Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-08-08
FANTASTIC PRooF.REAplNo.
Ridiculous typographical Bulls CoilecteI
by = Wtdo-AwaLke Priuter.

Ridiculous typographical Bulls Collected
by = Wide-Awake Printer.
will put on record some few Of the
many typographical errors and bulls
which have come under my eye, says .
writer in the Artist Printer.
To begin will cite that Of compos-
itor who, in a furniture advertisement,
where cradles and collins were spoken
OF conformity, said they were "the APP
pies and oranges (alpha and omega) OF
human life"
In Jim Fisll's palmiest days the editor
of paper on which l was employed
wrote an article descriptive of turn
out" (horses and carriage) with which
Fisk was just then paralyzing New York.
The learned blacksmith who set it up
read tho words turnout" ''tom-cat,"
and SO had it all through the article.
A clipper on tho Atlanta Constitution
once wrote this: 1.-The Texas Pacific is
now running out thirty miles from Tex
arkana." The proof sheet read: "The
Texas Pacific is now shipping wintry
mules from Texas races"
About the time the above was gotten
off, another compositor on the same pa
per, in setting q take of telegraph about
the Turco-Russian war, gravcly an
nounced that the Russians had cap
tured the Topeka Post" (for Schipka
Pass.
After the death Of the Emperor Ma
poleon the telegraph, in describing his
appearance as he lay in his coffin, said
that "his features arc placid but caro-
worm" The typo read the two last
words ''can work." and SO set it. Tho
same artist on the same day spoke of the
attitude of the Brazilian goat toward
the Antilles"
| have seen the abbreviation govt
translated goat" innumerable times,
but only once have 1 seen it reversed
and goat" rendered governments" this
by man who was always looking out to
avoid the tirst-named "bull," he setting
up description Of an "Angora govern
ment."
On the day that r. E. Leo died a
Richmond dispatch said that General
gloom prevails" Tho proof had it this
way: Gen. Gloom" etc.
After Horace Greeley's death the
Presidential electors Of Georgia, whom
they went to cast their votes, having no
candidates to give them to, cast them in
complimentary way for different per-
sons. Tho editor Of tho paper I was
working on, in speaking of the matter,
said they scattered their votes like q
coquetto her smiles" Imagine his hor-
ror when this confronted him: 'Scat-
tered their votes like cognat for
miles,"
Several years ago, while o noted
Southern author, now dead, was on q
tour in Europe, in ono of his lettcrs he
wrote that, after visiting q certain To-
cality, on the next day no would go to
Charing Cross. Tho types had it
Chasing crows"
During the Eastern complications, ten
or twelve years ago, certain Mahmoud
Jan figured rather prominently. Ono
night compositor got take of telc-
graph of which that name was tho first
word. He glanced at it, and with an
imprecation on the "d--n fool op-
orator who don't know what month it
is," no Proceeded TO erect it thus:
"Mahmoud, December g." making q
datc-linc Of it.
Ono of the finest breaks ever saw was
made by proof-reader. He came across
! tho limo
Aye, springos to catch woodcocls."
lie was not up on Hamlet, and never
having seen tho word ''springcs," of
course knew there was no such. So he
changed the p TO q y, making it "syr-
ingcS." The man who set the taltc was
an amateur actor and perfectly familiar
with tho line, but tho most he could
! effect with proof-reader was compro-
misc, the p was let stand but tho G
had to como out, and so it went
Springs"
will close this, not for want of ma.
tcrial SO much as for fear of encroachinc
too much on your space, by rec bunting
the feat Of printer who, in an article
describing q mondicant, said he wore O
"throadbone coat" and had on his face
"necktic flush"