Vagaries of the Types

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 114, 6 March 1886, Page 4

Vagaries of the Types

"./ 7<;ThQ most carefully edited: journal: is fallible," says the 'London Literary : - T W"orld.' r " Iv' the 'Times' office, it is . 'said;- proof -readers are fined for every \ blunder, that eludes them. On the j (■New : York Herald they: have been •suspended for weeks. In spite of this Severe discipline the Herald once mad c "thei ■ astonishing announcement 'that-- ' a Ibrig line of scorpion's feathers 1 fLUd "into 'the church,' instead of ' surpliced fathers.' ... A-' reporter on that paper iad. occasion to" quote a verse from. a familiar hvnin in; .which ] the ,worf' * herald' occurred. (-. The t proof -reader •^dutifully under-scored : the fword, ; ; aue -tiie ; verse appeared :'■ 'Hark, the Herald sing. ' It was ; in the World' trepgrt of apolitical meeting that -the IWrd' shouts' was/so ludicreiisly mis- - iprihted as to make the blunder famous. «' The snouts ; -of ten thousand Democrats rent the air,' read the report. A. fewi^years ago . the journalist;" who is ; as Grath .wrote a Fourth of f July article. ; Withi ervid eloquence <tfe -told how ;r the effete monarchies of l the bld'WoiM trembled in their boots • ' r^ad; the immortal words penned by^^ Thomas; Jeff ersbri.. 'Thrones 'Reeled,' wrote 'the irnpa^siqned Gath: Next-morning he.saw- in-type ' Thomas ieeledi'T'iTM 1 story 1 is- fold; thatiEarnest Eerian'''once ! had occasion to tele^graph ccross the British Channel the j eftfj^ctjof ia, proposed lecture of his in i Abbey. , The.subject as twritteiisby- him was .'.The -Influence. qf stom©' bnithe iFormatiba .oi Christianity.' It was published in England: as l^ie'jlEfluence^f ;\Rum; ,qn ; the I)/ges- 1 tioß,;p| Humanity.,., ; ; „, „.: /,. |