Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-06
#isesllansua's geadins.
coMPosIToRs' HoWLERs.
AmusineIy Wicked Deeds Done by the
Imp of the Perverse.

mods, and in this connection the lat
Lord Goschen told, at public dinner,
story Of a reader who worked for nj:
Gord Goschen's) grandfather, anc
who, in answer to denunciation from
his employer, cried:
Let some other man work at cor.
rectness of Typography. I despair. MY
own thoughts often hinder me, as they
seize and hold the authors otherwise
than that ought to do. 1t Is quite pos.
sible that niggling about words ano
syllables may often go to the wall wher
my soul cannot tear itself loose from
been found In sheets which l thought
l had worked backwards and forwards
with the greatest particularly. l read
always as 1t should be-"
1t Is when a reader Is in this soulful
condition that the general public are
permitted to. read, as they did once in
morning paper not given to humor
that a celebrated politician, in a speech
described some one as sitting at the
feet Of the game bird Of Birmingham
instead Of Gamaliel." In the same
journal, too, the following startling
announcement appeared under the
heading Of Births"
the 18th inst, al
Belton-r road, Sidcup, the son Of AL
fred Nicholson, Of daughter.
In another newspaper a most pathet-
ic account appeared Of a doctor who
died owing to having accidentally in
fected himself while injecting some
plague virus into "gnat." The mys-
terry was explained the next day. when
an apology was printed, explaining
that the word should have been rat.
During a recent election a daily re-
ferred to the popularity Of the well
known Lancashire foxes" This quaint
mistake was due primarily to the tele-
graph operator, who neglected to sup
ply capital letters for what should have
read "Lane-Fox," a member Of which
well-known family was one Of the can
didates.
Come over and try some new
SOUP" lady novelist did not write;
songs" was the word. 1T is sickly
'kopje' Of the real article" was perhaps
excusable. 1t appeared in a paper dur
ing the Boer war.
These mistakes are curious enough,
but they pale into insignificance before
some Of those that never reach the
printed sheet. -
4-"cold milk, 1fatasrt,s'o demanded
a compositor in cold type, and he was
aggrieved to have to alter 1t to "Cead
Mile failthe!" "Brer Fox" was made
"Boer Foxe"-that was also during the
South African war;
On hot summers day another tired
typesetter turned 1.-The Ides Of March
into 1.-The Idea Of Work." and the same
man was responsible for this puzzle:
"Dewlap tyros are best in the market u
The answer Is Dunlop tyres"
In a sermon a celebrated divine was
made to say: "And they erected ma
rine store at the mouth Of the sepul-
chre." Massive stone" were the cor
rect words.
Authorizations are at times the bane
of the compositor, but he had no ex-
cuse for setting up, in an account OF
Mansion House function, that among
those present were "Old Isaacs and Old
Treloar" He should have known that
AID" was an abbreviation Of "alder-
man." In the same take" Of copy the
Lord Mayor was received with a
crash (should be 'eclatD, and was fol-
lowed by the sheriffs in their 'marga-
rine (maZarine) gowns
Let the gulled Judy wink" appeared
In another first proof, and the proof
reader wearily made it the CALLED
jade vince" Die, lusty platter!" has
quite a transporting flavor, but the
copy" said Die Lustige Batter" "a
German weekly paper).
"Pignut Of the enunciation" does not
seem convincing; "figment Of the imag-
ination" is better. "Petticoats long on
Sunday morning Is a disgrace" Is all
right when the first two words are
read "Petticoat lane"
In a police court assault case the
prosecutor was made to say that the
prisoner had given him twins" What
the prisoner really did was to give the
prosecutor turn" "a fright). 1.-THE
were suffering from men
tai alteration, must have been set up
by a compositor of the Opposition pol
itics. The real charge was mutual
DE mortar ivil nice lOreum" would
trouble a Latin scholar. DE mortuis
nil nisi bonum" Is more correct. Jim
the Pieman" is easily recognizable as
the hero of a play, and Putty Polly,
the race horse, would throw up her
pretty head in disdain to see herself
so described.
For "a pair of scandals completed
the costume read Sandals" and for
Here is indeed 'sundial" substitute
scandal" He lived in the "hubbubs,
should be suburbs" and Call her
Herr, in is understandable when
printed Caller herrin."
A well known descriptive writer wa:
startled to read in a rough first proof
that he had described the fields sur
rounding the Derby course as COVER
ed with boots and Shoes" He wa:
placated when informed that it hao
been altered to booths and shows
Columns could be filled with the
amazing and amusing blunders of the
compositor, but here space forbids OF
more than a final 'howler," which /:
classic in the printing world. 20 tenn
pora, o mores!" wrote leader writ
er at ten minutes to l in the morning
20 Moses, indeed" exclaimed thu
proofreader, a quarter of an hour later
when he Caught and bowled" the COM
positor, who had improved the phrase
into 20 Tennyson! o Moses!"-Lon'
don Express.
f1y The village of Elm in the cantor