Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-31
SLIPS OF THE TYPES.
A Few of the Whimsical Typography
cal Biunders Of the Generation.
The Value Of q Letter-Uncomfort'
able Effects Of TranspOsitiOns
What Induced the Rev. DR.. Nudge
to Get Mad.

no end. The ears OF the Sn2fpesb report
ers, says a recent writer in Chamber"
Journal, ct times play them false; the pens
of ready writers do not as a rule shaps let
ters In the way Lord Palmerston loved;
type, like other matter, will get in the wrong
place, and consequent errors escape the
most lynx eyed of proof readers. -g
THE VALUE OF A LETTER.
The omission of \ single letter In some
one word is often sufficient to turn The en-
tire meaning Of sentence upside dow.
Fl mdin himself could hardly have man
aged to steal So small OK" out Of lsdy's
reticule, and hide 1t in his wais coat pockrt;
and the greatest Of gormandizer's Was
never credited with having ''esten caD-
man. yet, aceor ing to newspaper reports,
msEft have been found guilty Of both Of
fences. A like initial mishap led to the
world being Informed that the Russians had
defeated certain Polish insurgents "With
great laughter" and by cutting OF OF tnai
letter, a great party-leader was made
to defy his opponents with the
extraordinary announcement, "1ou
can fight against the futurF;
Tim is on our sidel" An American journal
once gave grave account of river mis-
adventure, wherein a steamer nearly came
to grief through running against r4t-ex
nlaiuing in lis next issue that il should have
said "rsft;n and a Southern editor had TO
apologize for calling NOBLE the fourth cof-
fea poS. instead of the fourth coffee port, III
the Statei. Only the other day, we saw an
ESSAY on "The Long Reigns OF English
Soyereigns" alluded To as "a dlsqulsitioi'
upon the long reins of English soyereigns:
an absurd biunder, indeed, but not q lite So
bad as that in booksellers catalogue,
which made "the immoral works Of the
poet Milton" figure among his stock III
trade: or the exactly similar misprint in the
poeL's corner Of an Oxford ne Esp4pe IDak.
| ing some elegisc verses end:
"Death is past, and all its sorrows
Swallowed up In victory;
Endless Joys in bless await them,
| Life abd iRnOTGtfty
| Some admirer of the famous actress
Mrs. Oldfeld, wrote funeral oration In
| her praise, which, thanks TO the print er,
onened thus: "Let OratOry lie IL Mt,
rhetoric be dumb; let thu pomp and pa ge-
| antry of sorrow. the silent procession, the
sable hearse; and mourning .fendS, pass un-
| regarded byr' To deprive the word "Wln-
| dows" of its n seems 10 be favOrite trick
with compositors. An auctioneer lately
announced his intention of knocking down
"a surplus stock of 0ay-widOws, complete,
glazed with best British pate;;'' and worse
still, an Irish paper, reporting the burning
dawn of a school houss, told how brave
fellow ran TO the place, gained access 10 the
schooI-room. Ust once kicked out three Of
the idows, and then proceRssd to throw
g.
there, aud by this means succeeded IN saw
ing several"
! UNCOMFORTABLE SCBSTITC TONS
Sometimes, equally awkward results ac-
crue from the substitution OF one letter III
! another. A theatrical Grille, desiring 70
note the fact that fair representative Il
! Shakspeare's ''Ariei" ''did not sing" was
made answ5 rable for the uncomplimentary
assertion that the lady "did nothing a
popular periodical added to our stock OF his
| torical knowledge ny Informing US thai
| Henry ~. Of Englan.. derived his ''reC
nose" from his granofAther--of course IN
tending TO say he inherited from his grand
father the cogDizance of the red rose; q
blunder reminding one of Fanny Fudge:
complaint of the stupid printer transform
ing t.freshly blown roses" into "feshy b'owr
noses" and doubtless the writer OF the her
alnic ESSAY re-echoed the fair FAnny's an th'
ema. Equally annoying must il have b-e1
tn the Clergy man who wrote oil "the iol cG
of a scripture parable" 10 find himself
made responsible for such an uDcieric.l ex
preston as 1.-THE farce of scripture para
hle.D The printer of statement crcu
lated by an accident assurance camptny
setting forth the compensation received by
| insurers unfortunate or fortunate enough
tn have occasion to test the value OF thell
Investments. seems to have set his miuC
nnon producing the oldest misprints. Ac
cording to the official document, one indi.
| vidual obtained two hundred pounds be
cause his "Rig upset in turning corner;
another got b ee hundred pounds for oeits
throSn from his "chairs" When bis ''hous'
took fright;" aud third lest his life, there
by costing the company thousand POUNDS
bV beisg "hlown from his zig
PRINTERS BLUNDERs.
Printers blunders are sometimes s1sp:
ciouslv germSns to the inject, and lead th'
Intelligent reader to eOglt@te over the fac
gbelher the ''error" had not at least SOM
elements of design about it, after sll. Ont
can hardly believe that it was by pure accl
dent that one newspaper startled its read
ers with the news that train had run owe
/ a COW and cut it in ''calyes;" that anOthe
concluded its announcement of theatricA
ra1for nance for the benefit of the Guld
smiths and jewelers. institute, with tn
the notifc nion: "Tickers only benefi @
that a third made its art critic describe on
of Lance's fruit pieces as a "Sduce tha
makes the mouth Waer."
A curious corruption of the text OF "Pll
prir,'s Progre IS" originated Ia the acci len
tai or Intentional change of al into an a
Bunyan makes Christian say of FainlheaTi
Mistrust, aud Guilt, that, although mauy
called them cowards, they bad made Ddvlt
eroan, moan, and roar, had sorely brushed
Ibe coats Of Heman aud Hezekiah, an
handled Peter so as to make him afraid OF
sorry gill. Either bfundering printer, o
an editor who kuew not the lame OF He
man, one Of the four wise sous of Mabo
than whom Solomon alone was WlseI
changed Heman to Haman. A later edl
tor of Bunysn's great work, SATISFIED TIA
the immur al tinker never associated th
baffied Agagite with David, Hezekiab, an,
Peter as champions of the true faith, su6st
tuted Mordecai, as more worthy Of th
honor, and Mordecai, has ever since beel
exalted at the expense of the true man.
POLITICAL MIXTURES.
Poetry is as easily marred oy the insel
ton of an unnecessary letter as by tn
omission of a necessary one. Take thes
lines, for instance, as they were quoted IN
review:
And shall 1 blame you, sweet, because 70
choose
A softer path Of life than mine could beP
| / keep our secret here, and no man knows
What passed five years ago 'tWlxt you an
Two lovers begotten at the self-same time,
When that gold summertide was III lts prime;
One love lives yet, ana one died WIN Tie roSe'
OF course we infer that the lady an
gentleman were born at the self-same houl
in the midsummer season; bat the poe
really never limited anything OF the sort, Il
be wrote: ...r
1.-TWO lores begotten at the self-same time
When that gold summertide was In its prime
As Portals love-aDxious eyes follow th'
steps of her hearts lord as he moves tC
war the fateful caskets, she compares ba;
sanio to
"Young Alcides, when he did redeem :,
The virgin-UrIbute paid by ho~hng Troy
by merely transposing couple OF letter
: the above lines ara moiernlL3d with
vengeance into