The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-08-25

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London town, by any manner o
means. In fact it is pretty near the
whole thing, SO far as transporta
ton goes.
There is another matter | am IN
terested in,-I would like to know
the approximate income of the big
newspapers of London, from adver-
Using. The Times, for illustration
the leading paper of the city, publish,
ing usually about eighteen pages, =
large pages,-only four or five o
which are devoted to news matter
must be growing richer every day
And The Telegraph, claiming the
largest circulation in the world, is
quite the same. There are many
points ofditlerance between the Lon.
don newspaper and our own. One
of these is in the character of the adj
vertising. There are no full page
ads. of immense commercial houses,
nor even halfpage ads. Occasionally
is seen, without immodest display, a
three or four column prospectus of
some Joint stock enterprise (limitedl !,
but in the main the advertisements
are what we cali classified, and OF
these are columns and pages enough
to make one dizzy, should he attempt
an enumeration OF them. Another
difference lies in the classification of
the news, the arrangement in the
London paper being quite orderly.
There is no paper over here, that |
have seen, that can begin to compare
with the St.Louis Globe Democrat,
for instance, and few that publish
the quantity OF news that the Com
mercial appeal publishes.
In fact, the foreign news depart
meut of the latter paper is vastly
more complete than that of The
Times. The London paper publishes,
first in importance at this time, a
fair resume of the situation in China:
then the official dispatches of General
Roberts from South Africa; and a
sporting column; and the proceedings
of Parliament,-th with that tire
some detail that characr1rizes the
Congressional Record; the Law
Court proceedings,-also with the
utmost detail; the the Court Calen-
dar, giving the movements OF the
Royal family; the markets; no local
news whatever, or next to nothing;
editorial comment, bearing almost
wholly upon the debates in Parlia-
ment and the foreign operations of
the government. There is this merit,
however,-the London paper does
not permit the exigencies of the
makeup to mar the departmental
conference of the whole. Each de-
partment is kept to itself, and if
there is any American news,-which
usually there is not,-it is all found
in one little spot, and if you look
further for more you will have your
trouble for your pains. | have been
struck with the very small import
ance of America in furnishing news
matter for the London newspaper,
Upon some days there is absolutely
not a single word from across the
Atlantic. The particulars of the
of the burning of the North German
Lloyd docks in New York, a vagrant
item about a foolhardy person who
went through the rapids at Niagara
a quotation from the democratic
platform, another from the speech
of acceptance of Mr. Mckinley
these are the only items have beer
able to CLEAN concerning home affair
from a whole weeks reading Of TIL
London newspapers. | get tn
European edition of the New Yorl
Herald, day old, an | get something
from that, but so far as the Londoi
paper is concerned, it is like tn
average English, interested almos
wholly in what directly concern
England. There are said to be 80
900 or 10000 Americans in Londoi
at this time, but they are getting n
information from home through tn
London newspapers. Perhapsit wa
different when we had war on on
hands. There is another thing abou
the London newspaper,-except in
few instances, and that is it has n
Sunday edition. The Sabbath is oil
served in London in very many othC
ways, For instance, yesterda
morning 1 could not get the Me-
York Heard, the shop not bein
opened on Sunday; l could get II
attention at the shaving parlors a
of them being closed; | could hay
secured medicine, III urgently r
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