THE INTELLIGENT PRINTER.
I was reading over a list of typographical errors'in. an old serial the other,.day (says a writer in “Vanity Fair.”) One was an announcement in a (Ripbu ! paper, where a line of a report of a public,-meeting found its way in among the .births to tins . effect:—“ On the 3rd instant, at Ellsington, the wife of Mr Terry of a • son, he. spoke indistinctly, but was understood to say that on the . sth instant,, at Bridgate,' the wife of Mr Joseph Lonsdale of a daughter/’ •There was. another from a Glasgow paper. “ Last Saturday a poor woman in King street was safely delivered of one sergeant, two corporals, and thirteen rank and file.” A third came home to my own suscepti- ‘ bilities. A passage in the Psalms, “Princes having persecuted me without a cause,” was misprinted, “Printers having persecuted me.” ;
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2549, 23 May 1881, Page 3
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143THE INTELLIGENT PRINTER. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2549, 23 May 1881, Page 3
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