The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-06-15
PRINTERS ERRORS.
Brief Record Of Blunders Of Types,
Some Lucky Others Unlucky.

Among the masterpieces OF bluder-
log typography must be reckoned
two perpetraTed ia Il Southern news
paper, says The SotlTday FceniRg
Post.
An editor, Wishing 10 congratulate
Geneal Pillow after his return from
Mexico as a oattle-scarred veteran,
was made by the types 10 charac-
terize him as u oattle-scared vet
eran". Tie indignant general. rush
ing into TIL editorial sanctum de-
manded an explanation, which was
given and correction promised in
the next days paper. Judge OF the
editors feeling on the morrow when
as if ITO heap horrors upon horrors
head, he found the general style in
revised paragraph that bottle-scare
veteran"
Some years ago the London Times,
in speaking OF a discussion before the
council of ministers, when Lord
BrOugheam was chancellor, stated
that the chancellor had thrown an
extraordinary light on the question.
In the London Christian World, in
1888, writer, referring to an address
at Christ Church by the Rev. The
odore Hooks, repreented him as say
ing that some of the clergy had gon
back ito the black lie (tie) of their
bOy-hood.
In one of the editions OF Davidson's
Popular English grammar the princi-
pal parts OF the verb ito chide" were
given as follows: Present intinirive,
to chide past tinice, child: post in
! tinitive, to have children" Ia the
Londoe Courier many years ago his
Majesty George ". was said to have
"a fit OF the goat at Brighton" An
other journal advertised sermon by
a celebrated divine on THE Immoral
itY of the Soul and also"The Lies
OF the Poets''-a work, no doubt, of
many volumes. The London Globe
once gave an extract from the Regis
trar Generals return, in which it was
stated that the inhabitants of London
were suffering at that time FROM a
| high rate of morality"
a letter more or less makes strange
| havoc Of a sentence. Early in the
French revolution the Able Sieyes,
in correcting the proofsheets of pam
phlet in defense of his political con
duet, read, Il have adjured the re-
public misprint for adjourned.
"Wretchn' he cried to the printer,
| do you wish to send me to the gull
loine:" What is treason, once asked
a wag, but reason to u 't''?-which
''t' an accident of the press may dis
displace with most awkward effect.
the other hand, printer who omit
ed the first letter OF Mr.. Caswell's
name might have pleaded that it was
las WELL without the &C"
An edition OF the Bible printed at
the Clarendon Press in 1917 is known
as the Vinegar Bible" because in
the title Of the twentieth chapter of
Luke the parable of the vineyard is
printed parable OF the vinegar"
Perhaps the most fearful error of the
press that eyer occurred was caused
by the letter e. dropping out Of the
following passage il Il form Of the
Book OF Common PRAYER. we shall
all be changed in the twinkling of an
eye When the book appeared the
passage, 10 the horror of the devout
reader, was thus printed we shall
all be hanged in the twinkling of an
eye"
Mistakes in punctuation. such as
the omission or misplacing OF com
ma, sometimes greatly changes the
sense Of passage, as when . compos-
! itOr-probably a crusty oil d bachelor
in setting up the toast, Woman
| without her. man would be a say
| age put the comma in the wrong
| place, and made the sentence read
Woman, without her man. would
be a savage.