Cumberland And Westmoreland.

CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND .

FOLLOWING the Consecration of the Vale of Eden Lodge , reported elsewhere , a meeting of the Provincial Chapter was held at Appleby , on Friday . Subsequently the Charity Committee of the Province

met , when a sum of one hundred guineas was voted to the Eoyal Masonic Institution for Girls , and several sums , amounting to about c . 0 guineas , were voted to the relief of distressed Masons or their widows .

o o o The fund for commemorating the services , during the last twenty years , of Bro . Sir John Monckton as Town Clerk of the City of London , will close on the 14 th inst .,

and the presentation will be made by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House on Tuesday , the 17 th , at half-past two o ' clock . The form which the compliment takes will

be , first , a marble bust of Sir John Monckton by Mr . J . A . Eaemakers , for presentation to the Guildhall Art Gallery ; and next , a valuable gift of jewels for Lady Monckton .

Errors Of The Press.

ERRORS OF THE PRESS .

" The world ' s a Printing-house : our words , our thoughts , Our deeds , are Characters of sev'rall sizes : Each Soule is a Compos'ter ; of whoso faults The Levits are Correctors : Heav ' n revises . " " Divine Fancies , " hy Francis Quarks ( 1632 )

FEW people acquainted with the mysteries of type-setting will be surprised to rind that the best books contain occasional mistakes , in spite of all the care which may be taken in their production , the alteration or transposition of printed matter being attended in many instances with grotesque results .

I once asked a friend of mine ( a publisher ) , if he could account for the frequency of printers' errors , even when the subject matter sent to the priss had been neatly written and carefully punctuated . " In many instances , where the writing is plain , we put on our apprentice hands ; but when the copy is bad , we arc compelled to get our best men to decipher it , " said he . " Then , " was my reply " the illegible scrawl commands better attention than well-written copy . " " That is so , " he rejoined .

But although the printers are often in fault , yet the author is sometimes to blame , for the latter leads them astray by carelessly written copy , both in punctuation and spelling , and he is therefore quite as responsible as the printer for errors , which have been described as " a source of indignation to the author , a matter of annoyance to the printer , and a cause of genuine amusement to the general public . " And some of these blunders , or eoquilles , as the French call them , are funny enough at times .

Lord Palmerston attached very great importance to a legible hand , and in this he differed from the famous American , Horace Greeley . The latter , " who at bottom was a most excellent man , was an oddity in many things , and wrote vilely . Although in his own—the Tribune—office , his printers might be supposed to decipher his handwriting after they had been in his service for

several years , not one ever mastered it , and the first proofs had practically to be re-written . ' Seldom , ' says one of his own countrymen , ' has the clearest and purest Saxon been veiled in such hieroglyphics . ' One of the numerous stories told of Greoley ' s caligraphy is that some time before the war he wrote a note to a member of the staff , discharging him . Tho expelled journalist

went to California , and , returning after several years , encountered Mr . Greeley in Printing House Square , New York . The old chief recognised him , and inquired , with his customary affability , where he had been , and how he had been getting along . ' Let me see , ' he continued , ' didn't I get mad with you and send you off ? ' ' Oh , yes . You wrote me a note telling me to clear out . 1 took it with

me . Nobody could read it , but it was taken as a letter of recommendation , and I got several first-rate situations by it . I am really much obliged to you . ' On another occasion , when Greeley was angry with one of his men , he sent him to the cashier with a note intended to indicate a considerable reduction of salary for the former . The cashier understood it to read , ' Double— 's salary , ' and accordingly he doubled it 1 "

An amusing printer ' s error once occurred in the columns of one of the leading Paris evening papers . The following paragraphs , intended to have been printed separately , were hy some blunder so arranged that they read consecutively : — " Doctor X . has been appointed head physician to the Hospital de la Charite . Orders have been issued by the authorities for the immediate extension of the Cemetery of Mont Parnasse . The works are being executed with the utmost despatch . "

During the clays of the Reign of Terror , the celebrated Frenchman Sieyes , in correcting the proof sheets of a pamphlet in defence of _ his political conduct , read , "I have abjured the republic , " printed by mistake for adjured . " Wretch ! " he said to the printer , " do you wish to send me to the guillotine ?"

A New Zealand paper , after describing a curiosity in thistles , thus concludes : — " It was not a Scotch thistle , but one of the edible variety euphemistically called sow thistles , to which donkeys are very partial . A great many were attracted into the porch of our office to examine the curiosity . " A New Zealand editor , in his account of a ball , wrote of a lady of commanding presence : —Mrs . S— , who possesses a form that Juno might envy . " His sub . read

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tho proof , and the next morning the horrified scribe found the name of the goddess transformed into " Jumbo " ( Barnum ' s famous Elephant ) . The same paper , in a brilliant report of a high-class wedding , announced that " the bride ' s trousers were the loveliest we ever saw . " The reporter wrote it " trousseau , " but the intelligent compositor made tho 'fatal error , and the paper doubled its circulation for that day at least .

An Australian paper once made merry over the mistake of a contemporary , which headed an article , " Sir H . P—' s Embezzlements , " instead of " Embarrussmonts , " and in the next item described Mr . Gladstone as a "leading pollution , " instead of " politician . " Another Australian paper says : — " Mrs . Caldwell was the recipient

on Saturday of a beautiful floral offering , in commemoration of the advent of her first-born son , which came to her by parcel post from Ballarat . " " The sum now being raised , " remarks another contemporary , " will take the form of a mariners' relief fund , primarily for the support of the men who lost their lives at the wreck . "

America is credited with many newspaper blunders , and one paper narrowly escaped being sued for libel by a widow , for speaking of her husband as having " gone to a happier home . " The touching line , " Our first in heaven , " was gratuitously added to an obituary notice in a Philadelphia paper ; and the father of tho ohild went into tho office roaring mad . It was the third , and he wanted to know where tho editor supposed the other two had gone .

In making up his formes , the foreman of a Montreal paper mixed an article on Roman Catholic Missions in Africa , with a receipt for making tomato catsup . The published article read : — " The Roman Catholics claim to he making material advances in Africa . During the past three years they have obtained a firm footing in the interior of the continent , and have sent forth several

missionaries into the equatorial regions . They are accustomed to begin their work by buying the heathen children , and educating them . The easiest and best way to prepare them is to first wipe them with a clean towel , then place them in dripping-pans , and bake them till they arc tender . " " Book of Rarities , " by Bro . Edward Roberts P . M . Asst . Prov . G . T . ( To be continued . )

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TJPWABDS of forty members of the Sc . Kew Lodge and other Brethren attended the funeral of the late Bro . Ffarington , which took place at Weston-super-Mare , on the 17 th inst .

THE death of Bro . W . Black , D . L ., G . Treasurer of Tyrone and Fermanagh since the formation of that Provincial Grand Lodge , has caused profound sorrow in the district . The Lodges of the Province will wear Masonic mourning for three months . The deceased was a most benevolent member of the Order , and continually exerted himself on behalf of the Irish Charities .

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