Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — Philadelphia Bibles. [ARTICLE]

Philadelphia Bibles.

Philadelphia Keecrd. The history of Bible publishing in America discloses the tact that Philadelphia has played a most important part in this branch of book making. The first Hebrew Bible pubthis country was printed by William Fry. of Philadelphia, in 1814. This was the second American book in Hebrew characters, the press of Harvard College having issued in 1809 an edition of the Psalms. The Sauer Bible, of which reprints are still in existence, was printed in Germantown in 1743, and the first Douay Bible reprinted in America, was published in Philadelphia in 1790. A rattlesnake bit a man in Atchison, Kan., three years ago. He had great faith in the efficacy of whisky' as an antidote (oK snakes, and took it regularly. The man his just died and it is a mooted question whether he died from the bite or the whisky. A powerful alcoholic beverage is the Japanese “saki.”lt intoxicates rapidly, and keeps a man drunklonger than any other intoxicant; while the startling variety of jirnjarps it produces often terrifies the victims into fits, they see so many strange animals.