Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-19

tale, made Mr.. Gladstone assure the
delighted publisher. I'VE have not al |
lowed our parson to leave the house
without reading It," our purson, at |
Hawarden. 1t will he remembered. is |
Mr.. Gladstone's son. the Rev. Stephen |
Gladstone. |
Lander. revising the proof of poem
he had written for THE Keepsake"
found the concluding stanza thus
printed:
Yes" You shall say when once the
dream
$50 hard to break) is Ger.
MY love was very dear to him,
My farm and peace were more"
This error seems to have fingered
the poet, whose temper. indeed, 1t was
not difficult to upset for upon the mar
gin OF the proof (Which rs still eNtant
he wrote: "Of all the ridiculous blum
ders ever committed by composition
farm instead of fame Is the most ride
ulous. Pity 1t was not printed my
farm and peas! ~ Richard Proctor,
the astronomer, writing in his maya
zine Knowledge, stated that the most
remarkable change which printers had
ever arranged FOR him occurred In the
proof of IA little book on ''Spectroscopic
Analysis written for the Society for
| Promoting Christian knowledge. The
NpTus, liUtSs butluH anu htlldt III lit
violet part of the spectra" were print
ed Links, bonds and stripes for the
violent kinds Of spectors." a still more
amusing blunder, which Mi. Proctor de.
clared that he had seen In the proof
| of poem written by friend. was
the transformation Of the line He
kissed her under the silent stars into
| HE Kicked her under the cellar stairs.
How history may he affected by
printers error liinglakc has shown. To
e''"h hiurd0r IT, ''u' N fTsf +ho' ~"
| late emperor of the French styled
himself Napoleon III instead of Ma
| .--.. A.. ..a. -i....c -..- suup c'G...,,
the historian says, clerk In the min
| istry of the interior wrote, in one OF
| the proclamations which were to an
nounce the fact to the world, que lie
mot d'ordrc soft viNe Napoleon ~
The printer took the notes for exclama-
| ton for numerals; and Ii WAS not be-
cause of any memory of the poor little
| king OF Rome. but because Of the typo
| graphical blunder that the second em-
| pire was dominated by Napoleon III.
| Some of these blunders occasionally
lead to libel actions and other unpleGs-
| ant consequences. Bad was the condi-
tlon of the editor, who, having in
touching obituary notice of soldier
| described the deceased MS n battle
SCARED veteran" was driven franti.
to find in the morning that the types
had made him write OF battle scared
veteran" The next day he published
the following apology for the bunder:
THE editor was deeply grieved to lind
| that through an unfortunate typo
graphical error he was made to des-
crlbe the late gallant Major II. as a
battle scared veteran He tenders
his sincerest apologies for the mistake
to the friends and relatives of the de-
| ceased; but TO every reader Of this jour
nal acquainted with the feats of the
major II must have been apparent that
what he editor wrote was bottle Scared
veteran"
Many of the humors of the compos-
ing room arise from mistakes in pune
tuation. For example, the following
was preflxed to contribution In the
poets corner OF a Cumberland Journal:
These lines We're written nearly fifty
years ago, by 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 gun" After the
last Egyptian campaign London
evening paper printed the following
paragraph headed "a Cabman's Gener-
osity:" ITO show the enthusiasm with
which our troops have been received
we may mention that we have been
told of several instances where cabmcn
have driven soldiers from Egypt to the
barracks without charge" This was
generous, no doubt, but the journey
must have been hard upon the horses.
To writer in one of the many ladies'
journals we are indebted for the news
that 1T has become the fashion of late
for ladies to take their tea In their hats
and gloves" But the ladies suffered
still more severely at the hands of Il
Washington reporter who describing
the costumes at the presidential recep-
ton, had intended to say that Mrs. b,
wore nothing in the nature of dress
that was remarkable" He left hur-
riedly for the West next day, when he
opened the paper and read: Mrs.
Brown wore nothing in the nature of
n dress. That was remarkable" A
London paper reported on one occasion
the capture in "midchannel of a large
man eating shark" provincial jour
nal. copying the paragraph, but less
careful about the punctuation. gave a
different version of the incident; "A
large man, eating shark. was captured
In midchannel." The omission of ii
comma once gave an awkward inter
. probation to a paragraph In a Dublin
newspaper. which ran; "A very hand
some memorial has been erected in st.
Jerome's cemetery to the late Mr.. John
Phillips accidentally shot as mark of
affection by his brother" In the fol-
lowing instance, II was no doubt a
bachelor compositor who, In setting up
the toast. Woman. without her, man
would he n savage! by a trliilns
transposition of the comma made the
sentence read, woman, without her
man. would be n savage" In sermon
on drunkenness which appeared re-
Gently in a Dublin paper, the reverend
gent, ID an was made TO say: 1T was
only ,ast Sunday that a young girl fell
from one of the benches Of this church,
while / was preaching in beastly
state of intoXication."
Herbert Spencer once wrote, whales
are not fish because they possess fins
and n fishlike tall" hut what the pub
lie read was, whales are not fish be-
cause they possess fins and II fishlike
tail" which truly is most remarkable
reason why whales are not fish. In
Ireland there prevails among Roman
Catholics n pious custom of inserting In
the weekly religious journals advertise
ments asking for prayers for certain
, intentions. A lady sent the following
to note of these newspapers; "A hus-
, band going to sea, his wife desires the
prayers of the faithful" but. as 1t APP
peared, the faithful We're 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
, dered the concluding portion OF a letter
written by soldier serving In the late