by a correspondent of the _Times_ about a
year ago is very charming:--

``A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the aperient spring.'

The reporter or printer who mistook the
Oxford professor's allusion to the
Eumenides, and quoted him as speaking of
``those terrible old Greek goddesses--the
Humanities,'' was still more elaborate in
his joke.

Horace Greeley is well known to have
been an exceedingly bad writer; but when
he quoted the well-known line (which is
said to be equal to a florin, because there
are four tizzies in it)--

`` 'Tis true, 'tis pity, pity 'tis 'tis true,''

one might have expected the compositor
to recognise the quotation, instead of
printing the astonishing calculation--

`` 'Tis two, 'tis fifty and fifty 'tis, 'tis five.''

This is as bad as the blunder of the
printer of the Hampshire paper who is
said to have announced that Sir Robert