Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-09-21
HuMoRs OF NEWSPAPER TYPE.
culled from the Scrapbook Of an old-Time
Writer.

| An old New York newspaper man, now
| turned farmer kept a scrapbook in which for
wears 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
by the New York Sun to show that vagaries
| Of the types and blunders which writers
| sometimes make when driven at top speed
may be compared fayorably with some OF 'he
current humor of the day
| II was New York newspaper which an
nounced that "A long line Of scorpion
| feathers filed into the church instead OF
.'surplced fathers. A journalist once
famous under the press name OF uath
wrote a Fourth of July article in which ne
told with fervid eloquence how the enete
mouarchies Of the old world trembled in their
boots when they read the immortal declara'
ton penned by Thomas Jefferson. Thrones
reeled, he began sentence, and next morn n,
ing he wished he hadn't when he saw in cold
type: Thomas reeled.
daily newspaper up the Hudson reported
the speech Of Fourth of July orator VIM
had something to say about the fiat OF the
AIm;gbtv IL got into the paper 1.-THE fist
Of the Almighty
The Winnipeg Times, ON the death OF q
reverend gentleman meant to say 1.-THE death
Of A prelate" but printed the death OF q
nirate.r A Cardiff newspaper, reporting the
sermon of the Rev DR.. Mellor before the
CONGREGATIONAL Union, where the clergymen
smoke of .'women clothed with sanctity,' by
an unfortunate transposition of the g
printed the phrase: Women clothed with
scantity.'
London paper said that Ernest henah
had occasion to telegraph across the BRUSH
channel the title of a lecture he was 70 de-
liver in Westminster Abbey. Inc .i',e as
written by him was 1.-The Influence OF Rome
an The Formation Of Christianity. 1t was
published in England as 1.-THE Influence OF
Rum ON the Digestion of Humanity.
II was in d New York papers report OF q
noltical meeting that the word shouts
was so mdicrously msprinted as to make the
hIrnder famous. 1.-THE shouts OF lo,ooo
democrats rent the air. read the report. A
,oca, renorter wrote that Dr. Talmage closed
his services with the hymn Nearer, by God
N Tbee.'' but the blunder was caught on the
av in the proof room and did not get INTO 'ne
naner At the time Of the Meeker massacre
in Colorado dispatch from the west attrip'
uted the tragedy to the farmers having
''pulled down the Indians tents ana voi
raIs One paper put it in type as pulled
aawn the Indians beets and carrots =
The old time reporter, with the howl Tor
conv ringing in his ears, sometimes perpe-
trated remarkable English. young Ohicago
nowsuatherer wrote of q man VINO had diea
~ asnhvxiation: "Mr. johnson was foune
ua.,;n;ng on the bed while his legs extended
ovar The floor and toward the outer edge OF
the room. 49,. ,,ho
4 chicago daily found little body VINO,
according to its veracious chronicier' WAS
verv dead indeed The reporter wrote; ine
bov was quite dead. No efforts could resusci'
tate him in the least. go,
This is quite as good as the bull cuiied
from feuilleton in the Paris Figaro. winch
ran nNot cry did she utter nor give any
sion Of life, not even when her brother-in-law
mi his hand to her heart and said to Vaque'
'She is dead. ;o,rnol
4 steady and venerable evening journal
oiamnlv informed its readers in comph
saantarv notice of the Catholic Fireside Una.
..;ts stories are not of nature to destroy 'ho
morals of the youngest child -,
Th;s Is not what the London Globe caiied
"a, ;nadvertence" by an inadvertence
o,'r recent notice of Macaulay's new DOCK
Jul tad an the absence Of illustrations as
oo, aasa., We now find, however, that 1t con-
a-.na 10 wood cuts of much merit
'ai mSo editor of a Pennsylvania country
weakly began a leader with remarh 1na'
...Mr Thomas in his address at the CONVEX
tion merely let our people know now UNIV" ..a
he ia fit to cope with josh Alien On va.
stump He will only prove pon'icai inoia..
Cor Allen to chaw up. me rival hewspap..
nrinted the paragraph with the nesains II
circus placard letters; How ohwen iie -
Fit Boston Globe.