The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02
Some Absurh Printers, Errors.


From collection of what are termed
first proofs, or slips containing the mis-
takes of the newspaper compositor be.
fore they come III der tue notice OF the
recviser, we Gull few which show the
iudicrous nature of printers errors. In
the same speech Mr.. Gladstone dwelt
on the right which England had earned
by expenditure of blood and treasure 10
interfere in Turkish provinces; but
now, with leopard and hound, he
has formulated plan for making the
Christian provir ces practically autono-
nous" The conversion Of leap and a
bound into "a leopard and hound must
have taxed the ingenuity of the COM
poser, who must have set up the next
paragraph, in which we read that "the
Christian religion strictly enjoins ma
hogany," instead of monogamy."
Referring to one of E. A. Freeman 8
queer political notions, writer is made
accountable for saying, "Coming as it
DIES from one wha has gained real dis
ioction as bar rbarian," when it is OBJ
vious he wrote HISTORIAN" In the
same article we read: 1t is almost in
credible 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." When
Mr.. g adstone is represented as being
| described by one of his admirers as
the spout of the Liberal party" we
should understand esprit to be in
| tended.
We proceed to quote, italiczing the
| error and quoting the right word within
parentheses: The danger OF mistaken
the poisonous forms of mushroom for
those which are not only edible but
wholesome and nutritious stands in the
way of a more general acceptance of the
fftoerS Qungus) as an article OF food
80" "On their return they proceeded
to make bread with the recently pur-
chased flour, and, having partaken Of
it, the pair at once became delicious
(delirious.") "In August, 1865,
when Mr.. Wigan was lessee of the
Olympic theater, he brought out piece
called Prince CarniuGL By a Han
(Camaralzaman.w
The compositor is a great master of
surprise. He is ready TO announce in
one sentence that "if the trstb (rurk)
cannot hold Constsntinople 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 century is a
cou"try organ (purely Aryan) develop
ment." In announcing that the
meeting of the picked athletes of Eng
land and Ireland took place, he is
anxious to term them "pickled ath-
letics." He is anxious to tell us that
since St. Adams has been convered
into an episcopal see, steps have been
taken to obtain for it the dignity ol
deity "a city,; he is not abashed whe
he puts into type the announcement
that a waterman rowing by at the
time of the occurrence was knocked
down. and one of his ears (oars) was car
ried at least thirty yards away" or that
Archdeacon Denison pre- sented to con
vocation too grace q mind (two grava
mina); or that 1" there was no longer s
chairman (Chinaman) in Kashgar in
There are few others of his exploit:
with which we shall conclude. "Tht
Porte undertook not 10 establish fc
titious blochhead" (blockade).
THE president to-day delivered hi
triangular GnauguraO address"
"With his patriotism has ceased to bl
a rtstter" (yirtue). THE &C
tion of the salt water affects the stee
so rapidly that pocket knife, after twt
or three days' immersion is miserable
(unserviceable). "He chal
lenged the government to state their in
tentions as to whether they meant t.
annex territory, or to support some rule
, whose power would depend on tn
: British banquets" (bayonets.) "Duriu!
gale yesterday morning a fishing
smack was Wretehed (wrecked) at tn
mouth of the Humber" With the fol
lowing exquisite bit of dramatic criti
cism we leave the subject: "The man
@ per in W. which she d gathered in her o,,a EN-
7 her lips to those of her lover, 10 shrinl
} back with fear and horror from th
smell of the person (poison) aud tn
l presence of death was admirable y
3 London Globe.