Printers' Errors.

Some of the errors made in printing a newspaper make it easy to understand why an editor may suddenly leave town.

The flower show had been a great success, and a few evenings later Mr. Blank, who had performed the opening ceremony, was reading the local paper's report of it to his wife.

Presently he stopped reading, his justifiable pride turning to anger. Snatching up his stick, he rushed from the room. Amazed, his wife picked up the newspaper to ascertain the reason of her husband's fury.

She read: “As Mr. Blank mounted the platform all eyes were fixed on the large red nose he displayed. Only years of patient cultivation could have produced an object of such brilliance.”