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Evening Star, Issue 7406, 29 December 1887, Page 2

In the time pf King Edward the First the price of a Bible iWftS L 37 sterling. ' A laboring man then received for his work a penny and a half a day,- from which it may easily be reckoned that a laboring man could not have purchased'a{6ihle at that time without having the savings of more than eighteen years. It is quite' within the limits, then, to say %at to-the man who' receives four shillings a 4 a y for his work the Bible costs twenty-two. thousand times less than it did in the days of Edward the First.— ‘ Echo.* - ; An engineer jylio -has made electricity his study, recently declared that in the course of ten years he believed it.would be possible ’ to compress , 'enough electricity in -«a 5 ' substance thq, pine ,of an egg-shell, to .drive an express train from Liverpool, to London'. New definition, -y-A, Manchester grammaraohoblnuas recently defined . 1 ‘ sinister ” aa a “female sinner, J,... .... '*