The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-14
DROLL BLCNDERS.
Lau"habIe Mistakes OF Men Both liz.
nOrant and learned.

nOrant and learned.
AN amusing book has been recently
published entitled "A Book of Blum
ders.' 1t is republication of a series
OF papers and letters sent to the elias.
gov Herald. We give a few extracts
from it.
As specimens of typographical err.
rors. there are among others the fol.
lowing: BY the insertion of one letter
IN place of another, a newspaper, not
long since, reporting the danger that
an express train had run, in conse.
quence OF cow getting upon the line,
sad: p" AS the safest way, the engineer
put on full steam. dashed up against
the COW, and literally cut it into
calresr'
Never perhaps was the word "au-
stere' more misconstrued than in the
instance of clergyman in Lancashire
who got a wholesome warning in re-
gard to pulpit articulation, by discoy-
erlng in one house which he visited the
day after preaching from Luke xix:2l,
that the servant had gone home with
the impression that his text had been,
81 feared thee. because thou art an
oyster man."
A Hampshire incumbent recently re-
ported in the Pail Mall Gazette some of
the blunders he had heard made in the
marriage service by that class of per-
sons who have to pick up the words rs
best they can. from hearing them re-
peated by others. He said that in his
own parish it was quite the fashion for
the man, when giving the ring, to say
to the woman: with my body 1 thee
wash up. and with all my hurdle goods,
1 thee and thou" He said the women,
were generally better up in this part of
the service than the men. One day.
however, bride startled him by prom
Using in what she supposed to be the
language of the prayer-book, tO take
her husband: ITO ave and to old
from this day fort-ni't fo' betterer
horse, for richerer power, in siggerness
health, to love cherries and to bay."
What meaning this extraordinary vow
conveyed to her mind, the incumbent
said it batfled him to conjecture.
The stories told of the plumbers made
by Oxford and Cambridge undergrad
yates in the Scripture examination are
almost incredible. One of these, when
asked who was the first King of Israel,
was 50 fortunate as to stumble upon
the name of Saul" He saw that he
had hit the mark, and wishing to show
the examiners how intimate his knowl.
edge of the Scriptures was, added, con-
fidentially, saul, also called Paul. :"
Another was asked to give the parable
OF the good Samaritan. He did so with
tolerable accuracy till he came to the
place where the Samaritan SAYS to the
innkeeper: "When l come again will
repay thee" Here the unlucky exam
liner added: "This he said, knowing
that he should see his face no morer'
A ludicrous story is told of bailie,
whose studies in natural history seem
to have been rather limited. The fol-
lowing case came before him one dav:
A man who kept a ferret, having to
60 into the country, left the cage with
the ferret in charge of a neighbor till
he should return. The neighbor in
cautiously opened the cage door, and
the ferret escaped. The owner was
very angry, and brought claim against
his neighbor for damages. The follow
ing was the decision of the learned
bailie; mae doot," he said to the man
who had been left in charge, eye was
wrang to open the cage door; but" he
added. turning to the other, Eye was
wrang. too. For why did We no Clip the
brute's wings?'
1t is also told of a certain Glasgow
bailie that when visiting Paris as one
of deputation from Glasgow to Louis
Philippe, the King said, when showing
the party through his library, where he
had many of the English classics:
"You will know Milton very well?''
"Oh, bless yeu, yes; bless you, yes. !"
said the bailie, cheerfully, delighted
that something had been mentioned
that he did know. Eyes, Your Maj
esty, know Milton very WELL" mil
ton is little place in the neighborhood
of GlasgowO "we're Just building
slaughter-hOuses there"
By the bad arrangement of clauses in
composition, ludicrous blunders are
sometimes made. A Wisconsin paper
announced that the Board of Education
had resolved to erect building large
enough to accommodate 500 students
three stories high" In an English
paper an advertisement appeared, un-
der the heading of ITO Let" of "A
house for "a family in good repair. -
THE brooches would have been sent
before but have been unwell," was a
note Of apology sent to Dean Afford by
his jeweler; and 1.-TWO sisters want
Washing was an advertisement which
appeared in the Manchester Guardian.
An amusing style of blunder Is the
"bull." for which the Irish get most
credit. 1t was an Irish editor that ex-
claimed, when speaking of the wrongs
OF his country: Her cup of misery
has been overlooking, and is not yet
full" 1t was an Irish newspaper that