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

A column each of the fifth page is de-
| voted to ''The Government and the
| War, ''The Prospect of an Autumn
Session, and some kilograms and sta
tistics concerning the war in South
| Africa. Correspondence, market re-
ports, sporting news and miscellany
occupy the remaining pages, with an
occasional advertisement, including St.
Jacobs Oil, Carriers Little Liver Pills
and Quaker Oats. Anything more I'M
like our own Sunday papers than the
Sunday sun of London can hardly be
imagined.
Periodicals, weekly and monthly, are
even more numerous in Great Britain
than in this country, and range in price
from penny to two shillings per copy.
1t would De useless to attempt to emu
merate them. Although it is generally
conceded that our magazines are the
best in the world some of the English
monthlles are not far behind them in
point of interest, and show a decided
advance, pictorially and typographical
ly, over the issues of a few years ago.
The penny publications are legion.
Among the best known are Tit-Bits,
Answers and NJ. A. p, these initials
standing for MAINLY About People,
The full title of the first named publ
cation is ''Tit-bits from all the most in
teresting books, periodicals and CON
tributors in the world' Under the
heading, and running across the page in
black letters, we read: Zone Guinea
per Column is Paid for Original Con-
tributions to this Paper and else
where is Our Premium Page" and
two guineas per column are paid for
articles printed on this page. The con
tents include stories, jokes, miscellany,
answers to correspondents, etc.
bought a copy to read on the train
and found this paragraph in the an
sWers to correspondents:
PENMAN has practced microscopic
writing with so much success that he is
able to write chapter of the Bible Che
doesn't say how long the chapter is) on
a space which half crown would
cover, and he wishes to know whether
he could turn his gift to profitable &C
are afraid not. The
market for this kind of skill, is so far
as we know, non-existent. There is,
we believe, an old man in America
who r9n Wcitp a wbo1a pony Of TT Dif,
on post card. The Iliad of Homer
has been copied so microscopically that
it was put in nutshell; Peter Bates
produced liliputian copy of the Bible
which he enclosed in a walnut-shell;
and there is in the library of St. Johns
college, Cambridge, drawing of the
head of Charles L., the lines of which
contain the Book of Psalms, the Greed,
and the Lords Prayer; but we never
heard that any of these microscopic
penmen made any money at all COM
mensurate with their trouble.
The cold man in America is of
course Ria Kittridge of this city.
Of the more or less humorous Jour
nails. Punch, judy and Fun are the lead
ers. l read with care two of the weekly
issues of Punch and Judy and failed to
find single bright thing in either of
them. Their jokes were inane, their
comic pictures sepulchral and their car
toons weak alike in drawing and in sub
ject. Punch has fallen from its once
high estate into the depths of common
place. Leech, Tenniel, Du Maurier and
q artic fc ha
and in contributors there is like falling
off from Thackeray, Hood, Horace May
heW, ct al, whose wit once sparkled in
the now dull pages. This from London
Fun is not so bad:
"Why is merchant who does not adj
vertise like man in rowboat?" asked
the student.
''Keeps going backward" guessed his
friend.
mo; he is trying to get along with
out sales" said the student.
While in the large cities there are
little shops where newspapers and
periodicals are sold, in most places you
must go to the railway stations for
them. In Edinburgh l went into large
book store near the hotel for copy of
a magazine and found they did not
keep them and had to 60 to the rail
way station. The newsboys are not
conspicuous or noisy, as rule. In
Glasgow we could not understand the
newsboys' cries; in bennington they
called 'fire," which nearly created
panic in our party. On enquiry. we
were told that the newsboys had adopt
ed this cry as it was an easy word to
use. But just imagine what would
happen if the army of newsboys in
New York or Boston should rush
through the streets shouting fire?
TozEA.
Bear, tho HIhe Kind You Aaw Always Baqgtt