The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

paper wrote drunkenness is folly"
had it appeared ''soliy" or 'rolly, no
harm would have been done. But, or
course it had to appear: Drunkenness
/ is jolly" And here in Louisville, about
ten years ago, the kindly gentleman
and distinguished veteran who was at
the time editor-in-chief OF a local pa
per, wrote an editorial advocating I'D
eral pensions. In one paragraph. refer
ring to old soldiers who had dieG, he
wrote: They have gone to a nobier
and higher realm" But his writing
was none too legible, and it came from
the printer: They have gone to rob-
Der and burglar realm" Which was
startingly in line with Democratic ideas
about many pensioners. The error was
detected that night and the press
ed, but such good fortune does not al
ways happen
A fruitful source of typographical
error is carelessness in making up
form, or page, whereby one or more
lines belonging to certain article are
transferred to another article. The
celebrated mistake of the London
Times is a case in point. The Times
had two articles in juXtaposition, one
on the Conversion of the Jews" and
the other on the Use of Sewage as Ma
nure," and one of the sentences, as
published, contained the astounding in
formation that If properly disinfected
and mixed with lime and cement, the
grateful Hebrews would flow over the
| land without injury to vegetation"
In like manner the New York Word
| once fell a victim TO the natural de-
pravity in inanimate things. In two
| adjoining columns it had long accounts
of Bernhardt's debut in La Tosca'
! riage of Miss Bancroft, granddaughter
of the historian, and Of the actress
| triumph at the end of the fourth act
was described as follows: Hats, hand
| kerchiefs, programmes were franticdiiy
| waved, and cries of Bancroft is salts
/ fed with the marriage and the Young
couple seem to be fitted for each other.
| Bravo, Sarah, were heard from ell
| parts of the house.
| One of the worst and at the same
time most ludicrous transDositions of
| the types occurred in an issue of the
New Haven Journal and Courier some
| years ago, by means OF which one par
agraph was made to read thus: John
| Fadden the well known florist and real
estate broker of Newport, r. /, died in
Wagner & Russell's sugar mill, at
| Crystal, Lake, Ills, on Saturday, doing
| So, 600 damage to the building and IN
/ juring several Worhmen, Lorenzo VII
| cox fatally This was followed by an
other paragraph, which read: "A large
| cast-iron wheel revolving nine hundred
| times per minute exploded in that city
yesterday, after long and painful Ill
ness. Deceased was a prominent thir-
| ty-second degree Mason"
And imagine the feelings of M.
Krehbiel, the scholarly musical critic
of the New York Tribune, when his
criticism of a performance of Liszt's
''Christus" by the New York Oratorlo
society contained this statement:
Among the full choruses, The Found
ing of the Church Guides Petrus) was,
perhaps, the most effective, working up
to a tremendous climax. 1t should be
classed with the enactment abolishing
convict labor and enforcing idleness
upon hundreds of unfortunate
wretcheS."
Many misprints are too noted in bibii-
ography to need more than mention
here Such are the vinegar" and
'breeches'' Bibles. But other old-time
errors may be new to many readers.
THE pale martyr with his sheet CT
fire" who became 1.-The pale martyr
with his shirt on fire. is one of them.
Another is the young officer in India
who, one of the London papers an
nounced, was found dead with a long
word in his throat" meaning Sword"
of course. That dropping of one little
letter does no end Of mischief some
times. An advertising contract was
reDudiated once because in one Issue
of the paper a ''never-failing remedy
was announced as 'ever-failing." In
like fashion the dropping of a &C" and
an IS caused an editor to declare that
1--WE shall be hanged, and war CORE
spondent to state that 1.-The enemy was
repulsed with great laughter but
newspapers are not the sole offenders.
In a grave geological treatise "erratic
blocks appears ''erotic blacks" and
the poet lives in tradition whose line,
Il kissed her sub-rosa," appeared: 1
kissed her Snub nosa," as does toe
preacher who said: Keep thy lips from
guile and was reported: Keep thy
lips from girls"
English and American writer's are
not the only sufferers. 1t was related
in French newspaper not long ago
that Admiral Byng was shot pour
courager les antics which it very pos
sibly did, though this reading is as
widely different from original text as
that which caused a French religious
author to expatiate on the subject of
Tame contemplating its creator,
meaning. of course, Tame" The
Paris Monde one day ventured into alb
stract morality by remarking that the
love of sugar (sucre) hardens the
heart" when it obviously intended only
to paraphrase the apostles denuncia-
ton Of the love of money Qucre). So
the hair-dresser's handbill promised to
prevent the falling Of horses (chevaux),
instead of hair (cheveux), as originally
written. A similar misprint in must
cal programme-by which "Achl du
meme Liebe,' (Ah! my belovedi' was
changed into "Ach, due mien Liebi"
ooh, my stomachi)-so excited the ris-
Utilities of the orchestra that they could
hardly go through with the perform
ance of the composition.
But errors of the kind began long be-
fore the German craftsmen fashioned
the wooden blocks that were to revolu-
tionize the world. Caligraphy was still
a monkish profession when the copyists
in the monasteries took the Spanish
aqua de vite" (water or juice of the
vine). wrote it in Latin aqua vitae"
instead of aqua Wits and so caused
the French to call brandy eau de vie,
water of life. instead of grape juice
Patroni in Courier-Journal.
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a Gentleman.
Indianapolis Journal: The Colonel