The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-27

An Interesting Exhibit Of For
.eigu Newspapers.

All interesting EXO1DlC Oh FOT-
'eign Newspapers.
We extend a cordial invitation to
the public to examine a collection of
from the most remote
parts of the world now on exhibit "A t
our office. These papers were sent
TO us by the Chamberlain Medicine
Co., of Des Moiues, Iowa. Some of
the papers bear names of places that
require us to recallforgotten geogra-
ply or refer to the atlas to locate.
These papers all contain advertise
ments of the well known remedies of
the Chamberlain Medicine Co. We
find the familiar Chinese characters
arranged in vertical lines reading
from top to bottom, the lines read
ing from right to left The Burmese
language, az printed, is compossd
principally of combination of cir
cles. Cingalese, the language OF Cey-
Ion, is also curvilinear. Javanese
and Siamese are composed largely of
vertical lines connected by loops at
either top or bottom, but rarely at
both.
The four hundred million people of
India have nearly fifty different dia-
lects or yernaculars. The Sindhi and
Urdu are written from right to left
in the Hebrew fashion. The Urdu is
a sort of script, and is so chaotic in
shape that it is impossible to reduce
it TO the movable type form. Papers
printed in the Urdu language are
therefore first written ont by hand
and plate made by the photographic
process. Besides the vernaculars
and the well known European Ian
guages, French, Spanish. Portuguese,
Dutch, German n, etc, the list embraces
number of languages which until
comparatively recent times possessed
no alphabet, but for which the Ro-
man alpha bet has been adopted
Among these are the nativeHawaiian,
Samoan, Tagalogt Philippinelslands)
Kaffir. Zulu and Basuto, of South
Africa. There is also a modern form
of the Malay language using Roman
characters, known as Romanised Ma
Law. This is used in Java and the
East Indies.
1t is difficult to conceive how thu
readers of some of the papers man
age to handle them. lmagiue mai
ON a crowded street car trying t.
read paper whose pages are thirty
eight inches long and twenty-nin
inches wide. This is the size OF tn
"Hitabadi," Bengali weekly pull
lished in Calcutta, India.
To an American newspaper man ]
is interesting to note the manner u
which the colonial English newspa
pers are made up. They still elm
to the methods which were practice
| i'm this country fifty years ago, tn
advertisements being upon the frs
few pages, followed generally by til
heavy editorials, then a few lineage
cable and teIegraphic items, afte
! wards the local news. The Ioci
} news consists principally OF the pre-
; ceedipgs OF the legislative bodie
, town council, school board. ct
Contribution by the readers are NJ
. merous and lengthy.
The editorials are generally of
more dignified and serious natu
than American productions. III
daily papers devote more space
u book reviews and detailed reports
{ scientific progress than Americs
a newspapers do. Humoris not so d
g ticeu BILE and CARTOONS are used mo
d rarely than with US
/. With few exceptions the advert
ing pages would give our 'ad.' write
Il the nightmare. They seem TO ha
= little conception of the value OF spa
or of attractive methods of preseI
ing eli her the text or the illustratio