s them praise
The hospitality of modern days.

Yet brave in arms, of enterprising soul,
They tempt old Neptune to the farthest pole;
In learning's walks explore the mazy way
(For genius here has shed his golden ray);
In war's bold arts thro' various contests try'd,
True to themselves, they took their country's side,
And, party feuds dismiss'd, join to agree
That scepter only just that left them free.

_Connecticut Courant,_ July 14, 1790.

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Errors of the press.

The following paragraphs will shew how completely the sense
is altered by the omission of a single letter of the word in
Italics.

"The conflict was dreadful, and the enemy was repulsed with
considerable _laughter_."

"Robert Jones was yesterday brought before the sitting
Magistrate, on a charge of having spoken _reason_ at the
Barleymow public-house."

"In consequence of the numerous accidents occasioned by
skaiting on the Serpentine River, measures are taking to put
a _top_ to it."

"When Miss Leserve, late of Covent Garden Theatre, visited
the 'Hecla,' she was politely drawn up the ship's side by
means of a _hair_."

"At the Guildhall dinner, none of the poultry was eatable
except the _owls_."

"A gentleman was yesterday brought up to answer a charge of
having _eaten_ a hackney-coachman for having demanded more
than his fare; and another was accused of having stolen a
small _ox_ out of the Bath mail; the stolen property was
found in his waistcoat pocket."

_Salem Register,_ 1827.

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_A CURIOSITY._

"We have often heard of the Lord's Prayer being written in
the compass of a shilling, but have lately seen a piece of
paper of that dimension, which contains, in manuscript, the
Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, Psalms 117,
120, 127, 131, 132, 134, and 150; 9th chapter of Proverbs,
Prayer of St. Chrysostom, two Collects, Prayer for the
Royal Family, Nobility, Clergy, &c., &c., the Blessing, and
Junior, 1702, the name of the writer. This curiosity is in
the possession of Mr. John Reeder, of Brighton, who being an
auctioneer at a sale where it was lately sold, purchased it
on very easy terms. It is not leg