The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-17
TRICKS OF THE TYPES
Wicked Deeds Done by the Imp
Of the Perverse.

WtGkcu UcCuS uVttC W MY UHsP
Of the PerverSe.
AMUSING ERRORS IN PRINT.
Examples Of What ls Liable to Happen
when The Composition Blunders Or
When the Usually Alert and Care
sul Proofreader Mods.
Sometimes the proofreader mods, and
In this connection the late Lord
Goschen told at public dinner . story
of reader who worked for his Qsord
GoscheD's) grandfather and who, IN
answer to q denunciation from his EN-
ployer, cried; v
aLet some other man work at cor
rectness Of typography. despair, MY
ewn thoughts often hinder me as they
seize and hold the authors otherwise
than they ought to do. 1t is quite pos
,stble that niggling about words ana
syllables may often go to the wal
when my soul cannot tear itself loose
from some thought or picture. Errors
have been found in sheets which !
thought had worked backward anu
forward with the greatest particular
nv, / read always as 1t should be-
II "a when reader is In this soulful
condition that the general public are
permitted to read, as they did once
Ia a morning paper not given 70 humor,
that d celebrated politician, In 2
speech, described some one as sitting
lat the feet Of the game bird OF Bir-
uingham," !" instead Of "Gamaliel.' In
the same journal. too, the following
startling announcement appeared un-
Der the heading Of Births"
NrCHoLsoN.-on the l2th inst, at Bel
Itpn road, Eidcup. the son Of Alfred Mich
olson, Of daughter
In another newspaper most pathet-
lic account appeared Of a doctor who
died owing to having accidentally IN
lfected himself while injecting some
plague virus into ''gnat." The mys-
terry was solved the next day, when an
apology was printed explaining that
the word should have been 'rat.'
"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
sxcusable. 1t appeared In paper
during the Boer war.
These mistakes are curious enough,
but they pale into insignifcance before
some Of those that never reach the
printed sheet.
sCoid milk, father!' once demanded
compositor in cold type, and be was
aggrieved to have to alter 1t to "Caed
mile failthew 'Brer Fox" was made
tBoer Fox" that was also during the
South African war.
On hot summers day another tired
fypesetter turned 'The Ides of March
into ssThe idea Of Work"
In sermon celebrated divine was
made to say, "And they erected ma
rine store at the mouth of the sepul-
cher" Massive stone" were the cor
rect words.
Authorizations are at times the bane
of the compositor, but he had no ex-
Guse In setting up, in an account Of a
Mansion House function, that among
those present were "Old Isaacs and Old
Treloar.' He should have known that
SAld." was an abbreviation Of alder
man. In the same take" of copy the
.4'L0rd Mayor was received with a
crash" Should be "eclat'0 and was
followed by the sheriffs in their mar
garine (mazarine) gowns"
aLet the guIled Judy wink" appeared
In another first proof. and the proof
reader YEARLY made it the "galled jade
vince" "Die, lusty platterr' has quite
a transporting favor, but the copy
said "Die Lustige Batter IA German
weekly paper.
"Pignut of the enunciation" does not
seem convincing; "fgment Of the imag-
nation 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. "The
government were suffering from men.
tal alteration" must have been sci
up by compositor Of the opposition
politics. The real charge was mutual
admiration"
"De mortar ivil nice loreum" would
trouble a Latin scholar. "De m0rtuis
nil nisi bonum' is more correct. "Jim
the Pieman" is easily recognizable al
the hero of play, and Putty Polly
the racehorse, would throw up hel
pretty head in disdain to see herself
Do described.
For "a pair Of scandals completed
the costume" read Sandals" and fol
AHere is indeed a sundial" substitute
scandal" He lived in the Thubbubs'
should be suburbs and "Call her
Herr, in" Is understandable wher
printed Caller herrin'"
"A well known descriptive writer was