The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-05-30
ODD HUmoRs OF TYPE.
Strange Typographical Errors Creep
into Newspapers.


this collection are given here to show
that vagaries Of the types and blum.
ders which writer's sometimes make
when driven at top speed may be
compared favorably with some of the
current humor Of the day.
II was New YORK newspaper
which announced that a long line OF
scorpions feathers filed into the
church" instead Of "surpliced faith.
er's."
\ journalist once famous under the
press name OF Gath wrote a Fourth
Of July article I'm which he told with
fervid eioquence how the effete
monarchies Of the Old World trem.
bled In their boots when they read
the immortal declaration penned by
/ Thomas Jefferson Thrones reeled.
he began a sentence. and next morn.
ing he wished he hadn't, when he saw
in cold type. Thomas reeled"
4 daily newspaper mp the Hudson
reported the speech Of a Fourth Of
July orator who had something TO
say about the Fiat OF the Almighty"
1t got into the paper. the fist Of
the Almighty"
/ The WuinepeF Times, on the death
OF reverend gentleman, meant TO
say the death Of a prelate," but
! printed the death Of pirate" A
Cardiff newspaper. reporting the ser.
mon Of Rev. Or Meier before the Con
gregational Union. where the clergy.
man spoke Of Women Clothed with
Sanctity." but an unfortunate trans.
position Of the &C" printed the
phrase. Women Clothed with Scan.
tily"
4 4 London paper said that Earnest
Renan had occasion to telegraph
across the British Channel the title
Of a lecture he was to deliver in
Westminster Abbey. The title as
written by him was The Influence
Of Rome on the Formation OF Chris.
tianity" II was pablished in England
as The Influence OF Rum on the Di.
eestion Of Humanity
II was IN New York papers re.
port Of a political meeting that the
word shouts was so ludicrously
printed as to make the blunder IA.
mons. The shouts OF 10000 Demo
Gratis rent the air" read the report
A local reporter wrote that DR.. Tai
mage closed his services with the
hymn. Nearer. by God. to Thee" but
the blunder was caught on the fly
In the pressroom and did not get into
the paper. AZ the time OF the Meekci
massacre in Colorado a dispatch from
the west attributed the tragedy e
the farmers having pulled down th'
Indians tents and corrals.' One pa
, per put II into type as pulled dowr
, the Indians beets and carrots"
, The old time reporter. with IN,
howl for copy ringing in his ears
sometimes perpetrated remarkabl,
English. 4 young Chicago newsgath
erer wrote OF man who had die,
, OF asphyxiation: Mr.. Johnson wal
, found reclining on the bed while hi
legs extended over the floor and 20
ward the outer edge Of the room.
y 4 Chicago daily found little bo
! who. according 10 It's yeracious chrou
y icler, was very dead indeed. The re
y porter wrote; The boy was cut
|. dead No efforts could resuscitau
: him IN the least
This IS quite as good as the bull
] culled from a feuilleton in the Pan
4 Figaro, which ran: Not a cry di
|, she utter nor give any sign of life
|, not even when her brother-in.law pu
I his hand TO her heart and said 4
= Vague; She is dead
! 4 steady and venerable evenin
!. journal solemnly informs II reader
y in a complimentary notice Of IN,
Catholic FIreside that Its stories an
: not Of a nature 20 destroy the moral
= Of the youngest child"
/ This IS what the London Globe cal
ed "an inadyertence: by an inaC
| yertence our recent notice OF DR.. Nj
cauleys new book commented on N
| absence Of Illustrations as defec
! We now find however, that II COZ
tGirs l2 wood cuts OF much merit.
| The editor of a Pennsylvania couT
try weekly began a lealer with a r.
mark that Mr.. Thomas, in his az
dress at the convention, merely le
our people know how unwell he is 4
TO cope with Josh Allen on the stuml
He will only prove a political morse
for Allen to chaw up" The riyi
newspaper printed the paragraph wit
| the heading in circus placard letters