Show ERRORS Inno innocent cont malice the fiendish behavior of cf well meaning TATe aning types the compositor casually and unconsciously u is a fellow ut ot ite humor the ind and peak ers upon nho v telling or flights of faucy tile hie compositor con if altor exercises his hid wit way his ana anahed oed but the general public hns has tio no alloy in the enjoyment ot of lyp diaks MIAs li pudge fudge tile llie youthful youth tul genius its eyed erod by tom aivre who need to contribute to thy the poets poeta corner of the county gazette bitterly bil terly to tier ccuin of th havoc the of her tene lene len e aal her rhymes bhough I hough Ih jugh an ail angel should wilie baili eli devils must paint bats exclaimed here is how thoe devils berged her hot rek or tn o since i oje to the L earing vii ich I 1 meant to ii live ve made i 1 most beauli lul thin thing where I 1 talked of the dewdrops fi horn oal freshly blown roes ro es tile dasty tiling filing emlu it ii float freshly blown poses nobes 11 A and nd once vi nhen hen to please my cross aunt I 1 had tried to commemorate some saint of her clique just died having said he had bad up tip in heaven hi hia a posit position iol they fiade made it hed taken up to leaven ILIS hia physician the readers of the county gazette gazelle no doubt preferred the amended poem to thy the original the responsibility for these humors of the composing compost no room sometimes with the author s vile haud hand writing writ ipg but it is i mainly due to the cindi c liona under which the compositor works A wooden franits or case BS as it is known in the trade is divided by ledges into in i several or boxes for or the various letters of the alphabet and points of punctuation 1 in one oiw box there are all As in another all ii i and in another all sylb yb and soon and from this cate picking up the letters one by one as required the compositor compoi tor turns the manu manuscript scrip in into 0 app practice enables bim to do this no not with extreme rapidity dut 1 with ien arki Jle ac accuracy but he be has often to deal with what he be calls a foul case that is a case in which several beveral of the letters have got of into the wrong boxes and as he thus unconsciously picks up the wrong letter from the right box we find cud oats turned to cats pets to posts arts to rats jolly to folly and songs to tongs A theatrical critic in a notice of a charming young actress whose treatment of portia had birlar him rinch pleasure pleasa re w wrote rote iler her love of artia made acting easy that was wag right enough but what the types tit made a do him say say wai wa iler her love for pot lter ter etc k A compositor who was better acquainted with the geography of the west than with biblical tore lore set up lie phrase front from alpha to omega as from alton to omaha oosama and possibly found himself compelled to start for those places next morning in the caily halt half of the present ceil century tury it was announced in a london newspaper that sir robert peel with a party of friends friend was shooting peasants in ireland whereas the minister and liis ilia friends were only indulging in the comparatively harmless harm leas pastime of pheasant shooting shortly after the battle of inkerman one of the morning papers informed its readers that after a desperate struggle the enemy was repulsed with great laughter the omis eion of a single letter has rarely peili perhaps pei haps aps player played moe mo e havoc with a subject which wab nab certainly no laughing matter it must have been the very printer print erd i devil himself who ret rep resented a very very worthy advocate ot of the cause of female suffrage as exhorting bortin her hearers to lo maintain their tights wh whit tt the bride maida at a recent wedding must have thought when they read that they all wore handsome ome arf brueche the gift of the bridegroom one can only guess but whatever their thoughts may have been at seeing their pretty broo brooches ebEs thus transformed their language at any rate cannot we may assume have matched that of the politician who read the follow ng ing comment on ore oie of ilia hia epee speeches ches them thein asses believed bim possibly lie he was not much con console olei by being assured that the rep rc li ter had merely wished to signify that the masses believed him un oil boother occasion a re potter wrote at al these theae words tile the entire audience rose all and rent the air with their snouts tho the compositors compoi tors tort had act up cor car but lie he had not observed that the top of the h was broken oft off at ari enthusiastic editor began ma leading article on a local election campaign with the phrase I 1 the rhe bati batile ae is no now tv opened unfortunately tile the compositor transformed battle balile into bottle and his readers baij that shat they bad sus eus it all along mr gladstone as is yell well known 18 is always of nis his admiration for the new books sent him by aspiring authors or crafty publish ora era but lie he has it more emphatically than ihan when h he e wr wrote ott to the publisher of a certa certain i n novel we ve have not allowed 0 one n Is person to leave the house will without oil t reading it A newspaper recording this testimonial to the merits of the tte tale made mr gladstone as sure the publisher we ve have not allowed our parson to leave the house without it our parson at hawarden it will lie remembered is il al Glad stones son eon he rev kev stephen gladstone landor revising the proof of a poem lie he bad written fur the I 1 he keepsake found the concluding diug thus printed ys yea you yon shall say n hen bell once the d bain so liard hard to break is 13 0 er my mr love was waa very deal to him film my farni farin and peace were more this error seems to lo have angered the post poet whose temper indeed it was not difficult to apet for upon the margin of the proof is lill extant he wrote of all tho the ridiculous blunders ever committed by bv a compositor farm instead ini tead of ft fame me is the most ridicule us pity it wag iva q not printed my farm and pe pea ae richard proctor the astronomer writing in his maga zine knowledge 0 s slated apted that tile the most remark remarkable able change w which printers had bad ever ip d for him r ednd firof fp to uia a anty book on analysis written for the society for promoting i christian K know now edge the words lines bands and in in the violet part of the spectra were printed links link bonds and stripe for the violent kinds kinda of