The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-08-14

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written, headed, christening an Il
wa Cheese" The printer got Il
christianity in an Iowa Cheese,
which is decidedly new name 70
the customary inhabitants Of rict
pressed milk.
During recent flood in the 'Cool
q dispatch from Jefferson was sent t,
the Register, stating that among 9th
or drifts passing that point were tb,
debris Of . BRIDGE the diabollca
types produced this-'pieces of 8
bride floating down stream If an,
Green county swain has lost new
% eSSu now know what has sbe
come OF her.
Not long since an article appeared
in one of the city papers on "Des
Moines in Europe" Tho printe,
made it "Dr. Mosier in Europe" and
for aught we know, that unfortunate
physician is yet wandering in foreign
lands, under the supposition that it
was intended he should.
Only last evening a Des Moines
papes made the singular statemc cnt
that the day before some burglar had
entered house and carried off "ev.
erything of virtue in the kitchen. If
the hired girl in that domicile doesn't
find out that tho newspaper chap in
tended to write 'virtu' instead Of 'vir.
tue, she may perform tho remarka.
BILE surgical feat of putting head on
him.
And that unfortunate bull reminds
us OF typographical steer. Some
two years since noted spiritualist
was invited to deliver an address be.
fore the Spiritual Society of this city
He consented to come, and our Spir.
itual friends were Mortified when the
announcement appeared IN public
prints that Mr.. - the celebrated
steer and test medium would speak
etc. 1t was written seer but some
livestock printer couldn't help set
ting it up agriculturally, and so the
types called him a bovine of neuter
gender.
Not of recent development, nor Of
western mistake, IS the following: A
and in the manuscript occurred this
couplet.
The Eastern Sages shall come in
With messages Of grace.
Tho intelligent compositor placed
it in type as follows:
The Eastern stages shall come in
With sausages of grease.
Nothing but the very freest OF
salvation would afford any hope
for the future happiness OF that type.
sticker.
Sacreligious, if he had known bet
ter, would have been the book.print.
er's bull, made in Dcs Moines on a
certain occasion, where, for the pur
pose of justifying line, he abbreyia
ted the name of the Savior. A part
OF the edition was worked off before
the fact was discovered that he had
set it up J. Christ
Blunders in punctuation arc fire.
quently as annoying to an author and
funny to reader as errors in words.
There was an advertisement that re.
Gently appeared in an English paper
Of % piano for sale, the property Of
lady with carved legs The printer
forgot to put a comma after lady
Words are sometimes transposed
queerly, as when, a few evenings
since, a Des Moines paper advertised
the loss Of black girls shawl The
girl was as white az anybody's girl
it was the shawl that was black.
There's many q lurking devil be
tween the pen and the press, bu'
when one considers how many thous
| aud pieces Of type 60 into every pag'
OF newspaper, the wonder is no
that so many blunders are made, bu
that the list OF errors is SO small. f.
State Register.
There is fashionable wedding i
Washington this evening, which ha