31 DECEMBER 1898, Page 17

A LIMITED LIABILITY BELL.

fro Tio: EDITOR Of THZ " SPZCTATOR.") Sin,—The following incident is so characteristic of the close of the nineteenth century, that I think you will find a place for it in your columns. A well-known firm of bellmakers, whom I will call Bell and Sons, were engaged to cast a bell for a church lately completed. A suitable inscription in Latin was to be engraved upon the bell, and it was suggested to the makers that their own name should also be placed upon it. They readily agreed to this, and accepted the following farther inscription: " Carolue Bell fecit 1898." When the bell arrived, however, it was found that the inscription had been slightly modified, and now ran as follows : " Carolus Bell Limited fecit 1898."—I am, Sir, lec.,

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