The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-25
Humors of the EroocRoom.

=
has contributed an interesting series OF
articles on his business TO the Good Tenn
Plqr gem. After presenting n vivid pen
I picture OF the many trials 10 which the
prOof-reader is subjected, both in book and
newspaper offices, the writer gives a few
I instances Of ludicrOus mistakes in print
( ing. We quote:
In the course OF famous trial i'm Brook
I lyn, q lady was telling about the defendant
calling on her 10 relate his woes, having
done which, he said, he lay down on a
| lounge and she covered him with an afghan.
/ The reporters caught the sound and wrote
napkin" and it so appeared in the re-
I ports Of several papers next morning. The
/ impOSsibility Of covering the pOrtly and
I dignified form Of the defendant with
napkin ought to have struck the proof
reader. but it did not.
4 gentleman, describing a visit to a IA
nous public building, where he had some
difficulty in finding the way out, finally
found the western gate, where, he said, q
cab awaited him. but the cOmpOsitor in
sisted that coop" arrested him.
Speaking Of the innumcrable dogs Of the
( city. another writer longed for the annual
st. Bartholomew dog massacre, but the
| types had it that he yearned for the "arri
val OF w. BatholOw's dog museum"
Some moralist lkened something which
he thought very flat and stale to torch
/ light procession by daylight with last years
political candidates but the compOsitOr
/ thought "bursted guns" would be better
than candidates.
"A gentleman from New York" ap-
pCared in proof as Cunningham from
/ Nyack."
The next blunder passed the prOOf-read-
er and copy-hOlder, and it may be pre-
/ sumed caused the writer to think that the
COW must have yielded something other
/ than milk. The sentence was written,
" Seeing some sailors engaged in picking
oakum,v etc.. but the types made it read,
"Seeing some sailors engaged in milking
cow"
4 Young gentleman was once placed in
can appalling situation for conscientious
theological student" but the types made
him a consumptiye theological student"
A book-reviewer spoke of an author who
had made can argument for the existence
OF God based on evidences OF design IN
nature" When printed the argument was
"for the existence Of girls based on the
rudeness OF design in nature" which was
not complimentary to the girls.
Describing a fort, it was written that
- the guns were en- barbette," but the COM
positor thought it would be better If " all
the guns were in Baireuth."
An astronomer once saw "thlrty-slX
meteors i'm the course OF 4 single hour u
ON their way through the composing-room
the meteors got stuck Sin the corner OF
rough house."
The heading TO an account OF college
feast was transformed from "The Dart
month Dinner" TO the "Foulmouth DIM
ner.v which was not true, although there
were many speakers.
speaking OF the strain OF laborers
muscle, il was written, "when he llfts Dlg
mines or carries bricks in his hod," but the
compositor put the bricks in his "hat,"
where, alas too many o. them are carried.
A reporter. writing Of an accident, put
the cart before the horse by asserting that
the horse backed overheard, dragging the
cart after him. OF course, il the proof.
reader had been thus mixed there would
have been trouble.
A traveller in Africa told OF an alligator
which swallowed thirty-six missionaries"
The printer must have been Tilted, for, &C.
cording to him, the reptile made his meal
OF "nursemaids."
A weekly newspaper lamented the pre-
vailing tendency of English girls TO deiy
the conventional restraints OF former
years" The compositOr made II READ
"connubial restraints" and perhaps no
was not far wrong.
Another inquirer wanted Il kno" II Cle
"police cannot do something 10 prevent
careless and dangerous blasting III inc
ueichborhOod of Third avenue - ana thls
Is the way the typo put 1t: " cannot lIe
police do something to prevent tlle gamers
and deer from bleating in the nelghOorhoou
Of Third ayenue!"
ellis blood boiled as he beheld youth |
and beauty i'm the power Of a determined
villain y was what the author OF story |
wrote. /" His blood broiled as he beheld |
orilt and brandy in the form OF deter |
mined villain" was the way the compost
tor fixed ii. ~.
MFR. McGinnis determined to exercise MS |
marital right of "snoring in his chair" but
the compositor thought he would be better
" "snooxing in his straw" and probably he
was right. A.. 10
Some time ago it was asserted that "a
Canadian had devised a scheme for warm
inc hi, beloved land" but the artist at the
ease said he had "deyised scheme for
wearing his blonde hair"
A Virginia paper said, during poitlcsl
campaign, that the farmers would forget
their Hpantry and nursery" in the excite
ment OF politics. What the editor wrote
was that they would forget Their poverty
and misery" :. .;o,, and
"The Duke Of Brunswick Is SICK, ana
all the courtiers Of Europe are III iigtter,
came M in type, "The Duke OF Bruins.
wick is sick, and all the court geese OF
Europe are on platter" which Is good
place to put geese, II they are mcely
roasted. 80.
The list is not by any means exhausted,
and is being added TO daily and nightly al
over the country; but our columns have
heir limits, and this article must close
with one or two specimens OF the kind OF
,ony of which printers and proof-readers
,re expected to make intelligibie advertise
nents: ohud
"a companent mother wishing chiiu {
,rhottIed or board best reverence"
"a wong Heoly woman OF Is As "e' {
nurse with the privilege OF own wages no
Aud this notice from the Hartford Co"-
amt will do for "finis":
BIRrHs- TS1lmbuH. Sunbury, NO {
,ember ~, daughter TO Jane ana sarah l
rrumbull."
woman who carried around mix In
,ar;s said n naive thing the other Gay. |
hon l..