The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-21

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DR., Swing. of Chicago"
And the same paper thus chronicled a
distressing accident:
"a sad accident happened to the fam
lily of John Elderton, of Main street,
yesterday. One of his children was run
over by market wagon three
years old with sore eyes and panta-
lettes on that never spoke afterwards"
A few years ago the journalist who is
widely known as Cath" wrote a
Fourth of July article. With fervid
eloquence he told how the effete mon
arches of the Old World trembled in
their boots when they read the immor-
tai words penned by Thomas Jefferson
Thrones reeled," wrote the impas-
stoned Cath" The next morning he
saw In type Thomas reeled."
The story is told that Ernest Renan
once had occasion to telegraph across
the British Channel the subject of a
proposed lecture of his in Westminster
Abbey The subject as written by him
was "The Influence of Rome on the
Formation of Christianity" 1t was
published in England as 1.-THE Influence
of Rum on the Digestion of Humanity"
| A weekly newspaper in western New
York, intending to speak of a proml-
nent lady as cultured" made her a
''colored lady"
A printer in London made an annoy
ing mistake in setting up an article de-
scriptive of the queens triumphant
march to Westminster. The copy read:
THE queen was greeted with hearty
cheers" but the paper, when it came
1 DO i,,o tI,o ant th1t
| ''her majesty was greeted with heavy
cheese"
An editorial in the Providence jour
nal commenced "The mills Of the gods
grind slowly" When the proof came
down from the composing room the
sentence read. 1.-THE mills of the gods
grinds shoddy.'
/ A western paper contained the fol-
lowing: "Our new school house which
burnt last week was large enough to
accommodate three hundred pupils four
stories high The school house will be
rebuilt by brother Of the former arch
itect who died last summer on new
4 and improved plan
A Boston newspaper reporter wrote:
Brown was evidently trying to get the
most out of his yacht" during the pro-
gress of race, and had the pleasure of
seeing it in type that Brown was try
ing to get the mast out" rather pecu-
liar way to increase the speed of the
craft.
Many of the mistakes of printers are
due to illegible manuscript. In New
York city some years ago, when the late
James Watson Webb was editor of the
! Courier and Inquirer, he had a verbal
combat with Theodore e. Tomlinson,
then a lively practicing lawyer with
a strong interest in politics. The edi-
tor had considerably the advantage of
the lawyer in having his newspaper at
command. Tomlinson on one occasion
determined to give the editor a shot,
and fixed up a speech for public meet
ing ON the Battery. One paragraph Of
this speech was particularly severe,
and the point of it was that Mr.. Tom
linson insinuated that his opponent had
done certain things, by a series OF allie
cations that he (Tomlinson) had not
done them. One OF Mr.. Tomlinson' s
sentences was this: II never crawled
on the ground to secure bribe.' But
In the Herald Of the next day Mr.. Tom
linson was represented as saying, Il
never crawled on the ground to secure
a Wife"
OF course, Mr.. Tomlinson was furious,
and he went to the Herald office to
c1rastise the reporter. But his chagrin
and defeat may be imagined when the
fact is recorded with his own manu-
script. where he had written the WoJ,d
"bribe" in such a way that the printer
was quite justified in making wife"
In a volume entitled "Bene Ventura"
by Emma Marshall appears the fol-
lowing:
Alas, how easily things go wrong;
A sigh too much and a tint too strong,
And there follows a mess and no end Of
pain,
And life is never the same again"
All of which is duly accredited to Nc
/ Donald, who wrote in "Phantases:"
Alas, how easily things go wrong;
/ A sigh too much or a kiss too strong,
And there follows mist and a sweep
ing rain,
And life lis never the same again."
1.-THE barn was reduced to a mass of
ruins wrote reporter for the Toronto
Globe but the printer converted it into,
1.-THE barn was reduced to mass Of on
ions"
In the New York Tribune the word
Assistance" appeared as "his sisters
aunts''
Speaking of seven sisters the New
York Star mentioned seven suckers.
A sadeironed female is the way in
which the Poughkeepsie News referred
to A. sad-eyed female
In the American Agriculturist "phos-
phated acres" appeared in print as
polished acorns."
There was once great CONSERVATION
in the Office of lions Herald when, the.
writer of an obituary article upon a
mother in Israel having said, in pious
phrase that she died and claimed the
promises the paper was made to aver
that she chad died and cleared the
premises And it was Worcester,
where Rev. George H. Hepworth hay
ing declared in a public address, 81 am
not a free lance" the sedate Spy gave
him fame by printing the sentence, az
want a free lunch.
1t Was a Boston paper that made Mr.
William Winter declare that "the toast
for Irving, like the toast for olives
must be cut elevated" an extraordina-
ry assertion, which, after ALL transla-
ted easily enough into "the taste for IT.