The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-01-20
LaugnabEe Newspaper EsIunders

LaushabIe Newspaper EEIernders
Ths amusement afforded by luaicrous
typographical errors will be Inexhaustibls
while printers are faIlibIe and editors writs
with abUmnsble indifference to lecibility.
One OF the most astonishing blunders Of
this kind was committed some years xgo
IN an editorial in the Bulletin. The wris
ter, who bad cautioned his readers against
casting their pearls before swine,'' was
amazed and grieyed to perceive that tho
eompositor had warned the public against
''carting their pills before sunrise This
was corrected in the proof; but the re-
porter who declared Of new store that
1t had sky fancy windows was even
more indignant than the storekeeper when
be saw in his paper the statement ihat The
establishment contained ''sixty faded wild
ows.' And then there was the poet,
IN Muncy, who sought to soolhe the
wounded feelings of bereayed family b7
publishing in the local paper a poetical
tribute TO the deceased daughter, Emily,
IN which lie declared that ''we will halls
low her grave with eur tearF." He was
pursued next morning by Emily's exas~
Perated brother, because The printers in+
sisted that ''we Will harrow her grave
with our steers
The poets suffer most deeply, Moths
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 cofnpositor
/ 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,
| be declared that ''the bride was accom-
| panied TO 'he altar by eight bridesmaids
/ the types made ii that ''the bride was ac-
! comp.nied TO the altar by tight bridess
/ maids" These things are peculiarly I'M
/ pleasant when they occur in remarks 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 to find
that the printer had made it-'Mr. Smith
( could hardly bear such a boss for a wife -
Even more deplOrable is the injury done
TO the journalist who compIimented GER
tain candidate with the observation that
he was "a noble old burgher, proudly
loving his native State" Imagine tbs
indignation of the candidate and the her
ror of the editor, when the paper the next
day contained the assertion that the said
burgher was "a noJby old burglar prowl-
ing around in q naked state"
But the printers do not make all the
mistakes. We remember the laughter
and comments provoked by the statements
Of a reporter, who called the attention
of the constable to the fact that con Sun
day last some twenty or thirty men COLI
jectc3 IN TIE holotc back Of Thomas Hes
GmBis, and engaged in fighting during tho
whole morning" Eir McGinnis' back
must have been uncommonly large.
During the Franco Prustian war
great deal of fun WISE pokcd at the New
Jersey editor who read in the cable dis
patches that "Bazaine has moved twenty
kilometres out of Metz" He thereupou
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 tie presence of those dew
ilish engines of war-sleepiug upon a vol-
cano, as 1t were. And then Ire went on
/ TO describe some experiments made with
kilometres in the Crimea, in which one of
them exploded and blew frigate out Of
the water.
Another editor clipped from an ex-
change an obituary poem, which he sent
TO the composing room with some intror
ductory remarks. He said ''We pub
lish below very touching production from
the pen Of Miss M. 1t was written
by her at the death bed Of her sainteGI
mother, and it overfows with those ex-
pressions of filial affection which are the
natural outgrowth of a pure, untutored
genius that has developed beneath the shell
tering influences of mothers love. Ths
reader will observe how each line glows
with ardent affection and tenderest res
greet
Somehow, in attaching the introduction
to the poem, the editor turned up the
wrong side Of The clipping. and the con-
sequence was that the editors lines led The
reader gently into an article upon ''Hog
Cholera in Tennessee" It was rumored
that the relatives of Miss NJ were
seen prowling around the office the next
day, armed with shot guns, but this has
not been traced TO any reliable authority.
-Phild. Bulletin.
FnIAL AFFECTION Two cases of fill
ial affection have recently been communi-
Gated to us, so touching, so true to nature.
that we record them: