MINUTE PENMANSHIP.
Mr Frank Earner, an employe! of Messrs Robertson and Moffat, of Melbourne, having noticed a statement to the effect that some one had written 6,000 words on an ordinary postcard, decided to try his skill, and has easily beaten this record. With a steel pen, and without the use of a magnifying glass, he has inscribed on a card of the same size no less than 10,161 words, consisting of selections from the works of Shakespeare and Dickens, a chapter from Genesis, and the song 'Home, sweet home.' A better idea of the marvellous nature of the achievement and the patience and skill involved in it may, says the ' Argus,' be obtained from the fact that in ordiuary newspaper type 10,000 words represents about five columns of the ' Argus' matter. An average journalist, writing with a free hand, would use between 100 and 150 slips of copy paper of ordinary letter size for what is here written on a postcard. Many people who have seen it were able to read the writing with the naked eye.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1801, 11 December 1896, Page 3
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178MINUTE PENMANSHIP. Dunstan Times, Issue 1801, 11 December 1896, Page 3
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