The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-15
SOME QUEER NEWSPAPER
THE INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS AT
TIE NORTH POLE
Papers Published Every Once in
While - Extraordinary Journals in
Athens and Madrid-First German

Athens and Madrid-First German
Newspaper Printed - A Yankee
Blanket Sheet.
From the NeD FORK Times.
Stories and jokes are plentiful in regard to the
trials and troubles OF our rural editors and the
warlike spirit Of ourl western ones. But those
who suppose that this state OF affairs is limited
to the United states are mistaken. Take the
military genius Of that editor OF the Belgrade
paper Otpor, who had been attacked by a
servian colonel. Straightway due warning was
given in the columns OF Otpor to the effect that
the enemies Of the paper we're known to be
planning a second attack, and that. therefore,
the staff and all the other employees had been
armed with revolvers Shooting matches ar
ranged by the editor in chief had given most
satisfactory results, and any attacking party
might count on Witnessing some rapid and
effective firing. 1t is TO he inferred that the
editor held the fort.
Nor is it likely that Lars Moller the Esquimau
poet-who acts as editor, reporter artist com -
posltor, printer and news0oy for his paDer-is
Riaddened with a subscription list Of especially
cheering proportions. Moller who by the way,
accompanied NOrdenskjold on his Greenland
expedition in order to furnish illustrated re-
ports for his paper, making long trips on his
snowshoes for the purpose Of disseminating his
literature among the EsQUimaux, and really de-
serves 10 be called the educator aud pioneer in
civilization Of his countrymen. For 1t Is said
That he began by simply printing rude pictures
which excited curiosity ana acted on the mag
ination. Letters, syllables, words and finally
sentences were then successfully printed. so
that Moller actually taught his public to read.
HIS paper, entitled Atud0GoIitttit which, 1t ap-
pears. stands simply for reading matter" is
printed and published in a DANISH colony lying
at about o. n. lat.
IL is not the most northern paper, however
Tor there is one published at Bodo, or Il north
latltudel; three - Tronls9- Posten, Tromsc-
StTtstidsnde, and Eordidnds PoSten-in from
80 l59' 49, north latitude), although that town
has only about $500 inhabitants, and one--the
PdTdo- Posten-in Vardo zoe % $50 north
latitude). But the one nearest TO the north
pole is issued at Hammerfest Coz 40 II" north
latitude). So these people in Upper Norway
evidently take healthy interest in the affairs
of the day. The newspaper men up there,
however. must certainly be better proof against
the cold than the editors OF the PRESENT., a pa.
per published IN Parma. In the beginning Of
1888 the following notice was put at the head Of
that paper: "On account of the extreme cold
the paper Will not appear tomorrow. In case
important news should arrive from Manassah,
we shell issue an extra" Surprising some of
the New Y ork dAilies had printed such a notice
during the memorable blizzard
But even cooler assurance was shown three
years ago by the editor of the Rthtder ZeitunQ y.
published in Ruhla, a town of ThurinRia, noted
for its meerschaum pipe industry. A kirmess
was in full blast aud tue town was plunged into
a whirl of pleasure The fever seized on the
half sheet Of advertisements, prenxed by a
short editorial note, in which he begged his
readers to be contented for that day with the
paper as 1t WAS, for the dearth of news incident
TO the hot season would cause any reading mat
ter to weary them and spoil the pleasures they
were enjoying; besides which they might kindly
consider that the editorial and business depart
ments of the paper both felt very justihsble
desire to enjoy the kirmess with the rest of
their toWnsmen.
The well-known New York art weekly which
during one period of its existence used to keep
It's subscribers wondering when the next num-
Der would come out, II at all. has its counter
part in ROmtoS, an AUheniAn paper. Remi'is
aud its editor, Surios seek their like in the field
OF journalism. Surios is the entire stat Of tie
paper-he writes it all alone, and, what is more,
he writes is entirely 10 rhymes, and SuTlos, that
modern follower Of Arstophanes, is said to b.
the most notable author who writes In modern
Greek. The Society OF Newsboys, which buys
the whole edition OF each number for a fixed
price, does good business, for ROmios goes off
like hot cakes. SuTios takes things quite easy .
