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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[trade dispatches]

Salmon's Circular records a case of extreme cutting in litho work. A firm asked for tenders for 250,000 oval labels for beer bottles. They were to be in two colors, stamped, packed, and delivered. An Englishman offered to take the order at 1s per thousand. He was told that he was preposterously high—the firm had before only paid 8½d per thousand to a German house, and now that had been beaten by another German, who had agreed to deliver the labels at 6½d per thousand!

A jury of twelve Michiganders, apparently, can be just as stupid as an equal number of good men and true in any other part of the world. By a clerical error the Detroit Free Press reported that John Finnegan (instead of Finnucan) had been arrested for stealing a coat. Ex-Alderman Finnegan—whose remarkable « sensitiveness » has been the subject of some comment—brought an action for damages, and actually obtained a verdict for $1,500! The paper has appealed, and, we hope, successfully.

The height—or, more correctly, the lowest depth—of meanness has been reached by an Auckland matrimonial agent. An unsophisticated young tailor in an East Coast town having written fully and confidentally in regard to one of the female candidates whose qualifications had taken his fancy, has had the mortification of seeing his letter published in full, with would-be witty comnents interpolated, in an Auckland weekly which we need not name. A Gisborne paper suggests the horsewhip or horsepond as appropriate treatment for the matrimonial go-between. The « journalist » who printed the letter is the greater offender of the two.