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

at the innocent satire. and Hogarth has
tened to strike out the innocent satire
and substituted that of the King of Prus-
STA. Either through ignorance or care
lessness he spelled Prussia with one
- and about fifty copies were printed
before his error was pointed out 10 him.
To-day the first impression made OF the
plate I'm which Prussia IS Incorrectly
spelled are worth more than six OF the
others printed after the plate was worn.
In tho telegraph columns OF New
York newspaper some years ago appear
ed the following statement; "rhe Carl
baldians are throwing up intrenchments,"
and instead of saying the solution OF
the Roman question" the words read,
Salvation Of the Roman question"
"a newspaper in Wisconsin made
ludlcrous blunder through "A mistake IN
punctuation as follows: THE procession
at Judge ONIONS funeral was very fine,
and nearly two miles In length. as was
the beautiful prayer Of the Rev. 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, yes
terday. one of his children was run over
by market wagon three years old with
sore eyes and pantalettes 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 eloqucnce he
told how the effete monarches of the Old
World trembled in their boots when they
read the immortal words penncd by Thorn
as jefferson. Thrones reeled,' wrote the
impassioned Gath" The next morning
he saw IN type Thomas reeled."
The story is told that Ernest Renan
once had occasion to telegraph across the
English Channel the subject OF a proposed
lecture Of his In Westminster Abbey The
subject as written by him was THE In
tuence of Rome on the Formation OF
Christianity" 1t was published In Eng
land as THE Influence of Rum on the Di-
gestion OF Humanity"
A weekly newspaper In Western New
York, intending TO speak of a prominent
lay as cultured" made her a "colored
lady"
A printer in London made an annoying
mistake In setting up an article descrip-
tive of the Queens triumphant march to
Westminster. The copy read: THE
Queen was greeted with hearty cheers"
but the paper when It came out, contained
the announcement that her majesty was
greeted with heavy cheese"
An editorial in the Providence Journal
began THE mill OF the bods grind slow
ly." When the proof came down from the
composing room the sentence read: THE
mills Of the gods grind shoddy."
A western paper contained the follow
ing: "Our new school house which burnt
last week was large enough to accommo-
date 300 pupils, four stories high. The
school house will be rebuilt by a brother Of
the former architect who died last summer
on new and improved plan"
Boston newspaper reporter wrote
Brown was evidently trying to get the
most out of his yacht" during the progress
Of a race. and had the pleasure of see
ing It in type that Brown was trying to
get the mast out" rather peculiar way
to increase the speed Of the craft.
Many Of the mistakes of printers are
due to illegble manuscript. In New York
city some years ago, when the late James
Watson was editor of the Courier and In
quirer, he had verbal combat with The
ing lawyer with strong interest in poll
tics. The editor had considerably the ad-
vantage Of the lawyer In having his news
paper at command. Tomlinson on one oc-
casion determined to give the editor a
shot, and fixed up a speech for a public
meeting on the Battery. One paragraph OF
this speech was particularly Sc
we're and the point Of II
uated that his opponent had done certain
things, by a series of allegations that he
(Tomlinson) had not done them. One Of
Mr. Tomlinson's sentences was this. aT
never crawled on the ground TO secure a
bride" But i'm the Herald of the next day
Mr.. Tomlinson 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 chas-
tiSe the reporter But his chagrin and
defeat may be imagined when. the fact
is recorded that he was confronted with
ten the 'brbe" In such a way that the
printer was quite justified in making
'fWife."
In volume entitled "Bene Ventura q"
by Emma Marshall, appears the follow
ing:
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 "Phantasies:"
Alas. how easily things go wrong;
A sigh too much or a kiss too strong,
And there follows a mist and a sweeping
rain,
And life is never the same again.
1.-THE barn was reduced to a mass Of
ruins" wrote reporter for the Toronto
Globe, but the printer converted 1t in
to THE barn was reduced to a mass Of
onions"
In the New York Tribune the wor1
assistant" appeared as "his sisters
aunts."
Speaking Of seven sisters. the New
York Star mentioned seven suckers
A sad-ironed 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 pol
ished acorns."
There was once great CONSERVATION in
eF of an obituary article upon mother in
Israel having said, in a plus phrase, that
she died and claimed the promises"
And 1t was Worcester, where the Rev.
George II. HepWorth, having declared in
a public address, Il am not free lance"
the sedate Spy gave him fame by print
ing the sentence, Il want a free lunch"
It 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 extraordinary asser-
tion which, after all. translated easily
enough into 1.-The taste for Irving, like
the taste Hor olives, must be cultivated -
This was the same paper that during the
shah's visit to Europe, announced that
Mr.. Shaw of Persia had arrived in Paris
There Is a story told in the Springfield
Republican office, illustrative of the diff
ficulties which the compositors used 10
have with Samuel Bowles horrible manu-
script. The lines, And silence, like
pOultice, came to heal the blows of
sound occurred in this copy, and was
printed in the paper And silence, like
poultice, comes to heal the blows of
Samuel. The vocal blows Of Samuel
were literally rained on the proof reader