Show THE PRICE of pretty nearly every aticle has advanced with the more prosperous times but the advance is no more remarkable and firm on anything I any-thing than on the staple of printing paper The increase al through the country is ewd to be about 80 per I cent the advance ranging in duller ent localities from 2c to lo per pound Newspaper publishers in the cast are protecting themselves by advancing ad-vancing the rates of subscriptions In St Louis tho price of morning S papers has been raised from 25c to gOo a week Cincinnati is to make a similar advancs next week and it is quite probable that publishers allover over the country will Boon have to increase in-crease not only the subscription rate but the price of single copies she A newspaper even at the minimum rate of white paper seldom makes anything on its circulation its advertisements being Ha only source of profit We question if there is a newspaper in the land outside of a few metropolitan dailies that couli live from f its eub ecription returns alone If the cost of the blank paper increases much mor publishers will soon kayo the question presented to them very forcibly whether it is i bsttsr to increase the Belling price of the printed sheets or continue that branch of their business at a telling low |