The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-25
BLAME TIE CONT.
This Sort Of Thing Excuses Editors
Mistakes.
alChicago 20

. ASiA4Sel5C 1852
Ever since the invention of the print
ing press the ludiercus mistakes made
by eonpositors have caused writer's
sacred and profane,. to swell with rage
or be blamed for sentiments foreign 10
their natures. Combining different
items of news. changing a word or let-
ter. -franspositions OF letters or incor-
rect punctuation. may bring about re-
suits appalling and terrifying 10 the
mind.
q most fer-yid and gratulatory report
by an English paper of an important
AFFAIR during The queens jubilee was
lnarred by the Closing statement that
rthe vast eoneourse had rent the air
with their snouts. This was not as
bad as the shocking blunder caused BY
the use of a Ia for a. The error oe-
Cured in an edition ST the Roman
sGatholis Sfissal, published in France,
in which the mistake caused the word
81 sculette, meaning a mans neither
garment, to take the place OF 'calotte,
sigIfifying an ecclesiasticaf cap or MI
tire. I he substitution occurred&in one
of the directions Tor conducting the
services, when it said: Here the priest
sna.d take off his caIotte.H ] he religious
Importance of a letter is seen in the
mistake made by the letter &c falling
Book of Common Prayer. The pas
sage should nav. read, We shall al
be chansed inithe twipkling Of an eye,
but when the book appearesd the deYout
worshiper was not cheered by the
promise that We shall all be hanged IN
the twinkilng of on eye
During the Mexican war a CORE
spondent announced with feVerish
haste that General Pillow and thirty
seven men had been lost IN a bottle
! (battle) 1t would look as if there had
u .I-,r-c
NAMED for a Chicago paper during the
holidays to make the astounding state
nent that a man had been brought be-
fore. the police court on the charge of
having stolen a small OK (boX) from a
wOman,s work bag. A rat CafO, says
came IN violent contact with a stea M
boat, which was with great difhculty
kept affoat. The size of this rat
brings 10 mind the dimensions of rO-
dents for whose capture traps We're
advertised by one of the large dry
read. Traps for rats three feet long. ="
and still it is asserted that there is no
big game in this city.
In a recent description OF a christeh-
ing the venerable clergyn4an was made
to dip his head in the water and lay it
of a IT. the Phiiadelphia Post some
time ago announced that the immoral
Newton lived Ike other men," The adj
dition of the IT, would have given
Newton as well as his contempora-
ries, better standing in the community.
Another Philadelphia paper. in an
nouncing a political meeting, started
out with the intention of saying thar
1.-The Hon. Mr.. = would address the
masses. BY a simple displacement Of
the m the public was informed that
the address would be delivered to
s.then. asses at National hale Another
OF like Kind was the attempt of the
typesetter TO compose the line shall
reign the Hecate OF. the deepest heAg2
He had never heard OF the female di-
Vinity of the lower " Grid and think
ing the .'e'' superf1uous, made the verse
read t'Shau reign the He cat of the
deepest he'll"
Some time ago a New. York daily had
prepared an article on a sermon
preached by an eminent preacher and
another setting forth the vagaries of a
the paper they got hopeless4y mixed
and appeared as follows:
Rev James Thompson, rector of ST.
Andrews church, preached to a large
coneourse of people Sunday evening.
This was his last sermon before leaving
for a trip across the Atlantic. He ex-
horted his brethren and sisters, and
after Offering a devout prayer took a
within to cut up some frantic freaks. He
ran up Timothy street to Johnson and
down. Benefit street to college. At this
stage of the proceedings two boys
seized him, tied a. tin kettle to his tail
and he again started, After some
Trouble he. was shot by a policeman.