specters specter A still more amusing 0 blunder which v hicha mr proctor Proc tir declared that lie had seen in the proof of a poem noem written by a friend was the trans of the lioe line ile fie kissed her under tinder the silent eairs into 4 ile he kicked kie ked her under tle the cellar stairs ilow how history may may be biff lecter by a print titer erd Is error kingslake kinglake King kin alake lake has shown to such a blunder is due the fid that the late emperor of the french style styled hein ell elf napoleon III instead of of napoleon IL II just before the ejup betat the historian lays a clerk in the mini min minetry itry of the interior wrote in one of the proclamations which were ivere to announce the fu fa t to the v world orld que lemot ie mot cordre toil loit vive napoleon 1 tile the printer took look the notes for ex ela malion for numeral and it was vas not because of any memory of the liver pi bior little king of rome but bee because tuse of the typographical wunder blunder that the tecona empire was dominated by napolee Napo leiu ill III some of thee blunders occasionally lead to libel actions action aud and other oilier unpleasant consequences bud was the condition ot of the editor who having in a touching obituary notice of a soldier described the decea ed as a battle scarred veteran was wag driven frantic to find in the morning that the types hal hail maida made hiru him write of a battle seared scared veteran the next day he published the following apology for the blunder the editor was deeply grieved to find that through an ail unfortunate typographical error lie he was wag mide made to d describe the late gallant major 11 II as a battle ecard veteran 2 lie he tenders his aro apologies logies f for or the to tile the friends and relatives of the deceased but to every reader of this journal acquainted with the he feats of the major it must bay have been apparent that what the editor was waa bottle fica scarred veteran many of the humors of tile the corn com posing loni aum ariee from mistakes 11 in hil tation for example the follow iii was prefixed to in a contribution i the tha corner of a journal these lines vvo ore written nearly lilly fifty years figa bigi by it a gentleman who lias has for beverl stars lain ili the grave for liis ilia jovn amusement another paper aper in reporting rep orling a suicide said decease 1 Dec mceast easU I 1 blew ou out t ili hi brains after bedling his wife wil n godby with a gun gull lafter after tile the lat egyptian campa campaign cam puig igi a london evening livening paper princeil prin print leil eif bile po following paragraph headed Ca limans genero ity to th enthusiasm with which our tro ra p have been received we may certion that we have been told fla ny instances chete rab eab men have driven soldiers from egypt 6 t the barracks without charge I 1 j this was generose gener gene roue oui no d doubt abt bit tile the journey have been hurl hiir 1 l upon I 1 the he hortes hones ro a writer ii one of the ladie journals we aie gic d for the tha aws raws r that become the fashion of I 1 late for mies lidies to take their tea in their hao had and gloves but the ladies sufi X red still f more beverely tit at the h hands andson of a V reporter ilbo describing the costumes athe presidential recep tim had iota intended cled to say ray that mrs B wore no notching thing in the calure of a dress dree 1 that th 1 at was waa lie ile left 1 hurriedly iuar edly fur for tho the wet vet next day when lie he opened the paper and read i 1 r 1 drown wore nothing reathil u in I 1 A d ess that was remarkable remar remark kAle 41 ie A london paper da per reported or 0 one r occasion c as r thu the capture in 0 1 inn innel 1 G ofa I 1 large aldge man eating chiric behar A provin provincial Lial jour nal coling co ing tile the paragraph but less cartet cart fill 1 I about the punctuation gave a different dia erent of the in ci dent jal ga lar large lare e man etian eating sheik was captured in nel cel afi e of a coti comma nuis once once gavilan an awkward interpretation to to lu gai a L paragraph in a dublin new newspaper r which ran A very handsome memorial has been erected in ill st sl Je jerome romes si cemetery to the inte mr john phillips accidentally at achot as a mark of afree tion iv ks his brother in the follow ing n ne c it was no doubt ai iiii CT mai t v lio 11 in n selling etling 11 up pa t alie e t ayat ast Woman without her hiir ini n wo would id bo be a by a trilling trifling t rani position of ofa 11 commA anade the ce read woman without laer inan anad would hta hr a I 1 lu in a droiun on drunkenness which appeared ap peard recently it in a dublin paper we the reverend gentleman was mado to dav fay it was only last that thai a young bouti 0 girl fell front from one of the bc of the church while I 1 was preaching in ia a beastly state of intoxication II eibert spencer once wrote bhules V bales are not fish because they fins and a fishlike 1 1 ail hut but what t the he public read I 1 was wha es are not f ish fish because thu the posses fios fins and a fishlike tail which truly is a must most remarkable luar kable re atoll cathy whales are not lot fisli fish in Irela ireland iid there prevails among roman catholics a pious custom of in peril dg in the religious jour journals nala advertisements akin a kin for pra acra era for certain intent iotis A lady sent the f following illo iving note to these A husband lius band going go arg to sea his wife desires the of the faith faithful fal hut but as aa it aD aou eared neared the faithful were asked to iray pray for a husband to see his big wife ife ma ima beav heaven en cherish and keep beep you vou froni from yours vours affectionately peter D was tile the way another erih paper jen ien dered the concluding portion of ofa ft letter wi written ritten by a a holdier aldier serving I 1 in the late lalo campaign to liis his wife in cork but perhaps the amusing instance of the aej ludicrous beet bof of wrong punctuation is all corded in the following description of the jubilee groces lot which appeared in an emt anglican weekly paper next I 1 came lord robe roberts arts i anding id i ng on a gray arab stee I 1 hearing caring a splendid scarlet uniform covered with I 1 medals on oil his big head a 1 field mar bhala hat with 1 plumes lumes in his hand I 1 the baton ofa of a field In marshal arll I 1 on his rugged fe feature attire a smile of pleasure as he e acknowledged the thunder ing cheers beers of the crowd laii laua 13 magazine magaline |