Show odd blunders the machine printer or blacksmith is one of the chief obstacles with which writers have to contend he it is who sets up whatever the copy looks like to him regardless as to whether it makes sense or not such a one it was who set up gambetta as 1 I am batter and made a heading intended for bridge carried away by a drive of logs road bridge earned away by a drove of hogs another of this ilk made an advertisement which read the chistian a dream no cross no crown appear as the christianus Christi anas dream no cows no cream A reporter of a chicago paper once mentioned ail intelligent craftsman as a thinking tailor but the machine printer who got the take made him appear as a thieving tailor the orlof reader was of course responsible far the error but the vengeance of the irate tailor was visited upon the unfortunate reporter another chicago writer described an exquisite as one whose manners vituld adorn a drawing room but the unthinking compositor made it read whose manners would alarm a drowning man the cincinnati once crusted a genuine sensation by stating in display type that a gang of american counterfeiters counterfeit ers had been shaving tho queen when shoving the queen was evidently what was intended one of the worst instances of mis prints caused by bad chirography was where tho heading A honeymoon cut short was printed in anu faced type as A hungarian cutthroat another equally disagreeable blunder to the parties interested was where a distinguished traveler was reported as having recently died in tho richness of sin the paper however apologized for this candid admission on the following day by saying that what the editor intended to ario was the interior of asia perhaps no newspaper writer was ever more disturbed by a trifle than was a society reporter who in describing the belle of a recent fashionable party intended fo say she looked ait faint but found that an unfeeling blacksmith had made it she looked all feet of all editorial writers horace greeley was most noted for illegible copy on one occasion the modern franklin penned something about suburban journalism advancing but the typesetter thinking it one of his famous agricultural articles launched out wildly with the words superb jerusalem artichokes on the occasion of a street pageant ps geant a gentleman unwittingly advertised several widows for hire there was a worse blunder in a religious paper which gratefully recorded the fact that mr had very generously placed a stained grass widow in the church at A poem in the somerville mass journal once contained this remarkable stanza who took me from uy childhoods biome and said hed love me all alone and for my sacrifice alone my husband dickinson was not husband the s name it was simply a quad space which had been pulled up showing the makers name which is usually cast on top of the quad |