The record-union., 1894-12-01
NILES OF WHITE PAPER.
One Thousand Square Miles for
American Newspapers.
Immense Quantities Used in PubIica-
tion of Papers in the
World.


a highly respectable antiquity. 1t is in
disputable that the Gazette of Pekin,
China, has appeared in its present form
for thousand years at least. This VEN
erable pioneer OF daily journalism prob
ably holds the record for scoops"
1t still sends out daily its edition of
eighteen pages printed on oblong sheets
of soft ragged paper inclosed in
yellow covers stitched at the back. Its
circulation reaches 10000 and its contents
are mainly official information and i'm
perial edicts.
In Europe news pamphlets containing
information Of and comment on the more
striking news of the time appeared be-
fore the discovery of America. \ speci-
men bearing the date 1895 is still in ex-
istence. Written news letters were
widely circulated in Europe and to d
limited extent in the American colonies
also.
the FTa1kfOrter Journal appeared in
that we'll known German city in 1915 and
was the first regular European news
paper. 1t was followed in 1919 by NeicS
Out Of HOtt0Rd, Englaud'S earliest paper.
This was succeeded by the WeeGty \ eagS
III 1922. The CoUrdHt, established In I7O9
was the urSL London daily.
n paper which attempteds to establish
itself AT Boston IN 1859 was promptly sup
pressed by the Government OF Massa-
chusetts on the plea that il contained re
heXions OF every high nature" which,
however, consisted OF nothing but the
ordinary political news OF the day. PH6-
tc Occurrences. launched The following
year, met like fate. SO effectively were
these pioneer American sheets stamped
hat nf !
two copies OF the second are Known 10 be
III existence.
The Boston NelCS- Letter was started in
II04, and the Gazette, OF the same city, i'll
I1l9. At The breaking out of the Revo-
lutIonary War there were thirty-tour pa
pers IN the various colonies. Massachu-
sets had seven. Connecticut three, Rhode
IsitanQ TWO, and New Hampshire one.
Pennsylvania had eight papers and New
ork three. In the South, South Caro-
lima led with three; Maryland, Virginia
and North Carolina had TWO each, and
Georgia one.
The United States to-day has l9, SO
newspapers ana periodicals. Since the
most reliable statistics estimate about
i'll ,000as the product OF the whole world,
this country issues nearly one-half Of
them.
OF the other leading nations Germany
issues the most, 800 periodicals; France
has 4,l00; England, 4,000; Austro- II Hun-
gary, $500. and Italy l,400 No other
country has thousand publications.
Canada possesses yl9; all Australia. 100;
South America, 635: Asia, 46l, and Africa
about 100. The State of New York pub
fishes more newspapers than the whole
world lying south of the equator.
China, with six times the population OF
our own country, has only twenty-four
papers. OF these eleven are issued i'll
hn ,x.l, L tI,.c
rest in English. Bleak little Iceland
supports more papers than the hugo
FlOwery Kingdom.
Japan has 81 dailies and 175 other
periodicals, all started within the last
twenty-five years. India publishes
numb ber OF papers in the various native
tongues. These are said to be more
to the number OF copies of them printed
than any others in the world.
Persia has six papers, five in the ver-
nacuiar and,on in the Syriac. No type
is used i'll their production. The editor
gets up his matter and hands it TO an oX-
pert, who with the pen produces fine
caligraphic copy. This is photographed
on a photographic stone touched with acid,
whence the edition is printed.
Ihe smallest newspaper printed in the
world IS the little sheet printed in Eng
glish ut Sarawak, in the island of Borneo.
1t measures only 81 by - inches.
England supports 2U0 dailies, and the
United States l,S6S. Paris possesses I4I
daihes; more than London, New York.
Philadelphia and Boston combined. AS
the only great city of one of the greatest
nations, Parls monOpoliZes the journalism
of all France. Then, too, its papers ex-
plot literary field that with us is largely
left to magazines and special periodicals,
1nese TWO lacts conspire to give the news
n if,ttf
as TO circulation which they enjoy.
The Sunday newspapers are perhaps
the most truly Indigenous product of
American journalism. There are about
four hundred of these in the various cit
les and larger towns. Somewhat in the
manner OF the French newspapers they
have partly usurped the field of the
purely literary periodical, and besides
supplying the daily news have diverted
to their columns much excellent matter
that would otherwise have appeared in
the magazines or reviews. The latter
have felt deeply the effects of this poach-
ing upon their preserves. Canada has
but one Sunday paper.
In the United States we have the newS-
paper sent forth in no less than twenty
three languages, embracing the tongues of
every quarter of the globe German
papers are numbered by hundreds. and a
score or more at least are published in
french, Norwegian, Danish, Spanish,
Swedish, Bohemian and Polish. Nine
teen papers appeared in Holland Dutch
Fourteen in each Hebrew and Finnish.
five in Welch, four in SIavonic, three
each in hungarian, Icelandic, Russian,
Portuguese, Lithuanian, Armenian and
Chinese.
Rarest of all, there is one journal pub
lished i'll each Arabic, Cherokee and
Irish. Such a variety of languages has
never before existed in any one land since
the Tower of Babel rose on the Meso-
potam1an plain.
n reasonable estimate would give
nearly three billions as the number of
copies OF newspapers and other periodi-
Gals issued IN this country in one years
time. That makes two for eacn in
habitant OF the globe, or fifty-one a week
for every American, old and young. Al
lowing Tor the moderate dimensions Of
one square yard of paper for each of
these, the result would show that a
thousand square miles OF paper is annu-
ally submitted to the eyes of American
readers, or enough to cover entirely the
State of Rhode Island. 1t would also
reach from the earth to the moon in a
strip twenty-one feet broad. A good deal
of paper, isn't it?-New Y York World.
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