Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-01-25
Laughable Biuuders of Writers ana
Typos.

THE amusement afforded by ludicrous
Typographical errors will be ineXhaustiblc
while printers are falljhlc and editors write
with abominable Indifference To legibility.
One of the most astonishing hlunders OF
this kind was committed some years ago
i'm an editorial i'm the BHHetB. The writer,
who had cautioned his readers against
casting their pearls before swine, was
amazed and grieved To perceive that the
compositor had warned the public against
eating their pills before sunrise This
was corrected in the proof, but the re
porter who declared of certain new store
that IL Ind :" sixty fancy windows was
even more indignant than the store-keeper
when he saw IN his paper the statement
that the establishment contained sixty
faded widows" And then there was the
poet, in Muncy, who sought 10 soolhe
the wounded feelings of a bcreavcd iami-
! " by publishing in the local paper
poctical tribute 10 the deceased daughter,
| Emily, in which he declared that ave will
| halloa her grave with our tears" He was
pursued next morning by Emilys eXas-
peratcd brother because the printers in
| sisted that awe viii harrow her grave with
our steers
! The poets suffer most deeply. Nothing
could be worse, for instance, than the
misery of the bard who asserted, in his
! copy, that he kissed her under the silent
stars" only To find that the compositor
| compelled him To !" kick her under the
cellar stairs" A certain jenkins, also,
was the victim Of an aggravated assault,
because when, in his report Of wedding,
! he declared that the bride was accom-
panied To the altar by eight bridesmaids"
the types made il that ''thc bride was ac-
companicd 10 the altar by tight brides
maids These things are peculiarly
unpleasant when they occur In remarks
upon death: as I'm the case of the editor,
while writing sympathetic paragraph
observed that Mr. Smith could hardly
bear the loss Of his wife" only to find
that the printer had made it "Mr.
Smith could hardly bear such boss for
wife"
Even more dcplorablc is The injury TO
the journalist who cGmplimcnted a Ger.
tain candidate with the observation that
he was ~ noble old burghGr, proudly
loving his native State" Imagine the in
dgnation OF the candidate and the horror
Of the editor, when the paper next day
contained the assertion that the said
burgher was "a nobby old burglar, prOwl-
ing around in naked state"
Bot The printers do not make all the
mistakes. We remember the laughter
and comment provoked by the statement
of provincial reporter, who called the
attention Of the constable to the fact that
"on Sunday last some twenty or thirty
men e0ttected IN tie doli0tc-Jock If 1ho,ads
NcGiaHH and engaged in fighting during
the whole morning. Mr.. McGinnis'
back must have been uncommonly
large.
During the Franco Prussian war "a great
deal of fun was poked nj the New Jersey
editor who read in the cable dispatches
that " BaZaine has moved twenty kilomc-
ters out Of Metz" lie thereupon sat
down and wrote an editorial, in which he
said he was delighted to hear that all the
kiIometers bad been removed and the in
nocent people Of Metz were no longer en-
dangered by the presence Of those deylish
engines Of war--sleeping upon a volcano,
as II were And then he went on TO de-
scribe some experiments made with kilo-
meters in the Crimea, in which one of
them exploded and blew a frigate out Of
the water.
Another editor clipped from an ex-
change an obituary poem, which he sent
TO the composing room with some intro
dnctory remarks He said: ave publish
below a very touching production from
the pen Of Miss M. II was written
by her at the death bed Of her sainted
mother, and it overfiows with those ex-
pressions of filial affection which are the
natural outgrowth Of a pure untored genius
that has developed beneath the shcltering
influence OF mothers love. The reader
will observe how each line glows with ar
dent affection and tcnderest regret.
Somehow, in attaching this introduction
TO the poem, the editor turned up the
wrong side Of the clipping, and the con
sequence was that the editors lines led
the reader gently into an article upon
Hog Cholera in Tennessee. II was ru-
morcd that the relatives Of Miss NJ
were seen proving around the office next
day, armed with shot guns, but this has
not been traced to any reliable authority.
- pLzI0d<IxLs0 Ry,UefiH