Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — Funny Mistakes. [ARTICLE]

Funny Mistakes.

The blunders >and misstatements of traveling journalists have furnished the small “wits” of society with many a threadbare joke, writes David Ker in Harper's Weekly., .and they have certainly some cause to smile when a man pronounces authoritatively upon the state of a country which he has just entered for the first time, or begins a letter with “Emit intelligent native with, whom I have conversed,” after exchanging a dozen words with two half-caste storekeepers and a native groom. I shall not easily forget how one <®f my brother correspondents in the East eloqtoently prophesied a time when every market of western Europe should be filled with “the preserved fruit stored in the ikhans .of Tart ary, and the rich fleeees sheared from the great lama of Thibet,” or how another, indistinctly overhearing some mention of the British wounded being carried away by a doolie (ambulance litter), began his next letter with a thrilling account (A '“the ferocionas doolie swooping down upon the battle-field and carrying off the helpless wounded.”