The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-09
Typographical Blunders.

My 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 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 Chimney Corner informed cor
respondent who asked to be told of
qualification 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 Manew was
spread before the astonished world as
:" The British Lion Skating in Mainew
A Mobile paper said river steamboat
had come to grief owing to running
against 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
Spree And Democratic paper,
speaking of the Baltimore nominee ut
the last general election, said that of two
evils the party had chosen the beast!
Lord Brougham once referred to 1.-THE
Masses" but the Times report made him
say them asses" So good political
weapon as a misprint did not escape the
grasp of Mr.. Punch, who in 1840 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.
licve Raw and Fried" to be the mis-
print OF German compositor for "Au-
rora Floyd $50 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.
lcan papers, he must by this time he &C.
customed to seeing himself called The
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 .
visitor to the entertainment; but upon
examination it appears that Terrors
should be Tenors. A very comical SEN
tence was recently found in the pro-
gramme of 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 young lady was an
nounced to sing the favorite song, An
Angels Whisker!" It was at q musical
given by some colored
people that the tickets instead of Mot
transferable" bore the legend. /" No 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 writers rather
han the printers. Editors dashing off |
hurried editorial article often make bulls. !
The London Daily Telegraph said that |
The Russian feet was going to the Black |
Sea Ito take part in the autumn mancu. |
Vers next summer" A Bengal editor,
writing In favor Of the income tar, hopsd |
mat the Government win not rerest |
the blunder Of killing the calf that laid !
me golden eggs;" mixture Of netaphos
only equsled BY the Vermont cler1ymaa
wno took charge Of the local paper for /,
. wsek' and began . religious article,
When We look hack unrsn thA uutrn11Aem