The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-11-21
ENGLISH PAPERS AND PERIODICALS.

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newspapers. Time was when found
no more delightful occupation than
reading exchanges: but when that has
been ones life work for nearly half a
century real vacation implies very
little reading or writing. | read enough,
however, to satisfy myself that the
English newspapers are behind the
American press in printing the news. l
do not refer here to the stuff printed by
our yellow journals, to the columns of
scandals, fakes, etc, but to live, legiti-
mate news, both foreign and local. Nor
do they excel in editorial ability. AS a
rule less space is devoted to editorials
in the leading English journals than in
our dailies; and their 'leaders' are
usually ponderous and hard reading to
the average American The London
Telegraph is easily the leader among
English journals, and has a far larger
circulation, but less influence, than
the London Times, which has long been
recognized as the chief exponent of
English opinion. The Telegraph has
fourteen pages and is sold at one
penny per copy. The first page is de-
voted wholly to advertising, set in uni
form style, the advertisements varying
from three or four lines to that of
many inches in length. The second
and third pages are also filled with
advertising. Then comes a page of
market reports, a page of sporting
news with a display advt. of a patent
medicine. On the sixth page is two
column display advertisement of cocoa
and chocolate. The remainder of the
page is devoted to court and police
news. On the next page is five columns
of local and general news and two
column display advertisement of 'Har-
lene' for the hair. The eighth page has
two columns of news summary and edi-
torial, following five columns of amuse-
ment advertisements. On the opposite
page is cable, Geographic, general news
and correspondence. The tenth page is
similarly made up. There is half page
of reading matter on the eleventh page,
followed by three and one-half pages of
advertising. The Times and Telegraph,
as we'll as the other great London dailies,
and the leading newspapers in the
larger cities Of the Kingdom, have able
correspondents at all important Euro
pean capitals, and Of course in South
Africa, and wherever British interests
are involved. They report fully all
political gatherings, the meetings of
literary and scientific societies, the
movements OF royalty, etc. Even trivial
cases before the police courts are re
ported with more or less detail; but the
minor local happenings and personals
which add to the variety and interest of
American newspapers are conspicuous
by their absence. They publish little
news from this country, save such an
event as the assassination and death of
our President, or the races for the
Americas cup, while our own papers
receive by cable not only the news but
the gossip, often trivial, of all Europe
They do not use scare heads" have
very few display advertisements and do
not resort to the typographical freaks
in makeup which the writer is old-fash-
toned enough to condemn in our own
papers. The great feature Of the dali
les and weeklies outside of London is
their London correspondence.
The nearest approach to an American
newspaper that came to my notice was
the Glasgow Evening News, eight
pages, printed on pink paper, and sold
at Zone halfpenny'' zone cent? a copy.
Six editions are issued daily The first
page is given over to advertising, but
with the exception of the want adver-
tisements CD the last page there is more
display than in the advertising columns
of the London dailies, while not so
much as with us. The makeup is good.
AMI the paper is bright and newsy in it's
contents.
A memento Of a brief visit to Bel
fast, Ireland, is a copy of The Ulster
Echo, of Saturday, Sept p, 1901, an
evening daily, four pages, price one
halfpenny" 1t is not a handsome pa
per geographically, nor particularly
noticeable otherwise. 1t has three
columns of reading matter, miscellany,
on the first page, and like amount on
second page, including Notes and No
tionS," and 'Political and Personal"
On the third page is a quarter of a
column editorial captioned ''Another
Mishap' and relating to British re-
verse in South Africa. Then follows
two columns of news-Friday's, evil !
IDENTIFY taken from morning papers
sporting news and markets. There was
no news of Belfasts busy shipyards
other than reference to an unfounded |
rumor that the White Star line contem-
plated building steamship 800 tons |
larger than the Celtic. The fourth, and |
last page contains miscellaneous clip |
pings under such captions as "Our
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