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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
Trade exchanges and manufacturers' specimen books forwarded to us will be prized and carefully preserved for future reference.
A single sheet of paper, seventy-two inches wide and seven and three-quarters miles long, was made without a break at the Remington Paper Company's mill at Watertown, New York, a few weeks ago. The sheet weighed 2,207 pounds.
An English rag-sorter recently came across something resembling an old-fashioned dress improver, which, after being thrown about some time, fell to the lot of a Mrs Skinner, who cut it open and found in it French coins and notes to the value of £28 16s. The money was given by the proprietor to the finder.
A Victorian telegram states that the Customs officers have made a seizure of a shipment of Ouida's novels on the ground that they were indecent publications. We wonder if the translations of French « realistic » novels, with which the English market is just now flooded, are allowed to pass.