Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-01-03
SOME MISTAKES

oUlhS StIUlASe MlStttkGS creep LILO Lie
newspapers. Everyone makes mis-
takes but Individual errors do not
stand out like the stripes in a summer
shirtWaist as they do in a newspaper.
a mistake in type looks as big as the
price Of a load of hard coal. For ex-$
ample, a souInern editor, i'm speaking
of the death of a hermit attempted to-
say that h died a lonely death, un-
ministered by physicians" and the
types made it h died a lovely DEATH,
unassiSted by physicians" Naturally
all the doctors in the locality were in
dignant and when the editor was taken
down with grippe he wisely called in
The veterinarian. He was the same
editor who said the people Of the
United States e divided into two
claSSes-editors and creditors.
There was a@doWn east newspaper
man who attempted to describe the re-
ception OF a visiting delegation by
for office whom he was sup.
porting. by stating that She spoke in a.
driving rain back Of the house. and
When the paper came cut it said s,he
spoke hike a driyeling maniac to the
house Whether the house stood it,
or not the paper failed to say. And
in describing the music of a5$yOung
lady pianist whose fairy hands
roamed over the keys the paper said
her sshairy hands glommed over all the
keys The girls father called the.
following day with a riding whip and
delayed the next issue of the paper for
several days, besides building up an:
excellent local trade in arnica.
a western editor who was invited
Q 5dinner by a sW7agger society couple
Mortified them in the issue of the paper
next succeeding when he tried to say
that sthe hostess served bouilliOn IN.
cups and the paper said she s.stewed
bully onions iii tubs. q And in de-
scribing the first Christmas tree of a
little girl,Where he intended To- say
ashe burst with a glad voice into the
parlor and peace fell upon the as
senbied family' the paper made it
80 burst with loud noise in the
parlor and pieces fell upon the assem-
bled family Poor grill! Sad melan-
choly fate!
Insspeaking of the appearance of a
belle at a society function South Car
IoIina editor wanted to say .sshe was
sWagger and swell, the intoxication of
delight and when he picked up the
papersto see how lit looked he read that
she staggered and fell. Intoxicated
without doubt 80 What could the poor
girl do! Nothing. You can't hang d
libel suit on a wrong line In a news
paper. And where another editor
tried to says.Inen Miss HI hung up
the mistlet0e on the chandelier, z all
the acrOEats in the community were
made envious by; learning that .Then
Miss # hung up by her little toe on
the chandelier, IN speaking ole the
conversation of another young lady
when an editor tried to tell his trusting
readers that her discourse was belize
the sparkling of old wine. the paper
harshly stated that her conversation
was between barking and a loud
whine One more unfortunate! And af
a masquerade where d pretty young
lady wore the ancient stocks, the
paper said she tore her ancient socks :
And even Then the hole wasn't large
enough for the editor to crawl out 81.
There's another interesting class oil
mistakes and that's the kind we find
in examination papers. For example
the boy who said:
sThe eclfptic is am imaginary line
where the eartl, tits to keep you from
not falling off.
1.-THE our seasons is salt, pepper
mustard and vinegar.
Volcanoes is weird hills filed wifi
noise and lavender water,
THE earth It's round so Columbus
could discover The United States
aThe Nebular hyp0tenuse Isl equa.
the square pa the base and peTpen.