Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1870-06-23
Ne<v~pnpcI- in the United
states.

Newspapers in the United States are
now 70 numerous that is well nigh i'm
possible tor any one to remember frac-
ton OF the list, and it Is therefore with
pleasure that We note that Geo. Z.
Rpwcl! X Co., publishers OF New York
have issued 4 new and completely rcvi--
Ell edition ottheir New spaper Directory.
a trade 30 immense a. that of news
paper, has had but little attention called
10 II, and we have as people but very
little knowledge Of the immense degree
Of capital required to carry it on.
Journalists, it i, true, have dialated
much upon the dignity and the value Of
the press, but have studiously abstaincd
irom touching on material conSidera
tlons. II i the poetry, and not the prose
OF newspaper life which attracts the at
tentlun oi our fraternity generally \ ct
even II TINS we hear much untrust-
Wprthy gossip relating tp newspapers.
and the public evidently believe what is
SAID to 1t. We propose 10 supply our
readers with some oi the plum, we have
extracted from this work, perhaps sup
plcncnt"d bv some things out Of our
own knowledge.
: ttp iWNS>i UtkAr rIRdepehdfhf,,' and II
has also the largest advertising patron
ace ot any weekly paper III the country
It. editor j. tile best paid OF amy editor
OF a periodical other than daily. The
largest daIIy j. either the New GJrk
1rIbune or the New York J0nJuai Of
Commerce., which, il j. difficult TO dc
eide. The smallest daily i The Ithaca
Leafisr, al Ithaca. y. y. The New
| York Ueekig and Bonner- Ledger have
| each more than three hundred thousand
circulation, and exceed amy Others III
the nitcd state, III this respect.
Among the newspapers which are print
ed with news the New York 1rtbnae
and Pomeroy's Democrat have til,
greatest i.>ue-abouL two hundred
thousand each-Dut, on the contrary
some newspapers in the South do NOT
claim over one hundred and twenty
| The average circulation Of IA weekly pa
| per i'll the Western States i about TX
/ hundred and fifty, in the South five
I hundred and tiftv and and in the East
uqont nine hundred. There i a weekly
country paper i'll Rhode Island, however
which has circulation ot over seven
thousand. There j. one daily in New
u ork which annually receives over eight
hundred thou> and dollars wear from
advertisements, and there are two other,
which receive over four hundred thous-
and. The total number OF newspaper,
is o.3l9. out ot which about five hundred
and fifty arc daily. Two hundred and
httv-eight German newspapers are print
ed in the United States and British
Provinces, OF which about onc-quarter
come from Pennsylvania; forty-eight
are issued in French, fifteen in the Scan
dinavian languages, ten in Spanish, five
in Dutch, four i'll Italian, three i'll Welsh,
two in Bohemian, one Russian and
English, and one in Chinese and English.
san Francisco has the greatest proper
ton Of periodicals published in foreign
languages, although the aggregate num-
Der is in this proportion reversed. New
York has six German dailies, two
French, and one Scandinavian, besides
twenty-three in English. The highest
salary paid to an edition i'll America is
ten thousand il year; we would not
dare to say how small the lowest is.
For full information on these and 9TH
er topics we desire to recommend this
book 1t has, in addition, Newspaper
Rate-Book, giving the rates Of advertis-
ing in all the prominent newspapers OF
America, from which we learn that it
costs thirty dollars to insert an adver-
tismenl one inch long in u certain New
York paper one time; and number OF
sketches OF Men Who AdAertise. Men
who advertise and make money by it
must Of necessity know something, and
the story OF their lives shows how they
gained such knowledge and such expe-
rience as to make their powers available.
Altogether this volume is useful both
for entertainment and for business.