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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
The English correspondent of the Inland Printer reports that a new foundry is likely to be started in England on the point system now in use in the United States.
We have been shewn a geological report, printed by authority in one of the Australian colonies. The typography and presswork are good, but nearly every page is disfigured by typographic errors. Words in common use are wrongly spelled, and the scientific terms are simply « hashed, » —as, for instance, « Bossica » for « Brassica, » « dedendric » for « dendritic, » and, funnier than either, « Archæopteryx » for « Archæopteris » —whereby a fern is transformed into a bird! They manage these things better in New Zealand.
The manufacture of blunders proceeds apace. An Auckland college announces:— « Swimming instructions given by a teacher of both sexes. » —An Australian paper says: « Mrs Caldwell was the recipient on Saturday of a beautiful floral offering, in commemoration of the advent of her first-born son, which came to her by parcels post from Ballarat. »— « The sum now being raised, » says a contemporary, « will take the form of a mariners' relief fund, primarily for the support of the men who lost their lives at the wreck. »— An Ohio farmer has posted up the following: « Notis.—If any man's or woman's cows or oxens gits in these here oats, his or her tail will be cut off as the case may be. » —A reporter, describing a collection of bric-a-brac, says: « The visitor's eye will be struck on entering the room with a porcelain umbrella. » —And the following advertisement appears in a contemporary: « A widow wants a position as general in a small household. » Not an unusual position for a servant to occupy, but seldom put so plainly.—An Australian paper lately made merry over a contemporary which headed an article, « Sir H— P—'s Embezzlements » instead of « embarrassments » —and in the next item described Mr Gladstone as « a leading pollution. »