The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-21
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bound little edition, in which the sixth
verse of the sixth chapter of Proverbs
reads as follows;
go to the aunt thou sluggard, con-
slider her ways and be WISE The SIM
pie believer in even the literal inspira-
ton OF King James version, who would
read the text, would no doubt remain
convinced that Solomon had an exem-
plary relative in his mind when he thus
admonished the sluggard.
One of the most ludicrous announce
ments that ever appeared, perhaps, was
made by London newspaper in the
earlier half of the present century to
the effect that Sir Robert Peel land a
PARTY of fiends were shooting peasants
in Ireland" The words misprinted os
course. were Friends" and "pheas-
ants"
A French bachelor advertised for a
wife. A typographical error changed
his age from 81 TO 81, but it made no
difference, for he received two hundred
and fifty applications from ladies rang
ing from the age of sixteen to sixty,
and all promising love and devotion TO
the rest of his existence.
There is something quite epic in that
phrase which proof-readers found;
"An eloquent lunch was served last
evening" IAN elegant lunch" was cor
rect, but much more commonplace.
The phrase, ''the floods in China have
ruined the iron CROP" was rather mys-
tifying, and the composition who set up
"iron' for "riee" must have worked
very hard indeed.
Occasionally there are monumental
instances Of stupidity in a single SEN
tence, as for instance, when, during a
presidential tour through the west a
Boston proof-reader was confronted
upon a slip of telegraphic dispatches
with this extraordinary sentence:
''The stay at Indianapolis proved a
relief from the monetary which is inim-
liable on a thirty hour cautionary jour-
ney."
After the proof-reader had reduced
monetary" to "monotony" and "inimi-
table" to Inevitable" he had left 1t
much less picturesque than it was be-
| fore.
| A physician said certain medicine
would cure mild cases OF disease under
discussion, but the printer made him
say his medicine would "curd milk, !"
which it probably would.
A newspaper item should have read:
1.-THE prisoner managed to stay In his
cell for twenty days on short diet" but
appeared in print for twenty days and
shout dirt" A speaker was said to
have struck his opponent in vulnera-
BILE spot, but the proof Of his speech
said valuable spot"
Dr. Talmage once said: Gle came
down from His throne in high heaven
to bury Moses" and the printer made
| the sentence read. 'He came down
from His throne in holy horror to busy
Moses bf
In a poem printed in New York
Journal were the following errors:
Mud for word" stranger" for
"stanza;" music lens,,p for music
bars sad gintens," for sad guitars"
/ Shortly after the intention of print
| ing the wife of a printer in Germany,
while an addition of the Bible was in
press, made a small but important
change in the types The sentence in
Genesis in which it Is declared that Eve
shall be subject to her husband runs
thus: HE shall be my lord" (Herr)
This was changed to Gle shall be thy
foop (Narr,) In ibi6ek letter Herr and
Narr much resemble each other, and
many copies of the book were circula-
| ted before the mistake was discovered.
1 It is said that the unfortunate woman
| was condemned to the stake by the &c
/ elesiasticai authorities.
4 y
en- up in heaven his position but the
printer made it read, n Had taken UP to
| heaven his physician
| In "a. weekly story paper a love story
contained no less than twenty ridicu-
| lous errors. Instead of falling in the
reverie the young lady fell into the riv~
| er; bull pup" appeared for pull up:'
nasal for natal and trombone
| for trembling" The fair heroine was
awfully hungry instead Of angry"
Her heart was filed with ''et ceteras'
| and not 'ecstacles, and when she
meant to say thine" the typer made
her say Il am thin, I am wholly thin. !"
A newspaper in telling of a COW cut
| into halves by a railway train, said the
lcow was cut into calves. The same
paper referred to an old soldier as a
| bottle scared veteran, after having
previously called him "battle-scared"
Instead of correcting the mistake they
only made the matter worse.
| The New Haven Journal printed an
| item which read: Large cast iron
wheel, revolving nine hundred times a
| minute, exploded yesterday after long
and painful Illness. Deceased was a