THE NAME OF GOD IN FORTY-EIGHT LANGUAGES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3410, 20 June 1868, Page 5

THE NAME OF GOD IN FORTY-EIGHT LANGUAGES.

As Louis Burger, tlie well-known author and philologist, was walking in the Avenue dea Champs Elyaees the other day, he heard a familiar voice exclaiming, •' Buy Borne nuts of a poor man, sir ; twenty for a penny !" He looked up and recognised his old barber. "What! are you selling nuts?" said he. " Ah, sir, I have been unfortunate." " But this is no business for a man like you." " Oh, sir, if you could only tell me of something better to do,' returned the barber, with a sigh. Burger was touched. He reflected a moment ; then tearing a leaf from his memorandum book, he wrote for a few moments and handed it to the man, saying, " 7 ake this to a printing office and have a hundred copies struck off ; here is the money to pay for it. Get a license from the Prefecture of the Police, and sell them at two cents a copy, and yon will have bread on the spot. The strangers who visit Paris cannot refuse this tribute to the name of God, printed in so many different ways." The barber did as he was bid, and was always seen in the entrance to the Exposition selling the followiug handbill : — The Name op Got* in Forty-bight Languages —Hebrew, Elohim or Eloah ; Chaldaic, Klah ; AFsyriaD, Elkh ; Syriac and Turkish, Alah ; Malay, Alia.; Arabic, Allah; language of the Magi, Orsi ; Old Fgyptian, Teut ; Armorian, Teuti ; Modern Egyptian, Term ; Greek, Theos ; Cretan, Thios; and Doric, Ilos ; Latin, Deus ; Low Latin, Diex ; Celtic and Old Gallic, Div ; French, Dieu ; Spanish, Dios ; Portugese, DeoB ; Old German, Diet ; Provengal, Diou j Low Breton, Dove ; Italian, Dio ; Irish, Die ; Olala tongue, Deu ; German and tfwus, Gott j Flemish, Goed ; Dutch, Godt ; English and old Saxon, God ; Teutonic, Goth ; Danish and Swedish, Gut ; Norweigan, Gud j Slavic, Buoh ; Polish, Bog ; Polacca, Bung ; Lapp, Jubinal ; Finnish, Jumala ; Runic, As ; Pannonian, l»tu j Zemblian. Fetizo ; Hindostanee, Rain ; Coromandel, Br»ma ; Tartar, M*gat»l ; Persian, Sire ; Chinese, Prussa ; Japanese, Goezur ; Madagascar, Zannar j Peruvian, Pachocamae. A few days after Burger met the barber. "Well," said he, "has the, holy name of God brought you good luck?" "Yes, indeed, sir; I sell on an average 100 copies a day, at two cents each, or two dollars ; but the strangers *re generous ; some gire me ten cents and others twenty. I have even received half a dollar for a copy ; so that, all told, I am making five dollars a day." " Five dollars a day ?" " Yes, sir, thanks to your kindness." " The deuce 1" thought Burger, as he walked along, "If I were not a literary man, I would turn peddler, or publisher ; there is nothing so profitable as selling the learning or wit of other?."