The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-28
PRINTERS ERRORS.

Many of the humors of the composl
ing-room arise from mistakes in pune
tuation. For example the following was
prefixed to a contribution in the Poets
Corner of a Cumberland journal:
These lines were written nearly fifty
years ago by a gentleman who has for
several years lain in the grave for his
own amusement" Another paper, in
reporting a suicide, said: Deceased
blew out his brains after bidding his
wife goodby with q gun" After the
last Egyptian campaign a London even
ing paper printed the following para
graph, headed A Claimants Generosity:
ITO show the enthusiasm with which
our troops have been received, we may
mention that we have been told of sew
eral instances where cabmen have driv-
en- soldiers from Egypt to the barracks
without charge" This was generous,
no doubt but the journey must have
been hard upon the horses. To a writer
in one of the many ladies' journals we
are indebted for the news that ut has
become quite the fashion of late for la
dies to take their tea in their hats and
gloves" But the ladies suffered still
more severely at the hands of Wash
lngton reporter, who, describing the cos
tunes at the presidential reception, had
intended to say that Mrs. B. wore
nothing in the nature of dress that
was remarkable" He left hurriedly for
the west next day, when he opened the
paper and read: Mrs. Brown wore
nothing in the nature of a dress That
was remarkable" A London paper re-
ported on one occasion the capture in
"nid-channel of a large man-eating
shark" A provincial journal, copying
the paragraph, but less careful about
the punctuation, gave different YER
sion Of the incident: IA large man, eat
ing shark, was captured in mid-chan-
nell" The omission of a comma once
gave an awkward Interpretation to a
paragraph in Dublin newspaper which
ran: "a very handsome memorial has
been erected in St. Jerome's cemetery to
the late MI John Phillips, accidentally
shot as a mark Of affection by his broth
err" In the following instance it was
no doubt bachelor compositor, who in
setting up the toast, Woman. without
her man would be a savage!'' by tri-
fling transposition of the comma, made
the senence read: Woman, without
her man, would be savage" In a ser
mon on drunkenness, which appeared
recently in Dublin paper, the reverend
gentleman was made to say: ut was
only last Sunday that a young girl fell
from one Of the benches of this church,
while was preaching in beastly state
Of intoXication."
Mr.. Herbert Spencer once wrote:
| "Whales are not fish because they pos
sess fins and a fish-like tail;" but what
| the public read was: whales are not
| fish, because they possess fms and a
| fish-like TAIL" which truly is most re-
markable reason why whales are not
| fish, In Ireland there prevails among
| Roman Catholics a. pious custom of in
sorting in the weekly religious journals
| advertisements asking for prayers for
| certain intentions. A lady sent the fol-
| lowing to one of these newspapers: "A
husband going to set, his wife desires
the prayers Of the faithful" but, as it
| appeared, the faithful were asked to
pray for "a husband going to see his
{ wife" MAY heaven cherish and keep
you from yours affectionately Peter D. -
| was the way another Irish paper rem