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ConsecratiQji of iJie Printing Press* 
:i-ork uhicti fe'^v, even of our n.nony’nons 
sunbb’ers, have dared to meddle with, 
Tno'.iAS Wilson , 
tS, Bridge-strexif June 7, 1811. 
To rhe. JUditor cf ihc IMordlily Tifagazine, 
SIR, 
"l T is allowed that the English transla- 
._a. t!on of the Scriptures is executed 
great elegance, but I believe not 
jdways with strict ddelity; or, which 
amounts to nearly the sains thing, it 
does not invariably convey the true 
meaning of the original to the unin¬ 
formed reader and auditor. Take the 
iollowing instance in regard to coins, 
as mentioned in the story of the good Sa- 
jaaritan, related by our Saviour, St. Luke, 
chap. 10. The following clause of the 
Greek text, v. So. 
EKtaXZv S'fo s^a;>:£ Uavoo^ii, 
js translated, ‘ lie took out two pence 
and gave them to the host,” Now m 
wirat a ludicrous light does the generositv 
of the humane Samaritan appear to ordi¬ 
nary hearers of this gospel, v\'hen read in 
church? How few of them would be 
aware, that, instea.d of two copper pence, 
‘wo pieces of silver coin, equal in value 
to about sixteen pence of our present 
money, were actually left for the expences 
of the poor wounded man; and, if we 
allow for the difference in current value 
between ancient and modern times, per¬ 
haps equivalent to thirteen or fourteen 
slullings of the present British currency. 
A Layman. 
Ja the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR 
CORRESPONDENT in your 
widely circulating Miscellany for 
August, having expressed a wish to be 
inlormed of some efficacious remedy for 
the tooth-ache, I request you, as well for 
your correspondent’s accommodation as 
the benefit of the community at large, 
to give the following remedy for that dis- 
pressing complaint a place in your excel¬ 
lent Magazine. Judging from my own 
experience, as well as from the testimony 
of numerous friends, I believe its efficacy 
to be very considerable; and if, after 
this public ditlusion, it may be established 
as a certain remedy, I presume its cheap¬ 
ness and simplicity ought to give it a de¬ 
cided preference to all others. 
lake a sheet of common waiting pa¬ 
per, fold it into a conical form, and set 
the larger end of it on fire, collect the 
smoke (v\hich will issue copiously from 
the smaller end) in a clean silver table¬ 
spoon, and, when the paper is wholly con¬ 
sumed, a small quantity of oil will be 
found in the spoon, Tiien make a pellet 
of convenient size, and, having caused it 
to absorb as much of the oil as will satu¬ 
rate it, pat it carefully into the carious 
tooth. 
Esuecia.! care must be taken that the 
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pellet is not made too large, for if that 
circumstance be not attended to, in 
forcing tb.e pellet into the tooth, great 
part of the oil will be squeezed out. 
To conclude, I shall not scruple to ob¬ 
serve that I have by this simple process 
administered ease to numerous sufferers, 
after making trial of the usual anti-spas- 
modics and anodynes of the Materia Me- 
riica, and having borne the mortificatioR 
of vvitnessing their uniform failure. 
Studiosus Medicin.?:. ' 
Is car Devizes, JViits, Sept, 1811. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR,- 
T HE divine implement, the Printing 
Press, is not yet consecrated in the 
heavens, and it seems to deserve a place, 
at least as \vell as many other fancies 
that fill up the celestial globe. Its figure 
being chiefly strait lines it is certainly not 
favourable to picturesque beauty, and to 
dispose of it properly requires a corres- 
Donding arrangement of stars. 
A jt? o 
On looking among the unformed stars, 
I find a whole group to my purpose, and 
adapted exactly to the platteii and frame¬ 
work of a printing-press. It is the space 
lying between Virgo and Berenice’s hair, 
and it includes nearly twenty stars of tiie 
4th magnitude. I therefore recommend 
our giobe-makers, as a tribute due to the 
press, to introduce one in that place. 
There are also four other modern iii- 
ventions which deserve similar consecra¬ 
tion, and for wdiich there is room among 
the unformed stars. I allude to Her- 
schel’s Telescope, the Telegraph, the 
Steam-Engine, and the Air-Balloon, 
and there are spaces well adapted to re¬ 
ceive them, between Cassiopeia and the 
Little Horse; near the feet of Bootes; be¬ 
tween the Hare and Noah’s Dove; be¬ 
tween the Air-Pump, the Centaur, and 
to the south of Taurus. 
It IS inconvenient to remove any of the 
existing constellations, otherwise many 
of the monsters, which are now to be 
found on the celestial globe, ought to be 
displaced; and something more rational 
iniroduced. 
The constellations are so identified 
witii the study of astronomy, that it 
would 
