The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-20
HUMOR OF THE TYPES.
Some Strange typographical
Errors That Have Crept into
Newspapers.


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An old New York newspaper man,
now turned farmer, kept a scrap book
in which for years he pasted hundreds
of the typographical blunders and
other errors that always annoy, but
says the New York Sun. A few selec-
lions from this collection are given
here to show that vagaries of the types
and blunders which writer's sometimes
make when driven at top speed NAV
the current humors of the day.
1t was New York newspaper which
announced that "A long line of scor-
pion's feathers filed into the church"
instead of surpliced fathers" A jour-
nalist one 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 immor-
tai declaration penned by Thomas JEFF
ferson. Thrones reeled." he began a
sentence. and next morning he wished
he hadn't when he saw in cold type
Thomas reeled."
A daily newspaper up the Hudson
reported the speech of Fourth of
July grafton who had something to say
about the Fiat of the Almighty" It
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 prelate," but printed
the death of a pirate. A Cardiff
newspaper. reporting the sermon of
Rev. DR.. Mellor before the Congrega-
tional union, where the clergyman
spoke of Women Clothed with Sancit-
ity," by an unfortunate transportation
OF the "e" printed the phrase, "Wo-
men Clothed with Scanity."
A London paper said that Ernest
Renan had occasion to telegraph
across the British channel the title Of
a lecture he was to 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 1.-THE In
nuence of Rum on the Digestion of
Humanity"
1t was in New York papers re-
port of political meeting that the
"oAu SuOuIS was SO luulCrOuSly mis-
printed as to make the blunder famous.
THE shouts Of 10000 Democrats rent
the air" read the report. A local
reporter wrote that DR.. Talmage clos
ed his services 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 Colo
RADIO a dispatch from the west attrib-
uted the tragedy to the farmers having
pulled down the Indians tents and
corrals." One paper put 1t into type
as pulled down the Indians beets
and carrots"
The old-time reporter, with the howl
for copy In his ear, sometimes perpe-
trated remarkable English. A young
Chicago newsgatherer wrote of man
who had died of asphyxiation; "Mr.
johnson was found reclining on the
bed while his legs extended over the
floor toward the outer edge Of the
room"
A Chicago daily found little boy,
who. according to its veracious chron-
icler, was very dead indeed. The re-
porter wrote 1.-THE boy was quite dead.
No efforts could resuscitate him in the
least"
This is quite as good as the "bull"
culled from feuilleton in the Paris
Figaro, which ran: mot cry did she
utter nor give any sign Of life, not