Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-11
Amusing Mistake.

Amusing Mistake.
A paper in Chambers Journal, entitled
''Slips of the Press, contains these anecdotes
about amusing mistakes:
Lord Brougham was fond of relating an
instanc. Of msreporting, which was no joke to
the victim Of it, \ bishop, at one OF his coun-
try visltatious, found occasion to complain of
the deplorablc state of certain church, the
roof Of which was evidently anything but water
tight after rating those concerned for their
neglect, his lordship finished by declaring en-
phatically that he would not visit the damp
old church again until it was put 10 decent or
der. His horror may be imagined when he
discovered himself reported in the local journal
rs having declared Il shall not visit this
damned old church again" The bishop lost
no time in calling the editors attention to the
mistake that worthy thereupon setting him.
self right with his readers by stating that he
willingly gave publicity to his lordShip's ex-
planation, but he had every confidence IN the
accuracy of his reporter. The editor of an
evening pa per could hardly have had similar
confidence 10 his subordinate when the latter
caused his Journal to record that prisoner
had been sentenced to ''four months lmprl-
sonment in the House of Commons - ln this
case We fancy the reporter must have been IN
the same exhilarated condition as his American
brother, who ended his account of city ban
uuet with the frank admission that 1T Is not
distinctly remembered by any body preseD t
who made the last speech - =
Advertisers are adopts at ambiguity. A lady
adycrtises her desire to obtain husband,
with Roman nose, having strong religious
tendencies" "A spinster, particularly fond
es for two or three, having none Of her own
aho1u mr. q
horse of the Methodist persuasion - draper
desires to meet with an assistant who would
take an active and energetic interest in a
small first class trade, and in quiet family
and Boston chemist advertises-'the gentle
man who left his stomach for analysis will
please call and get it, together with the re.
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Slipshod English is cot, however, confined
to the advertisement columns, or we should
not be able to read Of the shooting OF the wild
cat "by little boy five feet eight inches long;
of procession which was very fine, and
nearly two miles in length, as was also the
PRAYER of Mr. Perry, the cha aplain;" nor should
we be much scandazcd to note the fact"
that Miss Cory. in the presence of a large
number of Admiralty officials, named the ship
yesterday, and she was quietly warped out to
her moorings in the river by ropes. An Am
urican paper dilating upon the success attained
by "sclfmsdc man" said he arrived IN
California twenty years ago with only one shirt
to his back, and since then contrivcd, BY close
application to business, to accumulate over ten
millions y President Tayors celebrated
bull ave are at peace wsth all the world
and continue to cherish relations OF anty with
the rest of mankind, is pretty fairly matched
10y one pcrpetratcd by an English theatrical
paper which, after announcing forthcoming
C.. III
every one will be there, and for the edlhcation
Of those who are absent, full report will be
found in our next paper.
THE INTELLECT OF OLD AGE.-1f the mem
ory keeps perfect point which appears to de-
pend entirely upon physical conditlons-thc
memory, for instance, growing bright as to the
incidents Of childhood when it grows dull as
to what happened yesterday is no rca-
son why, as regards anything but new
abstract ideas, the mind in old age should be
less strong than the mind in maturity, though
it may have more difficulty in using the media
through which it works. and we find this con-
stanty to be the case. Very old Generals, like
Radctzky, have commanded victorious armies;
very old statesmen, like Palmers!on, have
guided parties successfully; and very old ora
tors like NJ. Thiers are often strangely elo-
uuent 1t would be almost impossible to show
that for oratorcal purposes his mind has aged
ut ALL that he has lost any one OF these powers
which 20 to create Oratorica success, unless 1t
be, and We should doubt that, the acuteness OF
his sensibility to the mental atmosphere around
him We are accustomed to speak OF Lynd-
hust' 5 later efforts as wonders, and SO they
were as physical efforts; but there is nothing IN
old age to make man less capable OF review
ing the facts of the year by his old lights with
all the cloquence, and bite. ness, and eplgram-
matte tcrseueSs that he ever possessed. The
impcrvious to the ideas of his day, and showed
a strong ndisposition toward new men even in
the army; but there is 40 proof whatever that
if England had been invaded by the kind Of
army he was accustomed to defeat, he would
not have played all his ancient generalship. lie
would have received all the new facts about
numbers equipment, and the like, as M. Theirs
receives the new facts about revenue and ex-
pcnditure, and would have applied the old
principle as ever. Nothing would have gone
from him except strength OF will to compel the
mind to perform an unusual and therefore,
disagreeabe task Won Motke is as great
general as ever he was is able even to develop
his old knowledge by the addition OF system
of railway; it is only when asked to consider
new scheme of discipline that his mind closes,
and he shows himself unable to believe or even
to follow any idea except that of severe punish
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SALLY LUNN AND HER CAKEs:-During
the emigration from France, noble French
lady coming to Chelsea, and determined not
to live on the bounty of foreigners, opened
there small shop for the sale OF preserves
and pastry. Her fame spread throughout the
west end of the town, and orders were given to
have some of her celebrated cakes sent to many
large houses in ST. James. The lady en-
ployed Scotch maid servant to execute her
orders The name of this woman was Sally
Lunn, and ever since particular kind OF tea,