The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-16
HUM0RS OF NEWSPAPERS.
Ludicrous Errors That Have Caused
We Editor to Grow Gray.

! An Old New York newspaper man,
now turned farmer. kept a Scrapbook
in which for years he pasted hundreds
OF the typographical blunders and
other errors that always annoy. but
sometimes amuse, newspaper writer's.
A few selections from this collection
are given here as printed in the New
! York Sun to show that vagaries of the
| types and plumbers which writer's
sometimes make when driven at top
speed may be compared favorabiy with
some of the current humor of the day.
1t was a New York newspaper which
announced that "A long line Of scOr-
pions feathers filed into the church."
instead of supplied fathers, \
journalist once famous under the press
name of Cath" wrote a Fourth of
July PARTICLE in which he told with fer
lvid eloquence how the effete monarch
! les of the old world trembled in their
Doots when they read the immortal!
declaration penned by Thomas Jeffer
son. Thrones reeled." he began a SEN
t,nce, and next morning he wished he
hadn't when he saw i'm cold type
Thomas Teeled."
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" Il
got into the paper the fist of the Al
mighty"
The Winnipeg Times, on the death of
a reverend gentleman, meant TO say
the death of a pTelate," but printed
the death Of a pirate" a Cardiff
newspaper, reporting the sermon of the
Rev. DR.. Mellor before. the COngrega
tional union where the clergyman
spoke of Women clothed with sane
tity," by an unfortunate transposition
of the &C" printed the phrase Women
clothed with scantity."
A London paper said that Ernest Re
nan had occasion TO telegraph across
the British channel the title of lee
ture he was to deliver i'm Westminster
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 Human
ity."
1t was in a New York papers report
of a political meeting that the word
Shouts" was so ludicrously misprinted
as to make the blunder famous. THE
SHOUTS of 10000 Democrats rent the
air" read the report. A local reporter
wrote that DR.. Talmage closed his ser
vices with the hymn Nearer, by God.
to Thee" but the blunder was caught
on the fly in the proOfroOm and did not
get into the paper At the time of the
Meeker massacre in Colorado q dis
patch from the West attributed the
tragedy to the farmers having pulled
down the Indians tents and cOrrals.
One paper put it into type as pulled
down the Indians beets and carrots"
old
for copy ringing in his ears, sometimes
perpetrated remarkable English. A
young Chicago newsgatherer wrote of
man who had died of asDhyXiation:
Mr.. Johnson was found reclining on
the bed while his legs extended ovelk
the floor and toward the outer edge q
the rOOm."
A Chicago daily found a little be
who, according TO its veracious chrO II
icler, was very deaf, indeed. The re%
porter wrote: THE boy was quite dead.
No efforts could resuscitate him in the.
least"
This is quite as good as%e "buIIr
culled from a feuilletor tho paris
Figaro, which ran: No n crv did she
utter nor give any siEn of life no.
even when her brotherF in-Iau- mt his
hand TO her heart and said to Van
quet: She is dead
This is what the Londdn c.lobe called
dH lnduNerte1ce' ny an inadveTt-
ehce our recent hotlce OF Dr Maculay's
new pooh' coiiliiieI'teu OILY the absence
VI ILLUSTRATIONS as uelecet. We now
find, however, that it contAsine twelve
wood cuts Of much merit.
A steady and Venerable\ o,,ani,,.
journal solemnly informed itst readers
in a complimentary notice of the cath
Ollie Fireside that Its stories Are NOT
of a nature TO destroy the MORALS of
the youngest child"
The editor of a Pennsylvania c0s,n-
try weekly began a leader with a re-
mark that "Mr. Thomas in his addreS.e
at the convention, merely let our people,
know how unwell he is fit to cope with
Josh Allen on the stump. He will onl1
prove a political morsel for Allen II
chaw up" The rival newspaper printl
ed the paragraph with the heading IL
circus placard letters: How unweH NJ
ic fit