The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-03-21
FUNNY.
Errors Made by Printers.
Some Of the Ridiculous BlundeTS Of
COmpOSitOrS,
That Have Called Down the Righteous Wrath
Of Authors and Editors TS-0ne
Cost 100000.
FUNNY.
From the Philadelphia Press.

CpcdhIuS VI " lO2Id lJDlcdl tI-
rors and newspaper bulls, said
an old newspaper man and en-
ploying printer, "reminds me
that the average printer is a
weak brother to depend upon and
proofreaders are sometimes very
negligent.
81 have had all kinds of trouble
and it is the most difficult thing
IN the world to pin the response
bility down ON one of them,
for they have all kinds of loop
holes for falling to get things ex-
actly right.
Many errors are the work of
prank-playing printers, some of
the ugliest and grossest errors
are made purely unintentionally,
and undoubtedly, a few are made
with malice, frequent errors,
however, are made by the change
Of a word or a letter, and since
typesetting machines have come
into such general use a printer
they are called machine operators
now-can set up a line, slip it into
his pocket and drop it into col
umn of matter whenever he gets
good chance and when the
makeup is not looking.
Errors of a Very serio-comic
naturehave occasionallyoccurred
An edition of the Bible was once
printed in England in which the
word not was omitted in the
Seventh Commandment. For
this offense, whether by careless
ness or design, the Archbishop
imposed the heaviest penalty
know ia history-e2O,OOO ster-
ling. The edition was called in
and destroyed.
a WIDOWS REVISION.
"Itis stated that printers
widow in Germany, while an ed
ition of the Bible was being
printed at her establishment, al
tered that sentence ofsubiugation
to her husband, pronounced 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
ofa single letter is well illustrated
in the case of a printer putting to
press form Of the Book Of Com
mon Prayer. The C was omitted
in the passage, we shall all be
changed in the twinkling of an
eye. When the book appeared it
read, 'We shall all be hanged in
the twinkling of an eye.
"If the perversion Of Scripture
by printers go at this rate
what can we expect Of less sub
jects?
81 remember where two arti-
cles had been prepared for a daily
Zone sermon preached by an
eminent divine, and the other
about the freaks of a mad dog.
Unfortunately, the foreman, when
placing them in the form, mixed
them, making 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 will bid farewell to his congre-
CATION, as his physicians advise
him to cross the Atlantic.
He exhorted his brethern
and sisters, and after Offering
a devout prayer, took a whim to
cut up some frantic freaks. He
ran up Timothy street to johnson
and down Benefit street to Col
lege. at this stage Of the pro
ceedings some boys seized him,
tied tin kettle to his tail, and he
again started. A great crowd
collected, and for a time there
was a grand scene of noise, run
ming and confusion. After some
trouble he was shot by a police
man.
MASSED UNDER ONE HEAD.
"a similar accident Of the types
occurred in a Westernpaper The
editor gave out two articles for
bic 1Aano, opa IN, a ,,cIit;o,1 e.,,L