Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-31
TRICKS OF TIL TYPES

Of the Perverse.
AMUSING ERRORS IN PRINT.
Examples Of What Is Liable 20 Happen
When the compositor Blunders Or.
When the Usually Alert and Care
full Proofrsader Mods.
ID Sometimes the proc freader mods, and
IN this connection the late Lord
Goschen told at a public dinner q story
Of a reader who worked for his (Lord!
Goschen's) grandfather and who, IN
answer to d denunciatio from his eni-
ployer, cried
..Let some other man work at COR
RICHNESS of typography 4 despair. NY.
own thoughts often hinder me 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 j.
thought j had worked backward and
forward with the greatest particular
ity.s read always as 1t should be. 3
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 al celebrated politician, in q
speech, described some one as Sitting
at the feet Of the game bird of Biz
mingham," instead Of aGamaliel 81 In
the same journal, too, the following
startling announcement appeared un-
der the heading Of Births 8
NICHOLSON On the 18th inst. at Bel
ton road, Sidcup, the son of Alfred Mich
olson, of daughter.
In another newspaper q most pathet-
ic account appeared Of doctor who
died owing to having accide ntally In
fected himself while injecting some
plague virus into a 'sgnat The mys-
terry was solved the next day, when an
apology was printed explaining that
the word should have been rat ''
Some 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. It appeared In q paper
during the Boer war.
These mistakes are curious enough,
but they pale into nsignifcance before
some OF those that never reach the
printed sheet.
'sCold milk, fathery' once demanded
a compositor In cold type, and he was
aggrieved to have to alter It to "Caed
mile failthe!' .Brer Fox" was made
"Boer Fox that was also during the
South African war.
On hot summers day another tired
typesetter turned THE Ides of March
| into The idea OF Work. =
In sermon celebrated divine was
made to say, And they erected q ma
rine store at the mouth Of the sepul-
cher z 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 g
Mansion House function, that among
those present were Old Isaacs and Old
Tre.oar.' He should have known that
| aAld." was an abbreyiation OF s Alder,
man 2 In the same take Of copy the
Lord Mayor was received with Q
crash should be 'eclat'' and was
followed by the sheriffs In their mar
garine lmazarine) gowns
4 "Let the guIled Judy wink appeared
In another first proof, and the proof
/ reader YEARLY made It the sgalled jade
1 Vince Die, lusty platterw has quite
a transporting flavor, but the copy
said DIE Lustige Batter "a German
weekly paper.
.Pignut OF the enunciat ion" does no
seem convincing: .thgnent Of the imag
ination. Is better. .Petticoats long OF
Sunday morning Is d disgrace Is al
4 right when the first two words ar,
Tread fPetticoat lane. z,
In a police court assault case th
I prosecutor was made to say that th
4 prisoner had given him wins SfEha
a the prisoner really did was to give tn
j prosecutor q turn Ia fright 9TH
q government were suffering from men
"A tai alteration, Z must have been sc
up by a compositor Of the opposite
a politics. The real charge was ..nutna
admiration 4
de mortar ivll nice loreum' woul
trouble q Latin scholar. De mortui
J NIL nisi honnm' is more correct. Jill
the Piemanr is easily recognizable d
the hero OF a play, and Putty Polly,
the racehorse, would throw up lie
pretty head In disdain to see hersel
SO described.
For "a pair OF scandals complete
the costume read sandals, ana IL
Here Is indeed a sundial. substitui
scandal 4 He lived In the sthuhbubs
should be suburbs and Cali he
Herr in is understandable whe
printed Caller herrifl' ]"
u a well known descriptive writer WIS
startled to read In q rough first prof
that he had described the fields su
rounding the Derby course as "corere
with boots and shoes. 4 He was pl