The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-11
Some Funny Telegraphic Blunder!


1t isn't meant to be charged that the majority
of kilograms or specials have mistakes in them.
The percentage of error is infnitesimally small,
says the San Francisco Examiner, but the err
rors that are made are funny and soon get
talked around among the boys.
Cog at once, Big Bill tonight" was q mes
sage delivered to a lady visiting in Kansas from
her husband in neighboring city of the same
state. The awful suspicion flashed upon her
mind that the liquor law was being fa,sranty
violated in the Immediate vicinity of her hus
band. But who was s'Bg Bill" was he some
border outlaw? What was the significance OF
''cog," anyway? AS the last question occurred
to her she sought and consulted the pocket
edition of dictionary. The definition of cog
was terrible revelation. 1t read:
Cog. The tooth of wheel; trick; tc
wheedle; to cheat"
She nearly tainted with fright. Her husband
was undoubtedly in the toils-in the very teeth
of this villain, big Bill" Her nervous prostra-
ton was so complete that she could barely com.
municate the particulars to male relatives, who
were started on the first train to the rescue OF
Remember the clew," she said when they
departed. IF there has been foul play relnem
Der Big Bill"
The relatives returned next day with the hus-
band, and the lucid explanation that the orr
ginal message written by him read: Come al
once big ball tonight"
gentleman who was not long since stopping
at one OF Une principal notes In tDlS city. oil
viding his time between attending to the bust
ness which necesitated his presence in st. Louis
and bewailing the cruel fate which had tempo
! rarily separated him from his young wife OF
| two months standing, recalls the hour of an.
guish and uncertainty which ensued upon the
receipt of a message from his wife reading:
Il have twins. Written you, but received nc
reply. What is the matt rY'
Since he has ascertained that she has twice
written ETC., he will regard every yellow en-
Velope with suspicion.
Just imagine, if you can, the feelings of
rather high-hown newspaper correspondent
who, after telegraphing to his newspaper a de
scription of a condemned wife-murderer's last
night on earth, read in the paper when he re-
ceived it that
He tossed restlessly about, and from his NUT
| terngs it was apparent to all that the shirt OF
his wife hung over him."
This came from the telegraph office, and
passed in some incomprehensible manner-per
haps Spirits were at fault with the telegraph
| editor, compostor, and proof-reader success
| sively. But it is not likely any one has beer
| more disguised with the uncertainties of dots
| and daShes than young st. Louis telegrapheT
who had never visited Chicago, who, after
| rendering the name of the famous hostelry OF
| that city conducted by Potter Palmer as tbs
Pat Moore House," has since been known by
| his Geographic acquaintances as Pat" to the
utter exclusion of his more euphonious
patronymic, Eugene.
At a small office in the interior of this state
the whole available force of messengers hunted
half day for man named +. @. LipSe before
it dawned upon the brilliant mind of the opera
tor that it was intended for 1.-The Eclipse
newspaper office. In a like manner Sale Mill.
was omitted from the postal guide, but Salem
ILL.,. was there and at that place was also ar
Infatuated man waiting for a long-dela yeC
answer to his telegram.