The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-09
The Press OF the World
New York Trlnune.

American, TO their crsdit, are very fond of
prsising their own country, but not every
patriotic outbunt howevo. excsllent its mo.
tiveS, will bear analysis, No longer than last
September lecturer at OhsutauQus lake in.
formed his hearers than ia the aggregate cir.
culation Gifts newspaper press the Uai,,d
States exceeded all other nations of Tho
world combined. This was tols 0ranhaS
throughout tho land and readers of L.;
can newspapers perusod this chesrful viavy nr
satisfaction. The Tribune has A, ds.;r. "
d6epracate inc wonderful fertility and excel
lence OF tho America press; but we must b,
careful now we assume great superiority
over Great Britain and other civilized conn.
tries % an Intelligent, reading people We
have been permitted to Inspect the advance
sheets Of an interesting and important worI,
now In course of preparation by Mr.. Ii. p,
Hubbard, OF New Haven, Connection,
W. ich bears the some what formidable titls
OF "Huobards Newspaper and Baak Dirsc.
tory Of the World," aad from which IN.
following facts are obtained. '"'
There are published throughout tbs wor,d
about thirty thousand newspapers y,
under that name periodical issues of ali sortte
from the Rimbls daily 10 tho slow and NOV
derous ensrterly and somi-anaual Fullvone.
halt OF oil those are printed ia tho E1clisb
labgusgs. Ofthls number the listed sIatos
FURNISHES, in round numbers, 9,6O0-nr,s,;c'
ally one'third Of tho whole. Great RITA,
and ireland issue 3000-a fraction lo,a II. IN
ono'third tho number of American news'
papers; SO that in respect of nu,cb,r, =,
presses we certainly have surpassed our Ri,
ish nsighbors The Empire of Gsrmsn,
comes sext after the United St,,e.
with nearly 5000 periodical rrosses
France follows with about Soo
OF which ], 200 emanate from Paris alons III I,
nworthy OF nsts that London, with 1000 ono
inhabitants, has ne mors parisdical nra,'so
than Paris, With her 2 100000 wbna Naw
York city, with population.of I555 o0o
manages to grow big and olsver with Jio S.,,
than twenty-five newspapers of all decrsss.
In fact, with considerably smaller nnnoh.
than are published in UopsnhagsN. sho.a
inhasltNnlsnunber 100000, or in StockboIn,
with 10000 residents. Indeed, If tho ub -.
must come out, Agers, POSSESSING OIL" osIs
oo,Voo sosls good many of whom NAV
DO supposed TO DO of a somewhat douhth,I
character mas as many presses at work on
HewspApers as tue city of Churches; while
Oohstanuhople, in spite of heather and do,.
WIN population only about l4O 600 lsrssr
IMAM 'ha' OF Brooklyn, boasts about twics a.
many regularly published newspaper, "a tbs
latter, ana her papers are published in almos,
rs many different tongues as there are d;tlsr'
emit Journals. But then, practically onr h;c
sister IS part and parcel OF New YORK ana
tnsse comparisons are scarcely fair.
IL is asumewhat remarkable fso, ,h., Al,
city OF Milan, Italy, publishes arreatar MN
per OF newspapers than Boston, almost ident.
icaily tho same number as Phiadolphi, very
nearly as many as Chicago and futlv sar.n
times as many as Brooklyn. And yot ~
population of Milsn does not, AT most s,csaS
10000, which 10 col siderably less Than tho,
OF Boston, only about one.hslf that A os
Chicago, less than one-hslf that of Broct,v "
and less than onesthird that which tho csn,n!
OF 1850 shows Philadelphia 10 eon,";a
A still moro interesting fact IA tbs, III"
little city of Zurich, in Swi,var'
land. with population Of ,carce,,
z2,ooo, is the place Of publication of siI,ssn
newspapers with an aggregate olrenlsticn
per issue Of 10000. -Four Of these nsnsr.
are dsllies, with combined daily circpll,;or
81 zo'oco' which is more than one COPY por
o,em Tor each man, woman and child In the
Guy No place In the United States or
hngiana can furnish parallel to this. Ac.
gregate inc populations Of New YorI
Brooklyn: Jersey City and Newark, amount
ing TO 2,o3o,OOO; combine tSa Issues Of the
forty daily newspapers published In ths.e
cities, amounting 10 $4,000 each day. and
the ratio OF copies issued to Formulation
is found 10 be not half that Of Zurich
Philadelphia with q population Of SAC $50
has twenty-five daily newspapers, with NJ
aggregate circulation per issue Of ali, 900
which Is les, than one copy 10 two inhsbi
tsnt'. Boston shows better ia this compari