PRINTERS’ ERRORS.
Two more contributions to that most fertile of subjects, printers’ mistakes 1 The editor of a Paris medical review, says the Printing Times, wrote on a proof-sheet the following instruction to the printer—“ Let the quotation marks be carefully made.” The compositor improved upon bis instructions, and inserted.” “It is necessary to guillotine with cai’e all the lunatics.” The second not a whit less racy, must have ■amused Sir Wilfrid Lawson. At the Exeter Hall meeting of the Church of England Temperance Society, the Bishop of Exeter declared that “ they were not about to give np the battle, uor had their spirits sunk because they had not made .such rapid progress as ome had desired.” These words wene ilms reported in one of the papers—- “ They were not about to give up the bottle, nor had their spirits sunk,” ike.
Por remainder of news .see last page.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1077, 13 March 1880, Page 3
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