The Portland daily press., 1880-02-20
Printers Errors.
London Globe.


From a collection of what are termed first
proofs, or slips containing the mistakes of the
newspaper compositor before they COME
under the notice of the reviser, we cnll few
which show the ludicrous nature of the print
ers' errors:
SIN the same speech Mr.. Gladstone dwelt on
the right which England had earned by expen-
diture of blood and treasure to interfere in
Turkish provinces; but now, with a leopard
and a hound, he has formulated a plan for
making the Christian provinces practically au-
tonomous.' The conversion of leap and a
bound into leopard and hound must have
taxed the ingenuity of the printer, who must
have set up the next paragraph, in which we
read that "the Christian religion strictly en-
joins mahogany instead of ''monogamy.
Referring to one of Mr.. E. A. Freeman's
queer political notions writer is made ac-
countable for saying, Coming as it does from
one who has gained real distinction as barba-
rian," when it is obvious he wrote Historian"
In the same article we read, at is is almost
incredible that in spite of these facts the ex-
Premier should have ventured to tell even
noisy snob that the air of the Government is"
etc. Here, of course, the word should be
"mob," while when Mr. Gladstone is repre-
sented as being described by one of his admir-
ers as 'the spout of the Liberal party,' we
should understand ''spirit" to be intended.
We proceed to quote, italicsing the error.
and quoting the light word within brackets.
The danger of mistaklng the poisonous forms
of mushroom for those which are not only edi-
he, but wholesome and nutritious, stands in
the way of q more general acceptance of the
fingers [fungusl as an article of food"
'.On their return, they proceeded to make
having partaken Of it, the pair at once became
delicious [delirious''] Sin August,
1865, when Mr.. Wigan was lessee of the Olym-
pic Theatre, he brought out there piece called
Prince Caraicdt by a Man (Camaraizanan."
The compositor is great master If surprise.
He is ready to announce in one sentence that
''if the truth Turk cannot hold Constantine
| pie it will fall to the lot of some Aryan power
| to do SO" and in the next proceeds to explain
| that 1.-The civilization of the nineteenth centu-
| ry is a country organ purely Aryan] develop
ment" In announcing that the meeting Of
| the picked athletics OF England and Ireland
took place, he is anxious to term them "pick-
| led atheietics.' He is anxious to tell us that
since st. Albans has been converted into an
episcopal see, steps have been taken to obtain
| for it the dignity Of deity Ia city]; he is not
abashed when he puts into type the announce
| ment that .'a waterman rowing by at the time
| of the occurrence was knoc ed down and one
| of his ears [oars] was carried at least thirty
yards away; or that "Archdeacon Denison
presented to Convocation too Craze mind
| two gravamina]''; or that "there was no long
er chairman [Chinaman] in Kashgar in
| 1867"
| There are few others of his exploits with
which we shall conclude. "The Porte unde r
| took not to establish fictitious blockhedd''
| [blockade]. THE President to-day
delivered his triangular inaugural address. u
with him patriotism has ceased to
be uisitOr [virtue"] "The action
| of the salt water affects the steel so rapidly
that pocketknife, after two or three days
immersion, is miserable [unserviceable"l.
''He challenged the Government to state
| their intentions as to whether they meant to
annex territory, or to support some ruler hose
power would depend on British bdnquets bay
| onets']. "Duringa gale yesterday morning a
fishing smack was wretched [wreckedl at the
mouth of the Humber "
With the following exquisite bit of dramatic
| criticism we leave the subject: 'The manner
in which she gathered in her embrace the dy-
ing head, and approached her lips 10 those OF
her lover, to shrink back with fear and horror
from the smell Of the person [poison] and the
presence Of death, was admirable"