San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-14
THE INTELLrGENT CoMposIroR.


From the Tw Republics.
l might write a column aud pos
sibly book on the subject of bulls
that Mexican printers make, but ther
! it is not fair to Judge them by theil
work in English for it is language
they do not speak; but while on the
subject will put on record some few
of the many typographical errors
which have come under my eyes.
To begin I will cite that of com.
position who in a furniture advertise
ment where cradles and collins were
spoken of conformity, said they were
'the apples and oranges alpha and
omega) of human life.n
In Jim Fisk's palmiest days the
editor of a paper in which was en-
ployed wrote an article descriptive OF
a turnout" (horses and carriage)
with which Fisk was just then para
lying New York. The learned black
smith who set it up read the word
turnout" "tomcat," and so had it all
through the article.
A clipper on the Atlanta Constitu-
ton once wrote this: "The Texas
Pacific is now running out thirty
miles from Texsrkana." The proof
sheet read: "The Texas Pacific is now
shipping wintry mules from Texas
races"
About the time the above was got
ten off another compositor on the
same paper In setting take of tele-
graph about the Turko-Russian war,
graveIy announced that the "Rus.
slams had captured the Topeka Post"
flor Schipka Pass
After the death of the Emperor Ma
poleon the telegraph, in describing
his appearance as he lay in his coffin,
said that Ibis 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 latitude of the Brazilian goat to.
ward the Antilles"
have seen the abreviation "gov't"
translated "goat" innumerable times,
but only once have seenit reversed
and "goat" rendered government"
this by man who was always look
ing out to avoid the first named
"bull," he setting up q description of
an "Angora government"
On the day that r, E. Lee died a
Richmond dispatch said that "Gep-
eral gloom prevails" The proof had
1t this way: "Gen. 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 diff
ferent persons. The editor of the
paper L was working on, in speaking
of the matter, said they scattered
their votes like cOquette her SMILES"
Imagine his horror when this con-
fronted him: Scattered their votes
like a cognac for miles"
Several years ago, while a noted
southern author, now dead, was on q |
tour in Europe, in one of his letters |
he wrote that, after visiting 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, a certain |
Jan figured rather prom |
inently. One night composttor got |
a take of telegraph of which that |
name was the first word. Heglanced
at it, and with an imprecation on the |
"fool operator who don't know what |
month it is" he proceeded to erect it |
thus: "Mahmoud, Dec. 5,"-making
a date line of it,.
One of the finest breaks 1 ever saw |
was made by proof reader. He !
came across the line:
Aye, SPRINGS 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,
it "syringes." The man W no |
set the take was an amateur actor |
and perfectly familiar with the line, |
but the most he could effect with the |
proof reader was compromise. The |
p was let stand, but the had to |
come out, and so it went Springs"
will close with this, not for want |
of material SO much as for fear of en-
croaching too much on your space, by
recOunting the feat of printer who,
in an article describing a mendicant,
said he wore Thread bone coatr and