The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-05
NEWSPAPERS OF THE WORLD.
Some Curious and Interesting Facts About
Journalism In All Countries.


TIVE bulky volumes, which are 50 thick
with their more than thousand pages each
that they impress one at first glance and
which are 80 bright In their red and gold
that the superficial impression made is pleas
ing, constitute "Hubbards Newspaper and
Bank Directory Of the World" This re-
markable wsrk, which has Just been pub
lished, gives the reader g clear idea Of the
present condition of journalism in every
part Of the globe. More than $4,000 news
papers are described in such way that the
person who wishes to make the inhabii ants
Of any country familiar with the virtues sf
his ware can take the first step without
trouble. To this leading feature are added
. list Of the responsible banks, budget Of
maps and gazetteer Of the world. Though
the work is intended for English-spesking
people, It Is printed In French, German and
Spanish, IS we'll as In English. Reduced
fac SMILES of leading papers In all countries,
from Spitzbeigen to Van Diemans Land,
cuts Of several of the great newspaper build
editors Of the world and many other minor
features add 70 the Interest 0f the book. The
| first volume Is adorned with portraits Of Mr..
Garfield, Mr.. Hubbard, James Gordon Ben
nett, g. w. Childs, Charles A. Dana, J. Ii.
Estill, Murat Hslstead, j. X. Hxwl ley. A. X.
Mcclure, Joseph Medill, r. NJ. Pulsifer,
Whitelaw Reid, Richard Smith, W. F.
Storey, Henry Watterson aud others. The
The journals and journalists Of the United
States having been disposed Of in the first
volume, the second is devoted to the papers
Of the Old World and the colonies belonging
10 European powers. The volumes contain
some irrelsvent things that are In the way,
yet altogether the work is especially note
worthy.
SOME ASTONISHING FACTS.
Even the reader who hates figures rs
Falstaf hated cup of sack with lime In It,
must feel certain degree Of Interest when
1t is learned that lO,579, 900 copies Of
newspapers annually fy from the press.
This big world can boast Of only one and .
half billions Of human beings, SO that If the
canibals Of the Pacific Islands, the Zulus Of
South Africa and the Esquimaux Of the cast
iron zone, together with every other citizen
of the wide earth, should take paper there
would be about six aud half copies year
for every man, woman and child. 1t Is hard
| to tell what kind Of . mountain the annual
product Of the newspaper press might make,
but during the year ending June 10, 1850,
the newspapers consumed l7s,l65,OoO
pounds Of blank paper. There are ll,2OI
papers of all kinds In the United States, aud
while the average circulation Is 3,094, the
total circulation per issue Is 34,873,OO0, and
the total annual circulation mole than two
aud half billions Of copies. This would
give iifty-one copies annually TO every per-
son III the country, including the babies aud
the sons Of the forest. Philadelphia with
its twenty one dailies, that have an annual
circulation Of over III, 900 copies, its 9l
weeklies, IL semi-monthlies, II montblies
and bi monthlies, 100 in all, circulstes
every year $4,000. 900 copies, or 2ll.60 cop
les for each OF its s47, 900 inhabitants.
FOREIGN JOURNALS.
| A showing equally marvellous with that of
| America Is made fer Europe. While our
papers outnumber those If any other nation,
Europe, as against similar area In the United
States, Is far ahead. Great Britains a,0O0
papers circulate alnost as extensively ss our
II, ,OOO, while the 1857 publications Of the
kind In Europe give to their European read
ers nearly seven aud half billions OF copies
q year. A glance at Asia shows very diff
ferent condition Of things, for there are only
IT'S small papers In all that vast regioii'
while Africas 1872 publications cannst begin
to hold candle, In the matter Of circula-
ton, to the Times alone. Indeed the distrI-
button Of newspaper literature is as unequal
as the distribution Of civivilized ways.
Europe and North America sustain 3l,937
papers, leaving only 2,3l7 10 the rest Of
mankind. 1t Is unnecessary TO dwell upon
the fact that the boss aud the bunko NAH
would think himself In paradise II he hap
pened to dwell in New Guinea, where there
isn't . single journal, or In Samoa, where
the only paper circulates not more than
three hundred copies . week. ......
| CURIOUS FEATURES. .
An interesting feature Of the work is that
devoted TO the presentation OF fac siniies oi
odd or leading papers. The reader sees, as
Though held In the haud like the five cards Ia
euchre. copies Of the Massachusetts Spy, OF
May 81. IT'S; the Boston Gdzette, Of March
II, ITO; the Maryland Journal, Of August
ID. IT'S; the Boston Neaos Letter, Of April
"a, l7O4, ana the New Hampshire Gaze tic, Of
October, u, l7l4. Turning leaf, the hrst
page Of . recent number Of the Amsterdam
Corant is shown; again one wonders at the
appearance Of the Andaiibi Hind, published
in Hindostanee 1t Bombay, or the Indu
Prakosh, or Moonlight, which Is enjoyed no
doubt by the newspaper reader OF the same
Asistic city. How American advertisements
look in such papers - the Rast Gcftar Of
Bombay is shown also, aud the frst page OF
copy of the Constantinople Vdkit, or
Times, is placed before the eye. The ap-
pesrance of Japanese, Chinese, Hawaiian
and Persian publications are thus Indicated.
JOURNALISTS FROM ALL cLIMEs.
The group Of photographs Of '.journalists
from all clmes" is one Of the most notable
of the illustrations. The Layyid Msuloi n.
Nusrat Ali Khan, representative newspa-
per man OF the East Indies,prescnts strong,
bearded face, Of great intelligence, though
his tunic would lead some 70 believe thst he
could better handle the scimiter than drive
the bIoodless quill. r Q. Joseph. Of the
Travancore Times, Nagercoil. East Indis,
wears similar headgear, but otherwise his
face might be taken for that Of genius on
the largest Of the Chicago mainsails. J. j.
Audain, Of lie Peupie, published Of Po't.an.
Prince, Hsyti, Is round.faced son Of the
tropics, whose features seem rather free
from that care and very whereof the driv-