The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-02-16
TIE AMUSING SIDE OF TYPOGRAPHICAL
ERRORS.

An old New York printer has kept
a scrap book in which for years he
pasted hundreds of the typographical
blunders and other errors that always
annoy, but sometimes amuse. A few
selections 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 may be compared favorable
with some of the current humor of
sthe day.
II was a New York newspaper
| which announced that ga 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
a Fourth of July article in which he
told with fervid eloquence how the
| efete monarchies of the old world
trembld in their boots when they
read theimmortal declaration penned
by Thomas Jefferson. Thrones
reeled," be began sentence, and
next morning he wished he hadn't
when he saw in cold type, "Thomas
reeled."
A daily newspaper up the Hudson
reported tie speech of a Fourth of
July orator who had something to
say about th "Fiat of the Aln1igh-
ty." 1t gotinto the paper "the fist
of the Almighty"
The Winnipeg Times, on the death
of a 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.. Mellon before
the Congregational Union, where the
clergyman spoke of women Clothed
With Sanctity," by an unfortunate
transposition of the Co printed the
phrase, women Clothed With Scan
tity."
A London paper said that Ernest
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 1.-The Influence of Rome
on the Formation of Christianity" !"
1t was published in Ergland.as "The
Influence of Rum on the Digestion
of Humanity
It was in New York papers re-
port of a political meeting that the
word "shouts" was so ludicrously
misprinted as to make the blunder
famous. "The snouts of 10000
Democrats rent the all" read the re-
port. A local reporter wrote that DIR.
Talmage closed his services with the
hymn, NEARER, by God, to Thee"
but the blunder was caught on the
fly in the proof. room and did not get
into the paper At the time of the
Meeker massacre in Colorado de-
spatch from the West attributed the
tragedy to the farmers having "pull-
ed down the Indians tents and cor
rais.A One paper put it into type as
pulled down the Indians beets and
carrots.
The old-time reporter, with the
howl for copy ringing in his ears,
sometimes perpetrated remarkable
English. A young Chicago news
gatherer wrote of a man who had
died ofasphyxiation "Mr. Johnson
was found reclining on the bed while
his legs extended over the floor and
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
reporter wrote: "The boy was quite
dead. No efforts could resuscitate
him in the least
This is quite as good astbe ''bull'
culled from a feuilleton in the Paris
F1ga,o, which ran (: "Not cry did
she utter nor give any sign of life,
nor even when her brother-in-law put
his hand to her heart and said to
Vaque She is dead. ;"