Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
SOME NEWSPAPER FIGURES.
Newspapers of the World. Interest
 ing Statistics.

Newspapers of the World. Interest,"
 ing Statistics.
 There are published throughout the world about thirty thousand newspapers including under that name periodical issues of all sorts, from the nimble daily to the slow and ponderous quarterly and semi-annual. Fully one-half of all these are printed in the English language. Of this number the United States fur nishes, in round numbers, 9,5OO-prac- Britain and Ireland issue 3,OOO-a frac- tion less than one-third of the number of American newspapers. The Empire of Germany comes next after the United States, with nearly 5000 periodical presses. France follows with about 2,5OO, of which 1900 emanate from Paris alone. London with 4,00O, 900 inhabitants, has no more periodical presses than Paris, with her 2,000, ,000,; while New York city, with population of 1,2O6, ,000, has about 800, and Brooklyn, with 8 population of 566,OOO, has less than twenty-five newspapers of all de- grees-in fact less than Copenhagen, whose inhabitants number 100000 or Stockholm, with 170,0O0 residents.
 Aggregate the populations of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and New ark, amounting to 2,O35, ,0OO; combine the issues of the forty daily newspapers s,, al 4<> 95O, 900 each day, and the ratio of copies issued to population is found to be not half that of Zurich, Switzerland. Phila- delphia, with a population of 846, ,980, has twenty-two daily newspapers, with an aggregate circulation per issue of All, ,OOO, which is less than one copy to two inhabitants. Boston shows better in this comparison than either New York or Philadelphia, her eight daily journals printing 223, ,OO0 copies every day, which, distributed among her 362, ,535 people, allow somewhat more than one copy to every two of her inhabitants. Chicago does not so well, for her 503, ,053 oc- cupants contrive to get on with the 213,- 900 daily impressions furnished by her fourteen daily presses. Milan, Italy, however, surpasses all, her eleven daily offices issuing 253,O0O copies of their journals, or nearly one for each fnhabi- tant, every day.
 The nineteen daily journals of Lon don give her 4,OOO, 900 people only 1, ,O9O, ,OOO impressions day, or little more than one paper to four inhab- itants. The nine dailies of Liverpool (population 524,OOO) have combined daily circulation of only 255, ,000. Man chester (population 375, ,O0O) issues daily from six presses only 247,OOO news papers. Edinburgh (population 20O,- OOO) has four daily journals with an ag- gregate edition not larger than 120, 900. Glasgow (population 5O,000), with six daily presses, calls for no more than 100000 copies per day. Even Dublin does, proportionately, trife better than her Scottish neighbor, and con- siderably better than London for her six presses daily give her 250,0OO peo- pie 82, 1000 daily papers, or one copy to three inhabitants. The cities of bon- don, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dublin, with an aggregate population of six millions, with fifty daily newspapers, demand 1894, GOO copies day; being at the rate of 103 papers per annum for each individual, estimating 311 publishing days to make a year. On the other hand, the cities of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark, Philadelphia, Boston and Chi cago, with an aggregate population of 3, 75O, ,oOO, having daily news papers, issue an aggregate edition of 1,693. 900 copies being at the rate of 40 copies per annum for each person in those places-or thirty-seven copies per annum Cover three per month"; more than are issued for each individual in the British cities named.