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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[trade dispatches]

The following old (?) rhyme has been published, with historical illustrations in confirmation:—

In every future year of our Lord,
When the sum of the figures is twenty-five,
Some warlike nation will draw the sword,
But peaceful nations in peace shall thrive.

—This is a pretty safe prophecy for almost any year; but has so far found no special fulfilment in 1888.

Rejoice, good friend, you're not a Roman,
And count your privilege as great:
For in this busy century no man
Who daily has to write the date,
In missive sent to friend or foeman,
Would put it MDCCCLXXXVIII.

Perhaps the most remarkable of recent journalistic experiments (says the London Star) was that entitled The Leaflet Newspaper, of which twelve copies were sold in a packet for a penny. The reader was placed in a position to supply his friends or fellow-travellers with spare copies. and thus to disseminate the views of the projector and editor, an ardent revolutionist. The enterprise was not encouraged by the public, and The Leaflet Newspaper is no more.

We acknowledge with thanks the following new exchange: Il Tipografo, Milan (the official organ of the Italian Typographical Association) from No. 678, September.

The French copper-plate engraver, Louis Henriquel-Dupont, who began his professional career in 1811, is now, at the age of ninety, in full possession of his sight and skill with the graver, and uses it with the same ease and zeal that he did in the time of Charles X.