A COSTLY MISTAKE.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1089, 21 September 1883, Page 3

A COSTLY MISTAKE.

An amusing story of a mistake comes from the United States. An hotelkeeper living at Raleigh, in North Carolina recently broke.one of his bar room windows, and being unable to get the damage repaired in his own town, ho wrote off to New York for a pane of glasss of the required size. The measurement was 22 inches by 32 inches, but in his haste Boniface wrote “ feci” instead of “ inches,” and in consequence his order rather astonished the glass-makers of theEmpir 6 City. They could not, they soon discovered, manufacture a sheet so large, and bearing in mind the magnitude and apparent importance of the order, they at once telegraphed to Fiance for what they required. A Paris manufacturer happened to bo able to roll a sheet of the necessary superficies, and at the earliest possible moment he did so, and shipped the result to New York. In due time the huge pared, which, on account of its size, could not be forwarded by rail, reached its destination ; and on opening it, the hotelkeeper found a mass of glass an inch thick and as large as the floor of a banqueting hall. But, what was still worse, the Paris manufacturer’s bill came to more than £6OO, and the charges for transport and insurance amounted to nearly half ns ranch again.