SOME FUNNY PRINTERS' BLUNDERS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 28, 5 April 1907, Page 7

SOME FUNNY PRINTERS' BLUNDERS.

WHEN KNIGHTS OF THE TYPE CASE HAVE ERRED. A well-known musical critic tried all the resources of the caligraphic a-t to make the word "harmonics'! plain to the eyes of the gentleman who produces it in type, but it will come out in print as "harmonies." At last ho ventured to dr a w attention to the important letter by writing on the margin of his MS. ( 'c, not

Imagine his state of mind on reading his critique the following morning to find the sentence thus ; "While his playing of harmonies is usually excellent, his C, not E, intonation in ordinary passages is often at fault." The obnoxious word was still there, ami his marginal note had gone in with the rest.

Not long ago the same critic narrowly missed an awful blunder by catching sight of a passing proof. He was writing of a promising young pianist, and remarked, "With a "little more practice he will be in the position to rank with the. best players of his day." Ily the agency of the printer's devil or some other frisky Tuck "rank " had got itself printed "ram])."

A celebrated poet once had his equanimity upset by a printer's blunder, lie wrcte in his poem, ".Now the. old wound breaks out afresh," and was horrified to see by (lie print that he—a bachelor—had said:"\'ow the old woman breads out afresh." Funny indeed was the mistake which occurred lately in printing labels for a meat-preserving company. The printer had been in the habit of labelling tins of beef or mutton, as the case might be, with the words "without bones," promim ni.lv displayed. The company having added kidney soup to its list, the new article was duly ticketed "Kidney Soup, without bone."

An American paper told about "a drove of hogs floating down the Connecticut lliver," instead of "a drive of logs." An editor discussed the political situation in a comprehensive editorial and headed it, "Let us explore." He neglected to read the proof, and it appeared under the heading, "Let us Kxplod'." In a lecture a certain clergyman asked his auduence. "Was Saint Pau£ a .Jew?" on the report, of the let* ture h" was made to propound the. startling conundrum, "Was Saint Paul a dude '}" In an advertisement a lady who announces 1 hat she has takon charge of an hotel, adds that she "will carry on as before," and a baker with remarkable candour proclaims that in "btTp.d no effort will be made to provide ft wholesome loaf/' (1036).