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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
We have already (p. 37) mentioned the libel action by « The Vagabond » against the Victorian Wesleyan Spectator. He claimed £20,000 damages, and has been awarded ¼d, without costs.
From Marcus Ward & Co. we have a sample of their new « Oriel » school primers and reading books. The primer is illustrated in colors, in the excellent style of all the work of this house, and the matter in the reading books is well chosen and admirably illustrated. We have no doubt that these books will gain an extensive popularity.
The sale of the Revised Version of the Bible throughout the United States has fallen dead flat. Hundreds of thousands of copies remain on the shelves of the book-stores. After the first curiosity to compare the new with the old was satisfied, people returned to the version of 1611, to which, in all probability, they will keep as long as the world lasts.
An apprentice named Fisher had a narrow escape from being killed at the Government printing office, on the 20th inst. He was employed working about the engine which drives the electric light, and got up on a plank to lubricate the shaft, about ten feet from the floor. While engaged in filling the oil cups an apron which he was wearing over his coat was taken round the shaft. He endeavored to tear himself away, but without success, and in a few seconds he was being taken round the shaft at a great rate. Fortunately he wound his legs and right arm round the shaft, otherwise he would most certainly have been dashed to pieces against the end of the engine-house. After going round at a fearful rate for nearly a couple of minutes his clothing gave way, and he fell to the floor in a state of nudity, his collar, necktie, boots, and socks being the only articles which were not torn away. On examination it was found that the youth had no bones broken, though he had several nasty bruises.
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