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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

"Quotations."

page 22

"Quotations."

« My mamma's fan is hand-painted, » said little Ethel.
« Pooh! » said Johnny. « So is my father's back fence! »
« My papa's house has a veranda, » said Ethel.
« My father has a mortgage on his, » retorted Johnny. « There, now! »

The Editor's Purse is the title of a recent story. There is nothing in it.

When chill October's surly blasts
Sweep through the forest's arches
And rob the maples of their gold,
And bend the leafless larches;
When plumbers wear their brightest smiles,
And rates of coal are rising,
The level-headed merchant gives
His thoughts to advertising.

Thoughts that burn—Rejected communications.

When Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsen, the Norse poet and novelist, visited the States, one of the papers asked: « Bjut whjat ojn ejarth djoes hje wjant wjith thjose j's ijn hjis njame ajnyhjow? »

« Let me see, » said the printer's devil, as he started away one Saturday with his week's wages, eleven shillings, in his pocket: « I'll go to the Aquarium to-night, that's a shilling; supper with bottled beer, that's eighteenpence; 'baccy for the week, a shilling; beer ditto, two shillings; theatre one night next week, that's one-and-six; and I'll buy that swell walking stick with a blue silk ribbon through a silver hole, and that'll just leave sixpence to take home to mother towards my week's board. »

« The digestion of an ostrich » is proverbial. Yet we were scarcely prepared to read of those lately imported into New Zealand that « they will eat with avidity chopped mangles, &c. »

Proper names get sadly mangled in telegraphy. In the name « Richby » in a Napier telegram in a Taranaki paper, it is difficult to recognise « Kuhtze. »

A letter has been received from Messrs W. and B. Cowan, of London, Manchester, and Edinburgh, stating that five tons of the New Zealand antimony from Endeavor Inlet had been carefully tested in their works at Edinburgh, and was reported to be superior to any antimony they had yet tried.

Austria is ahead of New Zealand in taxing industries. From the Printers' Register we learn that the Schöglmühl paper mill, near Vienna, received during its last business year a revenue of 349,170 fl., of which it had to pay in Government taxes 42,818 fl.—equal to 21¾ per cent. of its gross revenue.

The Earth is the title of a new English fortnightly penny paper, « dealing fearlessly and impartially with those subjects only which are ignored or misunderstood by every other journal and every educated man in the kingdom. » There seems to be a trace of the flavor of Colney-Hatch in this modest announcement.