The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
The First New York Herald.

The First New York Herald.
 Before me, two newspapers, both pub lished in the same city, one issued March %, 1891, containing 40 S-column pages filled with news items, social happenings, important events gathered by cores pondents from all parts of the world. The other, old and yellow with age, con- taining only l6 columns filled with very little interesting matter. The former is the New York Sunday World, great newspaper of the age. The latter, a copy of the first issue of the New York Her aid, published May 5, 1885. The World may be obtained for nickle, but the first copy of the Herald probably very few, if any, of the BEE readers have ever seen. A synopsis of it's important ar ticles may be interesting. The prospec- tus of nearly column says: "James Gordon Bennett & Co. commence, this morning, the publication of the Morning Herald, new daily paper, price B per year or 6c a week, advertising at the or dnary rates. It is issued from the pulp fishing office, No. 20, Wall street and from the printing office, No. 34 Ann street, Sd story, at both of which places orders will be thankfully received" It proposes to support no party or faction, or care nothing for any election from president to constable. "Our only guide shall be sound, practical common sense. We shall endeavor to record facts on ev- cry public and proper subject, stripped of colorng, with just, fearless, independ- ent and good-tempered comments when suitable and hope to pick up a circulat- ion of from 20 to 30 thousand without treading on the toes of our neighbors or rivals"
 The opening chapters of a curious bio- graphical sketch of Matthias, the proph- ct, occupy the first page. Late and im- portant news from Europe, giving an ac count of the defeat of the Peel ministry, a fight between Russian squadron and British man of war in the Dardanelles and batch of personals is given under date of April l, nearly a month old.
 A short item in one corner, which looks as if they were almost ashamed to print it, says, ''Silver forks will be used at Rocllaway and West Point hotels, this Sumner By far the most interesting piece in the paper is the column devoted to some of the most striking facts in the noble science of statistics of the Empire State. "ANe have 1-2 millions of peo- pie in the State and 260,00 in the city and suburbs, including Brooklyn. We had, in 1881, 90S2 deaths, and births and marriages unknown and unnumbered. In the city directory are the names of over 1000 widows, many of them fiat, fair and 40' and having no objections to marry. We have over 2000 foreign arrivals a year. We have 3G daily newspapers in the State and lG in the city, the largest being the Courier and Enquirer, the best the Herald, to say nothing of the good old wine of the Starr. We have seven colleges, all poor and proud except Co., lumbia, which is rich and lazy, educating only 100 students year and yet com plaining of hard work. We have 10 theo- logical seminaries for making clergymen,
 
 good tillers of the soil. We have 50 fe- male academies for finishing the educa- tion of young ladies, where one half of them are 'finished,' as John Randolph once said in the House of Representa- tives: Finished, MT Speaker; yes sir, finished for all useful purposes In the State prisons are 1492 rogues, but God only knows how many out of prison preying upon the community in the shape of black legs, gamblers, spectators and politicians. There are 6457 paupers in the poor houses and double that number going there as fast as intemperance ard indolence can carry them. We have 800 dandies who dress well, wear gold chains and spend their fathers earnings. We have 249 people of fashion who had un- questionable grandparents. We have so million imports and 20 million exports. We pay 12 millions into the public treas ury and expend by the city government alone 1-2 millions year, part of it in champagne dinners. And to close all, here's the Empire State for ye, and yet one half it's. magnificence, greatness and power is behind the curtain. Scholars talk and twaddle about the States of Greece, the supremacy of Athens, the moral grandeur of Sparta, the magnif- cence of Republican Rome, mere shad- ows to New York, as she is and means to be-
 In the Court Circular is the following personal news: 1.-The president (Jack- son) is still at Washington. His health is said to be like the weather, good to- day, bad tomorrow. He goes out occas- ionally in carriage to take the air, but is seldom seen on horseback, as formerly. John c. Calhoun, Henry Clay and Dam iel Webster are in their respective States recruiting their bodies and minds and pre- pairing for next year. The other sena- tors may move about and no one say, sWho goes there.' David Crockett, at last accounts, was grinning the bark off the trees in Tennessee"
 Four columns of advertisements, anec- dotes and short sketches fill up the re- mainder of the paper. William Fischer, the owner of this paper, has in his pos session a copy of Guthrie's History of the World, published in 17S0, a large vol ume of over 1000 closely printed pages. In describing the inhabitants of Connec- ticut, it says: 1.-The men are robust, stout and tall The greatest care is taken of the limbs and bodies of infants, which a,.o slyant straipht bv means of board a