Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-03

| cents and you pass in every block women
loaded down with great two-bushel baskets Of
meat and vegetables which they are carry ing
home from the market for about the same rate.
There are flower peddlers everywhere and there
il the old fellow with TOYS who sells turkeys and
monkeys made of wood and painted IN ridicu-
lous colors. While visiting the stock exchange
the other day dropped into beer hall for
lunch and was getting away with great mug
OF beer between my bites Of cheese and rye
bread when one Of these fakirs came up beside
me and laid down on the table a microscope.
As he did so. he asked me if did not want to
see what kind Of cheese / had been eating l
held IL up to the light and saw in il through
the microscope dozen hundred-leg bugs as
big as the largest potato bug. each one Of which
had horrible horns and great teeth. He laughed
as shnddered and pushed the cheese back and
then offered to sell me the microscope for
twelve cents, but was disguised at having my
meal spoiled and refused
The newspapers here are largely sold by
women, and the small newsboy of America is
unknown in Berlin. Now and then you see q
man selling papers, but the greater part Of the
circulation Of the journals is by subscription,
and women always deliver the papers. There
are many queer things about the newspapers,
and few Of the Berlin Journals have large STATS
OF reporters. The local news.is about the same
in all papers, and no one thinks of trying to
make scoop, as it is called, or to have the
news in advance of his fellows. The editors Of
o'clock, and the papers are in press at II. By
IL clock even the printers have gone home,
and when Gen. Won Motke died at IL O'Clock
one night some time ago there was only one
Berlin newspaper that had q line about it in its
issue Of the next morning. The announcement
OF the death was published in New York and
elsewhere In full, but the German newspapers
right here at home knew nothing about it. The
newspapers here publish items from their con-
temporary Journals which they should have
had themselves, saying that the other paper
says so and so, and there Is no life in Berlin
journalism. The papers have not very large cir
cuiation and they do not make a great deal Of
money The biggest of them sells something
like 100000 copies, and this paper makes s137,-
600 year and thinks il does wonders. Men
paid, and editors-in-chief get from "a, 900 to
5000 year.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The Germans are good advertisers, and there
seems to be no reason why the papers should
not do better. Everything under the sun is
put into the papers in the shape Of an adver-
tisement. And there is great deal of social
news that we publish for nothing which is put
in here at so much per line. Engagements are
generally announced in the newspapers by the
parents OF the bride and also by the groom and
there are large number CT matrimonial ad-
vertisements, in which men and women state
their good qualities and ask for husbands and
wives. Sometimes men advertise stating that
they have daughter whom they wish to get
rid of, and in one year there we're 400 adver-
tisements in one paper OF persons seeking bet
ter halves. Marriages are also published In
the same way, and there is fixed rate for
births and deaths. The Germans are very
proud of having children, and it is generally
expected that a son daughter will make
his or her appearance in the newspaper col
umns immediately upon his appearance in the
world. There is always numbers of death
notices, and the official advertisements of the
city amount to something Advertisements of
patent medicines have as much prominence in
the Berlin newspapers in ours, and alto
gether the German is a very good advertiser.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER