The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-02-17
d, TOPOGRAPHIC ERRORS.
Some Curious Specinsen Blsnders.


The amusement afforded BY ludicrous
Typographical errors will be inexhaustible
while printers are fallible and editors write
with abominablc indifference to legibility.
One Of the most astonishing blundels Of this
kind was committed some years ago In tho
Bulletin. The writer, who had cautioned
his readere against " casting their pearls be.
fore swine." was amazed and grieved to per.
ceive the compositor had warned the public
against - carting their pills before sunrise"
This was corrected in the proof but the re.
porter who declareh that certain new store
had :. so fancy windows." was even more
indignant than the storekeeper. when he
aaw In his paper the statement thst the es.
tablishment contained go faded wid"wa"
-" The poets suffer most deeply. Nothing
could be worse. Tor instance, than the mis-.
cry Of the bard who asserted, in bis c'py,
that he kissed her uudcr the silent stars"
only to find that the oompositor compelled
him to "kick her under she cellar stairs" A
certain Jenkins, also, wss the victim of m
aggravated assault, because when, in bis 70.
port of . wedding. be declared that "the
bride was accompanied to the altar by eigM
bridcsmaids,' the types made Il that % the
bride was accompanied to the altar BY tigM
bridesmaids" These things, are peculiarly
unpleasant when they occur in remarks upon
death; - in the case of the editor who,
while writing sympathetic paragraph. OBJ
served that - Mr.. Smith could hardly bear
the loss Of his wife, only to fnd that the
printer bsd msde it, l4r. smith can hardly
bear such q boss for wife"
But,the printers do!not make all the mis-
takes. We remember the laughter and COM
ment provoked by the statement of provin.
c,al reportcr. Who called the stention Of the
constable to the fact that ION Sunday last
some twenty or thirty men Collected IN he
hollow back Of 7'horos Nc 0innis and engaged
ir fighting auripg the whole morning" Mr..
McGiuuis' back must have been uncommon.
y large.
During the Franco Prussisn war great
deal of fun was poked At the New Jersey
editor who read in the csble dispatches that
" "Bsizaine has removed twenty kilometres
out of Metz" He thereupon sst down and
wrote IN editorisls in which be said he was
delighted to hear that all the kilometres had
been removed, and that the innocent people
of iMslz were no lobger endangered BY the
presence of those devilish engines of wsr-
then he went on to describe sone expert.
ment made with kilometres in the Crimea,
in which one of them exploded and blew .
fsikste out Of water.+ = ~ j ~f:' "
Another editor clipped from an exchange
IN obituary. poem, which he sent to the
composing room with some Introductory
ts,enAsks.t He said :'r,We publish below .
very touching poem from the pen Of Mis-
NJ. It Was written by her at the DEATH
bed Of hsr ssinied mother, and It overdows
with those expressions Of dial affection
which are the natural outgrowth Of pure
sptutored eenius that has dsveloped hsneath
the sbeltering influences of mothers love.
The reader will observe how each line glows
with ardent affection and tenderest regret.
Somehow. in attaching .this istroducsion TO
the poem. the editor turned up the wrong
aide Of tho clippinG. and .the coneequencs
was that the editors lines led the reades
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