The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-10-08

ana very curious lgnJS are lnus JuIoWh
on the characteristics of various nations.
How the grand total is distributed
over the earth, and the number
of copies per annum in proper
ton to each inhabitant is shown below
Number Propord n
Population. Publications per head
N. America. T6,O3s,77s 1900 s6.66
Asia......... 1907, 2s'65I IIS 9-0l
Australasia s6IO.s5O 661 90. SO
Africa...,,, 2OSOOOOOO 1s9 DOL
Hence we perceive that Europe still
keeps precedence numerically, though, in
view of the proportion to population,
North America and Australasia have far
outstripped the Old World, notwith-
standing the vast extent of territory over
which they are scattered. Europe and
North America combined are shown to
have an area of only one-fourth of the
habitable globe, and one fourth of its
population, yet they produce considerably
more than nine tenths (93.23 per cent?
of all publications in existence.
How the proportion per head is ar
rived at does not appear, inasmuch as q
certain number of English publishers re-
fuse to make known their circulation.
These, however, are hut very limited
number, so are not supposed largely to
affect the total. A free calculation
shows that, including dailies, weeklies
and monthlies, the presses of America
annually issue nearly 2, 800, 900, 900 cop
les per annum-a ceaseless shower of
literary snowflakes forever floating around
each remote centre of Anglo Saxon life.
Australasia annually distributes upward
of 112, 900, 600 copies of her home printed
papers, while the annual production. of
Europe runs up to 1900, 600, 900 copies
mingled showers of every conceivable
quality, good, bad indifferent, every
shade of opinion, and on every topic un-
der heaven.
A further calculation shows Great
Britain to be the country best supplied
with newspapers, while Belgium ranks
next and the United States third. The
ratio of copies yearly distributable to
each person in these three nations is as
follows: Great Britain, 64.01; Belgium,
1920; the States, 51.06.
But while the total number of British
publications does not exceed 4,0S2, the
German Empire produces 5,529 periodi-
Gals of all sorts, and thus ranks next to
the United States in the variety OF litera
ture she provides. 1t is considered
somewhat remarkable that, in land Sc
eminent for scholarship there should be
so small a proportion of monthly anc
quarterly magazines-no. more than five
per cent. of the grand total.
London, as might be expected witt
its population of a, 900, 900, takes prece
dence of all other great cities in its lis
of publications, which very nearly ap
proaches 2, 600. These have an annua
circulation of about 1,017, 000,0 900 copies
The mere list of their names occupie
seventy-three pages of fine pages in thi
great directory, and looking over then
one feels positively bewildered to thinl
of all the enormous amount of incessan
quill-driving and editing involved by tn
never-ending requirements of so vast
multitude of publications.
But while London shows longer cata
logue than any other city, Paris, with
population of less than 1000, 600, issue
1858 periodicals, and these have a.
annual circulation of about /, 100, 600, 90
copies; so that, in point of fact, the citi
zens of Paris are far more literally sur
piled with daily or weekly literary pre-
vender than their British neighbors.
fact, it is estimated that the journalist
products of Paris amount annually TO a
most one-tenth of the issue of the entiI
press of the globe.
New York and Brooklyn have a CON
bined population nearly equal. to that {
Paris. They produce 5S7 publications
with an annual circulation of about SIG
100000; Berlin produces 536; Vienn'
4s3; Madrid, 253; Brussels, 233; Rome
213, showing a gradual diminution ii
we reach st. Petersburg, with populi
ton of 667, 963, and a newspaper issu
numbering 1873, and Moscow, with
population of COL, $3.50, and only tift.
seven periodicals.
Taking the nationality of the "a, OC
papers of the world, we find that clio
upon 80, 900 are published IN Europe an
North America, leaving little over 200
for all the rest of the world Soul
America only issues a sufficient numb
to allow each of its inhabitants thr,
newspapers a year-exhibiting the cur
Gus contrast in this, as in all else, b.
tween the great Northern and SOuthel
continents
The combined annual product of AS
and Africa amounts to 227, 900, 90
which, in proportion to the populatio
would allow one copy in ten years fl
each person. OF course the newspap
circulation of Africa is confined to the e
treme north and south, with a very fe
BILE commencement on the west coas
In like manner Asia has neither supp
nor demand except in parts of Turke
Persia, China and Japan. Not a new
paper of any sort is to be found in Ar
bia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan or Tur
estan.
The Chinese empire produces on
twenty-five periodicals, of which twel
are in Chinese, nine in English and o
in French. Even of this small numb
the circulation is extraordinarily sma
and as & rule. newspaper may be sa
70 9e a thing unknown to the 400 00(