The Middlebury Galaxy

TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.

It is amusing to note the errors contained in many of our exchanges. We do not claim that our own paper is free from them—on the contrary, we are frequently perplexed to find, after the entire edition was worked off, some egregious blunder of the compositor, making absolute nonsense of the sentence in which it occurs. It is exceedingly provoking when a whole sentence is so mutilated as to convey a meaning entirely opposite to what was intended by the writer,—yet—such is frequently the case.

A few weeks ago, in recording a circumstance which took place in this city, we used the words, procuring a gun, he snapped it at the unconscious object of his hate. The compositor made the last word of the sentence, "(F)ate." We read the proof, marked the "villanous type" plainly as we could; and supposing all right, the edition was worked off. A day or two subsequently our attention was called to the article, when, lo—the sentence read "snapped it at the unconscious object of his (P)ate!" But, when our wrath had spent its force upon the devoted head of the unlucky knight of the "composing-stick," we took up one of our exchanges (of the democratic school, too,) by way of cooling-off, and read, "Thomas Jefferson, that great apostate of Civil and Religious Liberty," we felt that we were not alone in our trials. A professed democrat, we opine, would be the very last wittingly to speak of Jefferson, considered by them the "great Apostle of Democracy" as an "Apostate to Civil and Religious Liberty;"

But our City cotemporaries sometimes fall into the same difficulty. This was the case with our worthy neighbor, the Express, last week. At the close of a lengthy and well written Editorial on the subject of Temperance, (capital theme, by-the-way) are these words: "and the benighted smile of Heaven will amply reward our christian labors." It is clearly obvious that the writer intended to convey a different idea, viz: "the benignant smile" &c.

So, our readers will understand that Editors have their share of perplexity, which seems to be the common lot of all men; indeed, sometimes, in the language of the candidate of the Free Soil action for President, "our sufferings is intolerable!" The Lancaster (Pa.) Farmer.