, 1890-09-18
SOME PRINTERS BULLS.
Queer Errors Made by the Intelligent
Knights OF the Case.

ArtlSt 1Tllltcr
l 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 compost
tor who in furniture advertisement
where cradles and collins were spoken OF
conjontly said they were "the apples
and oranges (alpha and omega) OF
human life"
In Jim Fisks palmicst days the editor
Of paper on which | 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
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 out thirty miles FROM Tex
arkana." The proof sheet read: THE
Texas Pacific is now shipping winlry
mules from Texas races"
About he time the above was gotten
OIL another compositor on the same
paper, in setting take of telegraph
about the Turco-Russian war, gravely
announced that the Russians had cap
tured the Topeka POST Qor Schipka
Passl
Alter the death of the Emperor Ma
poleon, the telegraph in describing his
appearance as he lay in his coffin. said
that his features are placid but care
worn" The typo read the last words
"can work" and so set II. The same
artist on the same day spoke of the at
titude of the Brazilian goat toward the
Antilles"
have seen the abbreviation "gov't
translated goat innumerable times.
but only once have | seen II reversed
and goat" rendered government" this
by n man who was always looking out
TO avoid the first named bull, he set
ting up description OF an "Angora
government,
On the day that r. Il. Lee died a
Richmond dispatch said that General
gloom prevails" The proof had it this
way. Gen. Gloom" etc.
Alter Horace Grerley's death the pres
idential electors Of Georgia, having no
candidates to give them to, cast them in
n complimentary way ior different per-
sons. The editor Of the paper | was
working on, in speaking of the matter,
said they "scattercd their votes like q
coquette her Smiles" Imagine his hor-
ror when this confronted him: Scat
tered their votes like cognat for
miles"
Several years ago, while noted
Southern author, now dead, was on IA
tour III Europe, IN one of his letters he
wrote tnat after visiting a certain 10
cality on the next day he would 60 TO
Charing Cross. The types had 1t "chas-
ing crows
During the Eastern complications, ten
or twelve years ago, a certain Mahmoud
Jan figured rather prominently. One
night compositor got take OF tcle-
graph Of which that name was the first
word. He glanced at 1t, AID with an
imprecution on the fool operator who
don't know what month 1t is lac pro-
cceded to erect it thus: "Mahmoud,
Dec. .. 5."--making u date line of it.
One OF the finest breaks ever saw was
made by proofreader. lie came across
tile line:
Aye, springes to catch wood cock.
He was not up on "Hamlet," and
never having seen the word "spTinges"
of course knew there was no such. So
he changed the p TO y making II
''syringcs.' The man who set the take
was an amateur actor and perfectly ia
miliar with the line. but the most he
could affect with the proofrcader was a
compromise. The p was left stand, nut
the had to come out, and SO II went
springs
| | will close this, not for want Of mate
| rial so much as for fear of encroach ing
too much on your space, by recounting
the feat OF printer who. IN an article
describing mendicant said he wore "a
"threadbare coat and had on his face II
! "neckte flush"