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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
The job-room of the Wellington Times has been leased by Messrs Haggett and Percy.
You can take the dirtiest, laziest loafer in the city and put him in a bar-room in a white apron, and in ten days he will have more political influence in his ward than the ablest editor or most devoted preacher in the community.—So says an observant American.
The New York Sun, an organ of the American whisky and protection rings, says that out of a hundred thousand families in Glasgow, « 41,000 live in one room. » The long-bow must have come very near snapping that time. Will the Sun kindly give the dimensions of the room in question?
A circular from the head office of the Continental Export and Agency Company, Ltd., informs us that they have discontinued their branches in London and the Australasian colonies, and have also ceased to be represented by permanent travellers or agents: the business to be in future carried on exclusively at the Berlin office.
The insignificant comma sometimes has a decided legal value. « For want of a comma the pony was lost » by the holder of a bill-of-sale at Coventry lately. The security was « a pony trap, harness, &c. » The goods being seized, the debtor refused to surrender the pony, and the judge sustained the refusal, there being no comma after « pony. »
At a recent school committee meeting, one of the members objected to an item in the accounts for « bacon, » which he was certain had not been authorized: he would like to know what the committee wanted the bacon for. Amid much hilarity, the chairman explained that « Bacon » was a man from whom a vehicle had been hired to convey singers to a school concert.