Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-18
HuMoRs OF NEWSPAPER TYPE.
cuIIsd From the sorapbook of an Old
Time Writer.

An old New York newspaper man,
now turned farmer kept scrap book
In which for years he pasted hun
dreds Of the typographical blunders
and other errors that always annov,
but sometimes amuse, newspaper
writer's. A few selections from this
collection are given here to show that
vagaries of the types and blunders
driven at top speed may be compared
favorably with some some of the cur
rent humor Of the day.
1t was a New York newspaper
which announced that "A long line OF
scorpions feathers filed into the
church" instead Of "surpliced faith
ers." A Journalist once famous un-
der the press name Of "Gath," wrote
Fourth of July article in which he
told with fervid eloquence how
the effete monarchies of the old
world trembled in their boots when
they read the immortal declaration OF
Thomas Jefferson. Thrones reeled, u
he began sentence, and next morn
ing he wished he hadn't when he saw
in cold 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 Winnepeg Times, on the death
Of reverend gentleman, meant to
say "the death Of prelate," but
printed "the death Of @ pirate" A
Cardiff newspaper, reporting the ser-
mon of the Rev. DR.. Mellor before the
Congregational Union, where the cler-
gyman spoke Of Women Clothed
With Sanctity," by an unfortunate
transposition Of the &c" printed the
phrase, women Clothed With Scan
tity."
A London paper said that Ernesi
Renan had occasion to telegraph
across the British channel the title OF
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" II
was published In England as "The
Influence Of Rum on the Digestion OF
Humanity"
: 1t was in New York papers re-
port Of political meeting that the
word Shouts" was so ludicrously mis-
printed as to make the blunder fam
Gus. "The snouts 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" bui
the blunder was caught on the fly
in the proofroom, and did not get into
the paper. At the time Of the Meek.
er massacre in Colorado despatch
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 ard carrots"
The old time reporter. with the
howl for copy ringing in his ears
sometimes perpetrated remarkable
English. A young Chicago news
gather wrote of man who had died
Of asphyxiation: "Mr. Johnson was
found reclining on the bed, while hi!
legs extended over the floor and to-
ward the outer edge of the room"
A Chicago daily found O little boy
who. according to its veracious chrpn.
icler. was very dead indeed. The re-
porter wrote: THE boy was quite
dead. No efforts could resuscitate
him in the least"
This Is quite as good as the "bull'
culled from a feuilleton in the Paris
Figaro, which ran: mot a cry did
she utter, nor give any sign Of life
not even when her brother-in-law pu.
his hand to and her heart and tC
Vague, She Is dead.'"
A steady and venerable evening
journal solemnly informed its read
ers in a complimentary notice Of the
Catholic Fireside that 'its stories IRE
not of a nature to destroy the morals
of the youngest child"
This Is what the London Globe call
ed an "inadvertence": by an mad
vertence our recent notice of Dr. Ma
cauleys new book commented on the
absence of illustrations as a defect
We now find, however, that 1t con-