At the Diisseldorf Exhibition, a member of the Rhenish and Westphalian Stenographic Society exhibited a German postcard, which is somewhat larger than an English postcard, containing Voss's translation of the first three books of Ilomer's " Odyssey " and part of a rery long debate which recently took place in the German Imperial Parliament. The number of words in the extract of the Odyssey is 11,000, while in the Parliamentary debate the number is 22,000. The whole of the 33,000 words have been written in the Gobelsberg system of short-hand and with the naked eye. The quantity of matter contained in this German short-liaud manuscript would be equal to what is contained in about nine colamm of the Times,
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3573, 9 June 1880, Page 3
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117Untitled Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3573, 9 June 1880, Page 3
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