The Volcano lubricator. (Volcano, W. Va.) 1871-1879, 1874-01-27

| Spn.OdiOuS' CtRiolnS CaPaole vi "'oS''.
modating three hundred strcentS iour
stories high"
/ A criticism upon ShakcspeaTc's'
"Otheiao" was once published, inwhich
the writer described fully the death of
pesdemona. He concluded rlirs:-
"The Moor, siezing bolster boiling
over with rage and jealousy, smothers
her" Now, in this, no. blame could
attach to- the printer; but in the follow
ing, which appeared in a proof, a few
years ago, the errors were chaTgea0is
only to the man Of types:
1.-THE typographical engines were
busily engaged in throwing: up earth
quakes."
The writer intended TO- say, and no
doubt did say in his manuscripts
that the typographical engineers were
throwing UP earthworks.
A New York paper, some time ago,
reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly
r. B.. AlGrich's poem, entitled Gas
ties" in which occurs this couplet:
s'Wen. welI, think not On these two,
| Bus the old wound breaks out anew"
T In the reprint the second line was
made 10 read:
but the old woman breaks out ancw'-
an emendation rendered rather funny
by the context.
Ofthe inflated and exaggerated style,
which is the besetting SIN Of reporters,
the following paragraph, in a letter
from West Point, on the occasion of
Geneyal Grants visit, is "a bright ex.
ample:
The cadets stare in solemn awe at
him, most fortunate Of Generals, as he
silently moves and strolls about Il e
grounds and they present arms in
Highly respectful manner, whenever
he comes within a stonc's-throw Of
their vicinity. There was dress pa
rade this evening, and, with the fine
band bursting forth in strains that rent
the blue dark bills, the scene was real
| " beautiful to behold"
That powerful band Of music at West
Point wilfb the death OF somebody,
one Of these DAYS. The rending Of
blue dark hills, in the corn husking
season, is likely to be expensive to the
farmers in its vicinity, and ought to be
forbidden. The scene may he really
beautiful with the fine band bursting,
ETC., but il isn't right to get M these
expensive sights, even for the dclccta-
ton Of General Grant.
Another brilliant production, which
appeared last year, was the letter Of
an imaginative fashion correspondent
who described a toilet Of the Empress
Eugenie in the following words:
"Shc wore grave, renecting robe,
on which hues of stcel-gray met rays
Of studious brown, the ensemble being
FURNISHED amor. This very appro-
pirate suit, uniting sober contemp.a-
ton with inYincible ideas, was trimm-
ed dowr in front with black lace bows,
from the throat to the ground"
1t is not often that an ordinary
newspaper writer is willing TO culti-
vate the art Of calling spade spade.
With him place is locality" he
does not allow you to go anywhere
you must ''proceed;" when YOU cat,
he says You "partake;;' You do not
show your feeling, YOU "evince" it;
you do not lose ANYTHING, you only
sustain a loss;" and when YOU shoot
a pheasant, "the spangled exotic Of
the woods comes crashing down like
The broken end OF a rainbow, or piece
Of damaged jcwelry." lie is apt to
waste time in hunting for long "socie-
ty" words, allowing his sentences to
express just such ideas as the labor
and ingenuity Of the reader may cx-
tricatc from the labyrinth Of words.
He calls woman "icmale;" 4 man
an "individual"-and. as Dean Afford
says, sometimes applies the term par
ty" to either, as in the case Of Il vener-
able dignitary once spoken Of as "an
old party in a shovel" He learns
few French words, and rarely loses an
opportunity to folst them upon his
readers. His audiences at the concert
are of the elite, which, nine times out
Of ten. he prcnounccs cclighf; the din.
ncrs of which he "partakes," arc