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Show An Emperor Who Edits A Newspaper. v. An Emperor who rules over 400, 000,600 subjects is the editor-in-chief of 'the oldest "newspaper in the world. : Not only is it the oldest, but it has the smallest actual circulation of any. publication on the face of the globe, each daily issue consisting of a single copy.' The name of this unique journal is the "Pekin Gazette," and it has been getting out its one copy a day, with few interruptions, for about 800 years.-" "1 -. The "Pekin Gazette" is the organ of the Chinese Imperial Court, and each day the single copy is tacked up on a big board outside the Purple City, where the Emperor lives It averages sixteen pages. The sheets are about seven inches long arid three wide, and the reader begins at the lower rtghthand corner and runs his 'eye up and down the vertical coulmns from right to left, which is the Chinese way. The paper con-1 tains nothing but - strictly- exclusiv news,-but not a line is there of gossip about the Son of Heaven, or sensational sensa-tional details about his Corrupt Court. There is no advertisement in its pages. '; ' - Most of the articles are dictated by the Emperor Himself, and they generally consist of official acts and report's: The Empejor's assistant in his editorial duties is h s mother. All Views relating to the condition of the kingdom, or anything else that the Emperor wishes to keep from his subjects, is,; of course, rigorously excluded, and no Chinese journalist journal-ist dares to draw any deductions or make any comments on what appears in this. Royal publication. After the paper is printed the Emperor sometimes makes marginal notes on it with a red pencil. Answers. |