The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-10
FAMOUS
NEWSPAPER
BULLS
Breaks that Were Directly Charge
able to the Composing
Room Force.

An old New York newspaper man,
now turned farmer, kept a scrap-book
in which for years he pasted hun
dreds Of the typographical bluuders
and other errors that always annoy,
but sometimes amUse, newspaper
writer's. A few selections from this
collection are given here to show
/ that vagaries of the types and blund-
ers which writer's sometimes make
when driven at top speed may be
{ compared favorably with some Of the
I current humor of the day. 1t was
a New York newspaper which an
nOunced that "A long line Of scOr-
pion's feathers" filed into the church
instead Of supplied fathers" A
journalist once famous under the
press name of Cath" wrote a Fourth
Of July article in which he told with
/ fervid elOQuence how the effete mon
arches Of the old world trembled in
their boots when they read the i'm
mortal declaration penned by Thomas
/ jefferson. Thrones reeled," he be-
gan a sentence, and next morning he
( wished he hadn't, when he saw in cod
/ type Thomas reeled."
A daily newspaper up 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 Winnipeg Times
on the death Of a reverend gentleman,
meant to say, The death of the pre-
. late" but printed the death of a p,-
rate" A Cardiff newspaper report.
ing the sermon Of Rev. DR.. Mellor be-
fore the Congregational union, where
the clergyman spoke Of women
clothed with sa1ctity," by an unfor-
tunate transfer Of the &C" printed the
phrase women clothed with scanti.
~" A London paper said that Err,
est Renan had occasion to telegraph
across the British channel the title Of
a lecture he was 10 deliver in West
minister abbey. The title as written
by him was The influence of Rome
on the Formation Of Christianity 1T
was published in England as The
Influence Of Rum on the Digestion OF
Humanity.
1t was a New York papers report
of a political meeting that the word
shouts was so ridiCulously mis-.
printed as TO make the blunder IA
nous. 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 blundeT was caught on the f1v in
the prOOfrOm and did not get into
the paper. At the time of the Meeker'
massacre in Colorado a dispatch from
the west attributed the tragedy 10.
the farmers having pulled down the
Indians tents and coTrals." One pa,
per put il into type as pulled down
the Indians beets and carrots" The
o!d-time reporter, with the howl for
the copy ringing in his ears, some
times perpetrates remarkable Eng
fish. A young Chicago newsgather
wrote OF a man who had died Of as
phyxiatiOn: ''Nr. johnson was fond re-
clining on the bed while his legs
extended over the floor and towards
the outer edge Of the room"
A Chicago daily found a little bow
who, according TO the veracious
chronicler, was very dead indeed.
The reporter wrote: THE boy was
quite dead. No effort could resusci-
tate him in the least" This is quite
as good as the "bull" culled from a
feuilleton in the Paris Figaro. which
ran: Not a cry did she utter nor
give any sign Of life, not even when
her brother-in-law put his hand to-
her heart and said to Vague. She isl
dead" A steady and venerable ev-
ening journal sOlemnly informed it's
readers in a complimentary notice
that the Catholic F1residehlndft its sto-
rieS' are not Of nature to destroy the
morals Of the youngest child" This
is what the London Globe called AN
inadvertance": by an inauvertance
our recent notice of DR.. Macauleys
new book commented on the absence
OF illustrations as a defect. We now
find, however, that it contains l2l
wood cuts OF much merit" The edi-
tor Of a Pennsylvania country weekly
began a leader with a remark that
MIR. Thomas, in his address at the
convention merely let our people
know how unwell he is not got to cone
with Josh Allen on the stump. He
will only prove a political mOrsel for
Allen to chaw up" The rival newspa- |
per printed the paragraph with the
heading, in circus placard letters,
How well he is fit."-Buffalo Com
mercial.