Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1893 — The Playful Types. [ARTICLE]

The Playful Types.

Troy Times. The proofreader in a newspaper office has much to answer for, but the Brooklyn Eagle is “piling it on? rather.too heaviiy’Weff if'shyS’ He is respnsible for making the harmless phrase “demonstrative joy of Chicago" into the “demonstrative jag of Chicago.” The latter accurately describes the periodical possession of the World’s Fair City, but it was not kind to refer to her weakness. He also was guilty of libel when he made the Tribune in the days of Horace Greelej say “Richard III.” when it meant “William H. Seward.” And he has even made Dr. Talmage irreverent by indorsing the work of the intelligent compositor who set up the first line of one of the famous preacher’s sermons in this way,“My tall friend, our Lord,” wjien it fifiould have been, “My text finds our Lord.” It is not necessary to mention any more instances of the proofreader’s peculiar villainy—we ire writing as an editor now, and not in the exalted and unprejudiced mood that becomes us when we dis3USS politics and religion with judi3ial impartiality. Every one has aeard of the proofreader who contented to the printing of “no cows, io cream,” “no cross, no crown,” md of “in the richness of sin" for ‘the interior of Asia.”