Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
Typographical Blunders.

Ny subject is the Printers Devil, and
the ground this essaylet is intended to
cover is the fertile field of typographical
| errors.
The devils work sometimes causes such
curious felicities of style that it is hard to
| believe they are unintentional. 1t seems
quite right for a locomotive to cut COW
into calves, and for Secretary Richard
son to intend resigning about the middle
of June; and when the editor of the En-
glish Chtnl1ley Corner informed a cor
respondent who asked to be told of a
publication that will suit him" that
the publication that will SCOT you is the
Chimney Corner. :" 1t was during the
war that Western paper said the army
was IN want of consecrated beef and
desecrated vegetables; and about the
same time gigantic headline, The
British Lion Shaking His Manem was
spread before the astonished world as
The British Lion Skating in Maine :"
A Mobile paper said river steamboat
had come to grief owing to running
! against a rat; the subscribers wondered,
probably, at the unusual size of the
water-rat, but felt relieved when the next
! number of the paper said for rat" read
raft" Mr. Horace Greeley once wrote
a notice to be posted up outside the
tribune office during some repairing,
Entrance on Spruce street, and the imp
who copied it hung out Editors on a
| Spree" And a Democratic paper,
| speaking of the Baltimore nominee at
the last general election, said that OF two
evils the party had chosen the beast!
Lord Brougham once referred to the
masses" but the Times report made him
| say them asses" So good a political
weapon as misprint did not escape the
| grasp of Mr. Punch, who in 1910 printed
this pungent paragraph: "Erratum IN
the Times. For though Sir Robert Peel
is the Ostensible head, the Duke of Well
| ington holds the reins Of the present ad-
ministration, read the Duke of Yelling
| ton holds the brains of the present admin
istration. A Troy paper printed an
obituary notice with the title =" A Good
Joke" and headed the jest, A Sad An
nOuncement"
Who would recognize Mr.. Eggleston's
dramatic stories under names like
"Who'S Your Schoolmaster?" and "The
| Circus Rider?" I'm Garden" is easily
read "Enoch Arden" but few would be-
lieve Raw and Fried" to be the mis-
print of German compositor for "Au-
rora Floyd 80 Very Human" was
printed in the London Times so Very
| HeinOus." In an American catalogue
one of Dickens novels was announced as
Barney, by Rudge, $3.50" A pretty
comedy called "Plighted Troth" failed
because the play-bill of its first
performance was headed "Blighted
Froth." If NJ. Sardou reads the Amer
lean papers, he must by this time lie &C
| Il no
| popular Partisan playwright, Mons Sar
dine" A Chicago paper recently said:
AT the commencement of the second
scene the King of Terrors made his first
appearance" which would lead one to
believe that grizzly Death had been a
visitor to the entertainment; but upon
examination it appears that Terr0rs
should be I'enOrS. A very cOmiCal SEN
tence was recently found in the pro-
gramme of a concert given in London by
NJ. GOunOd: Song, She Wandered
Down the Mountain Side accompanied
! by the composer" And at another con-
| cert in New York a young lady was an
nounced to sing the favorite song, "An
| Angels Whiskerm 1t was at musical
entertainment given by some colOred
people that the tickets instead of "Not
transferable, bore the legend, mo gen
| tleman admitted unless he comes his
self" (This is not printers error, and
has no business in these pages at ALL
Many of the blunders found in the
daily press are due to the writer's rather
than the printers Editors dashing off a
hurried editorial article often make bulls
The London Daily Telegraph said that
the Russian fleet was going to the Black
Sea 81 to take part in the autumn maneu-
vers next summer" A Bengal editor,
writing in favor of the income tax hoped
that the Government will not repeat
the blunder of killing the calf that laid
the golden eggs" mixture of metaphor
only equaled by the Vermont clergyman
who took charge of the local paper for
a week, and began religious article,
"When we look back upon the untrodden
paths Of the future we behold the foot
prints of an Almighty hand"
Two lines of a Well-known hymn
Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees,
were once changed into
Satan triumphs when he sees
The wicked saint upon his knees.
But this is surpassed by the message
sent by the telegraph operator to ply
stefan: "Come at. once to see procession
of Carrie Spencer's menagerie;" when
it was repeated it read: Come at once
with prescription. Case of cerebro-
spinal meningitis. "-GaIary.