Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-12-09
TRICKS OF THE TYPES
Wicked Deeds Done by the Imp
of the PerverSe.
AMUSING ERRORS IN PRINT.
Examples of What Is Liable to Happen
When the Compositor Blunders or
When the Usually Alert and Care
full Proofreader Mods.

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 reader who worked for his Nord
Goschens) grandfather and who, In
answer to a denunciatiOn from his en-
ployer, cried:
Let some other man work at cor
rectness of Typography. despair. My
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
syllaples 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 |
thought l had worked backward and
forward with the greatest particular
ity. l read always as it should be-
1t is when d reader is in this soulful
condition that the general public are
permitted to read as they did once
in d morning paper not given to humoT.
that a celebrated politician, in
speech, described some one as sitting
at the feet of the game bird of Biz
mingham,' instead of "Gamaiiel." In
the same Journal, too. the following
startling announcement appeared un-
der the heading of Births
NICHOLSCN.-On the 18th inst. at Bel
ton road, SidcCp, the son OF Alfred Mich
olson, OF a daughter.
In another newspaper a most pathet-
&c account appeared Of Il doctor who
died owing to having accidentally in
fected himself while injecting some
plague virus into 'gnat" The myS-
terry was solved tie next day, VIXEN an
apo:osy was printed explaining that
the word Should have been rat"
n 'COme over and try some new
SOUP 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 insignifcance before
| printed sheet.
"Cold milk, fatherr' once demanded
compositOr in cold type, and he was
aggrieved to have to alter it to ''Caed
mile failther' "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 1.-The Idea of Work"
II
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
Mansion House function, that among
those present were ''Old Isaacs and Old
Treloar" He should have known that
aid" was an Authorization of calder
man." In the same ''take" of copy the
Lord Mayor was received with a
crash" Should be ''eclat'o and was
followed 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 ''galled jade
vince" "Die. lusty platterr' has quite
a transporting flavor, but the copy
said die Lustige Batter" Ga German
weekly paper.
"Pignut of the enunciation" does MOI
seem convincing; pigment of the mag
nation is better. "Petticoats long Oh
Sunday morning is a disgrace" is al
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 a turn" "a fright. 'The
government were suffering from men
tai alteration" must have been sci
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. "Jin
the Pieman" is easily recognizable rs
the hero of play, and Putty Polly
the racehorse, would throw up heI
pretty head in disdain to see herself
SO described.
For ga pair Of scandals completed
the costume" read Sandals" and for
"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 well known descriptive writer was
startled to read in a rough first proof
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 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 final 'howler," which is a
classic in the printing world. so tenn
pora! o mores!" wrote a leader writ
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