Among the errors that have occurred through design, was one which happened in the old _Hudson Balance_, when the Rev. Dr. Croswell was the editor of that ancient and excellent journal. A merchant by the name of Peter Cole chanced to get married. Cole, however, was very unpopular, and was not one of the brightest intelligences even of those days. The bride, too, was a little more no than yes, in her intellectual furnishment. It used to be a common practice in the country, in sending marriages to the press, to tack on a bit of poetry in the shape of some sweet hymenial sentimentality. In compliance with this custom, the groomsman added a line or two from one of the poets, where the bard speaks of the bliss of the marriage state, 'when _heart_ meets _heart_ reciprocally soft.' The wicked boys in the printing office, however, corrected the poet, making the stanza read thus: 'When _head_ meets _head_, reciprocally soft.' Another instance, more ludicrous still, was the following: A lad in a printing office, who knew more about type setting than he did of the Greek mythology, in looking over a poem they were printing, came upon the name of _Hecate_, one of the lady divinities of the lower world, occurring in a line like this: 'Shall reign the _Hecate_ of the deepest hell.' The boy, thinking he had discovered an error, ran to the master printer, and inquired eagerly whether there was an _e_ in cat. 'Why, no, you blockhead,' was the reply. Away went the boy to the press room, and extracted the objectionable letter. But fancy the horror of both poet and publisher, when the poem appeared with the line: 'Shall reign the HE CAT of the deepest hell.' But let a form of types, arranged either for book or newspaper, be ever so correct when sent to the press, errors not unfrequently happen from yet another cause, viz.: the liability of now and then a letter to drop out, when the form has not been properly adjusted, or locked sufficiently tight in the iron frame which by printers is called a _chase_. How important the loss of a single letter may become is seen by the following example. A printer putting to press a form of the Common Prayer, the _c_ in the following passage dropped out unperceived by him: 'We shall all be CHANGED in the twinkling of an eye.' When the book appeared, to the horror of the devout worshipper, the passage read: 'We shall all be HANGED in the twinkling of an eye.'