Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-12-10
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I Slips.
From Chambers Journal.
Reporters for the press, like other human
, beings, are liable to make mistakes; an,
c when one considers the difficulties witt
: which they have to contend, we wonder tha
their blunders are not much more frequent
The reporter, however, it is but just to say
! is not always entirely at fault, seeing tina
7 be receives occasional assistance from tn,
r printer, and when both trip, the result is a
l times very funny.
As is generally know II, reporters are par
/ ticularly liable to blund ring when a speaker
! INDUCES in quotation. When Mr.. Lowe
quoted a stanzl from Coleridge's Ancient
| Mariner" in one of his speeches, not one
: of the London morning papers gave the line:
; correctly. Preaching before the British
t Association, the Archbishop of York bor-
rowed something from Tennyson, and al
though, in reporting his sermon, the Time,
contriyed to leave the poetry unmarried, il
, set down his grace as leading up to the quo
tation with, There is nothing ascertalnable
in what you call spiritual things; the post
Office telegraphs, which best interprets thi.
age, tells you the best you can come to in
that line of thought" Next morning it was
good enough to explain that 1.-THE postoilce
telegraphs" should be read the poet laure-
ate"
Another reverend orator, winding up an
address with.
Only the actions Of the Just
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust
was rather surprised at seeing Shirley 5
tolerably familiar couplet transmogrifel in
to,
All the low actions Ot the just
Swell cut and blow Sam IN the dust.
Equally astonished, we dare say, was Pro-
tessor Huxley at finding himself Eathering
upon Locke the extraordinary political doc
trine that the end Of government WAS the
good Of the the government but his indis-
nation was hardly likely to be so great as
that of a peace-at-any-p advocate when
he discovered that's cruel Northern journalist,
10y merely introducing one unnecessary let
ter, turned what was intended to be sub
lime into something delicionsy ridiculous.
and made his vigorous peroration end
Let Us, then, unanimously, earnestly, re-
outely, take our place in that increasing
host,
AlOh. whose front no sahres shine
No blood-red pennon wave,
Whose banners bear the .iuple line
Our duty is to shave
la Justice 10 the fraternity. it must be
conceded that reporters are often Sadlled
with other folk : sins Ii must have been
the compositor's fault that the preacher
Men should work and play too" was chang
Ell into Men should work and play Loo. ="
and that the death of the subject Of c1r,-
ner's inquest was attributed to "seri1us
apoplexy."
But for the worthy compostor' ingenious
misreading OF his copy, the public would
never have known that "a number of small
sextons' had been sent out with the Asian
tee expedition that the Pitt,burs legislature
had pasted" certain bill over the Cover
nor's head that gentleman connected with
the Brighton Aquarium had undertaken
the charge OF "a marine aud fresh-tater
aquarium in New York" and that one
evening the house Of commons ordered the
the chairman "to repeat prayers, instead
Of reporting progress. Nor was it anybody
else : fault that our grcat-grandfAthers were
scanialized at learning that at the Oh
/ Bally sessions in 1893. the grand Jury, at-
ter suitable exh0rtatiOn FROM Lord Kenyon.
were ordered to be privately whipped and
discharged. We have read however. of
more impossible things coming to pass than
the whipping Of grand Jurors. Not long
ago, tailor stood in the dock for mi,ap-
/ propriatlng his employers property, and the
latter, We are told, depO>ed that 1.-THE ma
terials were to be returned made up on a
/ Thursday, and on the Sunday following he
/ discovered that the deceased had left his
home, and he did not see him again until he
wa, in custody" The deceased" was SEN
fenced to month hard labor The fol-
/ lowing is a curious sample OF printers mix
ture which the Daily Telegraph once set be-
fore its readers. This purported to be
case in the bankruptcy court, and after
stating tha, the registrar ordered 4 receiver
| to be appointed, but declined TO restrain the
action OF the creditors, went on thus a
/ good deal OF eyiicnce was given, and in
the course of the case his lordship expressed
an opinion that JIr0r should be withdrawn,
and that the case was one for only tdrth-
/ IN damages. 1t was, the Judge said, sad
/ thing to see young man IN such position
which, there was no doubt, had been Brought
about by habits OF intemperance, and but
for the recommendation of the Jury, he
should have passed q very severe sentence
lie advised him 10 abstain from drink for
the future and sentenced him to be imprison-
Ell and kept to hard labor for six months =
Some Of the Industrious gentlemen whose
ayocation it Is to hunt up news for proyin-
cial journals have very odd way Of putting
thing' Under the heading. Death from
/ Drowning, We read "On Saturday, Mr. j
/ {. Jarrold, deputy-coroner. held an inquest
at the Hazard Arms. Mil Lane, concerning
| the death Of Thomas Shipp, who was drown
! al IL e D.,
/ the coming to grief Of young trapeze per
/ former, the reporter says 1T was after
wards discovered that the boys collar bone
was broken bat, unfortunately, his injuries
are rot Of Il dangerous description.
/ Another announces, without a word OF pro
test against the yiyisectionists, that a
/ British Workman Is about to be opened at
Morpeth." A third tells u "A pony-car
| riage was passing along New Bond Street.
| Bath, when, in turning into Northgate
/ Street, it fell down and broke both Of its
/ legs" Recording some steepe-chase doings At
Monaghan, the irisb Times said a very
nice day : sport was carried on over an ex-
| cellent course, all grass, over the lands of
/ Mr.. Henderson, whose hospitality was un-
| bounded. 1t consisted of two walls, two
! bank drops, water cut. and two hurdles
/ Telling Of man who lost his life in a riot,
p Belfast paper ended the story with
They fired two shots at him the first shot
/ killed ham. but the second was not fatal.
/ lie was not blessed with couple Of lives,
/ like the deaf man, named Taft, who was
run down by a passenger train and killed
he was injured in a similar way year ago. "
! The Irish journalists. however, cannot ie
accused of monopolizing the manufacture Of
bulls; their English brethren are equally
clever that way as they proved by sending
the Princess Louise to Wimbledon "tO wit
ness the shootingof her husband describ-
| ing the Prince of Wales's second son as IAN
amiable boy like his mother" and announc-
Ing that the Duke Of Hamilton would short
ly take to wife "the late Lady Mary Louisa
Elizabeth Montague"
An American editor, receiving a telegram
from London, running "Oxford Music Hall
burned to the ground, p" jumping too hastily
to conclusions, hastened TO publish the
melancholy news that the principal music
hall of acc demic Oxford had been utterly
destroyed by fire; and not content with IA
simple announcement of the disaster in
formed!his readers that the burned hall was
situated in the midst of the historic colleges
Of Oxford, which had miracuously escaped
destruction from the flames, which, famed
into fury by favorable wind, lit up the
academic spires and groves as they ran along
the rich cornices, Tapped the gorgeous pill
lars, shrivelled up the roof and grasped the
mighty walls of the ancient building in their
destructive embraces, filling townsmen and
gownsmen with terror and CONSERVATION,
until driven back by an unfavorable wind /,
the flames gradually suceumbed to the super
human efforts of the fremen, and the great
seat of learning was saved from the fate Of
Boston.
Equally imaginative was the account given
by fashionable London newspaper of the
enthronement of the present Bishop of Lin
coin and considering that town journalists
are never chary of making fun ont of the
mistakes of the country press, it was net
surprising that the Lincolnshire Chronicle