Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-06-23

cheers Of the crowd" With sll dua
respect to tho revlver or unearther of
this lust specimen. am sure it dates
from ulden times, long before Lord
Ronerts was thought OF, or at leaHt
before he acquired renown.
Mr.. Jauobi, the we'll known London
printer and wsiter on technical sub
iBcts, and manager of the famous
Chi6wick 'reSs, renowned for its ino
printing, has lately given the world,
in his Fiesta Iypographica" some
familiar examples Of typographical
jokes, some of which are worth 70
printing, For example; "What is
thia?" exclaimed composiur who
was expecting TO be promoted to u
proofroallership shortly. F." Sermons 10
stones, books in tie running hrooksn
impossible! lie means, OF course,
Sermons in books and stones in the
running brooKs.' - And now reading
OF Shakespeare appeared nsxt morning.
Il think That the exact Quotation il;
Find tongues in trees, hooks in the
| running brooks; sermons III stones, aud
good in everything. ="
A sporting compoeitnr thought
"Cricket on tho H8arthn must lie n
alip Of ina psu. He made il "Cricket
on the Heath. -
A writer on angling had the joy Of
seeing his eentsnce, 1.-The young
salmon arc beginning to run" printed
"The young salmon arc beginning Ia
SWIM another thoughtful composition
| having been at work. ut may be here
remarked that this joke lately appeared
| in print few months ago, when it was
| N n IN pau lnr in In
| West
Happier, says Mr., jacob, was the
| transformation OF the sentence bring
mo my toga" into "Bring me my toga. .
| C'Iogs'' is Londun slang for clnthea
Inv class Londoner or costarmongeI
use the word clnthes-'' togs' is pre-
forred.
There is less subtle voin OF humol
in tho story OF The editor who wrote
now opened. Tho cnmposiior speller
"battlo" with an 30, and the othe
side said, OF course. that they had sus
pected it from the fret
1t was by a similar mistake that thu
late Baker Pasha the indisOreet Lao
thaSio anti friend of Tum- 4 um, Prime,
OF Wales, as one Of our female novelist
terms the prinCe), who might fairly NJ
described as "battle- SCARED veteran, ;
was called "battls scared veteran, ,
the libel being by no means purgel
when tho newspaper called the gallan
officer "bottle acarrei veteran. {
have an indistinuG recollection o
seeing this JOKE 10 an American news
paper nigh 10 years. ago, long hefor
Baker Pasna had won any military o
other fame. Only the Lord knows ho'
old it is.
Mr.. jacob also prints, with
variation, tho yarn ahort the ma
going to SEA.
Others of his reprinted jokes are:
Tho statement, Messrs. IS pre-
serveB can not bB beaten,n was ratht
vitiated as an advertisement ny til
omission of "b' in the last vnrd.
] lnnocontly gay was the newspaper re
port which said that thu Lnniun eS
press had knocked down a COW and GU
, il into "cRlyea y
, Ben Franklin could joke on occasion
, The story has been handed down TO l
that his master once reproved him f
, being too particular. upon which BE
watched for his opportunity to scoI
/ ono for himself. His opportunity can
/ when he had to sat up the ssntent
from l. Corinthians, 18th, which reads
"Iu moment, in the twinkling OF a
= eye, at the last trump y th
1 dead shall bs raised incorrnptible an
We shall bs changed. - There was or
I letter missing from this sentence. Ga
! C in changed. This MAIDS it read thi
a I'VE shall he hanged" the word whic
4 Franklin's print copy called for; b
/ knew enough to make the proper CO.
rection, which is more than som
latter-day proofreadsra can say, bu
,, as was said before, he wanted to ~
| square with his master.
> Truly, of the making OF errors, i,
, tentionally or not, there is no end.