Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1881 — Telegraphers’ Bulls. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphers’ Bulls.

A press dispatch from Omaha announced that a company of infantry had met a party of Indians and were “all scalped.” It should have read “all escaped”—an important difference not only to the company, but to their friends who were to read the dispatch, said Mr. Simonton. “We killed a deaf mule,” an operator read a dispatch ordering arrangements for the reception of a de: d body, which should have been a “deaf mute.” “ Send 10,000 shingles like this one ” wrote a Williamsport lumberman on a shingle. He evidently thought that particular shingle would go by telegraph and be delivered to his correspondent for a sample of what he

wanted. A young couple on their wed-ding-trip were met at the depot by friends clad in mourning, with a hearse, because an operator had sent the word “hearse” instead of “horse.” A dispatch from Queensland said Gov. Kennedy had “turned the first tod” on some important work, but the operator gave the message to the London newspapers: “ Governor of Queensland, twins, first son,” and the London Times gravely remarked that Lady Kennedy had been safely delivered of twins, of which the eldest was a