II he wants to have bit of a vacation or Is &C.
cupied with poetry of higher order, he simply
omits number OF his paper, which forms a
characteristic and pleasing feature of Athenian
life.
If Athens possesses paper that has only an
editor and no staff, Madrid, at the other end OF
the Mediterranean, glories in one that has a
statf and no editor. Copy is furnished by a
dozen clever reporters. who daily scour the
city in all directions for the latest news. Their
manuscripts are all thrown into a box in the
printing room. from which the foremen takes
them and doles them out to the compositors
just in the order In which they happen TO come
TO his hand. There is absolutely no editing
done, and the paper appears once, twice, or even
oftener each day, according to the quantity of
material that is turned in. SO that this is q
news" paper in the fullest sense OF the word,
for it contains no commentary whatever, but
more or less detailed or interesting according o
the ability of the various reporters
The Telegram, a weekly issued at Guadala-
IN MawipO ia nh IA avna IIanS ma I'm
to exist. 1t consists OF four pages divided into
three columns each, and measures 6X4 inches.
The news of the world is condensed to flt into
this small space, Little straw and much
wheat" being the motto of this miniature
product Of the newspaper press. A contrast in
siZe is offered by the Illuminated QLddruDle
Constellation, which was published by one
George Roberts in New York on July !. 1889
The size of this paper, a monster even in the
days OF the blanket sheets, was FOX 100 inches
there being eight pages Of thirteen columns, the
columns having a length of forty eight inches
Beside a number OF portraits, it contained a
large amount of reading matter, among which
'Braddock's Defeat or the Battle of Mononga
hela," poem 10 sixty-four verses OF eight lines
each. and copy of the famous Moon Hoax
which had appeared in the sun twenty-four
years before. The paper sold at 30 cents per
copy, the edition numbering $4,000, which it
took eight weeks TO get ready, forty persons
being engaged in the work.
Just imagine the surprise of the circulation
editor" who should be told of paper that re-
fuses new SUBSCRIBERS. A German government
paper published in GumbInnen, the Am1sbLqtt
der ko1Ii0Iichen ReCterttnO zu Gitnbinnen, re
ceived a quarters subscription last year from
citizen OF Konigsberg. But the subscription
was refused on the ground that only $50 copies
of the publication were printed that these were
all bespoken, and that a new edition would
under no circumstances be printed. No top
notch" circulation there.
Our ancestors, considering their limited fac-
tiles, were not quite as slow" as we are wont
to believe. Take even the first Newspaper pub
lished IN Germany. which was issued in 1909 in
Strassburg. and bore the following long winded
title
Relation: Aller Furnenen vnd godenkwur-
dlgen Hstorien, so SIGH hin und wider in Hoch
vnd Nieder deutschland Auoh In Frankreich
Italen. Schott-und Engelland. Hispanien, Hun-
germ, Pollen, SiebenourRen. Walachey, Moldap
Turkey, etc. In diesem 1909. Jahr verlauffen
vnd zutragen mochten Allies auff das trew.
lichst vie ich selche bekommen vnd zu vegen
bringen may, in Truck verfertigen will"
II we consider the undeveloped condition of
the mail service at that period, the editor OF
this weekly certainly seems to have been enter
prising, for he printed news from seventeen
European cities.
1t is interesting to note. by the way, that the
first bit OF news In the first number In this first
German newspaper is headed. 'Zeitung aus
Koln and tanner, 1909" "Zeituug" having
since been ESTABLISH ed as the German eQuiva
lent for our word newspaper. In the first num-
Der there is also little apology TO the reader
who is asked 20 overlook any errors that might
have crept In, the rapidity with which the paper
had TO be made up aud brought out being urged
as an excuse. The work had to be ''hurrisdly
done at night"