Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2, Issue 24 (29 December 1888)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1888, Napier

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, (of The Gates Ajar), was married on the 20th October to the Rev. Herbert D. Ward, of the New York Independent.

The Dawn is the name of a new English penny serial, the organ of the crusaders against state recognition of vice. The Dawn is also the title of a London Swedenborgian weekly. The short-lived Dawn in this colony was a spiritist organ; and the recently-established Sydney Dawn is a woman's paper.

We are in receipt of No. 3 of El Sud-Americano, a capital illustrated fortnightly in the Spanish language, published at Buenos Aires. On the first page is a reprint of the Act of Independence of Bolivia (6th August, 1825), followed by fac-similes of all the signatures. The most striking picture is a full-page engraving of the Don Pedro waterfall, one of the great falls of the Victoria, greatly resembling the Niagara fall.

It may not be generally known that the chess Bishop entirely loses his ecclesiastical

English.
German.
French.

character on the European continent. In Germany he becomes the Läufer (suggestive of « loafer ») = Runner, or Running-footman. In France he is the Fou=Fool or Buffoon. Until lately the typographic notation has been uniform, but the foreign houses are now supplying symbols in accord with the popular conception of the character. To the kindness of Hr. Julius Klinkhardt, Leipzig, we are indebted for the German figures annexed, and to M. Gustave Mayeur, of Paris, for the unmistakeable jester whose cap and bells have in France displaced the traditional mitre from the checkered board.

Referring to the fire at Wanganui, the Herald says that it was discovered in a most peculiar fashion. During the evening, a dog persisted in coming into the Chronicle office and making a noise. Two or three times this took place, till at length Mr Carson called out to the reporter (Mr Aves) to « take that dog out for goodness' sake, » and it was only in taking the dog out that Mr Aves discovered what was the matter. How great the danger was can be imagined from the fact that on rushing in at once, he called out « Fire, » causing the compositors to run downstairs. When they opened the door on the top floor, they found the flames close on them—so close, that to return and get their coats was impossible. The night-watchman reports that he saw the fire leap out at once; not a glare through the window, but a direct volume of flame through the roof in the centre of the building. Giving the alarm at once, he was astonished to find that almost before he could do so, the whole of the flat seemed in flames.