The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-17

that error
Typographical bhnders are not by any
means confined TO newspapers. Every
one VINO has ever written for the maya
zines knows that tho proofs have to be
carefully read. or else outrageous blum
ders VIII creep In; and errors sometimes
crude me scrutiny OF AN the people who
redd the sheets OF "a book Even the
Bible Itself does not altogether escape
typographical blunders In a COPY OF the
sacred scriptures printed by Thomas Cow
fair, lcathcr-bound little edition in
which the sixth verse of the sixth chap
ter OF Proverbs reads as follows:
90 TO The aunt, thou sluggard. con-
slider her ways and bee wise" The SIM
pie believer in even the literal inspira-
ton OF King James version. who should
read the text, would no doubt remain
convinced that Solomon had an exem-
plary relative In mind when he had 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 "and a
party of hends We're shooting peasants
IN Ireland The words misprlnted OF
course, were friends" and pheasant
A French bachelor advertised for "A
wife. A typographical error changed his
age from 81 TO 81. but # made no differ
ence, for he received $50 applications from
ladies' ranging from the age of Is to 90,
and all promising love and devotion to
the rest Of his existence.
There IS something quito epic in that
phrase which proofreaders found, IAN ell
oquent lunch was served last evening""
AN elegant lunch" was correct but much
more commonplace. The phrase, the
floods In China have ruined the iron CROP
was rather mystfying, and the compost
tor who set up Iron" for rice must
have worked very hard indeed
Occasionally there are monumental in
stances OF stupidity in single sentence,
as, for instance. when. during q presiden-
tial tour through the west. Boston proof
reader was confronted upon "a slip OF tele-
graph dispatches with this extraordinary
sentence.
The stay at indianapolis proved a re-
lief from the monetary which is inimita-
bic on thirty-hour cautiOnary Journey
After the proofreader had reduced
monetary" to "monotony." and "inimita-
BILE to Inevitable and "cautionary'''
to Continuous" he had left Il much less
| picturesque than II was before
physician said a certain medicine
would cure mild cases Of disease under
discussion, but the printer made him say
HIS medicine would cure milk" which IL
prOably would.
newspaper item should have read,
The prisoner managed to stay in his cell
for twenty days on short diet" but APP
peared in print FOR twenty DAYS and
shout dirt" A speaker was said to have
struck his opponent in a vulnerable spot,
but the proof Of his speech said "a 'vai-
came down from His throne in high
heaven to bury Noses" and the printer
made the sentence read: He came down
from His throne in holy horror to busy
Moses"
In a poem printed in a New York Jour
nal were the following errors: Mud" for
word stranger" for "stanza;" mus
ic lens" for music bars" sad gintens,'.
for sad guitars"
Shortly after the invention OF printing
the wife OF printer In Germany. while
"a ~ "a #tus. IL
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" GIerr). This was
changed to-: HE shall be they fool -
(Narr). In black letter Herr and Narr
much resemble each other; and many
copies of the book were circulated before
the mistake was discovered. 1t is SAID
that the unfortunate woman was con-
demned TO the stake by the ecclesiastical
authorities.
Tom Moore wrote the line. Had taken
up in heaven his position" but the
printer made 1t read, Had taken up to
heaven his physician"
In weekly story paper a love story
contained no less than twenty ridiculous
errors. Instead of falling into a reveris
the young lady fell into the river; bull
pup" appeared for pull up;' nasal for
The fair heroine was awfully hungry In
stead of angry" Her heart was filed
with ct ceteras" and not "ecstasies," and
when she meant to say thine" the typo
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 COW
was cut into calves. The same paper re-
ferred to an old soldier as a ''bottle-scar-
red veteran" after having previously CALI
ed him "battle-scared." Instead of cor
recting the mistake they only made the
matter worse.
The New Haven Journal printed an item
which read: Large cast-irOn wheel, re-
volYing 800 times minute. exploded yes
terday after a long and painful illness. De-
ceased was a prominent Mason" Another
item read: John Fodder died In RusselPs
sugar mill on Saturday, doing 5000 dam
age to the building and injuring several
workmen severely"