The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-13

Ctvff. Hrs orders 20 an OFFENDING editor
will read as follows: Design honorably
to cease honorably publishing august
paper. Honorable editor. honorable pub
Usher, honorable chief printer, design
honorably to enter august jail"
A newspaper Office in Japan is bed
lam let loose, for the whole force-of-
fee boys, devil and prirtters-are con-
tinuously yelling at the top Of their
voices
In Turkey. also. the censorship
is strictly applied, and to such an extent
that for example, it was forbidden to
the press to give any account of the
murder of the Empress Elizabeth of
Austria at all resembling the truth. Ac-
cording to Turkish press accounts she
was taking a walk, and was suddenly
seized with illness. She fell to the ground,
got up again. and again fell unconscious.
In half an hour she was dead. The reason
of this is that no reference is ever made
to anarchists or nihilists; "dsturbers of
the peace" was the expression when
necessary, but the censorship forbids
even this, and has required the substitu-
ton of "Utopians." The Turk certainly
has a sense of humor.
Another rigid censor is the Shah of
Persia, who rules the newspaper world
of his realm with an iron hand. Papers
were not officially permitted to be
published until about fifty years ago.
That he may not be marched off TO
Siberia or suspected of having any
nihilistic proclivities, the editor of the
Novoie Vremia-the New Review of
Russia-never allows any mention of
politics 1t is perhaps the only news
paper having no political opinion. But
it has the best organized system of re-
porting of any Russian paper, and is
much read on this account.
But keeping ones head on, or ones
self out of prison is as nothing compared
to the life of the one editor in Greenland.
He has more difficulties to encounter than
any other man in the newspaper world
of any continent Single handed, he pre-
forms the functions of editor reporter,
printer and distributor, the entire paper
being the product of his own pen. But
one page of this paper can be printed al
a time, and the type has to be linked by
hand after each impression; aside from
these labors he has practically taught
his subscribers how to read. Originally
the paper was nothing more than a col
lection of crude illustrations; words were
introduced after a while, and then sem
fences and finally regular articles on the
affairs of the day. Twice month the
editor puts on his skates and takes a
long journey-a hundred miles or more
through the country, disposing of his
journal, which is the only one published
in Greenland.
Two other papers which are published
in the Arctic regions are the Yukon Mid
night Sun and Ghe Klondjke Nugget of
Dawson City. Each is a weekly, and costs
90 cents
In Australia papers are sold by the
pound-that is. New York papers. Thirty
six cents is the average price for a New
York Sunday paper. They contain lots of
good paper is the dealers argument, and
on this account must be sold by weight
Sections of a paper are sold if the whole
is not wanted.
After all said and done the unique
feature in journalism the world over is
the paper in Athens, Greece. the contents
of which are written entirely in verse
even to the advertisements. The Imperial
Gazette of Berlin and the Imperial Review
of Vienna have the smallest editions of
any newspapers; the former is limited
to two copies daily-one for the Kaiser
and one for the Kaiserin; the latter has
three copies, and is for the Emperor's