A COSTLY MISTAKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6823, 29 September 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)

A COSTLY MISTAKE.

An amusing story of a mistake comes from the United S*-jtee. An hotelkeeper, living at Raleigh, in North Carolina, recently broke ■oae of hisbar-room windows, and being unable to get the damage repaired in hia own town, he wrote off to Hob York for a pane of glass of the requited size. The measurement was 22 inches by 32 iuchea ; but in his baste, Boniface wrote " feet" instead of inches," and iu consequence his order rather astonished the glaes-makenj of the Empire City. They could not, they soon discovered, manufacture a sheet so large, and, bearing in mind the magnitude and apparent importance of the order, they at once telegraphed to France for what they required. A. Paris manufacturer happened to ba able to roll a sheet of the necessary superacid, and at the earliest poa-ible moment he did so, and shipped the result to New York. In due time the parcel, which, on account of its size, could not be forwarded by rail, reached its destination ; andoa opening it, the found a mass of glass an inch thick and a* large as the floor of a banquetiug-hall. But, what was still worse, the Paris manufacturer's bill came to more than £600; and the charges for transport and insurance amounted to nearly half as much again. ■■■.■ ■■■.■■'■ -. ■ ■ ■■■■.>>■ '■--'■j.-.-..-..-- . ...