The Portland daily press., 1890-09-01
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING. SEPT. L.
PRINTERS BULLS.
Some Of the Queer Errors Made b,
Intelligent Knights of the Case.

ARTIST Prlnterl
Twill put on record some few of the
many typographical errors and bulls
which have come under my eye.
To begin will cite that of compost
tor who in furniture advertisement
where cradles and collins were spoken of
conformity said they were ''the apples and
oranges alpha and omega) of human
life."
In Jim Fisk's palmiest days the editor
of a paper on which l was employed
wrote an article descriptive of a turn
out" (horses and carriage) with which
Fisk was just then paralyzing New
York. The learned blacksmith who set
it up read the word turnout" "tomcat."
and so had it all through the article.
A clipper on The Atlanta Constitution
once wrote this; 1.-The Texas Pacific is
now running out thirty miles from Tex
arkana." The proof sheet read: 1.-THE
Texas Pacific is now shipping wintry
mules from Texas races"
About the time the above was gotten
off, another compositor on the same paper.
In setting a take of telegraph about the
Turco-Russian war, gravely announced
that the Russians had captured the
Topeka Post" for Schipka Pass.
After the death of the Emperor Napo-
leon the telegraph, in describing his APP
pearance as he lay in his coffin, said that
"his features are placid but careworn."
The typo read the last words "can work"
and SO set it. The same artist on the
same day spoke of the attitude Of the
Brazilian goat toward the Antilles"
l have seen the abbreviation govt"
translated "goat" innumerable times,
but only once have l seen it reversed
and "goat" rendered government
this by a man who was always looking
out to avoid the first named "bull," he
setting up a description of an "Angora
government"
On the day that R. E. Lee died Rich
mond dispatch said that General gloom
prevails" The proof had it this way:
Gen. Gloom" etc.
After Horace Greeley's death the presi-
Dental electors of Georgia, when they
went to cast their votes, having no cam
didates to give them to, cast them in a
complimentary way for different persons.
The editor of the paper was working on,
in speaking of the matter, said they "scat-
tered their votes like a coquette her
smiles" Imagine his horror when this
confronted him: Scattered their votes
like cognat for miles"
Several years ago, while noted south
ern author, now dead, was on tour in
Europe, in one of his letters he wrote
that, after visiting a certain locality, on
the next day he would go to Charing
Cross. The types had it Chasing
crows"
During the eastern complications, ten
or twelve years ago, certain Mahmoud
Jan figured rather prominently. One
night compositor got take of tele-
graph of which that name was the first
word. He glanced at it, and with an
imprecation on the "fool operator who
don't know what month it is" he pro-
ceeded to erect it thus: "Mahmoud, Dec
6,"-making date line of it.
One of the finest bro axis | ever saw was
made by proofreader. He came across
the line:
Aye, springes to catch woodcock
He was not up on Hamlet" and
never having seen the word ''springes"
of course knew there was no such. So
he changed the p to y, making it
"syringes." The man who set the take
was an amateur actor and perfectly IA
miliar with the line, but the most he
could effect with the proofreader was a
compromise. The p was let stand, but
the had to come out, and so it went
springs"
will close this, not for want of mate
rial so much as for fear of encroaching
too much on your space, by recounting
the feat of a printer who, in an article
describing a mendicant, said he wore
"threadbone coat" and had ON his f""A {.
"necktie flush" -