The Worthington advance., 1882-03-16
NUMBER %.
TROUBLESOME TYPEx
Some Curious Biunders Made by the ''Inte
ligeut" Colnpositor.

Some Curious Biuntaers Made by the .'Intel-
ligent" Colnpositor.
The newspaper render who thoroughly
p~ruses 8 his daily sheet frequently finds
ludicrous blunder of the types, perhaps in
an editorial on The Utterly Unkuowable
OF the Hereafter" or in an obituary notice.
which convulses him with laughter and en-.
hrely destroyes the intended effect Of the
one and the sober seriousness Of the other.
In most newspaper Offices, whenever the
paper itself is referred to, it IS the Gus
tom to unoelscore the name
and set it in "emall caps."
A Herald reporter in his report Of prayer
meeting. quoted the word "herald" in 4
we'll known hymn. The proof reader, un-
dersoored the word, and the quotation ap.
peared as follows: 4Hark! the Herald an
gels sing" The New York
Worlds printing of the word shouts"
IN the report of a political
meeting was so ludicrously funny as to
make the blunder famous. "The encuts
OF 0,o0O democrats rent the air." said the
report. An advertisement, irquiring for u
two story house" was set up by accident
"anted-a two story louse." The unfor-
tnnate typo got large sized flea in his
eur for the mistake. Curiosity exhibitors
have searched in ain for the man wLon
the compositor stated had appealed to the
postmaster. general with tears in his ears. ,"
Not long ago western paper printed, in u
high flown report OF the dedication of
monument, AS he uttered these noble
sentiments. the toying Winds that kissed his
brow. gently culled The flag around him
like winding shirt" "Sheet" was the
RIGHT word, but Il. C." set it up shirt" to
the disgust of the reporter and the speaker,
An editor wrote Of Conkling, The jove-
like grandeur Of bis brow" ETC., but the
type sticking fiend made him say, The
Joy street grandeur of his brow" One of
the city papers not long ago stated that
The president was greeted with t1enend-
Gus tears when be took bis seat" Did it
mean crocodile tears or cheers"
In the report of q Sunday
school anniversary Il southern
TYPO" unfortunately read "ordez" in the
following AS "odor, and set it up so that j,
read, Perfect odor and deco,un, va
maintained" A wolthy rtelate was c:llet'
by the Winnepeg Times, in an obituary, a
worthy pirate" 4 reverend gentleman
who had lectUred the night before upon
The lDtluence Of Kome on the Formation
OF Christianity" wanted to commit suicide
or murcer the next morning, he read in the
paper that he had lecfured upon The In
hIence of Rum on the Formation of
Christianity. In reporting the sermon of
Rev. Dr. Mellor before the Congregational
Union, where the reverend gentleman
spoke of women clothed in eancity," by
the unfortunate transposition of the g" =
Cardiff paper printed the phrase, woman
clothed with scantity" But the a. c."
does not always make the mistake; some.
times. whcu tho reporter is wiring for life
and maney-in the wee hours of the morn
ing, and ,s reminded At I,alf-nlinute inter
walls, By the night editor, 10 rush that copy
going to close up," he often makes the
most egregious bIunders. One Chicago
news gatherer wrote: The boy was quite
dead; no efforts could resuscitate him in
the least" Another quill driver, from the
same town, reported: Lucy Roberts, the
child who was killed yesterday by locomo-
tive at tie rouud-housc Of the Chicago. AL
ton & st. Louis railroad, died at 3 o'clock
this morning from the effects of her in-
juries.
Soli!'fied stimulus.
From the New York Herald.
The many eople who frequently want
drop OF something to make them feel
right when they are too cold or too hot, or
too wet or too dry, CT something, will re-
joice to hear that foreign chemists have
discovered how to solldify vine and spirits.
Hereafter man should be able to carry
some crumbs of tho precious stuff in his
vest poc'let instead of going about with
cork protruding from pocket of Ills coat,
and instead of his inviting his boon CON-
panions to the nearest bar. he can ctfer
them a hracer from neat box no larger
than II cigar case. Better yet, it is said
that IL the process OF solidica-
ton the liquor loses its smell, SO TO
man after refreshing himself need
rack his brain for plausible e1pla.
nations TO make his wife about the aro-
ma OF cloves or coffee that he exhnles.
Under the new and solid dispensat:on, the
cotkscrew will not, as heretofore, be the
most important poi ton OF q travellers bag
gage, and even in Boston the ~aytariny
man will be able to stimulate in full sight
without being arres:ed. Whea election
day is about due, !, candidate will not need
keep open house" at every rum saop i'll
his district; he need only carry a pocketfu}
Of neat little boxes Of solidiEed patriotic
inspiration and distribute them freely
And yet it would be jast like asse mb]y men
coming down to New York after q week st
Albany to prefer the old way to the new,
for it takes something at least rs big as
quart bottle to seem worth tou ching by a
politician.