Show THE FIRST NEWSPAPER it Is remarkable that a means of instruction and amusement so BO apparent e it as a newspaper should not have been established until nearly two hundred years after the discovery of printing the first newspaper yas was issued toward the close ot of the reign ot of james the first and wm was published in louis london by a man named butter th this man had been a hired writer in the employ ot of numerous country gentlemen ills his business was to pick up the news of london and send a written sheet of 0 it weekly to his the thought struck him that he might serve his big customers cus tomera more quickly and enlarge his business indefinitely by printing instead ot of writing his sheets prefer preferred rd buters paper wa was 9 laughed at first he met with little encouragement the english are not a people fond ot of innovations and tho the oil manuscript letter sheets were generally preferred butters paper was laughed at by the den johnson made it a butt ot of his ridicule in his comedy the staple ot of news after some time tha Invent invention lea became better appreciated prec precia ted and newspapers increased in size merit and numbers wun bers more than one editor had been severely punished tor for printing pr hating news about the government so late as 1710 a lad of nineteen had and been hung tor for publishing an article against hero hera dietary right before butter put his paper on the market several gazettes had been published in different countries in europe these were not newspapers they were occasional broadsheets broad sheets published only after some borne important vent they were not hot at all permanent por manent neither were they periodical in their nature these two elements are important tor for a real newspaper the tha newspaper did not take its rosi position tion in tho the world unit the tha time of 0 addison Add lson steels steele and swift these men mea began to write tor for it they were follows by and in a later age by junius then the public press took a lofty position one which at t has hag since maintained and increased norwood massachusetts messenger |