Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-22
NEWSPAPER FIGURES.
Some Interesting statistic. Relating TO
Newspapers and other Periodicals.

Some Interesting Statistic. Relating 70
Newspapers and other Periodicals.
A correspondent has compiled some
interesting statistics As To the total
number of newspapers and other peri
odicals published IN every part Of the
world. and be bring the total number
up to 35. 900, thus giving one to every
2s. 900 inhabitants. Europe. according
to his calculations. has 2u.VuO news
papers, Germany coming first with
$500, of which $40 are published daily,
the oldest being the Fvst /tfuHI. pub
hshed at Frankfort in 1916, while the
one with the largest circulation l. the
Berlinsr TagetiGtt. which prints 5j,poo
copies Great Britain comes next with
1000 newspapers. Of which $50 aTo
published daily, while France has 4.U9u.
Of which 800 only are daily. Italy
comes fourth with l. 900 newspapers,
Of which 200 are published at Rome.
l4O at Milan, l2U at Naples. - at
Turin and 79 at Florence. the oldest
being the Gdzsttd III G,HOUT. first pub
hshed in 1891. Twelve hundred news
papers are published in Au~tro-iIun-
gary. of which lj5 are daily, the most
remarkable of the Austrian journals
being one called 4ictd CompdrGtiouis
Lttsrarum EniUsrSdruB. which Is a re-
view of comparative literature. with
contributors in every part OF the world.
each of whose articles Is printed ID It's
native tongue. Spain has about SJU
Journals, Of which a third are political.
and Russia has only 500. Of which 2uO
are printed at st. Petersburg and - at
Moscow Several of these Journals are
published in three different languages.
and there are also four publ she'd in
French, three in German. two IN Latin
and two in Hebrew, besides several
others in Pol sh. Finnish Tartar
and Georgian. Greece has upwards
of 600 newspapers. of which a ap-
pear at Athens. while Switzerland has
$50, and Holland and Belgium about
800 each. There are 5000 journals
published in Asia. of which no fewer
than 1000 appear in Japan. but in
China the only newspapers not pub
lished BY residents at the treaty ports
are the Ning-P PdO, an official journal
published at Pekin. the ChsH-IGO, and
the Hu-PaO. published ct Shanghai, and
the Government journal. which WAS
brought out in COrea last year. There
are three newspapers published in
French Cochin-Chin and one in Ton
quin (r rArenir du IOnkiR). the rest of
the newspapers credited to Asia ap-
pearing in India, with the exception
of s. which are published in Persia
Africa can boast of only 200 papers. Of
which 80 appear in Egypt and the re-
mainder in the colon - of England,
France. etc. The United States pos
sesses about l2.50o periodicals.. of
which 1000 are published daily, the
oldest being the Boston N.Ts. which
was first published in 1894. Among
the United States journals there are no
fewer than l2O edited and publ shed by
negroes. the oldest of these being the
Eierdtor, which was brought out at
San Francisco about eighteen wears
ago. Canada has 700 newspapers. a
considerable portion of which are pub
lished in French. and in South America
the Argentine Republic comes first
with so newspapers. Australia has 700
journals. nearly all published in En-
glish. and the Sandwich Islands eight,
of which five are in English and three
in the native tongue. Out OF the 3d.
600 periodicals enumerated above. To-
500 are in English, 1900 in German.
$3.50 in French. 1900 in Spanish. and
1,4J0 in Italian.-L1 FtygrO