The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-20

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nished, the thousands upon thousands of
little pieces of metal-each representing o
letter, figure, space or mark of punctua-
tion-must be handled, the proof must be
taken, read and corrected, the form madeup,
the entire paper printed'and issued within
few short hours. The trains will not wait
for constant revisions of proofs 30 that per-
feet newspapers may be sent to their des-
tination, and the people, we take it, had
rather have q newspaper with Topographic
cal errors in (which their common sense
will correct-early in the morning, than
wait till noon or afternoon for a more cor
rect copy thereof Notwithstanding this,
these plumbers arc often notifying as well
as ludicrous. For example a few years
ago leading newspaper in New York city,
announced that Rev. DR.. Pond, president of
the Bangor, Me-, theological seminary, was
delivering lectures in New York ''to show
that theology was no science, and that there
is no truth IN IL nhdteUer." The statement
was copied by the press of the whole coun-
try, and great was the CONSERVATION pro-
duccd thereby. The orthodox world was
thrown into ferment, as the very founda-
ton of their faith seemed to be shaken,
when that ablest and most cherished expo
nent had become an inide While the
church was thus troubled the same paper
came out with an explanation that an ex-
animation showed that the compositor had
changed the word phrenology into theology,
which was overlooked by the proof reader.
All was satisfactory, DIR. Pond was no lon
ger looked upon with suspicion as an in
fdel, and his brethren were DISPOSED to
agree with him in the statement actually
made. Here is another instance. "a rat"
says st. Louis paper, descending the
river, came into contact with the steam
boat --; and SO serious was the injury
to the boat that great excrtions were ne
cessary to save it." Had the compositor
and proof reader inserted + in the proper
place and made it read raft instead of rat,
the sentence would have been sense. We
had similar instance in our own paper.
Saturday morning, whereby the substitu-
ton of u for p, an item was made to read
that h0use run away.
A certain smart kind of journalism vent
Hates itself in calling attention to typo
graphical errors in their contemporaries,
all unmindful of the fact that their own
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takes, and that the most painstaking care
on the part of the proof-reader could not
prevent the occurrence of these errors.
With what disgust would we have thrown
aside the New York Nrad, Times,
World, Sun and other newspapers, Fri
day, if they had devoted one-tenth of
their reading columns-as we have known
a country daily to do--in attempted with
cisms and ringing changes upon the mistakes
which occurred in few lines of Thurs
days Tribune, which we herewith quote.
1t is from report in reference to the de.
falcation in the state treasurcr's office, and
is copied cerbatim. Before giving the cx-
tract, we will say that the Tribune ALWAYS
capitalizes the name of bank, and it will.
also, be seen, from the extract, that the
same bank is mentioned by different
names in different places. We have
italiciscd the words where the errors occur,
not because the mistakes are of any i'm
portance, but to show that they will occur
where the utmost care is taken. We
could find similar instances, if we sought
for them in every paper in the land, but
this sufflces for our purpose. The Tribune
says
1t appears that on the 9th of September
the deposit in the Mechanics and Farm
crs' Bank had been drawn down to abou,
$500, 900, and it was known that day o,
two previous about $1,000, 900 had been
paid into the Commercial bank, and
it being about the time of the panic when
banks were anxious to have as large a
balance as possible, a complaint WAS made
by the farmers and mechanics bank that
they ihad not Nei0 full share of the de.
| posts. This caused the drawing of the
tronJer checks for the $4,000 above al
luded to, as Mr.. Raines wished to cqualize
the balances. AS soon ~ the Deputy Con.
figures furnished by the banks. thai
$4,000 was not the proper amount t.
transfer he told Controller Hopkins, an(
justified his refusal to sign the checks.
After all, this study of typographical or
rors, if some one would take the pains t.
gather them, would make most interesting
book, and one which would be eagerl,
sought. Before we close this subject O
Typographical errors. we have, just once,
word, personal to ourself, to say. We ar
not in the habit, as our readers well know
of entering into personal explanations o
defending ourself from unfounded charges
but we deem it proper, at this time, so t,
do. Friday morning copy of the agri
cultural address, delivered by Rev. L. NJ
Haynes, appeared in The GLOBE, twenty
four hours, as usual, in advance of an,
other newspaper. In excusng themselve
for their want of enterprise, they indulg
themselves in their usual whine, abou
correct " copy, and say that "by actua
count there is more than fifty wrong word
and outs" in the address as published by us
Without stopping to consider the prophet
OF criticism upon the part Of newspape
which announces this same address to hay
been delivered at Wallingeord." an
speaks about the centuary from the settle
ment of the town, prententions "-wha
ever that may be-Jffty, and thirty othe
errors in the same address or that says, i
another place, that man had been arreste
for the murder of his wife, and that til
wife, 3" Mrs. Lowell mysteriously disaI
peared three years of age; we pronouno
the statement unqualifedly false. TIL
, manuscript was carefully read by copy
ourself holding the copy, and every wor