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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[trade dispatches]
According to Max Müller, Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, is equal to the Iliad.
Messrs Ward, Lock, & Co. have changed their Melbourne address to No. 1 St James's street, corner of William and Little Collins streets.
This is from Dakota: « A man living about twelve miles from here died from poisoning Monday afternoon. It seems he ate a lunch that had been wrapped in a copy of our loathed and disgusting contemporary, and it killed him. Let others beware. »
Mr A. D. Willis, of Wanganui, is chiefly known as a high-class lithographer; but he can also turn out good work in letter-press, as shewn by an address lately executed for a religious denomination in Wanganui. The original, printed on silk in gold, must have had a fine appearance. The work is a good specimen of typographic display; the ornamentation is appropriate, and not overdone. The festoons at the upper corners are original in idea, and Reed's « Artistic » corner ornaments are introduced with excellent effect.
As an instance of the arbitrary ways of some of the school inspectors, an Auckland paper reports that an examiner, after severely catechising a little girl, said: « Now I have only one more question to ask, and if you answer it correctly you will pass; if not, you will not pass. Can you tell me where Perm is? » The child did not know, and failed. The cruelty in this proceeding was aggravated by the fact that the geographical name did not occur in the schoolbooks of the standard in which the scholar had been studying.