The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-11-17
SOME NEWSPAPER STATISTICS.
The Total Number of Periodicals Pub.
Hshed in Every Part of the World.

Hshed in Every Part of the World.
boston Transcript
a correspondent of lie Figaro has com
piled some interesting statistics as to the
total number of newspapers and other
periodicals published in every part of the
world, and he brings the total number up
to $4,000. thus giving one TO every %, 900
inhabitants. Europe, according to his
calculations, has 20, 900 newspapers, Ger
many coming first, with ). 500, of which
500 are published daily, the oldest being
The Post Zeitung, published at Frankfort
in 1916, while the one with the largest cir
culation is The Berliner Tageblatt, which
prints 5000 copies. Great Britain pos
sesses 4, 900 newspapers, of which 800 are
published daily; while France has 4,092,
of which 800 only are daily.
published at Rome, 40 at Milan,
l20 at Naples, "a at Turin. and
- at Florence, the oldest being The Gaz-
Zetta di Geneva, first published in 1897.
Twelve hundred newspapers are pub
lished in Austro- Hungary, of which $50
are daily, the most remarkable of the
Austrian journals being one called Acta
Comparisons Literarum Universarum
which is review of comparative litera
ture, with contributors in every part of
the world, each of whose articles is
printed in its native tongue Spain has
about $50 journals, of which third are
political, and Russia has only 800, of
which 200 are printed at St Petersburg
and 70 at Moscow Several of these Jour
mails are published in three different lam
guages and there are also four published
in French, three in German, two in Latin
and two in Hebrew, besides several others
in Polish Finnish, Tartar and Georgian.
Greece has upward of 600 newspapers.
of which fifty four appear at Athens,
while Switzerland has 450, and Holland
and Belgium about 300 each There are
5000 journals published in Asia, Of which
no fewer than :, 900 appear in Japan, but
in China the only newspapers not pub
lished by residents at the treaty ports are
The Ming -Pao, an official journal pub
lished at Pekin, The Chen ao and The
Hu-Pao, published at Shanghai, and the
government journal which was brought
out in Corea last year. There are three
newspapers published In French in Cochin
China and one in Tonquin NAvenir du
TOnkin}, the rest of the newspapers cred
tied to Asia appearing in India, with the
exception of six which are published in
Persia. Africa can boast of only 200
papers, of which thirty appear In Egypt
and the remainder in the colonies of Eng
land, France, etc
The United States possess about IL, 500
periodicals, of which l, 900 are published
daily, the oldest being The Boston News,
which was first published in 1894. Among
the United States journals there are no
fewer than 100 edited and published by
negroes, the oldest of these being The
Elevator, which was brought out at San
Francisco about eighteen years ago.
Canada has 100 newspapers consider
able proportion of which are published in
French, and in South America the Argen-
tine Republic comes first, with sixty
newspapers. Australia has 700 journals,
nearly all published in English, and the
Sandwich islands eight, of which five are
in English and three in the native tongue.
Out of the 30, 900 periodicals enumerated
above, 16, 500 are in English, 1900 in
German, $3.50 in French, 1000 in Span.
ish and 1, $50 in Italian