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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 7
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An advertisement in a San Francisco paper for the first white child born in California is said to have brought 11,713 letters, each from a person claiming that distinction; and answers are still coming in.
An excellent and appreciative article on the late artist Ford Madox Brown, by Lucy Madox Rossetti, illustrated with engravings of some of his most characteristic works, was published in Cassell's Magazine of Art for 1890.
The good lady who asked for « canine pills, » and was affronted at the chemist's natural question, « ؟What's the matter with the dog? » could be matched in New Zealand. Sharland's Trade Journal mentions a customer who wanted erysipelas (eucalyptus) to cure a cold, and a boy who said his mother had sent him for holy Patrick (homœopathic) medicine.
The « bull » indigenous to the Emerald Isle is found even in its scientific publications. In Messrs George's Sons' latest catalogue we note the following entry:—« Ireland. Royal Irish Academy Proceedings, 3rd series, vol. i. . . Dublin, 1888-9. [Among the Irish archæological papers are inserted two on the native customs and weapons of Kimberley, West Australia.] »
Some idea of the « value » of old postage stamps may be gathered from the following prices realized at the first sale for the season, held last month in London:—Great Britain, one penny black, V.R., £8 17s 6d; France, one franc orange, £6 10s; Moldavia, first issue 54 paras, £7; ditto 108 paras, £14 10s; Naples, half-tornese, (cross), £4 4s; ditto, (arms), damaged, £9 5s: Spain, three cuartos bronze, £5 15s; ditto, 1851, two reales, unused, £20; Tuscany, three lire orange, £25; Ceylon, eightpenny brown, imperforate, £12; Mauritius, one penny vermilion, £6 6s; British Columbia, 2½d, imperforate, £17; New Brunswick, one shilling violet, £8 8s; Newfoundland, 6½d orange, £5 5s; United States, Department of State, five dollars, £10 10s; British Guiana, eight cents circular, £9; ditto 1856, four cents crimson, unused, £16; ditto 1862, four cents blue, damaged, £6 12s 6d; Nevis, sixpenny lithographed, £4.