The following specimens of false syntax are given by the _Printers’
Register_:
A man who was suddenly taken sick “hastened home while every
means for his recovery was resorted to. In spite of all his
efforts he died in the triumphs of the Christian religion.” “A
man was killed by a railroad car running into Boston supposed to
be deaf.” A man writes, “We have decided to erect a schoolhouse
large enough to accommodate five hundred scholars five stories
high.” On a certain railway the following luminous direction
was printed: “Hereafter when trains in an opposite direction
are approaching each other on separate lines, conductors and
engineers will be requested to bring their respective trains
to a dead halt before the point of meeting, and be careful not
to proceed till each train has passed the other.” A steamboat
captain, advertising an excursion, says: “Tickets, twenty-five
cents; children half-price to be had at the office.” An Iowa
editor says: “We have received a basket of fine grapes from our
friend W., for which he will please accept our compliments,
some of which are nearly two inches in diameter.”--_Printers’
Register._
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=English Passage, Superb=--See SOLACE OF THE SEA.