The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-05-01

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9fe4fI4e word AND occnrs 35 .543 times. ~
9f Ths T2ls verso of Ezra vii. '6outuins all The
Sietterssofsonra lphabets it1.tsaaf "'af ste2
The 18th chapter of 2 Kings, and
37th Of Isaiuli, are alike. This fact,is
aninternal mark of the Truth of the
Scriptures. being transcripts, from pub.
Sisrecoryls, ,bYE two stdiferent authors,
whoswere not cotemporaries.g 6g
IN THE eNEW TESTAMENT.
The middle book, lis I'd Thessalonians. Il
assf'sH elisptss isbe.ween the i3th aud IL 4,h
- ryof Romans.;, ,t,y,-ry
I" .SAvsrso, is Acts xvii, 9Th verso.
The least verso, ia. John XII, IS.
btiTheswofdr AND, occurs ilO. .6s4 tiines.
1.-The Sinyention!of chapters has, BY ma.
sny,, been ascribed to, Lanfranc, Arch
bishop of canterbury, lin the reigns of
1fWiliiamaI eand III. !, while others refer
it to Stephen Langton, Archbishop of
the same See, during the. .sreigns of
John, and Henry III. But the real
author OF this useful division was Car
dinal. Hugo de Sancto Caro-, about A.
.ncs m The facility ofreference thus afford.
sed byfHugo, was father amplifed by.
the introduction of the present system.
Of Verses;; this was done by a Jewish
.Rabbi, Mfordecai Nathan, about A, D.
The number Of languages On the
earth is lestimatedea at 5000; the Scrip
lures have been translated into nearly.
1SOs 1.-The two principal! English YER
slons are those eofts' King James'' and
the ,"Douay." The former r was trims.
tinted and collected with the originals
and other versions, by At yof the most
learned Dlvnes Of the age.27gIt occupi-
cd from 1903 1911 before it receiy-
cd. cd the Ecclesiastical and Royal Sane
tlon:-The Douay version was render
ed from the Latin Vulgate, collected
with the originals ,Shy a Professors Of
Theology, in the English College Of that
names Al 3D. 1902 f.bYas PE,.-5
The first Amcrican-Indian trnpsla-
ton was made BY Rev. ". Elliotts, in
The Year 1863 ioftis a5@sfsT67.t = =
"a The first Anglo, American edition
was printedain As.!D. 1852, at Bos.
ton. us.t-5.QL
Tho second Anglo-Amcrican edition
was printel BY order Of the American
Gnlfsress, mnder2the supervision of their
Chaplain, Bishop White;this was pub.
Eshed in Phiiade,ptia, in 1881, by r.
;Aitkiep # Many copies Of this addition
arealii5,e POSSESSION of our citizens, aud
will probably be preserved as relic of
authority Of stlh,.ose good old times" Of
tho Peter Pat,7d. f d4. " !.
In the reign of Edward f., A. D.
125O.'the price Of a Bible, was equal
to $l54 OF cur currency. Now, mill
aaons Of copies are annually circulated,
atethe pricefofs SO cents each. The
issue from one depository alone, (Brit-
ish and Foreign Bible Society in
llsos35;-76, Il s3'55; were at the rate of one copv
su'y' 'Rsnsste. Such is one class Of
benefits resulting from the invention
and present perfection Of the art of
printing; truly it is as it has been styl,
ed, 1teteuer Of the scorld."
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"A GREAr eNuRsERY .-2Perhaps the
largest nursery in the world is Booths
in Holstein, one Of the Danish provin-
ces. It consists Of one hundred and
eighty acres, and requires,l on an aver
ags, one hundred and thirty men and
twenty Wonien to cultivate it. Eighty
packers are employed during the pack
ing season. eThelhyerage profit, for
the last thirty years, ,has been fifteen
thousand sand dollars l ,a annually, " though at
one time, for. twelve years, the sale Of
aahlias alone netted, fifty thousand
dollars per anum, and to which, eleven
acres are still devoted Some rare
Orchidous plants sell for threo hudred
dollars ,eaeh.a Of'this family Of plants,
4 they have two Thousand varieties, and
two thousand Of The ,dahlia., Tho, col,
lection of ornamental trees is efto5rtnhi
. Gsssrl9qqine 0a&sutoy,, oy,a7 11d
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