The Irish standard., 1890-08-16

FANTASTIC RooF-READlNG.
Ridiculous Typographical BULLS Collected
nv = Wide.AWalo Printer.

FANTASTIC PROoF-READlNG
INDIGENOUS Typographical Bulls Collected
BY q Wide-Awaks Printer.
Sc will put on record some few Of the
many typographical errors and bulls
which have come under my eye, says q
writer in the Artist Printer.
To begin will cite that Of compos-
itor who, in furniture advertisement,
where cradles and collins were spoken
of conformity, said they were the ap-
pies and oranges (alpha and omega) OF
human life.''
IN Jim Fisk IS palmiest days the editor
Of a paper on which 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 the words turnout tom -cat,".'
and so had it all through the article.
A clipper on the Atlanta Constitution
once wrote this: 'sThe Texas Pacific is
now running out thirty miles from Tex
arkana" The proof sheet read:* s'The
Texas Pacific is now shipping wintry
| mules from Texas races. .
About the time the above was gotten
I off, another compositor on the same pa
per, in setting take of telegraph about
the urco-Russian war, gravely 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 s'his features are placid but care
worn" The typo read the two last
words .'can work." and so set it. The
same artist on the same day spoke OF the
latitude of the Brazilian goat toward
the Antilles" II
I have seen the abbreyiation govt
translated 'sgoat" innumerable times,
but only once have l seen it reversed
and ''goat'' rendered government" this
by man who was always looking out to
avoid the first-named ''bull,' he setting
up description of an. s'Angora govern
| ment'' &
On the day that r. E. Lee died a
Richmond dispatch said that General
gloom prevails . The proof had it this
way: sGen. Gloom" etc.
After Horace Greeley's death the
Presidential electors of Georgia, when
they went to cast their votes, having no
candidates to give them to, cast them in
complimentary way for different per-
sons. The editor of the paper was
working on, in speaking of the matter,
said they 'sscattered their votes like a
r. 10r
ror when this confronted him: 'sScat-
tered their votes like a cognat for
miles"
Several years ago.. while a noted
Southern author. now dead, was On a
tour in Europe, in one of his letters he
wrote that, after visiting a certain To-
cality, 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, a 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 ''d-n fool OPP
orator who don't know what month it
u.s." he proceeded to erect it thus:
'sMahmoud, December s. making a
date-line of it.
One of the finest breaks l ever saw was
made by proof-reader. 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 tho p to y, making it ''syr-
inges.'' The man who set the take was
an amateur actor and perfectly familiar
with the line, but the most he could
effect with proof-reader was compro-
mise, the was let stand but the e
had to come out and so it went
Springs"
will close this, not for want Of ma
:terial so much as for fear of encroaching
too much on your space, by recounting
the feat of printer who, in an article
describing mendicant, said he wore a
s'threadbone coat" and had on his face
'neok tie flush"