The Directory's Mistakes

Many curious things come up in connection with the publishing of a directory. Mr. Donnelly was busily engaged in his private office when the usual quiet of that room was disturbed by the angry voice of a man in the outer office. He wanted to see the manager, and violently made his way inside. He was manager of a big manufacturing firm in Fifth avenue, and was angry all the way through because the compositor had set up "mangr," the abbreviation for manager, as "nurse." It was tooi late to correct the error, and there is one manager who for a whole year will be presented to the public as a nurse. As the visitor flung himself out of the office he ejaculated: "I suppose people will be sending ineir DaDies to me to nurse, now. ru kill the first one that does." Many brokers had no end of fun with one of their number whose vocation in lïfe was given as that of a "porter." A Chicago literary man of some celebrity was writtert down as a "writer" by the canvasser, but the directory said ie was a "waiter."-