Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1889-01-10


same Fe4rs e - sitter Il = b.
SeeklT nper puhilshed - the studeats
q Naie COLLEGE uas aztaaisheA and.
eteu mone. s~audallso4 - Tears that an
editorial which be had reTauded Nith
fond pride rferred q old maids who
served a. pedflae Tor 3 dinner party
Turning the pavo be scanned another
product 81 his pm. q thrilling romance.
ard discovered that the hanled villain
hal aued thrce taExs into himself
The said editor had written In the
frst article.
- maids xAa aerysa - pa1iinr ior =
dlansr party
In the second article he had written:
"-nred hires huilets into himself
Il Is often asked with virtuous indig-
nation Why such typographical errors A.
these orcur. The explanation. aside
from The total d~epravitv Of inanlmato
things can readily h. given. In fact
the wonder grows That st<h mistakes do
20 far olfener occur.
Immediately before a written article
is given 10 eompositors 20 be sect, the
.eopY. - the manuscript Is termed by
printers. Is scissorod into takes" or
portions Of ten or twenty lines. Some
times slight attention is paid to the
passgrauhing and the punct tatiOn of
tho written page when the article Is
thus cut up, and, consequently, the last
line Of q take" mas often end in the
middle Of a sentence. When such is &c
ease the take IS said to 'end even
After a manuscript Is cut up the
stakes" are commonly put on a cops
hook, and indicated by a letter OF the
alphabet, followed by consecutive
figures. For instance. the editorial
which brought such CONSERVATION 70 the
etudent-edItor was cut mp into three
"takes," indicated a + I. L : and L B.
Tho first .'endcd even" with the word
''as," and the second sbegan even
with the words padding for a dinner
party" The eompositor who took from
the hook the FIST take" set 1t &C,
eording 10 copy, while the composition
who took tho second take" made the
error "a very common onel Of mistakinp
a for "a, and so converted padding int
padding" The first ~compositol
finished his take" quickly, and a proc.
OF 1t was Immediately read by the
proof-reader. The other ~compositoi
was slow, and did not finish his take
until several minutes after composition
No. 1 had finished his. In the mean
time, the proof-reader, having beer
busted with important and pressing
statistics, had forgotten the exact end
ing OF L /. Seeing That + . began with
pudding for a dinner party" and he
lieving that pudding was proper and de-
sirablo at a dinner party, he did not de
tsct the competitors error. This error
in fact, should have been detected BY the
'copy-holder." or person who followed
with his eye the wording in the copy,
rs the proof-reader read aloud from the
proof; but in this ease, the copy
holder" duplicating tho mistake of the
composition, also mistook a for u.
a similar mistake was made in the
case Of the seheming villain who ''ired
three bdllets into himsclf"-with the
exception that u was mistaken for a
The first take" ''cnded even" with The
word three and the next ''jegar
even" with outlets The ~compositor
who set the second take subsequent
~ observed that he didn't have time I,
make sense of the take and though.
that he had done his duty in following
las he believed at the time) the copy.
The same editor who experienced th,
two narrowing surprises referred t,
subsequently wrote, in reporting al
evening address BY Chauncey NJ. Depew
the sentence: I'VE do not thus sully GU
arms" In reading the printed accoun
the next morning he saw TO his horror
1--WE do not thus Sally our arms" TIT
considerable compositor had mistaken
the n in ''sully" for an a and, to max,
sense, had made the first letter in tn,
word upper case" or a capital.
MORAL: Write your us and your as II
such wise that type-setters can not mis-
take them.-N. Y. Ledger.