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Show I CHANGE SPOILED THE EFFECT. Mlnlit.r'. Unfortunate Alteration of Biblical Phraieology. William Ilean Howell., at one ot hie ounday aflorn -.u roreptlrtna, waa talking about tte a'talit change of phrase, that may aiifflre to make an iDipromlvo thliiK rldlculotta. "I retnomhor a aornion that I hoard," he laid, "In my boyhood, In Martin'. Kerry, the quaint Ohio town. It was a aormon about Judaa, and tha mlnl.trr, after reading to u. how Judaa betrayed the fdnator for thirty piece, of allver, added, 'Thirty plecoa ot allver, deur friouH, la I8 In our money.' And tueu ho wont on beat cdly: "'Yea. Judaa helrayed the Maatrr; he proatltuiod that holy aymbol, tho klna, for the email amn of 18.' Trie chargo uf phrnao wua alight," Mr. Howella coucluded, "but aotnehow It autUcud to mako everybody auillo." |