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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

[trade dispatches]

A new typefoundry—the « Keystone » —with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, is to be started at Philadelphia.

Mr Brunton's flock have held a meeting and unanimously expressed their unshaken confidence in their pastor. When a religious body has descended to such a level, one may find cause for thankfulness in the fact that the Supreme Court has demonstrated that there is still virtue in the ninth commandment. The sympathy of the congregation, however, did not take the practical form of paying the fine and costs, and the « shepherd » has filed his schedule.

Of Harding's N.Z. Almanac, the London Printers' Register says: The ninth edition of this locally invaluable Directory shows no sign of falling off, as compared with any of its predecessors, the only alteration perceptible being in the direction of improvement. It is admirably printed, as might be expected from the experience and taste of its publisher. The advertisements in particular are neatly and effectively displayed, and the variety of types and ornaments used is evidence of the completeness of Mr Harding's office.

In its notices to correspondents (?) a contemporary gives a new version of the story of Penelope. The soul athirst for information is told that she « made reply that she could not marry again, even Ulysses were dead till she had finished wearing a shroud for her aged father-in-law. » —In a northern paper, under « Marriages, » appears the ominous line, « Nemesis in our next »; and a southern paper inserts a funeral notice with the heading, « Remarkable Rise in Landed Property. » —A Wairarapa journal reports that a resident has been out « shooting pigeons with a spring-cart, » but does not explain in what manner the vehicle was loaded.—The Dunedin Herald exhibits something more than its ordinary confusion of ideas in thus concluding an account of the fire at Barnum's menagerie:— « Fortunately all the performing horses and ponies were away dramatic moment of his subject. He simply places his hero between a scolding wife and a caressing mistress; writes nine scenes of a high-flown conversation and kills three of his characters in the tenth. This is resources of his genius. Barnum is now well on to fourscore but he is not likely to succumb, even to such a disaster as to which we now record. Barnum's experience of fires is now somewhat extensive. »— The agricultural correspondent of a Hawke's Bay paper desires an interview with the comp who made him recommend « chopped goose » as food for cattle.—The Bos Hibernicus is still found in the greatest perfection on the Ould Sod. « The key of the Irish difficulty, » says a Dublin paper, « is to be found in the empty pocket of the landlord. »