Carelessly Evpressed.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 6

Carelessly Evpressed.

Correspondents in various parts of the w rM continue to auerm-nt the "Spectator's" collation of anecdotes of "absentmindedness." thouph some of these, as on-- contributor remarks, should rather come under the head of heedlessness. Mr. Ei n>l Toll-maehe cites an advertisement in the words " A piano for sale by a lady about to cross th- Channel in an oak case with carved l-ps." Thisis vouched for by the late Profess.>r 1 lories ,n in his " Errors in the T'se of Knglish." where also is noted the following curious epitaph in an T'lster churcliv.ird : Ere-pd to the memory of John Phillips ac«• i. 1 • iita 11 y shot as a mark of a IT.-etion by hi° brother." A mor- r--mirkable example of an ill-timed car--],-.<.:ncss nf expression is that furnished l.y uvther corr-sp indent. wh v onlv last w---k. in the parish church of St. 11--1 i«-r. ,T-rs"v. cam- aerobe fh- following -x----tr i --dintv inscription : " T-> th- srlo'-v of C .!. ind in m-m-'fy of 'I• - » j-lt-• Fr-d- ----! ick d- firt-r-t. hi< cousin, wh > p-rish- • d bv drowning. and lies int-v-d in the Cith-dril Church. i I.ilw iv. Ir-land. tills win-!."- is giv-n by Ivlward Charles Mll •-1 d-- ("art. r-t. S-iirn-ur d- St Ou-n. A n MecriA'Vii."