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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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A North Island schoolboy lately wrote a composition in which he quite unconsciously adopted Mr Bateman's proposed reform in the matter of punctuation. Part of the exercise has been published. Describing the work of the farm, the writer says: « There are the cows to milk the sheep and horses to water the fowls to feed the seed to sow the butter »
Ingenious Yankees have striven to compress all the letters of the alphabet into the smallest possible compass. We have seen several attempts, of which « Pack my box with eleven dozen five-quart jugs, » « The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog, » and « John quickly extemporized five tow-bags » are the only examples we remember. A correspondent of the Boston Journal, signing himself G. W. P., has beaten the record. His sentence duplicates only one letter, the u. It reads: « Quiz Jack; thy frowns vex G. D. Plumb. » It is nonsense, of course; but that is a matter of detail.
Mr W. Pasko, librarian of the Typothetæ, writing from New York to the Paper and Printing Trades Journal, under date 18th November, says:— « We seem very near now to the accomplishment of mechanical composition. The employing printers of this city, including DeVinne, Prow, Sirinier, Smith, and a dozen others, have clubbed together to establish an office on a large scale to do typesetting by machinery, the composition to be used for plates. The machine ordered is the McMillan, which does not work faster than the Thorne, and takes up more room, but is less liable to have its channels clogged or its type broken. Messrs Nelson and Woodfin, who own the Thorne, look upon this as a challenge to them, and will also open an office of the same class. So that before spring we shall have six offices in which mechanical composition will go on every day; the Tribune with the Mergenthaler; Monroe's & Burr's with the Burr machine; Gantz, and the Thorne Machine Company with the Thorne; and the New York Typesetting Company with the McMillan. The Thorne people are really very successful, and have done well. »