Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
The Ways OF the Types.
IFrom the New York Observer

| from the New York Observer
DIR. BRTHUNE, my dear, good friend.
the splendid orator and genial companion,
whose succession in the apostolical line
was illustrated by his being in the line of
fishers of trout, as well as of men.
made speech in the Broadway Taber-
nacle at one of the anniversaries, and
had the pleasure of reading in the paper
of his own church the curious and in.
comprehensive sentence, 'Dr. Bethune
remarked that while men were idle the
devil sawed trees" He had said tsoW-
ed tares," This was probably a blunder
! OF the reporter, however. Some report
ers use shorthand system in which all
vowels are omitted, and in writing out
their notes they supply the want. In this
case the knight of the pencil wrote, 'swd
trs" and not being familiar with the Bible,
he wrote it out sawed trees, as the notes
stood for one as well as the other.
AT a meeting of the American Scientific
Association, in Providence, the friends
of the late Rev. DR.. Wayland were con
siderably surprised to read in news
paper report of the proceedings, that
after one of the evening sessions the doc
tor gave billiard party" The types
should have pronounced it duhant
party.
| DIR. KunZ, a Lutheran minister of New
York city, addressed a communication on
a vexed question to the New York Gazette.
| In his letter he adverted to the Gregorian
| style, and mentioned Pope Gregory. The
Gazette printed ''Tom Gregory" The
venerable doctor fastened to his friend,
| and after demonstrating on the injury he
had done him, requested the e1Tdtum to
specify, instead Of [" Tom Gregory"
| Pope Gregory XIII. Again an alteration
| was made, and the Gazette requested its
readers for Tom Gregory to read Pope
Tom Gregory Kill" Only one more at
tempt at correction was made, when the
| compositor had the Typography SO chang
ed that it read tom Gregory, the
Pope" The learned divine, with
heavy heart, in final interview with the
editor, begged him to make no further im-
provements, as he dreaded the loss of all
the reputation his years Of devotion to
the subject had secured to him A
Book of Blunders" has been made in
which these and others are recorded.
Twas sitting in the office of the New ark
Daaly Adcert5ser with Hon. William B.
Kinney, itseditor, Chief Justice Hornblow-
er and others, when the paper fresh from
the press was handed to US. A trial at
which the Chief had been presiding was
reported and ] read aloud:
The Chief Justice gave an order to
squash the indictment"
''SGuash!" cried the old Chief, in
wrath, Squash! put in pumpkin; pump
kin the Indictment"
When DR.. Gildersleeve was the able
editor of religious paper in Richmond,
Va, ne was giving graphic account of
the funeral of a young man whose sudden
death had filled the community with in
tense and general sorrow. And in de-
scribing the reluctance of the sympathiz-
ing crowd to leave the grave in which the
deceased was laid, the little letter get
ting out Of the word friends into the word
spot, made him say, "disconsolate fends
stood riveted to the sport"
Some years ago | was printing an arti-
Gle in the New York Observer in which
comparison was drawn between preachers
of the English pulpit and the American
The writer had expressed the peculiarities
of each, and with much emphasis, as the
result OF extensive observation and com
parison, he wrote that american minis
tiers pay much attention to manner, and
the British preachers pay very little"
Whether he was right or wrong in his
opinion, the types made him say that
american ministers pay much attention
to manner, and British preachers pray
| very little"
II we step out Of the newspapers,
which are SO hastily printed as to be
readily excused for some errors of the
types, into the region Of books, we find
these errors Of the press forming one of
the most curious chapters of literary his
tory. The Bible itself has Jared the worst
of all. In England the printing of the
Bible is regulated s'by authority and the
text is preserved with great care from
errors of the press. Early editions of
the Bible and sOmelat ones, have shown
sad blunders, and many copies command
high prices because Of queer blunders in
them. These are too well known to be
repeated. The first Oxford Bible was
printed in 1915. An Edinburgh copy of
the New Testament of 1894 is entitled to
the palm for being the most erroneous in
its typography, and is the more valued
by collectors On that account. In Mark
1876, we read Of the deaf mute that CHS
eyes were opened, and he spake plainly"
Bankers Bible of 1851 omits the word not
in the seventh commandment. So late
ly as 1881 a Bible printed in Cambridge,
reads in l John, Glove another" for
Glove one another" Baskets folio
of 1717 is known as the cine
gar Bible, because that word is used for
0aneyard in the parable. The word vife is
misprinted strangely in so many editions
as to make it probable that care not care
lessness caused the blunder. A Scotch
Bible of1791 reads in 1 Kings "the dogs
liked her Blood" instead of hcked They
probably did both.
There are no Bibles in the English lam
guage more correctly printed than those
of the American Bible Society. But they
are not perfect. Only day or two ago we
met with the word she, printed where he
| should be. And some thirty-fve years
ago when Professor Bush was proof
reader of the Society, he suffered an edi-
ton to go out with this verse Gal. 4:27,
che desolate hath more children than she
which hath hundred, ~ instead Of a has
band
The Book Of Common Prayer was made
to say eve shall all be hanged" instead
of ''changed' in the twinkling of an eye.
But these must suffice as examples of
the Ways of the Types. The subject is
! ineXhaustible IRENEUs.