The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-09-02
JOURNALS AND JOURNALISTS.

1t is stated tn 1t the Texas Siftinss, the
Police Gazctte and the Christian at Work
nre all printed on the same press in New
York City. Is it a religious or Il satanic
press? The plcssman must be a sort OF a
polyglot.
The Buffalo Telegraph, the cheap and
nasty little sheet that first printed the
Halpin scandal in the last campaign, has
suspended publication. It's sensa ton was
a boomerang that killed it. Sore other
papers that published the filth are not feel
ing very well, either.
A popularity of most OF the Paris papers
is that they rent out the financial column
by the year to anybody who wants it. A
well known banking house pays the Figaro
16O, 600 francs a year for the use OF their
financial column. and puts in whatever it
pleases. 1thas a ten-years' contract.
Fred. Wilson, formerly connected with
the Helena Herald, and lately warden oil
the Penitentiary, has taken charge of the
editorial and local columns of the Bozeman
.Ivant Courier for one month, Mr.. Anderson
intending to be absent for that length OF
time at Cooke in the interest of his mines.
The plan OF licensing the newsboys
adopted in Detroit is a capital one. The
fee for a badge is a mere trife. No boy can
sell Il paper on the street unless he has this
badge, and it is forfeited if he tries to dis
pose OF Objectionable papers. At least one
dirty sheet has thus been compelled to stop.
The most profitable newspaper in the
world, the London Times, is valued at
$25, 100000, and the most profitable in
France: the Petit Journal, earns 5000, 900
a year net, although a dozen years ago it
WAS insolvent. The London Standard is
valued at $1O,OOO,OOO, the Daily News at
$4,000, 900 and S5,OOO,OOO would not buy
the Telegraph.
We fail to understand why Andrew Car
negie's English newspaper syndicate which
claims to have made 80 many millions out
of it's journals should exhibit such unusual
activity in selling them out. Their hercu-
lean efforts remind one forcibly of the
desperate attempts OF a country publisher
in the United States trying to shift his
losses OF to the shoulders of some aspiring
county politician.
The Jefferson county Sentinel has made
it's appearance at Boulder. 1t is edited and
published by s. A. Robertson, formerly con-
nected with The MINER. It is ably con-
Quoted and neatly printed and is calculated
to do credit to the people of Jefferson
county. If the people will give Mr.. Robert
son the necessary encouragement we feel
confident that he will give them a news
paper that they will be proud of and that
will do the region much good. We wish the
Sentinel all possible success.
Says the Deer Lodge New North Vest:
1.-The Inter Mountain and MINER fairly
eclipsed all previous newspaper enterprise
in this Territory last week by their speedy
preparation and presentation OF the Press
Association proceedings. The Inter Noun
tain had the address and a large portion Of
the history, with the proceedings, ON the
street in two hours after the session adj
journed; and THE MINER next morning ap-
peared with eleven columns of nonpareil
matter relating to the convention, the ban
quet, etc. 1t was the best, most complete
and speedy presentation ever made in the
Territory OF the proceedings of any convo-
cation; and the next day Mr.. Read OF the
Inter Mountain said Mr.. Ziegenfuss of THE
MINER wasn't feeling very well, either"
The country newspaper is the most use
full OF all the agencies which stamp the i'm
press OF progress upon villages and inland
cities. Without the aid OF the local news
paper, towns are. as a rule, thriftless and
dead. 1t is common for small great men
to speak with contempt OF the local news
papers, but the village newspaper makes
more great men out OF less material-more
bricks without straw-than any other
factor in politics, and it is the one ladder
on which men climb to local distinction as
the beginning OF wider fame. The advent
OF the local newspaper has always dated
the increased thrift of the community.
The local newspaper is the life OF the
locality, and the measure OF it's support.
as a rule, measures the advancement OF the
people.