Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-03-01


The first newspaper was issued monthly in
MS. form, in the Republic Of Menice, and was
called the Gazette, probably from a farthing
coin peculiar to Venice, and which was the
common price at which it was sold. Thirty
volumes Of it are still preserved in library at
Florence.
It was long supposed that the first newspa-
per published in England was at the epoch of
the Spanish Armada, but it had been discov
cred that the copies of that bearing the imprint
Of 1893, in the British Museum, we're forgeries.
There was no doubt that the puny ancestor of
the myriads of broad sheets was not published
in London till l622-l60 years after the art of
printing bad been discovered and it was near
iy 100 years more before daily paper was
ventured upon. Periodical papers seem first
to have been used by the English during the
times of the Commonwealth, and we're then
called weekly news books" Some Of them
had most whimsical titles. II was common
with the early papers to have blank page,
which was sometimes filled up, in the paucity
Of news, by selections from the Scriptures
The first newspaper printed in North Anne
RIGA was printed in Boston, 1890. Only one
copy of that was known to be in existence.
It was deposited in the State Paper Office in
London, and was about the size of an ordinary
sheet Of letter paper. 1t was stopped by the
government. The Boston Newsletter was
the first regular paper. 1t was first issued in
1904, and was printed by John Allen, in Pud-
ding Lane. The contents Of some Of the early
numbers we're very peculiar. 1t had speech
Of Queen Anne to Parliament, delivered l20
days previously, and this was the latest news
from England. In one Of the early numbers
there was an announcement that by order OF
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post between Boston and New York sets out
once fortnight. Negro men, women, and
children we're advertised to be sold |; and call
was made upon woman who had stolen a
piece Of fine lace worth Is. yard, and upon
another who had conveyed piece of fine calico
under her riding hood, to return the same or
be exposed.
The pioneer paper was published for "A
years; It was the leading Tory paper, prior TO
the Revolution. The Boston Gazette was the
organ of the patriots, and was issued at Water
town. At the commencement of the revolu.
tionary war, there were but 81 newspapers in
the United States. or this number, only
eight were committed to the British Govern
ment but five others were brought over. The
oldest existing paper in Massachusetts, was the
Worcester Spy, first published in Boston dur.
ing ITO, but removed to the western part Of
the State on the occupation OF Boston by the
British troops. Our country, although the
youngest in the world, outstrips all others in
the number Of publications sold. The number
Of copies Of newspapers printed here is -four
times greater than in Great Britain, though
England has twice as many magazines, The
number Of religious newspapers here, and the
extent Of their circulation, form q striking SO
| cial acteristic.--Iibiisher's Circular.
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How THEY LEcTuRE IN PARrs.--Mons. J. j
Ampere, Of the French Academy, author of the
book called Promenades en- Amerique, is one
OF the lecturers at the College Of France A
letter says. ;,
i cat his lectures M. Ampere sits las do all
the professors) in large arm chair, With Q
table before him, on which he invariably leans
both his elbows, while his hands are alternately
clenched and unclenched just in advance of hi
chair, and he see-saws awkwardly from side te
side, and each is employed in its turn for the
i execution of n ueature as mOnOtOnOua and un