OCR Text |
Show An editor of a weekly paper, commenting on the fact that his paper sometimes made mistakes, says he made more in his last issue and that a good subscriber told him all about it. He goes on to relate about the same day there was a letter in his postoffice box that did not belong to him; he called for No. 98 on the phone and got 198; he asked for a spool of No. 50 thi-ead and got No. 60 ; he got his milk bill and there was a mistake of 10 cents in his favor; he felt sick and the doctor said he was eating too much meat when he hadn't tasted meat for two months; the preacher turned in his church notes with the name of the ladies' aid society president presi-dent mispelled and the editor got the blame for it; the garage man said the jitney was missing because it needed a new timer, he cleaned a spark plug and the fliwer has run ever since. ' Yes, indeed, editors do make mistakes and so, about every thousand years or so, do other people. Exchange. . r |