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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
About thirty men have been dismissed from the Government Printing Office, Sydney.
The Sydney Daily Telegraph lately published an article reflecting severely on Mr Dibbs, the leader of the opposition, and challenged him to take action against them for libel. He has accepted the challenge, and damages are laid at £20,000.
The intelligent comp of the Wanganui Herald has scored the finest blunder of the season. Somebody is giving a series of lectures on the Tabernacle and the Holy Vessels, and one of these, on « The Laver and his Foot, » came out headed « The Lover and his Fool. » This would be hard to beat.
A Napier evening paper tried to hoax Mr Hamilton, the curator of the local museum and a well-known naturalist, by sending him a small packet of « seeds » for identification— said « seeds » being punohings from a perforator. The joke did not work out as intended. The material was promptly identified, and thus reported upon:— « Your specimens are probably referable as under—Genus, Ragolinaria; species, charta punctifolia; variety, versicolor. Original habitat, Europe. Not common in these latitudes. »
This reminds us of a somewhat similar trick played upon a phrenological lecturer, to whom some one sent a cast of a turnip as having been taken from the cranium of a criminal. The fraud was very palpable, and no notice was taken of the communication, whereupon the disappointed joker was dishonest enough to fabricate and publish a report in the name of the man whom he had attempted to deceive.
In a religious contemporary, we find a sermon headed by the following motto:
We live in deeds not words, in thoughts not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial,
And he lives most, who thinks most, loves the strongest,
And acts the best!—Old Rhyme.
—This is not a rhyme at all; neither is it old. It is painful to see so fine and well-known a passage so sadly marred and misquoted. The lines are (altered) from the dramatic poem Festus, by P. J. Bailey, published in 1839.