The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-25
Town Gossip and Stories
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 MT Mcbride seemed to be amused with the frantic efforts being made by so many candidates for the posi- ton of clerk. though he will make no comment about the relative chances of any of tEem for the office that he is ready to vacate at any time.
 Raising Attorney A. R Heilis Seeds has been doing some eX- Here Derimenting with vege-
 tables each year here, as a matter of recreation, and he has come to the conclusion that time will come when this will become a great seed producing country.
 It is pointed out by MT Heilig that experiments have proved that northern-grown seeds are preferred. even in southern climates. for the plants produced by them mature earlier than they do from southern grown seed
 MT. Heilig plants his vegetables early in April in boxes in the house and the young plants are set out into the family garden as soon as the weather will permit. He has raised some seeds that have been found to be better than those sent here from the Outside It is his opinion that great possibilities exist here for certain kinds of agriculture.
 Because it is found best to plant seeds in boxes indoors early in the season here" said MT. Heilig, should not reflect on the climate here, for they do that very thing in some of the northern states"
 Legal Men setting type make Notice Is some humorous mistakes, Profane and while most of these
 are detected by exper- .enced proof readers, there are times when some of the worst will be overlooked. and cause much amuse- ment on the part of newspaper read CTS.
 The Seward Gateway. in the fol lowing recent editorial from that newspaper, tells about typographical errors and ends by explaining ar error of that kind that happened in thc Gateway office:
 Tn writing an article some time ago to the New York Times Poult- ney Bigelow was made to say that kipling was "a British ass" A few days later came a communication from MT. Bigelow saying that the words were typographical error and that what he wrote really was "a British asset" In commenting on this the Post Intelligencer of Seat tie. in the last Sunday issue to ar rive, deals with a strange psycholog ical fact relating to proof reading. There is in the mind a sort of hiatus or spot or something like it that causes a proof reader to read over stuff and miss some of the errors, It is like the eye which can see the whole horizon and still fail to perceive a certain object included in he view.
 As another illustration of the queer tricks of the printing profes- sion it may be mentioned that no later than yesterday the Gateway printed some forms for a local at torney. In this form occurred the words in the above named place but il came out in the proof in the above damned places"
 Girl Children, as a general Was Too rule, are more truthful Truthful than are grown people
 for social Receptions are illustrated recently in Fairbanks in the case of a little girl who attend d her first party.
 When the little miss was ready to leave home for tie party her mother told her what things she must and must not do ill order to be courteous, The child listened attentively and asked number of questions to fully satisfy herself concerning the details. Just as she was going out of the gate her mother called to CT and said.
 Be sure, dear, and do not forget to say when you leave there that you had good time, and that you thank |! e lady for it."
 Late in the afternoon the mother of the little girl was much surprised when her little daughter came run ming home without coat or hat and all out of breath with excitement.
 Mamma" she said, as soon as she could regain her breath, T didn't have a good time at all; do 1 have to go and tell them that l had lovely time when 1 really didn't?' Will Take Slangy terms are ap- Lessons In piled to almost every Slang thing in this day and age of the world, and almost everyone knows something of them in consequence thereof, but there is one young lady in Fair banks who can now convince her friends that she knows nothing whatever of slang. particularly nau- tical terms, when applied to the condition of mind or body relative l 70 a state of sobriety
 This young lady, who is stenoG- rapher, was employed not long ago in taking notes on a certain case which was being tried in cOmmis- sioner's court The work was grill 1 ling, especially to one unfamiliar with taking court dictation, and she was having a hard time getting | town the questions of the lawyers and the answers of the witnesses, l but was doing the best she could. i The case being tried was one wherein questions were asked rela- | tive to the sobriety of certain per | cons at partoip tinn Ono unactinn