than the stOrpkeeper when he saw in his
paper the statement that the establish
melt contained sixty failed Win
dows." Aud then there was the poet,
in Muncy who sought 70 smooth the
wounded feelings ofa bereayed family
by publishing ii the local paper 4 po-
etiCal tribute to the deceased daughter,
Emily, in which he declared that ..we
will llallOw ller grave with our tears
He was pursued next morning by Emil
ly's eXaspeEtctl brother because the
printers insisted that 1--WE will harrow
her grave with our steers
The poets suffer most deeply. Moth
ing could be worse, for instance, than
the misery to the bard who asserted.
in his copy, that he kissed her under
the silent stars only to find that the
eolnpositor compelled him to kick
her under the cellar stairs" A Ger
tain Jenkins, also, was the victim of
an aggravated assault, because when,
In his report tfa wedding he declared
that title bride was accompanied to
the alter by eight bridesmaids the
types made 1t that ''thc bride was ac-
colnpanicd to the alter by tign brides
maids These things are peculiarly
unpleasant when they occur in remarks
upon death; as III the case of the editor,
while writings sympathetic paragraph
observed that ''Mr: Smith could hard |
ly brtr'tlIe loss of his wife," only to
find that the printer had made it "Mr. |
Smith could hardly bear such a boss
fora wife,
Even more deploable is the injury
to the journalist who complimentcd a |
certain candidate with the observation
that he was "a noble old burghcr, |
proudly loving his native State. I'M
agine the indignation of the candidate
ana tlie horror Of the editor when the
paper the next day Contained the asser-
tion that the said burgIler was "A mob
by Old burglar. prowiing around in a
naked state"
But printers do not make all the
We Remember the laughter
aliu comment provoked by the state
meilt Ola provincial reporter. who
called the attention Of The constable to
tile act that ''on Sunday last some
twenty or thirty men c,iiec,ea in the
soft'~-Dic& q Thomas .NcGinniS, and
snstgcIiI lighting during the whole
morning Mr.. McGinnis back must
nave Deell uicommonly large.
D'sElng THE Franco Pulssiah war
S.. SIeat qeal of fun was poked at the
New Jersey editor who read in the
s'pie dispatches that ''Bazline has
Kilometres ont of Metz"
'ie tilerel'pon sat down and wrote M
''iltorlal, IN which he said he was de-
iglIted 70 hear that all the Kilometres {
lad been removed and the innocent
.eople of Metz were no longer ell
1 Ial!geteI lIy the presellce ofthose dev-
iislfeilglnes of war-sleeping upon n {
'olcano. as it were. And then went
n 10 describe some experiments made
With kilometres in the Crimea, in
Of them exploded and blew
frlgate out .of the water.
Another editor clipped from an ex- !
lrange mn obituary poem, which he :
entto tbecomp0si room, with some
ltrai.'ctoEyremarks. He said: 1--WE !
Hhiish below a. Y.tossehing produc- |
On from the pen ofMiss M. 1t was
iritten by her at the death-be,! of her
siDteSh mother ;tsl itoverflows with
hose expressions of tilial affection
'hich The natural outgrowth of pure I
ntntorcd genius thai has developed q
eneath the SheIterihg Influence of a {
'otI'ers love. The reader will observe :
oweach llne gl0ws with ardent affec-
on and tenderest regret. " t