, 1882-07-07
typographical Errors


One of the funniest freaks in tbo
newspaper business is the wav 10
which typographical errors '.creenS
into print Like accidents in FAM.
lies, they happen in the best regn.
lated newspapers. The proverb of
the printer that there never was
paper geographically perfect, is true
and this fact might afford a crumb Of
comfort to those who have had their
feelings lacerated by having their
manuscript butchered by the printer
The "intelligent compositor" is tho
scapegoat who bears the brunt of tbe
blame, and, like charity, hides a mnI,
titude Of sins committed by the corps
OF editors, contributors and CORE,
spondents, whose chirography. or.
biography and syntax would canso
the bones OF Lindley Murray to turn
over in their grave, if they could see
the manuscript, let alone making n
devil in printing office indulge
in remarks bordering on the pro.
fame.
In a certain Office some time 400
an editor wrote a death notice of n
prominent individual, in which he
said that the person had died of IN
brief but severe illress,' and the com.
positor placidly set it up brief but
serene"
In the same Office, local editor
with the fertility of expression and
oriental extravaganza of language
peculiar to that order of human be.
ings, compared the intensity of rain
to the manner in which the water
comes down at Lodore," and the un.
righteous compositor put it like the
water comes down at Ladoga," and
then had the cheek to ask the writer
what constituted the difference be.
tween waterfall at Ladoga and any
other seaport.
A contributed article to a weekly
paper contained the expression.
Jonah and the whale" This was
sticker The manuscript was passed
all around the Office, and no one was
able to decipher the mysterious words.
The aid of higher power was in
voked, and the local editor undertook
to translate the copy, and read the
libel law through twice to see what
the penalty would be if he should
publish his opinion of the correspond
ent. The senior editor, who is well
versed in literature, thought he had
seen the expression somewhere, but
was of the opinion that it referred to
Joan of Arc. The compositor from
Michigan decided it was John and
Willie" and the rest of the boys de-
cided that he should be Immediately
fired from the third story window to
the street below. Bell was inclined
to the belief that it meant Juliet and
Romeo% Hawkins said Jim Crow"
and Wishard insisted that it was po-
ct cal, and referred to John Ander-
son, My Jo." After further delibera-
ton, it was decidedto have some kind
Of distant reference to natural his
tory, and was ordered to be printed
Jokes about the whale" and it was so
''sot."
The mistakes of n printer are as
many and frequent as those Of any
other sinner, but after all they could
hardly be worse than the editor who
discharged his printers, and inserted
the following notice in his next Is
suo:--
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COFFEE IN TYPHOID FEyER.-Dr.
of the French navy, in a
recent paper on typhoid fever, says:
" Coffee has given us unhoped for
after having dispensed
it, we find, to our great surprise, that
its action is as prompt as it is de-
cisive. No sooner have our patients
taken n few tablespoonfuls Of it than
their features become relaxed and
they come to their senses. The next
day the improvement is such that we
are tempted to look upon coffee as a
specific against typhoid fever. IN
der its influence the stupor is dis
PEELED, and the patient rouscs from
the state of somnolency in which he
has been since the invasion OF the
disease; all the functions take their
natural course, and he enters upon
convalcscence." Dr. Guillasse gives
to an adult two or three tablespoon
fuls Of strong black coffee every two
hours, altenated with one or two
of claret or Burgundy
wine. A little lemonade or citrate OF
should be taken daily, and
after awhile quinine. From the
fact that malaise and cerebral symp
toms appear first, the doctor regards
typhoid fever as q nervous disease
and the coffee acting on the nerves
is peculiarly indicated in the early
stages before local complications
arise.
ONCB, when somewhat under the
influence Of drink, a certain citizen