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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
A New York brewer sends Typo his circular and price-list.—A four-cent stamp wasted.
A surveyor at Otaki has applied for a patent for « an improved method of advertising. » The Manawatu Standard thinks he can't improve on the newspapers.
The fine illustrated weekly the Deutsche Illustrirte Zeitung, has been incorporated with its splendid rival Ueber Land und Meer. The latter is said to have the largest circulation of any illustrated paper in the world.
« Never too late to Mend, » in the Napier public library, had, from long usage, become somewhat dilapidated. One of the borrowers took the trouble to patch it up. On the book being replaced on the shelves, a slip fell out, upon which was written:
« Never too late to mend »? That's true:
So, with the aid of brush and melted glue,
I've made this ill-used book like new.
The concluding sentence in the following paragraph from the Mataura Ensign is rather unkind: « A gentleman residing in Gore brought into the office last week a thistle of unusual height—it measured over seven feet from the root to the topmost leaf. It was not a Scotch thistle, but one of the edible variety euphemistically termed sow-thistles, to which donkeys are said to be very partial. A great many were attracted into the porch of our office to examine the curiosity. »
It is a curious fact that it is always the man who does not know one note from another who perpetually hums and whistles to the distraction of his neighbors. Similarly, it is he who does not know poetry from prose, who is always taking liberties with the poets.
A contemporary murders Moore thus:—
There is not in the wide world
A valley so sweet
As the Vale of Avoca, where the
Bright waters meet.
And thus is Shakspeare shorn by another:—
All the world's a stage, and
Men and women merely players.
What may happen to a reporter in Queensland is illustrated by the ease of Mr Doddson, who, as representative of the Border Post, attended an Easter meeting of the Church of England, and to his great surprise—not being a member of that denomination—found himself elected churchwarden!