Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-01-27
Lauxhabre Newspaper Biunders.

haustlble while printers are fallible and
editors write with abominable inditfer-
ence to legibiiity. One of the most as
tonishing blunders of this kind was
committed some years ago in an odito-
rial in the B'dIe:m. The writer, vino
had cautioned his reade,s agains, "cast-
ing their pearls before swine was
amazed and yrieved 10 perceive that the
compositor had warned the public
against earring their pills before sun
rise" This was corrected in the proof;
but the reporter who declared OF new
store that it had sixty fancy ajndowe.'
was &en more indignant tGan the
storekeeper when he saw in his paper
the statement that ;he establishment:
contained "sixty faded windows And
then there was the poet, in MUncy, who
sought to soothe tle wounded feelings
of bercaved family by publishing in
the local paper poclic;l tribute to The
deceased daughter, Emily. in which lie
declared that I'VE viii hal,ow her grave
with our tears" lie WAS pursued next
morning by Emily's exaspcrat,d BROTH
er, because the printers insisted that,
I'VE will harrow her grave with our
steers"
The poets suffer most deeply. Moth
ing could he worse, Tor instance, than
the misery Of the bard who asserted in
lis copy, that he "kisscd her under the
silent stars only to find that the COM
positor compelled him TO kick her m-
der the cellar stairs \ certain JenS-
inS, also, was the victim of IN aggrava-
ted assault, because when, IN his report
of wedding, he declared that Tho
bride was accompanied to the altar by
GgM bridesmaids, the types made IT
that "thc bride was accompanied 10 the
altar 10y GgM bridesmaids. These
things are peculiarly unpleasant when
they ocrur i'll remarks upoa death ~ III
the case of the editor, who, While wri-
tinga a sympathetic paragraph, observed
that MIR Smith could hardly bear the
loss Of his wife, only 10 find that the
printer had made it-"Mr Smith could
hardly bear such boss .or a wife
Even more dcplorable is the injury
done to the Journalist who compliment
ed certain candidate with The obserya-
ton that hr WAS - noble Oh burghcr,
proudly loving his native state lm-
aginc the indication Of the candidate
AMI the horror OF the editor, when the
paper the next day contained the asScr-
tion that the said burgher waS "a nobby
old burglar proving around in anakcd
state.
But the printers do not make all the
mistakes. We remember the laughter
and comments provoked by the state
ments of provincial reporter, who c4!l.
ed the attention of tho constable 10 lie
fact that ION Sunday last some twenty
or thirty men coHfcird ia He hOHOW
6ack of Th,ma, NcGiHHi,, ,aai engaged
in fighting during the whole morning
Mr.. McGinnis back mast nave been un-
commonly large.
During tho Franco-Pgussan war,
great deal OF fur Wa pok,d at the New
jersey editor who read in the cable dis
patches that "Bazlinc has moved TWEEN
ty kilometres out OF Metz. He there
upon sat down aEd 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 Mtiz were no longer endangered by
the presence Of those devilish engines Of
war-slecping upon 4 volcano, as it
were And then he went on 90 describe
some experiments made with kilometres
in the Crinlca. in which one of them ex-
ploicd and blew frigato out Of the
water.
Another editor clipped from an ex.
change IN obituary poem, which hc sent
to the composing room with somc in-
troductory remarks lie said "NYo
publish below very touching prOduc-
ton from the pen Of Miss NJ. IL was
written by her at the dcath-bcd Of hcr
sainted mother, and it oyerfows with
those expressions of tilial affection which
are tie natural growth Of "A pure, untu-
tored genius that has developed beneath
the sheltering influences of mothers
love. The reader will observe how
each line grows wf,h ardent affection
and teldercst regret"
Somehow, in attaching the introduc-
ton to the poem, the editor turned up
the wrong side of the clipping, and tho
consequence was that tho editors lines
led the reader gently into al article upon
Hog Cholera in Tennessee" It was
r1imored 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.
Grace Greenwood differs from Mrs
Woodruff. She says that if she had
the framing Of the laws only such wo-
men would be allowed to vote ~ had