The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-30
TRICKS OF THE TYPES
Wicked Deeds Done by the Imp
of the PerverSe.
AMUSING ERRORS IN PRINT.

Examples OF What Is Liable to Happier
When the Compositor Blunders oil
When the Usually Alert and Care
full Proofreader Mods.
Sometimes the proofreader mods, and
in this connection the late Lord
Goschen told at public dinner story
of a reader who worked for his (Lord
Goschen's) grandfather and who. in
answer to q denunciation from his EN-
ployer, cried:
Let some other man work at cor
rectness of Typography. l despair. My
own thoughts often hinder NE as they
seize and hold the authors otherwise
than they ought to do. 1t is quite pos
sible that niggling about words and
syllables may often go to the wall
when my soul cannot tear itself loose
from some thought or picture. Errors
have been found in sheets which l
thought l had worked backward and
forward with the greatest particular
ity. L read always as it should be-
1t is when reader is in this soulful
condition that the general public are
permitted to read, as they did once
in a 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 Biz
mingham," instead of "Gamaliel." In
the same journal, too, the following
startling announcement appeared un.
der the heading of Births
NICHOLSON-On the 18th inst, at Bel
- A srIr-
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 a ''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" a lady novelist did not write;
songs was the word. 1T is a 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.
'Cold milk, father once demanded
a compositor in cold type, and he was
aggrieved to have to alter it to "Caed
mile failther "Brer Fox" was made
"Boer Fox''-thRt was also during the
South African war.
On a hot summers day another tired
typesetter turned THE Ides of March"
into 1.-The Idea of Work"
In a sermon a 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-
cuse in setting up. in an account of a
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 "eclat'D and was
by the sheriffs IN their mar
garine (mazarine) gowns"
LET the gulled Judy wink appeared
in another first proof and the proof
reader YEARLY made it the CALLED jade
vince" Die, lusty plateer.' has quite
a transporting flavor, but the copy"
said Die Lustige Batter "a German
weekly paper.
"Pignut of the enunciation" does not
seem convincing; ''fgment Of the imag-
nation" is better. "Petticoats long on
morning is a disgrace" is all
rc-hf xxrhn hn
read "Petticoat lane"
In n 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 a turn" "a fright. THE
government were suffering from men
tai alteration must have been set
up by a conpositor of the opposition
politics. The real charge was mutual
DE mortar ivil nice loreum" would
trouble Latin scholar. DE mortuis
I'LL nisi bonum" is more correct. "Jim
he Pieman" is easily recognizable as
he hero Of a play, and Putty Polly
The racehorse, would throw up her
pretty head in disdain TO see herself |
10 described.
For "a pair of scandals completed |
he costume read sandals" and fol-
Here is indeed a sundial" substitute |
scandal" He lived in the "hubbubs''
should be suburbs" and call her,
Herr, in" is understandable when |
printed Caller herrin'"
A we'll known descriptive writer was |
startled to read in a rough first proof |
hat he had described the fields sur /
ounding the Derby course as covered |