The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-23
THE WORLDS NEWSPAPERS.
BY W. z. JARVIS.

rapidly, thanks to the great interest
shown by its rulers in advancing the
education of the various races there.
Through the means of sixteen Ian
guages five hundred and fifty-eight
periodicals have been established.
The first newspaper in that great
country was Hicking's Gazette, is
sued January 20, 1881. The Bengal
Hurkuru is now the oldest paper of
the empire, the first number having
been issued January 10, 1895. The
publications of India are probably
more thoroughly circulated and
read, in proportion to the number
of copies issued, than those of any
other country. A single paper not
unfrequently goes through an en-
tire village, passing from house to
house, and is read by or to every in
habitant, until, even with the ten
derest handling, it is completely
worn out.
The highest priced newspaper in
the world is the Mashonaland Herald
and Zambesian Times, published at
Fort Salisbury, Mashonaland, and is
sued daily at twenty-five cents per
copy. This paper is about the size
of a sheet of foolscap, and the
printing is done by the useful hekto-
graph, the printing press not having
as yet penetrated into this interest
ing region of South Africa, which
two years ago was almost wholly
occupied by savages, and can now
| IN WIT Il 7 OnlD,, -, about
an hour. Probably the smallest
newspaper ever printed was an issue
of Ell Telegrama of Guadalajara,
Mexico, which was four inches
square.
The island of Borneo has one of
the smallest Observation-Disclosures
newspapers in the world. 1t is the
Sarawak Gazette, a paper eight and
a quarter inches in width by thirteen
inches in length, the first issue of
which appeared Aug. l, 1870. The
Gold Coast Times, published at
Cape Coast, Africa, another of the
worlds smallest newspapers, is print
ed on pink tinted paper, eight by
fourteen inches, and circulates about
400 copies per week. The Evening
Tidings, the smallest newspaper in
England, was started in 1870 to
furnish news of the Franco-Prussian
war. 1t is first consisted of single
sheet, ten by seven inches, printed
only on one side; but it now consists
of four pages, about twelve by eight
inches, two of which are almost com.
pletely occupied by advertisements
One would not expect to find
many (if any newspapers in Iceland
but it is nevertheless fact that
there are nearly as many papers or
that little northern island, with 6
population of but 69,22O, in the
vernacular of the natives, as there
are in China, with its 3S6,95O,OOO in
habitants. Iceland has ten native
papers; China but fourteen. With
one exception the newspapers O
Iceland are published at a point
farther north than any other journals
in existence. The one exception i.
an illustrated Esquimaux paper
published at Godthaab, a Danish
colony on the west coast of Green
land, 64deg. 10min. N. lat, 51deg
37min. long. This particular paper
claims the distinction of being the
northernmost newspaper in the
world.
The city of Dundee, Scotland, car
show greater output of papers il
proportion to it's size than any Other
city.
The most remarkable of all the
American papers-and there is /;
great variety of them-is the Acts
Corporations Literarum Universe
rum, review of comparative litera
ture, with contributors in every part
of the world, each of whose articles
is printed in its native tongue. One
of the strangest publications on thi.
continent is the Prince Albert Critic
at Prince Albert, small town il
the centre of the great Northwest
Territory. This paper, at first sight
appears to be a sheet of closely
written foolscap, but it is in reality
live newspaper, and is specimen
of what can be done by an enter
prising journalist without type. The
headlines and all matter, instead o.
being set in type, is written, or hal
printed in ink with an electric pei
on prepared paper, the rest of thu
issue circulation about 500 being
imprints of the original.
Very few people, even in England
are aware of the fact that there is ;
newspaper printed and published
every day in London, of which not ;
single copy is offered for sale. L
appears on no bookstalls, falls into
the hands of not single newsboy
and the shops and news-agents know
it not. The paper referred to is thu
Evening Telegraph, which is pro
duced by the proprietors of thu
Daily Telegraph with the view o
preventing the issuing of an evening
Telegraph and the use of a nam,
which the owners of the mornin,
journal have made a valuable pro
perty. Another thing in connec
ton with this newspaper is, tina
there is building on the Thame
embankment, containing a plant O
printing machinery and appliances
capable of turning out the Dali,
Telegraph, should any mishap occu
to the Fleet street offices, so that il
case the entire establishment now il
use were burned down in the after
noon the staff of the Telegraph
could step over to the building il
reserve and produce the next morn
ing's paper just as though nothing
had IapnpnaI