The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-04
PRINTERS BULLS.
Some Of the Queer Errors Made by the
Intelligent Knights of the Case

| Some of the Queer ErroFs MADE oy tne
Intelligent Katgbts OF the Case.
will put on record some few Of the
many typographical errorS and bulls
which have come under my eye.
To begin will cite that of a compost
tor who in a furniture advertisement
where cradles and collins were spoken Of
CONFORMITY said they were 1.-THE apples and
oranges alpha and omega OF human
life"
In Jim Fisk's pslmiest Days the editor
Of paper on which was employed
wrote an article descriptive Of turn
OUT (horses and carrage) with which
Fisk was just then paralyzing New
York. The learned blacksmith who set
1t up read the word turnout" "tomcat, :"
and so had it all through the article.
A clipper on The Atlanta Constitution
once wrote this: The Texas Pacific Is
now running cut 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
of another compositor on the same paper,
In setting take Of telegraph about the
Turco-Russian war, gravely announced
that the Russians had captured the
Topeka Post" for Schipks Pass.
After the death Of the Emperm EApo-
leon the telegraph, in describing his ap-
pearancs as he lay IN bis coffin, Gaid that
'fhis features are placid but carewurn- +"
IT, 49,, -.n1 81 - x-.,,,-s. 80,
and SO set it. The game artist on the
same day spoke Of the "attitude Of the
Brazilian goat toward ths An1Iles-'
have seen the Authorization govt"
translated goat tnnumerahle times,
but only cnce have seen IL reversed
and goat" rendered ''government"-
this by a man who was always looking
out to svoid the first named boil. be
setting up description Of an "Angora
government
On the day that r E Lee died Rich
nond dspAsch said that General gloom
prevails." The proof had it this way:
Gen. Gloom" etc.
After Horace Grseley's death the preH-
dsntih elec.o5 Of Ge0rAia, when they
went 10 cast th<ar votes, having no can
didates 20 give Gen 70, east hem In =
complimentary way for t+1sreut persons.
The editor Of the paper was working on 4.
IN speaking Of the raatsx, said ths7 scat
tsrsd their vOtns line = coIustts her
smiles" Imagine has heETu when this
confronted hins Scattered their votes
like oogna. for miles"
Several years ago, while a noted south
ern author, Low dead, vaA on q tour IA
Europe, In one OF his letters bs wrote
that, Afser waiting . certain locality, on
the next day he would 20 70 Chzr1ng
Gross. The types had it Chasing
crowAs
During the eastsrn complications. ten
or twelve years ago. . certain MAhuoud
Jan figured rather prominently. One
night eonpoator get tsks OF tele-
graph Of which that name was the frE+
word he glanced a. IL, aud with Al
imprecztion on the 'fool operator wh0
dSnf know what month II Ia" he pro
oeeded % erect /, thu. arAAhzoud, Dec.
5.--nakine date line q IL
One q the fnesE breaks I ever sa- wa
made by q proofresder. he came scross
the line:
Ays spr4nres 70 estch voo1coeE
he was not up On Hamlet. snd
never having seen the word '-sprtngns
q course knew there WA no sEch. 30
be changed the p 70 =, making >;
'-EyTsnges.7 Tzs nsn who 50 TIE AZ