Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-02-01
Specimens OF Typographical Errors.
From the Phlladei phia Bulletin

The amusement afforded by ludicEous
typographical errors will be inexhausti-
bic while printets are iallible and editors
write with abominab!e Indifference to
legibility. One OF the most astonishing
blunders of this Sind was committed
some years ago, in the BuIlettH. The
writer, who had cautioned his readers
against casting their pearls before swine,
was amazed and grieved 10 perceive that
the compo,itor had warned the public
against. 'carting theirpills before sunrise
This was corrected in the preot; but the
reporter who declared that certain new
store had $50 fancy windows was even
more indignant than the storekeepe.
when he saw in his paper the statement
that the establishment contained go
faded widows
The poets suffer most deeply. Moth
ing 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 com
positor compelled him 10 kick her under
the cellar stairs A certain jenkins, al
so, was the victim of an aggravated as
sault, because when, in his report OF u
weddiag, he declared that the bride was
accompanied to the altar by eight bride
maids the types made it that the bride
was accompanied to the altar by ttght
bridemaids > These things are pecul-
iarly unpleasant when they occur III re-
marks upon death; as in the case OF the
editor who, while writing sympathetic
paragraph observed that Mr.. Smith
could hardly bear the loss OF his wife,
only 10 find that the printer had made it
MIR. Smith could hardly bear boss for
wife,
But the printers dc no. make all the
mi istakes. We remember the laughter
and comment provoked by the statement
OF a provincial reporter, who called the
attention Of the constable to the fact that
that 'ou Sunday last some twenty or
thirty men collected ic the hOilotc back
Of 7homas NcGtnnis. and engaged in
fighting during the whole morning. =
Mr.. McGinnis' back must have been un-
commonly large.
During the Franco-Prussian war a
great deal OF tun was pcked at the New
jersey editor who read in the cable des-
patches that 'Bazine has moved twenty
kilometres out of Metz He thereupon
sat down and wrote an editorial, in
which he said he was delighted to hear
that all the kilometres had been removed
and that the innocent people of Metz
were no longer endangered by the pres
ence of those devilish engines of war
standing upon a volcano, as it wele.-
And then he went on to describe some
experiments made with kilometres in
the Crimea, in which one of item ex-
ploded aud blew frigate out of water.
Another editor clipped from an ex-
change an obituary poem, which he sent
to the composing room with some intro
ductory remarks. He said: we pub
lish below very touching poem from
the pen OF Miss NJ. 1t was writ
ten by her at the deathbed of her sainted
mother, and it overflows with those ex-
presslons of fiiial affection which are the
natural outgrowth of a pure untutored
genius that has developed beneath the
sheltering influences of mothers love
| The reader will observe how each line
glows with ardent affection and tender
est regret Somehow i'll attaching this
introduction to the poem, the rditol
turned up the wrong side OF the clippin,
and the editors lines led the reade
gently into an article upon Hog Choler,
in Tennessee