New-York tribune., 1880-02-15
PRINTERS ERRORS.
From The Glo6e Lo,,doa.)

From a collection of what termed first proofs
or slips containing the mistakes OF the newspaper
compOsitOr before thev come under the notice of the
reviser we Gull few which show the ludicrous ma
ture OF printers errors:
&" In the same speech Mr.. Gladstone dwelt on the
right which England had earned by expenditure of
blood and treasure to interfere IN Turkish prov
inces but DOw with leopard and hound, he has
formulated plan for making the Christian PROV
iDces practically autonomous" The conversion OF a
leap and a bound into n leopard and hound must
have taxed the ingenuity OF the composer, who must
have set up the next paragraph in which we read
that the Christian religion strictly cnJoins mahOg-
a,iy" instead of " mOnogamv'
referring 10 one of MIR. L. A. FIeeman's queer
nnlitical notions a writer is made accountable for
saving Coming as II does from one who mas gained
real distinction barbarian" whcp II y obvious
lee wrote " historian In the same article we read
II is almost incredible that III spite Oi these facts
the ex-PFemicr should have ventuIed to tell even
noisy snOb that the air of the government -, ETC.
Here, Of course, the word should De mon, WHO
when MIR Gladstone is represented rs beng descIlhc
by Que of his admirers as the spoui OF The Liberal
party" we should understand spirit to be IN
We proceed to quote iacisng the error and
quoting the right word within brackets. The
danger of mistaking the poisonous forms OF nush
room for those which are not only edible. but
wholesome and nutritious, stands III tie way OF q
more general acceptance oi u" |gS ,hir as an
article OF food" On theiT return,
they proceeded TO make bread with The recently pur
chased 1onr, and, having partaken of it, the PAIR at
once became dciicious ldeilrlOus.' " In
| August 500 when Mr. Nigau was lessee Of the
4
Prince Cdrnirql bgd Nan lCamarazaman."
The cOmpOsitOr is a great master OF surprise. He
is ready TO announce in one sentence That II the
! truth urk cannot hold C0nstantmOpe 1t vii. fall
10 the lot of Aryan Power 10 do sO, and IN the
next proceeds to explain that The cyllisaiIOn OF
| the nineteenth century is cOnRhy OrqaH lpurcly
Aryanl development" In announcing that the
meeting of the picked athletes OF England and
Ireland took place. he Is anxious 10 term them
yked athletics" He is anxious to tell us that since
st. Albans has been converted into an episcopal see,
steps have taken to ObtaInfor it the dignity OF
deiy Ia cyI; he is not abashed when he puts into
type the announcement that waterman rowing
by at the time of the occurrence was knocked down.
and one OF his IOaTs carried at least thirty
| wards away; or that "Archdcacon Denson pre-
seuted 10 COnvocatiOn too grave mind 1.-TWO grava-
nina" -; or that there was no longer chairman
| 1Cbinamanl in Kashgar in 1867"
There are a few Others Of his exploits with which
| we shall conclude. "The Porte undertook not to
| establish a fictitious blockhead" blockadel. :
The President to-day delivered his triangular lin
| ongmralI address, -. with him patriotism
| has ceased to be a risitOr lvirtuel. " The
action of the salt water affects tue steel so rapidly
that pocket knife. after two or three days INNER
sion Is miserable" unserviceabel. lie
| challenged the Government to state their lntcn-
fions as 10 whether they meant to annex territory,
or to support some ruler whose power would depend
On British bqpGucts lbayonetsl During a gale
Yesterday morning fishing smack was WTeiched
Iwreckedl at the mouth of the Humber"
With the following exquisite bit Of dramatic crtl-
cism we leave the subject: " The manner IN when
She gathered in her embrace the dying head, and
approached her lips to those of her lover TO shrink
back with fear and horror from the smell OF the
person poisonI and the presence OF death, was al
mirabe."