The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-03

ed on Eve in Genesis, so that instead of
reading he shall be thy lord it said and
he shall be thy fool Copies of this edition
were bought up at enormous prices.
The religiously important loss of a sin
gle letter is well illustrated in the case
OF a printer putting to press a form of
the Book of Common Prayer. The @ was
omitted in the passage we shall all be
changed in the twInkling of an eye When
me book appeared II read, We shall all
be hanged in the twinkiing of an eye
IF the perversiOn of scripture by print
ers go at this rate what can we expect
of less subjects? l remember two articles
had been prepared for a daily Zone a ser
mon preached by an eminent divine and
the other about the freaks of a mad doe)
Unfortunately. the foreman, when plac-
ing them in the form, mixed them, max
ing the following:
The Rev James Thompson. rector of
ST Andrews Church preached to a large
concourse of people on Sunday last This
was his last sermon. In few weeks he
VIII bid farewell to his CONGREGATION as
his physicians advise him to cross the Al
lantic. He exhorted his brethren and sis
ters' and after Offering a devout prayer
TOOK Whim TO cut up some frantic freaks
he ran up Timothy street TO johnson and
down Benefit street to College. Al this
Stage of the proceedings some bows seized
him, tied ain kettle to his tail and nc
again started. a great crowd collected
and for time there was q grand scene
Of noise, running and confusion. After
some trouble he was shot by a police
man.
"A similar accident of the types occur
red in a Western paper. The editor Cove
out two articles for his paper-one on a
political subject and another on fatteninc.
swine Some mysterious selght-o hand
manipulation on the part of the 'intelIi-
aF1r1 ,faeft5 .-f I III.
ings so as 10 read. Great hogs. Under
this heed we include the clergy. the eli-
torial fraternity and the members of Con
gress'
A led In printing office, who knew more
ABOUT typesetting than he did bout Greek
mythology IN looking over a poem they
Were printing. came upon the name He
cate, one of the female divinities of the
lower world, occurring in line something
like this:
Shall reign the Hecate of the deepes st
hell
THE bright boy, thinking that he had
discovered an error. ran 10 the foreman
and asked II the cat was spelled with an Q
at the end. Being Informed in the mega
i've he went TO the pressroom. extracted
the G, and the poem appeared:
Shall reign the lie cat of the deepest
he'll.
An English writer makes reference to
a volume Of popular sermonsin which. ow-
ing to the negligence of the proofreader.
a deplorable number of errors appeared.
One OF these was singularly appropriate
to the unhappy circumstances OF the poor
author; the verse. Princes have persecut-
ed me without cause being made to read,
Printers have persecuted me without
cause
"A New York paper. speaking of a Rus
sian loan OF 10000 rubles said by It's types
that the Russian government had adver-
tised for loan Of 10000 troubles Years
ago, In speaking Of Gov Mcdowell s
speech In Congress on certain occasion,
the reporters manuscript said:
Many members slept and Mr.. Speak
err Winthrop more than once gave way to
his feelings in flow OF beer
"A cooking school called the New Cen