Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-29
Price Four Cents.

the existence of girls. based on the rudeness of design in nature, !" which was not eompI- mentary to the girls.
 Describing fort it was written that Gall the guns were en barbette," but the compost tor thought it would be better if ':all the guns were in Baireuth."
 ''An astronomer once saw thirty-six me- teors in the course of single hour" on their way through the composing room the meteors got stuck in the corner of a rough house,
 The heading to an account of a college feast was transformed from ''The Dartmouth Dinner" to the ''Foulmouth Dinner " which was not true, although there were many speakers.
 Speaking of the strain upon a laborer's muscles, 1t was written, ''when he lifts biz pipes or carries bricks in his bod, 7" but the compositor put the 'bricks in his hal. where, alas too many of them are carried.
 reporter, writing of an accident. put the cart before the horse by asserting that the horse backed overheard, drageins the cart after him Of course, if the proof reader had been thus mixed" there would have been trouble.
 A traveller in Africa told of an alligator which swallowed thirty-six missionaries. |" The printer must have been tilted, for, &C., eordlng to him, the reptile made his meal of "nurse- maids"
 A weekly newspaper lamented the prevail ing tendency of English girls of the period to defy the conventional restraints of former years: The compositor made it read icon nubial restraints
 Another inquirer wanted to know if the
 pohce cannot do something to prevent care less ana dangerous m blasting in the neighbor- hood Of Third avenue p and this is the WAY the typo put it: Cannot the police do some thing to prevent camels and deer from bleat- Ing in the neighborhood of Third avenue p,
 His blood boiled as he beheld youth and beauty ln the power of 8 determined viii lam, was what the author of a story wrote. His blood boiled as he beheld quilt and brandy in the form of determined villain. Is the way the compositor fixed it.
 Mir. McGinnis determined to exercise his marital right of "suorirg in his chair, but the compositor thought he would be better "snoozing in his straw" and possibly he was right
 Some time ago it was asserted that "a Can- ad1an had devised a scheme for warming his beloved land, ;" but the artist at the scase' said that he had devised scheme for ''wear- ing his blonde hair"
 Virginia paper said, during a political campaign, that the farmers would forget their pantry and nursery" in the excite ment of politics. What the editor wrote was that they would forget their poverty and misery"
 ''Ihe Duke of Brunswick is sick and all the courtiers of Europe are in futter' came up in type The Duke of Brunswick is sick and all the court geese of Europe are on plat ter,' which is a good place to put geese if they are nicely roasted.
 The list is not by any means exhausted and is being added to daily and nightly all over the country, but this article must close with one or two specimens of the kind of copy of which printers and proof-readers are expected to make intelligible advertise ments
 "A component m9ther wishing a child un- bottle or board best reverence"
 "A yong Heolly woman of IS, AS wet nurse with the privilege of own wages no Ob- jecting."
 And this notice from the Hartford Cou'ant will do for the ''inis": Births -s'Trum- bull-In Sudbury November 12, daughter to Jane and Sarah Trumbull.''