THE LIGHTER SIDE
Copy reading has its lighter side. Gems of unconscious humor come to the desk over the wire, through the mails and now and then from the “cub” reporters in the local room. Witness the following, taken verbatim from a story that did not get into print:
Patrolman Prim of Twelfth District Station suffered two broken knuckles of his right hand, when he struck Charles Wilson, of No. 2324 B street, yesterday afternoon on the nose. Wilson resisted arrest and the fight followed. The latter’s nose was slightly scratched, and is held at the station.
A volunteer correspondent wrote:
Sneak theaves made away with the contribution box Sunday eavning just after there had been a liberal donation from the congregation of some fifty dollars at the Methodist Church.
It seams that no one was paing eny atenshion to the countribution box after the colexion was taken.
It setting in easy reach of a good many on the alter.
The person or persons that speited it away was very boald as well as slick, at eany rate it was taken while the congercation was still in the house.
Some say they think they know who took it and there will be a clost watch on them for the next fiew days.
A suburban correspondent contributed this:
John Angel, the man who was rescued from a horrible death last Thursday night by being killed by a passenger train, passing over his body, by Fred Anderson, is yet in a very serious condition but is somewhat improved from his condition on Friday.