Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-01-25

Interesting Facts Which Contain
Lessons for American
Contemporaries.

N"w York sun
w. Iui. ih.n' arr published nl-u,t 100 peri-
wllcnl publications. tlaiiy nr weekly urwspa-
i--i~ - i'Ni"W~ trniin. nn Irliti,'- anl >,mial
economy, IN ~" provinces the nunllnr Of
siuWlir publications amounts Ia about SiU-
that . - >ty. In NIL. ~ The ls,litical Jour-
unl that l,, IA" largest circulation Is "A one
-'u journal L. l'rit Journal. which prints
between G4lsn ami t,DWU copies The Init-
ir.l I'urral that has the smallest circulation
- H. Nigilnni. IA Republican Journal pub
h-i'sl ht S.rlan, which publishes less
'hnn hundred copies day. At
ih" I'f'~'t moment nearly seventy
'lhiN political journals aIrrar at Paris, sone
sixteen II which nrc sunll ,crntime jour-
nal- II tvI. al III" Petit Journal; the rest
a.. four palr papers lk" The Figaro, vary
~ ~ Itirr from Il Il, - cntiih,~ the usual
Iii-' i-in: u ',.niiup~ No eight page
journal has eyer sur,,e,l,-i in France. Tho
last attempt Ia found nn. was made in 1871,
IA H. t.l,l-', which cInl,avor,si to Ike a regu-
lnr newspaper f,hl "f news AMI reading mat
t"r nf "a s'rius description. L. Globe
proved an utter failure, aud at the end of a
year II was transformed into four page
J''urnnl "f ia" approved tyls.
The average daily circulation Of all the
dat, IaIur> published in Paris il n little un-
her tw" millions of copies. Next to Le Petit
journal, the Journal that has the larg-
~ rirtriatinn, b. la Petite Rrpubliluc Fran
'ni~'. with l,1oD to l1O,@ copies. The
figarn has "a circulation of about ~, ,OOO
o"ln~, L. Temps, E,,WD Ia 5000; LIntransi-
prant nm average of ;ib1O; the old Constitu-
tinnn,l. which ls,forc ani after 1880 hal tho
than cnorn"us circulation of 3O,0W copies, has
sunk NOW Ia ahmt ION, and is still COLI
duci.sl "n the old principle for the benefit Of
few aged nnl faithful alonncs. OF the
lr"Vi journals The rctit I.yonnais has
the largest circulation, with daily average
IL 7'i.sD cop,-. then follow The Petit Mar
...ilni- with - .uU, and The Lyon Republican,
with h2,m.
The r.gh!ar staff Of Tho Figaro, the most
numerous, II composed of twenty-five per-
SINS The Iay of the celebrities Of the
chroniluc, like AIlcrt Wolf, Scholl and
M"nslt, Is 800 francs month for one or
tw" articles week The leading reporter Ot
| III" Figaro rs~iv,~ the same sum, together
With han'isan" travelling expenses In short.
III. small fry IT journalists earn from 3W tO
| !sD francs IA month, while the leading writers
--ssiy, nj the outside, twenty men-will make
| nn average, of - pU francs a year out Vi
their Irn.
Some half dozen of the Paris journals keep
one or two ''reIortcrs a rAmeritaine," with
| n staff "f s,ilaltrrns under them. The 're
porter rAmericainc" has a speciality of in
s,rvicwing the celebrity of the hour, of
wrestling secrets from diplomatists and
statesmen, aud IL lrilng the Wallets Of kings
en voyage Ia tell him what the nioriai chs eat
for breakfast The reporter n fAmeri-
caine" d"uitl,Ss arrives ut n certain mum.
i-'r of Interesting facts, but his prose is ut,
trrly untrisd worthy and too full Of his own
personality Ia lr practical The whole sys-
TEN of rclortng and news-gathering Is
trivial. There Is not n single Partisan jour
nal that gives an adequate and thoroughly
unbiased report of political meeting. As
for rapility in publishing news, it is out Of
the question.
THE French reader SEEKS two things In q
newspaper -nnu~cmcnt and newsstand he
l-rhaIs prefers the former to the latter. In
his eyes thu journalist is a sort Of mounte-
hank of the ITn, and the stranger. his antics
| tho more Irull he deems him.