Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — The “Rosin” Bible. [ARTICLE]

The “Rosin” Bible.

In IGO9 there was published at the sign of the “Holy Lamb” in Douai, a town in the northeast of France, not far from the Belgian frontier, an edition of the. Bible which, in consequence of-the quaint translation of a well-known passage, has sometimes been called the “Rosin” Bible. The first portion of the twenty-second verse of the eighth chapter of the book of the Prophet^Jeremiah ran thus In the first edition: “Is there noe rosin in or is there no phlsltlon there?” It seems hardly necessary to say that we now read “balm” iCittead of “rosi*^” never knew 1 what a nat** row escape from death I once had till I read the papers a few days ago. Hobson—What was It? “I see that I was In Chicago two years ago while Holmes was there.” —Philadelphia Record. She owned that her foot was number six, l-' And the grateful clerk did pot divine That she was up to the same old tricks, Till he saw that she really wore number nine. —Chicago Record.