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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

'Quotations.'

page 72

'Quotations.'

The Tipperary editor whose ear was bitten off by an enthusiastic Home Ruler, thought it about bad enough; but when the offender complained of his « bad taste, » he felt that insult was added to injury.

A man who « wanted little here below » went into the newspaper business.

The country editor wears no diamonds. Paste is good enough for him.

A petrified man has been found in Tennessee. He is supposed to be the original Man-who never-Advertised.

An article on « Rhubarb » had just been put in type. A visitor entered—and converted it into pie.

Examiner: Please translate the phrase, De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Student: « Of the dead nothing remains but bones. »

A French paper translating an item from an American contemporary about a railway car being set on fire by « a heated journal, » renders it « a hot newspaper. »

We have to acknowledge new exchanges as follows:—Paper and Printing Trades Journal London, quarterly (from June, '87); Superior Printer, Cincinnati, monthly (from No. 1, May); Press and Type, Chicago (from April); [Printers'] Devil, New York, quarterly (from No. 3.)

We have to acknowledge No. 1 of the Coromandel News, a very creditable paper, which made its appearance on the 23rd August. The opening article is well written, and shows a just appreciation of the objects and scope of a local newspaper. It is printed for the proprietor by Mr Richard Rhodes. We are sorry to see that it is too large, by several columns, for the district. The News has our best wishes for its success.

The Advocate is the title of a twelve-page demy fortnightly paper published in Auckland by Messrs Dignan & King. « Faith and Fatherland » is its motto; in other words its creed is Roman Catholic and its political platform a national government for Ireland. In the copy before us (No. 9), there is an interesting biography of the unfortunate and gifted Gerald Griffin. The paper ought to be a success, as the Roman Catholic population in Auckland should be sufficient to support a local organ.

Is the American Model Printer dead? We have subscribed from the first, and our latest number is ii 4, April 1885—one ahead of any other subscriber we know of. Between Nos. 3 and 4 seventeen months elapsed; but there has been a long spell since. Two more numbers were promised to complete volume ii—when will they appear?—And what has become of Austin Wood's lively Anglo-American Typographia?—a paper from which we have gathered some very useful information. The double number 4-5, two years old, is the latest to hand.