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Show QUEEIt BLUNDERS. . , . . . Illegible Copy, has caused innumerable amuslug and not a few serious blunders In print. A speaker quoted these lines: -. O, come, thou goddess fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne. They were printed as written! O, come, thou goddess fair and free. In heaven she crept and frese her knee. The reporter was following sound. Her is another illustration; . Those lovely eye bedlromed. ' Those lovely eyes be dammed. A Congressman advoetd grants of public lands to "actuAl settlers. ' It got in the paper as "catue stealers." A reporter re-porter -tried to Write that "the Jury -disagreed and were discharged." but the compositor set it Up "the jurV disappeared disap-peared and were disgraced." The last -words In -a poorly written sentence, "Alone -and isolated, man would ecms Impotent and perish," were set up as "impatient "im-patient and. peevish. "Sew Vork Press. " . '.. t |