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New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1124, 21 June 1867, Page 5

A blundering or "wilful compositer and proof-reader on The Davenport (Iowa) Gazette recently caused that journal to appear with the fo lowing dispatch : "The Committee of Way and Means have decided to put Chase and Butler on the free list." It should have read, " Cheese and Butter." A Book. Incident.—A hook collector at Lille, France, recently purchased, at a stall, a volume at least a century old, but on examining his purchase, some of tho leaves appeared to be wanting. • A clbser inspection, hewever, showed that in three places the edges of the opposite pages had been pasted together, and in each pocket thus formed a lOOfr. note was concealed. The amateur, on enquiry, learned that the book had been purchased nt the Bale ofamaD recently deceased, and tho finder immediately restored the notes to his son, a carpcnter, in straitened circumstances, who had juit been obliged to soli a part of his furniture to pay for his father's funeral.