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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[trade dispatches]

A book by the Rev. Justin Fulton, attacking the Roman Catholic priesthood, appeared in Boston on the 22nd January, and caused some stir in that city. Its contents were such that several printing firms declined the work, girls refused to set the type, and male compositors only were employed.

How is it that so many of our contemporaries announce that they are « published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings »? Every mornings! And when will they abandon the ignorant misuse of the terms « bi-weekly » and « tri-weekly »? There is not a bi-weekly or tri-weekly periodical in the colony.

At a sale in Edinburgh an old copy of the Bible brought the extraordinary price of £160. It was not a rare edition, and was worth about half-a-crown. Two ladies bid it up. It had belonged to a deceased relative of the ladies, each of whom was determined to obtain it, and could afford to indulge her fancy.

The following clever bit of dog-latin, supposed to be a public-house sign, though doubtless old enough, may be new to some of our readers:

Piece of faux dog-latin.

We need not « translate » it. A little scrutiny will reveal that the words are English, disguised only by the spacing.

Strange what rubbish a great poet will sometimes write! In St. Mary's Church, Westminster, a stained-glass window has been erected in commemoration of her Majesty's jubilee, and is said to be a fine work of art. In explanation of its purpose, the following stanza is wrought into the design:

Fifty years' flight! Wherein should he rejoice
Who hailed their birth, who as they die decays?
This—England echoes his attesting voice:
Wondrous and well—thanks Ancient Thou of days.

These uncouth and unintelligible lines are by Robert Browning! We know of only one other quatrain equally bad Gordon's epitaph, by Alfred Tennyson.