Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-07


NICHOLsoN.-on the 18th inst. at Bel
ton road, Sidcup, the son of Alfred Mich
olson, of a 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 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 Il sickly
kopje of the real article. was perhaps
eXcusable. 1t appeared in a paper
during the Boer war.
These mistakes are curious enough,
but they pale into insignificance before
some of those that never reach the
printed sheet.
Gold milk, fatherr' once demanded
a compositor in cold type, and he was
aggrieved to have to alter it to "Caed
mile failthen' "Brer Fox" was made
"Boer Fox"-that was also during the
South African war.
On a hot summers day another tired
typesetter turned 1.-The Ides of March"
| into The Idea of Work"
In sermon a celebrated divine was
| made to say, And they erected ma
| rlne store at the mouth of the sepul-
cher "Massive stone" were the cor
| rect words.
Authorizations are at times the bane
| of the composition, but he had no eX-
| cuse in setting up, in an account of Il
| Mansion House function, that among
those present were "Old Isaacs and Old
! Treloar" He should have known that
| "Ald" was an abbreviation of Alder
| man" In the same take" of copy the
Lord Mayor was received with Il
| crash Should be "eclat'O and was
followed by the sheriffs in their mar
garine (maZarinel gowns"
| Let the gulled Judy wink" appeared
in another first proof, and the proof
reader YEARLY made it the CALLED jade
vince" die, lusty platter" has quite
Il transporting flavor, but the copy"
said Die Lustige Batter" Ga German
weekly paper.
seem convincing; pigment of the imag-
nation is better. "Petticoats long on
Sunday morning is n disgrace" is all
right when the first two words are
read 'Petticoat lane"
In 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 Il turn" Ga fright. The
government We're suffering from men.
tai alteration" must have been SET
up by a compositor of the opposition
politics. The real charge was mutual
admiration
"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 play, and Putty Polly
the racehorse, would throw up hel
pretty head in disdain to see herself
SO described.
For "a pair of scandals completed
the costume" read sandals" and FOL
Here is indeed n sundial' substitute
scandal" He lived in the ''hubbubs'
should be suburbs and Call her
O. Herr, in" is understandable whel
printed Caller herrn'."
A well known descriptive writer wa!
startled to read in Il rough first proc
that he had described the fields sur
rounding the Derby course as covered
with boots and shoes" He was pla
Gated when informed that it had beer
altered to booths and shows"
Columns could be filled with tn
amazing and amusing blunders of tn
compositor, but here space forbids q
more than q final "howler," which is
classic in the printing world. 80 ten
pora! o mores!" wrote n leader writ
er at ten minutes to 1 in the morning
20 Moses, indeed" exclaimed tn
proofreader a quarter of an hour late
when he Caught and bowled' the con
position who had improved the phras
into 80 Tennyson! o Moses!'-Londo
Express.