The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-08
ABOUT PARIS NEWSPAPERS.
Increasing in size and Paying Increased
Attention to tin News.

Attention to TIL News.
Paris Letter to the London Times.
since sunday the Figaro has APP
peared in an altered form which Is
worth noting. 1t has become a SIX
page paper, instead or lour-Pase,
and II has suppressed Its two weekly
four-page supplements. This change
Is Characteristic in what 1t indicates as
TO the demands of the French PUBIC
in the way of improvements, consisting
particularly in an increase of size, ana
consequently of reading matter.
French journals are gradually peing
divided into two, or, rather three'
classes.
There is. first, the paper sold at 1
sou, read by the worlxingman, the do
nestle servant, the clerk, the con-
cierge and the publican of Paris and
the provinces. Some journals appear
in both large and small edttions-as,
for instance, the large and small Re
publique Franchise, which were both
established by Gambetta, but are now
in different hands-and have thus
sought to fight against the rising tide
of rival 1-sou papers. Others, and
these are many, have adopted the mid
way price of sous. Journals sold at
sous us centimes) are at present not
very numerous, and are practically
| confined TO the Figaro, Gaulois and
1 IL
not be called small papers, and which.
though sold at a sou. are none the less
/ well informed, well printed and well
edited The result is that the pubic
+ demands of the few journals now sold
ait Is centimes efforts which are not
asked of less expensive contemporaries
The Journal des Debats has a holder
and more unexpected idea. 1t formerly
cost 20 centimes. Not wishing to lower
it's price to Is centimes, which would
have made no material difference, 1t
has appeared in two editions, the
! morning one white and the evening
one pink. The two journals are iden-
teal in spirit, although the writers
| are different, and they can be read
quite separately. but the reader of the
white, or morning, edition alone, would
be deprived of the weekly theatrical
criticism of NJ. Jules Lemaftre. The
Debats has thus become a paper, or, IL
you will, two papers at sous. III lis
said that during January the evening
edition will disappear. so that there
will be merely one Debats at sous.
have not alluded to the Gazette de
France, the Univers and the Monde,
among the 3-sou papers, for they have
rather true believers, one might say,
than readers, whose faith and hope
cannot be shaken by a mere matter OF
sous Such papers as these can main
tain their price and their present form
80 long as France possesses readers
who believe in the church and the
monarchy-and this may be a long
/ time.
But. as I said, the reader of the g.
sous paper is exacting. He demands
J something special for his money. This
is why the Temps now publishes ever,
evening a small supplement called lie:
Dernieres Nouvelles, distributed aftel
the appearance of the main journal
This is why the Gaulois a short tim,
, ago swelled out into so broad a shee
that ii called itself 1.-The largest morn
ing paper" and this, lastly, is why tn
Figaro has become a six-page paper
1t was not an easy matter to arrange
! The French reader does not like Il
4 turn over several pages, nor is the pa
per used for French journals adapte'
to this. Nor does he like to have Z
I cut a sheet, which thus becomes de
tached and easily slips out. These in
oonveniences have been overcome b.
: the use of a half sheet, which the ma
/. chine not merely prints. but gums an
folds, so that the final result is just a
= IL three half sheets had been paste
!. together at the edge. 1t is step
the direction of the English eight pag
h paper, but / cannot say whether
n will meet with favor or not A simila
attempt was once made, only to b
given up. True, the experiment wa
l. not made by a powerful and prosperou
l. journal like the Figaro. A table {
contents is one decided improvemer
and other Improvements will doubles
b follow. Some fresh contributors hay
4. been secured.