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pounds OF paper 10 make one inliiiVuhpc
ers; and hence City million requires nine
million seven hundred and thirty-fve
thousand nine hundred pounds Of paper
the amount actually used. The regu-
lar product of one million annually gives
three thousand two hundred and fvc for
each secular day, over FIVE copies per
minute, for the ten working hours of each
day. And this rate Of Eve copies per
minute has continued for fifty years. No
other book besides the Bibld, it is beleiv-
ed, has ever had so large sale. Fifty
million copies, placed lengthwise in a con-
tiuuous line would make row over ten
thousand miles long. DIR. Webster sup
ported himself and large family, during
the twenty or thirty years he was employ
ed in the preparation Of his large Dict
ionary, mainly by copyright Of one cent
or less on his Spelling Book.
A distinguished United States senator
once wrote, "Above all other people we
are ono, and above all books which have
united us in the bond of a common lan-
guage, place the good old Spelling Book
of Noah Webster. We have unity Of
language which no other people possess.
and we owe this unity above all else, to
Noah Webster's Yankee Spelling Book"
DR.. Webster's plan, which had its in
ception in the American Spelling Book,
eliminated in the Dictionary, "Webster's
Unabridged" To its compilation and
perfection DR.. Webster devoted thirty Of
the best years of his life. In the original
preparation, he was largely aided by the
labors of others. 1t has undergone two
rcvisions since his death. and full thirty
years of earnest literary labor were ex-
pended upon the last one, mo than five
having been devoted, by an eminent Eu.
ropean scholar, to the perfection of the
Etymologies alone, rendering the work il
this department now quite unrivaled. Ii
the preparation and perfection of the larg
er work, and the several Arrangements
full one hundred years of dilligent intel
ectual toll, it is believed, have been ex
pended. The Unabridged is thought tt
be the largest single volume ever pub
lished, containing as much matter as 81,
English Bibles. 1t is generally regarded
as the Dictionary of highest authoriy il
the language, and has sale all over th'
civilized world. 1t is regulraly issued il
London, and in English as well as Ameri
can Courts of Justice considered as tn
leading authority as to meaning Of word
In this particular-of precision and accu
racy of efnitions-We stands pre-
eminent, and, as whole, his work is Q
universally conceded superiority. Ever.
English Lexicon that has appeared in Eng
land, since the issue of Webster, borrow
its definitions largely from him, and lead
ing ones transcribes him almost entire
From this cause, pre-eminently, its sal
is universal where the English tongue
spoken. Since the opening of Japan, owe
; five hundred copies have gone to tha
country
OF the ten Abridgements, most of theI
have been republished in England, an
several have very large sale there. On
, has on its title-page, "seventy-ffth thou
=, and" Over sixty tons Of paper are al
nually employed in the manufacture of tt
Arrangements in this country, aggregatir
: 100000 sheets Of paper, which, sprea
out singly, would cover forty square mile
They are found in almost every schoo
house in the land. Two hundred to thr,
hundred tons of paper are now used a
!. ually in the preparation Of the Webst
books, Speller included. A careful es'
! mate gives the enormous quantity of IL
: 047, 100 pounds Of paper, as the quant
. ty used in the manufacture of the We
ster books, from the commencement,
|. 8,523 tons. The volumes made from th
must have been sficient to form pile
hardly less magnitude than the great Py
J amid Of Egypt. a,s.
1 Unquestionably, more Webster's Di
. tionaries--the large work and sever
q Arrangements included--are now sold a
i. nually, than Of all other English Dictio
/. aries together, reckoning as well Gre
N Britain as the United States, and all En
!. lish speaking communities combined 8
a Over three hundred thousand she,
h have been divested of their skins to GOV
i these books. Biz ll
W At a fair estimate, one thousand pc
IN sons are deriving their means of suppo
If from the manufacture and sale of the
a books at the present time, reckoning d
A. the preparation of the materials, and I
If lowing the usual number of those depe
II ent upon the labor of others. More thl
le quarter of million of dollars have be-
! o u