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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5

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The Boston Globe boasts the two tallest printers in the United States—Major, 6ft. 6½in, and Betts, 6ft. 7in.

The German Government have prosecuted Kladderadatsch for publishing a cartoon in reference to the « holy » coat at Trèves, entitled « Gull-snaring. »

The President of the Women's Press Association of the Pacific Coast is a grand-niece of Barbara Frietchie, immortalized by the poet Whittier.

It is just a year since O'Brien, the Canadian reporter, published his story about Prince George of Wales, which was made the subject of a criminal prosecution for libel. The almost-forgotten affair has just come to trial. Contrary to expectation, the accused brought evidence in support of his narrative, and stoutly maintained that it was substantially correct. He went to prison all the same.

No longer is The Nation —the paper with the ugliest heading in the United Kingdom—published in the Irish capital; and its ignominious end is curiously coincident with the general smash of the « national » party. Started in 1842, it was distinguished no less by its literary power than by its audacity, lawlessness, and scurrility. It outlived its reputation, and is now merged in an insignificant three-year-old periodical— the Irish Catholic.