Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-11-12
CURIOUS ERRORS IN TYPE.
Amusing Blunders Which Often Escape the
PrOofreader'a Eve.


Many Of the errors revealed in cold
type are extremely comic. The fault
is proportionately divided between the
compositor and the proofreader, al
though the latter prevents many a
ludicrous blunder from reaching the
public eye. A reporter on Bing-
hamton journal, in his account of a
ball, intended to say that the belle of
the evening "looked au fait." The
comp positor thought he knew better,
and set it up so that it read that the
young lady looked "all feet" The
proofreader passed this awful "bull,"
and the item was thus published. The
effect upon the editor and "the belle
of the evening" is concealed from a
curious public. In description of
the study of a popular authoress a
very important little ''l' was dropped
by the compositor and overlooked by
the proofreader, so that the paper was
made to say that the windows of her
room were "tastefully decorated with
choice hanging pants" A Minneapo-
lis minister in recent Sunday sermon
used the expression, "All Europe is
coming here" Again the awful COM
positor, who put it into type, "All Eu-
rope is crying hell" In report of a
dinner given by the Bowdoin alumni
of Portland, Me-, recently, the menu
was published in full by local paper,
and under the heading of poisson"
| (fish) the misplacing of period made
1T appear rather ridiculous. OF course
"boiled chicken, halibut, anchovy
sauce" was the piece de resistance,
but the newspaper saw fit to print it,
Boiled chicken. Halibut, anchovy
sauce"
"An expression found its way into
our columns yesterday" says Mon
treal paper, (which we much regret.
In our reference to Sir John MacdCu-
AIDS singularly mistaken remarks
with regard to Sir Richard Cart
wright, the sentence should have read:
'Sir John must have been intoxicated
with his brimming honors, etc. The
two words Drumming honOrs' appear
ed in print as cumming heroes. ,"
Very recently critic of a leading
newspaper wrote description of a
piece produced at the Thalia theater
called ''Die Fledermaus," and the
compositor put it into type, "Die
| Fiedexmans." In the same article
reference was made to the opera of
ERA Diavolo," and still another strug-
gle by the compostor resulted in
FRA Travis" A metropolitan re-
porter wrote for bis journal an ac-
count of a church ceremony, and q
description was given of the appear
ance OF the chancel, during which he
used the words, 1.-the altar was sur
rounded by surpliced fathers" The
compositor improved it, as he thought,
by putting it INTO type, 'the altar was
surrounded by scorpions feathers. ="
An attempt was made bya correspond
ent in Montreal during the excitement
concerning the defalcation and flight
of Emo, who had been seen in hotel
in that city III a somewhat excited
frame of mind. to say that Emo
walked through the corridors all
night" The compositor went wrong,
the proefreader followed in the same
direction, and the paper was made to
say that "Eno walked the car riders
all night" "a partner of Mr.. Mar
quand" has been transformed into "a
partner of the rear guard" Jury Sc
lected from panel in New York, "
into "a jury selected from panel IN
the dark" "the husks which the
swine did eat" into ''the husks which
the prince did eat, rancor, acerbity,"
into "ranconacerbilty." Red Let
ter Days" into "Red Letter Dogs,
etc, and the list could be extended
beyond the limits of newspaper space
1t was somewhat annoying to Bos-
.. ton people to have their city alluded
to, in recent work on Dickens, as the
"Hut of the Universe" and also to
readers anywhere, and particularly the
author, when he wrote "Prisoner OF