The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-08-14
TRICKS OF TYPE.
The Skeleton In the News.
paper Closet.

No one knows the perils of print
ing except by actual trial. There
are thousand typographical pitfalls
lying in wait to trip the feet Of the
finest metaphors, and traps of every
kind ready to beguile language out
of its proper meaning and intent.
The writer for the daily press IS more
especially the victim OF these tricks
of the type. lie has no leisure to
revise, and is almost wholly at the
mercy OF the compositors. II his
copy contains All error, that error is
reproduced in the proof; and if the
proof reader overlooks it, or the
compositor fails to correct it when
marked, the next mornings sun sees
it IN all the badness Of bad typhog.
raphy, or cruclfied sense. Mr.. Job,
an Israelitish gentleman who lived
some time since, was an extensive
farmer and a Granger. He dabbled
some in politics IN early life, and filed
with credit, the various positions of
tai Grange, Justice, etc. All these
things show that Mr.. Job was gen.
tleman OF judgment and observation
but in nothing was he moro discrlmi.
mating than in reference to another
Uzite, with whom he had had a diff
Guilty. Instead Of going over to his
house and blowing him up with
hard names, or telling the neighbors
that he voted the liberal ticket, he
uttered a wish that he had become an
author and manufactured book. I'm
aginc what exquisite pleasure the
venerable old Granger would have
had. With his seven sons and three
daughters gathered about him, he
would have sat on his back porch
and pokei fun at the typographical
errors cf his enemy's book. His
critical eye would have singled out
all tho misplaced commas. He would
have led the lau ghter with the widest
oi Jewish gnffaws over the tlunders
of the proof reader and compositor,
and when some particularly ridicu.
lous mistake, some inexcusable black.
smithing was discovered, he would
have punched Mrs. Job in the ribs
with the loose end of his forefinger,
and, ia the ccstacy OF his glee woald
have forgiven her for burning the
breakfast pancakes.
The errors of Typography are le'
gion, and each is more aggravatlng
than the one which preceded it. A
few years since a correspondent OF
tae leading agricultural paper Of lows
raid q visit to the garden OF the
principal editor. The correspondent,
| was so favorably impressed with the
beauties Of the Place that bc dished
it up III an article for the paper, in
tending to tell his story under thu
title, IA visit to the Garden of th'
Editor-in. Chief" Alas for humai
calculations! The composition say
the light under the striking but Nor
monish heading, IA visit to the Har
EN- Of OF the Editor-in. Chief" Tradl
ton says that the wrath OF the slau
dered editor was "terrible as an al
my with banners"
! Not long since another journal j
Des Moines published q medical al
ticlc, with the supposed title {
"Chronic Diptheria," but it appeare
as .Chronic Dipthong." Probabl
tho dil thongs that were made use
by the unfortunate contributor whe
he read it were sufficient TO caus
diptheria.
A few weeks since a mammot
cheese was manufactured IN Grund
county. It was SO large that espe
ial notice was made of it by all u
papers in that vicinity, and finally IL