The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-02-10
Amusing Typographical Errors.


Erening Bulletin has the following:
The amusement afforded by ludi-
crous typographical errors will be in
exhaustible while printers are fallible
and editors write with abominable in
difference to legibility. One of the
most astonishing errors of this kind
was committed some years ago in an
editorial in the BULLETIN. The wri-
| ter, who had cautioned his readers
against "casting their pearls before
swine," was amazed and grieved to
| perceive that the compositOr warned
the public against "carting their pills
| before sunrise.D This was corrected
in the proof but the reporter who de-
clared of Il certain new store that it
had sixty fancy windows was even
more indignant than the store keeper
when he saw in his paper the state
ment that the establishment contained
"sixty faded Widows And then
there was the poet, in Muncy, who
sought to soothe the wounded feelings
of a bereaved family by publishing in
the local paper a poetical tribute to
the deceased daughter Emily, in which
he declared that 1--WE will hallow her
grave with our tears" He was pur-
sued next day by Emily's exasperated
brother, because the printers insisted
that " We will harrow her grave with
our steers"
The poets suffer most deeply. No
thing could be worse, for instance,
than the misery of the bard who as
serted in his copy that he Ekissed her
under the silent stars" only to find
that the compositor compelled him to
g kick her under the cellar stairs.n A
certain Jenkins, also, was the victim
of an aggravated assault, because
when, in his report of a wedding, he
declared the bride was followed to
the altar by eight bridesmaids the
types made it that +" the bride was
followed to the altar by tight brides
maids These things are peculiarly
unpleasant when they occur in re-
marks upon death; as in the case of
the editor, who, while writing sym
pathetic paragraph, observed that
" Mr.. Smith could hardly bear the loss
Of his wife," only TO find that the
printer had made it g Mr.. Smith could
hardly bear such boss for a WIFE"
Even more deplorable is the injury
done to the journalist who compli-
mented certain candidate with the
observation that he was "a noble old
burgher, proudly loving his native
State" Imagine the Indignation of
the candidate and horror of the edi-
tor, when the paper next day contain
ed the assertion that the said burgher
was " "a nobby old burglar, prowling
around in a naked state"
But the printers do not make all the
mistakes. We remember the laughter
and comment provoked by the state
ment of provincial reporter, who
called the attention of the constable
to the fact that "on Sunday last some
thirty men collected in the hollow
back of Thomas Maginnis, and en-
gagged in fighting during the whole
morning" Mr.. Maginnis's back must
have been uncommonly large.
During the Franco-Prussian war a
great deal of fun was poked at the
New Jersey editor who read in the ca
BILE dispatches that "Bazaine has re-
moved twenty kilometres out of Metz
He therefore sat down and wrote an
editorial, in which he said he was de-
lighted to hear that all the kilometres
had been removed, and that the inno-
cent people of Metz were no longer
endangered by the presence of those
devilish engines of war-sleeping up
on a volcano, as it were. And then
he went on to describe some expert
ments that had been made with kilo-
metres in the Crimea, in which one of
them exploded and blew a fiigate out
of the water.
Another editor clipped from an ex-
change an obituary poem, which he
sent to the composing room with some
Introductory remarks. He said: I'VE
publish below a very touching pro-
duction from the pen of Miss NJ.
1t was written by her at the death bed
of her sainted mother, and it over
flows with those expressions of tilial
affection which are the natural out
5IO"ih VI Il pst1S3 oheuoOhOO SSCAiA'to
that has developed beneath the shade
and sheltering influences of a mothers
love. The reader will observe how
each line glows with ardent affection
and tenderest regret" Somehow, in
attaching this introduction to the po-
EN-, the editor turned up the wrong
side of the clipping, and the conse-
quence was that the editors lines led
the reader gently into an article upon
Hog Cholera in Tennessee" 1t was
rumored that the relatives of Miss
NJ were seen prowling round the
Office the next day, armed with shot
guns but this has not been traced to
any reliable authority.
THE SWEETNESS OF HoME.-He who