The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-06
TELEGRAPHIc BLuNpeRs.
Funny Mistakes Made by Absent-N,naad
knights of the Kew.

hHishss OF the Key.
1t isn't meant to be charged that tho
majority of kilograms or specials have
mistakes in them. The PERCENTAGE of
errors is enthusiastically small. hut the
errors that are made are funny and soon
get talked around among the bows
Cog at once, Big Bill to-niobtn was
message delivered to lady visiting in
Kansas from her husband in a neigbbor-
ing city of the same State. The awful
suspicion flashed upon her mind that
the Liquor law was being fiaorantlv
violated in the immediate vicinity Of
her husband. But who was big Billp"
Was he some border outlaw? What was
the significance of cog" anv wavp AS
the last question occurred to her sh,
sought and consulted the pocket edition
of dictionary. The definition of .cog"
was terrible revelation. 1t read:
Cog. The tooth of wheel; trick:
to wheedle; to cheat"
She nearly tainted with fright. Her
husband was undoubtedly in the tolls
in the very teeth of this villain. "Ric
Bill" Her nervous prostration was ca
complete that she could barely com
municate the particulars to male rela-
tives, who were started on the first train
to the rescue of her husband. sRemem-
Der the clew," she said when thew de-
parted. eff there has been foul NAV
remember Big Bill" The relatives re-
turned next day with the husband and
the lucid explanation that the original
hVrh
once. Big ball tonight"
Agentleman who was not long since
stopping at one of the principal hotels
in this city, dividing his time between
attending to the business which neces-
STATED his presence in St. Louis and
bewailing the cruel fate which had tenn
porarily separated him from his young
wife of two months standing, recalls
the hours of anguish and uncertainty
which ensued upon the receipt of a
message from his wife, reading:
81 have twins. Written you but re-
ceived no reply. What is the matter?"
Since he has ascertained thai she had
twice written" etc., he will regard
every yellow envelope with suspicion.
ON"" AAAAc iAiOb IL yOu Cd1l, UnO 1tclluSS
Of rather high-flown n newspaper CORE
spondent who, after telegraphing to his
newspaper description of condemned
wife-murderer's last night on earth,
read in the paper when he received it
that
'He tossed restlessly about, and from
his mutterings it was apparent to all
that the shirt of his wife hung over
him.
This came from the telegraph office
and passed in some incomprehensibl
way; perhaps Spirits" were at fault
With the telegraph editor, compositor
and proof-reader successfully. But it
IS not likely any one has been more
1isgusted with the uncertainties of dots
and dashes than a young st. Louis tele-
yrapher who had never visited Chicago,
Who, after reading the name of the
famous hosiery of that city conducted
by Potter Palmer as the "Pat Moore
House." has since been known by his
Geographic acquaintances as Pat" to
she utter exclusion of his more euphoni-
>us patronymic, Eugene.
At small Office in the interior of this
State the whole available force of mos
,engers hunted half day for man
named E. c. Lipse before it dawned
IpOn the brilliant mind of the operator
hat it was intended for the Eclipse
newspaper office. In like manner
Sale Mills was omitted from the postal
guide, but Salem, Ill, was there, and at
that place was also an Infatuated man
waiting for long-delayed answer to
ais telegram. San Francisco Examiner.