Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-11-14
Typographical vagaries.

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vast concourse rent the air with their
snouts, (shouts.)
A cotemporary, speaking of E. O.
Perrin and Governor Walker, wrote that
Mr.. p left the latter's camp at Law.
renee" &c. The typo got it-"He left
the latter scamp at Lawrence"
The editor of Western paper OBJ.
serves 1.-The poem we publish in this
weeks Herald, was written by an es-
teemed friend-now for many years in
his his grave for his own amusement"
A New York house advertised for
sale quantity of brass hoppers for cof-
fee mills. The types said "grass hop
pers, for coffee mills"
"See the pale martyr in a sheet OF
fire" was once metemorphosed by acci-
dent into, See the pale martyr with his
shirt on fire.
A Frenchmau translating an English
book into his own language, on coming
to the words " chestnut horse" translated
it, " a horse made of chestnut"
The friends of DR.. Wayland were sur
prised to read in the papers that the
=" DR.. gave billiard party" brilliant
party.)
An advertisement was sent to the
Cleveland Herald in which occurred the
Words, "The Christians Dream, No
Cross, No Crown" The laundering COM
positor made it read, "The Christians
Dream: No Cows, No Cream!"
During the Mexican war, one Of the
English newspapers hurriedly announced
an important item of news from Mexico,
that Gen. Pillow and thirty seven of his
men had been lost in bottle, (battle. J
A religious paper called the Gospel
Banner, was once printed in the State of
Maine, with the motto, " In the name of
our God we up set our banners" the
words set up, were simply transposed.
The late Thomas Moore had written
in one of his productions a. The mellow
dreams, of Horace" but the compositor
or reader, supposing he alluded to the
last ampitheater bill, printed it, "The
mellow dramas of horses"
A Maine editor, in describing the va
garies Of mad dog in Brunswick, says
He bit COW in the tail, which has
since died" That was very unfortunate
for the tail but we naturally feel some
interest to know what became of the
COW.
An Eastern exchange states that by
the substitution of an "f " for an a
newspaper paragraph was made to say
that Rev. Mr.. = received calf from
Maine, to be settled over a congrega
tional church in Portland, with a salary
of three thousand dollars.
TRAINING GIRLS FOR HOUSEHOLD DU
TIES. Training girls for household du,
ties ought to be considered as necessary
as instructing in writing and arithmetic
and quite as universal. We are in oul
house more than half of our existence
and it is our household surrounding
which effect most largely the happiness
or misery of domestic life. If the wifi
knows how to keep house." if she un
derstands how to set a table," if sh'
has learned how things ought to b,
cooked, how beds should be made, hov
carpets should be swept, how flrnitur,
should be busted, how clothes should b,
repaired, and turned and altered, ant
renovated if she knows how purchase
can be made to best advantage and un
derstands the laying in Of provisions
how to make them go the furthest anC
last the longest; if she appreciates tn
Importance of system, order, tidiness
and the quiet management of children
and servants, then she knows how t,
make little heaven of her home-hoy
to keep her husband from the club-hous
and the wine cup. Such family viii
be trained to social respectability, t
business success, and to efficiency AM
usefulness in whatever position may
allotted to them.
1t is safe 10 say that not one girl i
ten, in our large towns and cities, enter
into married life, who learned to bake
loaf of bread, to purchase roast, t
dust painting, to sweep carpet, or t
cut and make her own dress. How muc
the perfect knowledge of these thing
bear upon the thrift, the comfort and tn
health of families, may be conjectureC
but not calculated by figures 1t woul
be of immeasurable advantage to max
beginning by attaching kitchen to
girls school in the nation and have le
sons given daily in the preparation of a
ordinary articles of food and drink fc
the table to the best advantage, with th
result of large saving of money. and il
crease of comfort and higher health j
: avarv family in the land - Halls To,r