Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — Typographical Errors. [ARTICLE]

Typographical Errors.

Typographical errors sometimes cause really serious trouble and annoyance. On other occasions they are simply amusing. Some years ago an advertisement of a political meeting was Inserted in a Philadelphia paper. The advertisement was intended to announce that a wellknown leader would address “the masses” that evening. Owing to the misplacement of a “space,” however, the public of Philadelphia was informed that the address would be delivered to “them asses at National Hall.” A religious paper called the Gospel Banner, which is published at Augusta, Me., once attracted attention through the prank of a printer, who transposed two words of its motto, so that it Pead: “In the name of our God we will up set our banner.” The omission of a comma was the cause of a suit for libel brought against a Western newspaper by the inventor of a patent medicine. A testimonial to the worth of his compound was inserted in the paper, and read as follows: “I now find myself completely cured, after being brought to the very gates of death by having taken only five bottles of your medicine.” The comma, which should have come after the word “death,” was unnoticed by the compositor.—Youth’s Companion.