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Show Not less than a thousand papers which were in existence on New Year's Day of the present year, have failed and passed out of existence. T his is a fearful mortality, not only of hope, but of capital, for, averaging the investment invest-ment in each of these papers, only as weeklies, at &:l,000, which is a low estimate, we arrive at an absorption of three millions of dollars. This statement state-ment is suggestive, and wc commend ittothoso thinking of "starting a paper," pa-per," with this addition from the "American Newspaper Directory:" "No city daily can be ?aid to be alive and healthy, unless it has existed eight or tn years, and consumed the capital of three or four sets of proprietors." C. B. Nonpare-1. |