Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-01-23

1
brew prayed.
| A large number Of tobacco dealers from
Duchess county, N. Y, petition for a uniform
tobacco tax of sixteen cents per pound.
| The Kuklux Committee made a report of the
| testimony impeaching the official character OF
| Senator Clayton and Representative Edwards,
OF Arkansas, which was referred to the Com
| mittee on Elections.
Mr.. Kelly's coinage bill occupied the balance
of the day.
Laughabls Blunders Of Writers and Typos.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin, Dec. 18]
The amusement afforded by ludicrous typo
graphical errors will be inexhaustible while
printers are fallible and editors write with abom-
Unable Indifference to legibiity. One Of the
most astonishing blunders of this kind was COM
mitted some years ago in an editorial In the
Bulletin. The writer, who had cautioned his
readers against casting their pearls before
swpe," was amazed and grieved to perceive
that the composltor had warned the public
against ''carting their pills before sunrise. ="
This was corrected IN the proof but the re-
porter who declared Of a certain new store that
it had ''sixty fancy windows" was even more
| indignant than the store-keeper, when he saw
IN his paper the statement that the establish
ment contained sixty faded windows" And
then there was the poet. in Muncy, who sought
to soothe the wounded feelings Of bereaved
family, by publishing in the local paper po-
etical tribute to the deceased daughter, Emily,
in which he declared that 'we will haow her
grave with our tears. He was pursued next
morning by Emily's exssperated brother be-
cause the printers insisted that we will har-
row her grave with our steers.
The poets suffer most deeply Nothing could
be worse, for instance, than the misery Of the
bard who asserted, in his copy, that he kissed
her under the silent stars" only to find that
the compositor compelled him to kick her
under the cellar stairs A certain Jenkins,
also, was the victim of an aggravated assault,
because when, in his report of wedding, he
declared that ''the bride was accompanied to
the altar by eight bridesmaids" the types made
it that 1.-The bride was accompanied to the altar
by tight bridesmaids These things are pc
cuIiarly unpleasant when they occur 10 remarks
upon death; as in the case ot the editor, who,
while writing sympathetic paragraph, OBJ
served that ''Mr. Smith could hardly bear the
loss of his wife, only to find that the printer
had made it 'Mr Smith could hardly bear
such boss for wife.
Even more deporabie is the Injury done to
the Journalist who complimented a certain can
didate with the observation that he was "a
noble old burgher, proudly loving bis native
State Imagine the indignation of the can
didate and horror of the editor, when the paper
| the next day contained the assertion that the
said burgher was "a uobby old burglar, prowl-
ing around il Laked state.
But the printers do not make all the mis-
takes We remember the laughter and com
ment provoked by the statement OF q provincial
reporter, who called the attention of the con-
| stable to the fact that ION Sunday last some
twenty or thirty men collected an the h0ttO,0
back of Thomas McGinnis, and engaged in
fighting during the whole morning" MIR. Nc
Glnnis back must have been uucommonly
large.
During the Franco Prussian war great deal
of fun was poked at the New jersey editor who
read in the cable dispatches that 'Bazaine has
moved twenty kilometres out Of Metz" He
thereupon sat down and wrote an editorial, 10
which he said he was delighted to hear that
all the kilometres had been removed, aud that
the Innocent people Of Metz we're no longer
endangered by the presence OF those devllsh
engines OF warsleeping upon a volcano, as
it were. And then he went on to describe some
experiments made with kilometres in the Cri-
mea, In which one of them exploded and blew
frigate out of the water.
A SAD SToRY.-A short, pale-faced woman,
with hair fast whitening, and in che sombre
lyn, n. Y, on the 2lst instant, for killing her
husband. Her face was ghastly, her cheeks
hollow, and her eyes looked as if they had been
wept dry. Her counsel asked the court to ac
cept plea of manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree, and the district attorney agreed to the re-
quest. The Judge then suspended sentence,
speaking In kind and affectionate manner to
the woman. She was then removed from court
seemingly oblivious Of her escape from imprl-
sonment. This poor woman's history Is COM
mon one. In August last, while IN feeble
health, she was beaten by drunken and cruel
husband Frenzied by frequent barbarlty, she
snatched up one of his shoemaking tools and
stabbed him. Death ensued, and the woman
lodged in JAIL where she has since languished
She is near confinement, and her mental facul-
ties are weak, and she is physical wreck.
A MODEL LIGHT-A French chemist has
discovered light as superior to gas as gas was
superior to it's predecessor, oil. An opportu-
beautiful clear, and healthy light, as the Off
cials of the Crystal Palace Company have laid
pipes, placed gasometers in position, and In
the course of few days will illuminate their
crystal fountains and rare works of art with the
new ox-hydric light, aud 10 order that the pub
lie may have ocular demonstration of its vast
superiority over gas, the lights will alternate,
and then the dull yellow maze or the HickeriDg
gas-lamp will become doubly so in the steady,
bright light emanating from the other, which
is so intense that it causes the flame of gas to
cast shadow itself on the wall it is intended
to illuminate.
This new light can be obtained at much low
er rate than gas, and it is not only brilliant and
clear, but healthy. Above the issue aperture
in the ordinary gas-lamp, when lighted, there
is dark space, surrounded by the flame, with
sparkling atoms floating upwards, many of
which escape unconsumed aud pollute the sur
rounding air, much to the injury of eyes and
lungs, while others that enter the fame in pass
ing through it are only partially consumed, and
in the shape of smoke or dust escape into the
surrounding atmosphere, to the detriment of
pictures, ceilings, Or gilt frames, &c. Nothing
of all this occurs with the new light.
The Missouri Democrat being threatened
with libel suit, damages $50,000 for saying
Mr.. Colford was worth S. to any political par
ty, has made retraoton. 1t says: Mr..
Colford is not worth $5 to any political party;
he is not worth dollar.